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Scott Redford

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Archaeology and Art History, Faculty Member

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Visualizing Mobility in Cappadocia, Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts 1, 174-191.

Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts, 2024

Was Cappadocia the hinterland of the largest city in the region, Kayseri? Or did the confluence o... more Was Cappadocia the hinterland of the largest city in the region, Kayseri? Or did the confluence of roads and routes meeting here give it another status, what Jacopo Turchetto has called a central periphery? This essay argues that it was indeed more than a hinterland. It was a landscape that drew on this confluence, as well as its extraordinary geology. This quality of central periphery was certainly reinforced during a thirteenth-century Seljuk building campaign, although it likely was present during earlier Byzantine centuries. In this essay, I draw on the work of Byzantine art historians, two of them the editors of this volume, and my own work on caravanserais of Seljuk Anatolia in an attempt to assemble scenes of landscape, mobility, and convergence in thirteenth-century Cappadocia. The convergence, painted in broad strokes, comes at the end of the essay, preceded by sections examining the 1950s' attempts to recuperate and reanimate the Seljuk architectural heritage in Republican Turkey and the extraordinary building campaign of large caravanserais in Cappadocia in the 1220s-1240s.

The Painted Walls of Alanya

Sema Doğan, ed., Medieval Archaeology of Kalon Oros-Alanya (İstanbul: Ofset ([Turkish] National Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Publication 27)), 2022

Byzantine Wall Chapels in the Hisariçi District: Komnenian Period

Sema Doğan, ed., Medieval Archaeology of Kalon Oros-Alanya (İstanbul: Ofset. ([Turkish] National Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Publication 27))., 2022

“Inscription and De-scription/Cipher and De-cipher: Pious Phrases in Medieval Islamic Anatolia and Byzantium,”

S. Houston and J. Bodel, eds., The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs: Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks Cambridge: CUP, 80-99. , 2021

An Archaeometallurgical Study of Medieval Knives from Kinet Höyük, Turkey

by Ümit Güder and Scott Redford

Metalla, 2023

This paper examines the knives of the medieval period (13 th-14 th century AD) from Kinet Höyük i... more This paper examines the knives of the medieval period (13 th-14 th century AD) from Kinet Höyük in Cilicia, one of the most important areas of Anatolia for the history of iron production. The materials and production processes of 12 knives were revealed using archaeometry methods, such as Optical Microscopy (OM), Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer (SEM-EDS) analyses, and micro-hardness tests. An examination of the relationship between the shape and size of these knives was undertaken, along with a discussion of the factors involved in the manufacturing techniques. Among the medieval knives from Kinet Höyük that were analyzed, the results of the study indicate that besides blades made entirely of steel or wrought iron there are examples of forge-welding steel to wrought iron in a variety of ways. The largest group of knives is composed of small blades made only of steel. A particular example of this group is a blade made of crucible steel, which was skillfully forged and heat-treated. The medieval blades from Kinet Höyük exhibit a direct relationship between their shapes and their dimensional proportions. A specific production method, however, seems not to have been chosen in accordance with a given shape. The dimensions of the knives were more significant, particularly when only steel or only wrought iron was used. Based on the historical iron-producing activities in the region and the traces of intense blacksmithing practices found in the medieval layers of Kinet Höyük, it is argued that these knives are remnants of a skilled metal production culture.

The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Context

Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional and Decorative Programme of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya

Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World

“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”: Islamic Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic

Muqarnas Online, 2007

Portable Palaces: On the Circulation of Objects and Ideas about Architecture in Medieval Anatolia and Mesopotamia

Medieval Encounters, 2012

This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such... more This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and the geographical area investigated spans Constantinople, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. Without denying the importance of traveling craftsmen as vectors for artistic exchange, this essay argues that portable objects and portable or ephemeral architecture helped create the taste and demand for a supranational palatial architecture.

Ceramics and Society in Medieval Anatolia

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011, 2016

john bennet & debor ah har lan Academic Bilingualism: Combining textual and material data to unde... more john bennet & debor ah har lan Academic Bilingualism: Combining textual and material data to understand the post-medieval Mediterranean beate böhlendor f-arslan Surveying the Troad: Byzantine sites and their pottery véronique fr ançois 'Occidentalisation' des vaisseliers des classes populaires dans l'Empire ottoman au xviiie siècle alex andr a gaba-van dongen alma, where Art meets Artefacts: A case study of a Syrian jar in 'The Three Marys at the Tomb' by Jan van Eyck ruth smadar gabr ieli Specialisation and Development in the Handmade Pottery Industries of Cyprus and the Levant sauro gelichi ' A ciascuno il suo': Pottery and social contexts in a Montenegrin town nikos d. kontogiannis Marbled Ware in Ottoman Greece: Pottery that doesn't like itself, or pre-industrial kitsch?

