Professor Tuna Şare Ağtürk

dr tuna sare agturk
Departmental Lecturer
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
tuna.sareagturk@classics.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: BA Bilkent University (Turkey), MA and PhD Rutgers University (USA)
Professor, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
 

 

 

Academic Background

I earned my BA in Archaeology and History of Art at Bilkent University (Türkiye) and my MA in Art History and Museum Studies at Rutgers University (USA). My PhD dissertation, also completed at Rutgers, explored Dress and Identity in the Arts of Western Anatolia from the Archaic through Roman Periods. In 2011, I was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Art History at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMU) in Türkiye. During my tenure, I was promoted to Associate Professor of Archaeology and later Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in 2022. Alongside my role at COMU, I served as a fellow and post-doctoral researcher at several institutions: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford (2019-2021), Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2018-2019), and researcher at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (2013-2014). Since 2015, I am the academic director of Nicomedia-Çukurbağ Excavation in Türkiye.

Research Interests

My main research interests are ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology, especially of Asia Minor. As my publication record shows, my research focus ranges from Archaic and Classical figurines from Ionia, Lycia, and the Troad to marble reliefs of Lycian tombs, and to Roman imperial reliefs from Nicomedia. My team’s recent research in the ancient Roman city of Nicomedia has brought to light one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the recent years in Türkiye, a large imperial complex with well-preserved set of painted marble frieze panels and colossal statues with an excellent archaeological context from the Tetrarchic period, from the centre of Diocletian’s empire at Nicomedia. Other topics I worked or published on can be thematically grouped as; ancient dress and identity, cross-cultural interactions and material hybridity in Asia Minor, ancient polychromy, archaeomusicology, monuments of Roman imperial cult, Tetrarchic imagery, and Classical reception in Türkiye.

 

Research Keywords

The Material and Visual Cultures of the Graeco-Roman World; Cross-cultural Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean; Greek and Roman Sculpture; Art and Archaeology of Anatolia; Ancient Textiles; Ancient Polychromy; Classical Reception in Türkiye

Teaching

I teach for the undergraduate papers: Greek Sculpture, 600–300 BC; Hellenistic Art and Archaeology, 330–30 BC; Rome, Italy and the Hellenistic East, c. 300–100 BC; Art under the Roman Empire, AD 14–337; Imperial Culture and Society, Texts and Contexts.

Publications

Full Publications: Dr Tuna Şare Ağtürk Publications 2019

Selected Publications:

The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia: Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 (2023 recipient of the AIA’s James R. Wiseman Book Award)

Kayıp Başkent Nikomedia’nın Renkli Rölyefleri. İstanbul: Koç University Press, 2022

A Terracotta Treasure from Assos. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2015 (co-authored with N. Arslan)

“Anatolian Fashion in Etruscan Clothing: The Case of the Pointed Shoes” in Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange, eds. E. Baughan and L. Pieraccini. New York: Cambridge University Press, 303-317, 2023

“The Self-Image of a New Imperial Capital City on the Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia” in Imperial Residence and Site of Councils—The Metropolitan Region of Nicaea / Nicomedia, eds. A. Lichtenberger, T. Şare Ağtürk, E. Winter, and K. Zimmermann, AMS 96. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt. 107-116, 2020

“Antik Anadolu Sanatının Etnik Kategoriler ve Batı-Doğu Arasında Sıkışmışlığı Üzerine” in Changing Archaeology: Proceedings of the 1st TAG-Turkey Meeting, eds. Ç. Çilingiroğlu and P. Özgüner. İstanbul: Ege Yayınları. 191-196, 2014

“Women and Music in Ancient Anatolia: The Iconographic Evidence” in Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in the Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates, eds. E. Kozal et all. Munich: Ugarit Verlag. 561-586, 2016

“From Beazley to Forensic Labs: Investigating Ancient Fingerprints in Classical Archaeology” Turkish Journal of Archaeological Sciences 1: 95-108, 2021 (co-authored with K. S. Moran)

“Myth and Eponymy on the Tetrarchic Frieze from Nicomedia” Journal of Roman Archaeology 33: 417-431, 2020

“Return of the Emperor: Technical and Iconographic Analysis of the Stolen Emperor Relief from the Nicomedia Frieze” TÜBAKED 22: 10-19, 2020

“A New Tetrarchic Relief from Nicomedia: Embracing Emperors.” American Journal of Archaeology 122, 411-426, 2018

“Arakhne’s Loom: Luxurious Textile Production in Ancient Western Anatolia.” OLBA 22, 251-281, 2014

“Headdress Fashions and Their Social Significance in Ancient Western Anatolia: The Seventh Through Fourth Centuries BCE.” Anadolu 40, 45-85, 2014

“The Sculptural Program of the Heroon of Perikle at Limyra: The Making of a King.” Anatolian Studies 63, 55-74, 2013

“An Archaic Ivory Figurine from a Tumulus near Elmalı: Cultural Hybridization and the Birth of a New Anatolian Style.” Hesperia 79, 53-78, 2010