Architectural Reconstruction Drawings of Pisidian Antioch by Frederick J. Woodbridge

Notes

1. For an overview of Antioch’s political history, see Mitchell and Waelkens 1998, 5–14; for a more detailed treatment, see Levick 1967.

2. Robinson seems to have retained some of the drawings, particularly those relating to the larger church, the so-called basilica. See below, “Contents of the Archive.”

3. Who Was Who in America 1974–1976, s.v. “Woodbridge, Frederick James.”

4. Journal of excavations, preface.

5. Colby restored the head of the female figure of the central acroterion of the temple of Augustus (caption to KM 7.1667), and he restored the nose on the plaster cast of the portrait of Augustus (caption to KM 8.1532), which is housed in the Kelsey Museum. The original marble portrait, with unrestored nose, is in the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul.

6. Information provided by Russell T. Scott of Bryn Mawr College, the current director of the American Academy’s excavations at Cosa.

7. The text is attributable to Peterson, whose handwriting is well known to the staff of the Kelsey Museum, and the journal of excavations (preface) lists among its contents an “Architectural Inventory, Commenced by Mr. Peterson; continuation rendered unnecessary by the arrival of the architect, July 4.”

8. Journal of excavations, entry for July 11–August 10.

9. By the time Kitzinger published his photograph of the plan in 1974, individuals at the University of Mississippi, which houses Robinson’s papers, could locate only two photographs of the mosaic drawings in their archives and none of the originals. Robinson may have donated them to another institution.

10. Journal of excavations, preface.

11. The latest date recorded in the photograph captions.

12. Other details of the drawing indicate that Woodbridge’s study of the remains of the gate were incomplete: he placed the weapons frieze blocks at the tops of the two piers, and the pilasters that flank the niches in the piers do not have the elaborately molded bases present in the final reconstruction.

13. In his drawings Woodbridge sometimes used the term “triumphal arch” to refer to both the city gate and the gateway to the imperial cult sanctuary. The terminology in the journal of excavations, on the other hand, is clearer: the city gate on the western edge of the site is always called the “triumphal arch,” while the triple-arched gateway to the imperial cult sanctuary is referred to as the “propylaea.”

14. Recent excavations undertaken by Mehmet Taşlıalan (2000) have shown a different arrangement of buildings in this area.