Ömür Bakırer and Scott Redford, "The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Context"

by Scott Redford and omur bakirer

• 2017 Ömür Bakırer and S. Redford, “The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Co... more

Franca Cole and Scott Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beakers”

Franca Cole and S. Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beake... more Franca Cole and S. Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beakers,” E. Kozal, M. Akar, Y. Heffron, Ç. Çilingiroğlu, T.E. Şerifoğlu, C. Çakırlar, S. Ünlüsoy, É. Jean, eds., Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates (Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2017), pp. 659-673

Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional Program of the Karatay Madrasa, Konya

“Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional Program of the Kara... more

Medieval Arsenals in Anatolia: Sinop and Alanya

S. Ladstätter, F. Pirson, and T. Schmidts, eds., Harbors and Harbor Cities in the Eastern Medite... more

Portable Palaces: On the Circulation of Objects and Ideas about Architecture in Medieval Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia

Medieval Encounters 18 (2012), pp. 382-412.

Mamālik and Mamālīk: Anatolian Seljuk Citadels and their Decorative and Inscriptional Programs

in: S. Redford and N. Ergin, eds., Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuk... more

Paper, Stone, Scissors: Ismat al-Dunya wa'l-Din, Ala al-Din Kayqubadh, and the Writing of Seljuk History

A.C.S. Peacock and S.N. Yıldız, eds, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Mediaeval Middle East, 2012

A Twelfth Century Iron Workshop at Kinet, Turkey

Byzas 15, 2012

Trade and Economy in Antioch and Cilicia in the 12th-13th Centuries, in C. Morrisson, ed., Trade and Markets in Byzantium Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks

Visualizing Mobility in Cappadocia, Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts 1, 174-191.

Valonia: A Journal of Anatolian Pasts, 2024

Was Cappadocia the hinterland of the largest city in the region, Kayseri? Or did the confluence o... more Was Cappadocia the hinterland of the largest city in the region, Kayseri? Or did the confluence of roads and routes meeting here give it another status, what Jacopo Turchetto has called a central periphery? This essay argues that it was indeed more than a hinterland. It was a landscape that drew on this confluence, as well as its extraordinary geology. This quality of central periphery was certainly reinforced during a thirteenth-century Seljuk building campaign, although it likely was present during earlier Byzantine centuries. In this essay, I draw on the work of Byzantine art historians, two of them the editors of this volume, and my own work on caravanserais of Seljuk Anatolia in an attempt to assemble scenes of landscape, mobility, and convergence in thirteenth-century Cappadocia. The convergence, painted in broad strokes, comes at the end of the essay, preceded by sections examining the 1950s' attempts to recuperate and reanimate the Seljuk architectural heritage in Republican Turkey and the extraordinary building campaign of large caravanserais in Cappadocia in the 1220s-1240s.

The Painted Walls of Alanya

Sema Doğan, ed., Medieval Archaeology of Kalon Oros-Alanya (İstanbul: Ofset ([Turkish] National Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Publication 27)), 2022

Byzantine Wall Chapels in the Hisariçi District: Komnenian Period

Sema Doğan, ed., Medieval Archaeology of Kalon Oros-Alanya (İstanbul: Ofset. ([Turkish] National Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Publication 27))., 2022

“Inscription and De-scription/Cipher and De-cipher: Pious Phrases in Medieval Islamic Anatolia and Byzantium,”

S. Houston and J. Bodel, eds., The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs: Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks Cambridge: CUP, 80-99. , 2021

An Archaeometallurgical Study of Medieval Knives from Kinet Höyük, Turkey

by Ümit Güder and Scott Redford

Metalla, 2023

This paper examines the knives of the medieval period (13 th-14 th century AD) from Kinet Höyük i... more This paper examines the knives of the medieval period (13 th-14 th century AD) from Kinet Höyük in Cilicia, one of the most important areas of Anatolia for the history of iron production. The materials and production processes of 12 knives were revealed using archaeometry methods, such as Optical Microscopy (OM), Scanning Electron Microscope-Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer (SEM-EDS) analyses, and micro-hardness tests. An examination of the relationship between the shape and size of these knives was undertaken, along with a discussion of the factors involved in the manufacturing techniques. Among the medieval knives from Kinet Höyük that were analyzed, the results of the study indicate that besides blades made entirely of steel or wrought iron there are examples of forge-welding steel to wrought iron in a variety of ways. The largest group of knives is composed of small blades made only of steel. A particular example of this group is a blade made of crucible steel, which was skillfully forged and heat-treated. The medieval blades from Kinet Höyük exhibit a direct relationship between their shapes and their dimensional proportions. A specific production method, however, seems not to have been chosen in accordance with a given shape. The dimensions of the knives were more significant, particularly when only steel or only wrought iron was used. Based on the historical iron-producing activities in the region and the traces of intense blacksmithing practices found in the medieval layers of Kinet Höyük, it is argued that these knives are remnants of a skilled metal production culture.

