Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introductory remarks, foreword and acknowledgements; Tanitici Bilgiler, Önsöz ve Tesekkürler; Part I: A survey of the topography and history of the kingdom of Commagene, and King Antiochus I's religious and cultural programme and divine-ruler cult; I.1 Commagene: Some topography; I.2 Early Commagene and the immediate forefathers of Antiochus I; I.3 The life and family of Antiochus I of Commagene; I.4 King Antiochus I of Commagene: History and foreign policy in the light of ancient literary sources; I.5 The successors of Antiochus I I.6 Antiochus' personal information on the topographical situation of his own tomb sanctuary on Mount NemrudI.7 Nemrud Dağı; I.8 Stelae from Antiochus I's temene at Samosata and surrounding area; I.9 Stelae from Antiochus I's temene in the southern part of Commagene: Seleucia Zeugma (Belkis) and Doliche (Dülük); I.10 The geographic distribution of Antiochus I's temene and hierothesia; and what to say about their relative chronology?; I.11 Antiochus I's self-proclaimed religious programme and divine-ruler cult, and the festivals for all the people of his kingdom I.12 Where did Commagene's remarkable wealth come from?Part II: A survey of previous explorations and archaeological activities on Nemrud Dagi and in other Commagenian sanctuaries and sites. The sites revisited and reviewed; II.1 Two reporting visitors of Commagene in the 1830s; II.2 Other expeditions and discoveries, in the later 19th century; II.3 Friedrich Karl Dörner and Rudolf Naumann in Commagene, 1938; II.4 Arsameia-on-the-Nymphaeus. Discovery and excavation of the hierothesion by Friedrich Karl Dörner and Theresa Goell in the 1950s II.5 A new start of the excavations on the hierothesion plateau of Arsameia-on-the-Nymphaeus by Wolfram Hoepfner and Friedrich Karl Dörner in 1963, continued in 1964 and 1967
  • II.6 Wolfram Hoepfner's tentative reconstructions of the buildings' superstructures on the hierothesion plateau: some comments; II.7 Theresa Goell and Nemrud Dagi: an introduction; Part III: NEMRUD DAĞI, a survey of the activities on the mountain in the second half of the 20th century: a critical review; III.1 Theresa Goell's thorough clearance of the East and West Terraces in 1953-1956; III.2 The East Terrace III.3 The West TerraceIII.4 The colossal statues on the East and West Terraces; III.5 Geophysical explorations on Nemrud Dag in 1963 and 1964; III.6 The first restoration and preservation campaign by Friedrich Karl Dörner, 1984; III.7 A new Nemrud Dag project by Dörner's successors, Sencer Sahin, Elmar Schwertheim and Jörg Wagner, 1987-1990; III.8 New geophysical research by Helmut Lütjen and Tomm Utecht, 1989; III.9 An Antiochian cult place at Direk Kale?; III.10 Discoveries at Samosata; III.11 A future Nemrud Dağı Museum, an epilogue Part IV: The International Nemrud Dağı Project, 2001-2003: documentation, stone deterioration research and archaeological preserving activities