The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Context

Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional and Decorative Programme of the Qaratay Madrasa, Konya

Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World

“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”: Islamic Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic

Muqarnas Online, 2007

Portable Palaces: On the Circulation of Objects and Ideas about Architecture in Medieval Anatolia and Mesopotamia

Medieval Encounters, 2012

This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such... more This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and the geographical area investigated spans Constantinople, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. Without denying the importance of traveling craftsmen as vectors for artistic exchange, this essay argues that portable objects and portable or ephemeral architecture helped create the taste and demand for a supranational palatial architecture.

Ceramics and Society in Medieval Anatolia

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011, 2016

john bennet & debor ah har lan Academic Bilingualism: Combining textual and material data to unde... more john bennet & debor ah har lan Academic Bilingualism: Combining textual and material data to understand the post-medieval Mediterranean beate böhlendor f-arslan Surveying the Troad: Byzantine sites and their pottery véronique fr ançois 'Occidentalisation' des vaisseliers des classes populaires dans l'Empire ottoman au xviiie siècle alex andr a gaba-van dongen alma, where Art meets Artefacts: A case study of a Syrian jar in 'The Three Marys at the Tomb' by Jan van Eyck ruth smadar gabr ieli Specialisation and Development in the Handmade Pottery Industries of Cyprus and the Levant sauro gelichi ' A ciascuno il suo': Pottery and social contexts in a Montenegrin town nikos d. kontogiannis Marbled Ware in Ottoman Greece: Pottery that doesn't like itself, or pre-industrial kitsch?

Ömür Bakırer and Scott Redford, "The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Context"

by Scott Redford and omur bakirer

• 2017 Ömür Bakırer and S. Redford, “The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enameled Glass in Co... more

Franca Cole and Scott Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beakers”

Franca Cole and S. Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beake... more Franca Cole and S. Redford, “Getting Smashed and Ending up in a Pit: The Story of the Kinet Beakers,” E. Kozal, M. Akar, Y. Heffron, Ç. Çilingiroğlu, T.E. Şerifoğlu, C. Çakırlar, S. Ünlüsoy, É. Jean, eds., Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates (Münster: Ugarit Verlag, 2017), pp. 659-673

Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional Program of the Karatay Madrasa, Konya

“Intercession and Succession, Enlightenment and Reflection: The Inscriptional Program of the Kara... more

Medieval Arsenals in Anatolia: Sinop and Alanya

S. Ladstätter, F. Pirson, and T. Schmidts, eds., Harbors and Harbor Cities in the Eastern Medite... more

Portable Palaces: On the Circulation of Objects and Ideas about Architecture in Medieval Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia

Medieval Encounters 18 (2012), pp. 382-412.

Mamālik and Mamālīk: Anatolian Seljuk Citadels and their Decorative and Inscriptional Programs

in: S. Redford and N. Ergin, eds., Cities and Citadels in Turkey: From the Iron Age to the Seljuk... more

Paper, Stone, Scissors: Ismat al-Dunya wa'l-Din, Ala al-Din Kayqubadh, and the Writing of Seljuk History

A.C.S. Peacock and S.N. Yıldız, eds, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Mediaeval Middle East, 2012

A Twelfth Century Iron Workshop at Kinet, Turkey

Byzas 15, 2012

Trade and Economy in Antioch and Cilicia in the 12th-13th Centuries, in C. Morrisson, ed., Trade and Markets in Byzantium Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks

Excavations at Hasbahçe

Sema Doğan, ed., Medieval Archaeology of Kalon Oros-Alanya İstanbul: Ofset. ([Turkish] National Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Publication 27)., 2022

"Introduction" in Scott Redford, ed., Rumkale from the Medieval Period to the Present Day

Scott Redford, ed., Rumkale from the Medieval Period to the Present Day ( İstanbul: Ofset ([Turkish] National Archaeology & Cultural Heritage Institute Publication 32)., 2022