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xiv Acknowledgments This book represents more than ten years of research and reflects the support of many colleagues , mentors, friends, and students. It began as a PhD dissertation at Berkeley, under the supervision of Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr., and since then has been expanded in some ways and trimmed in others, incorporating new research and entertaining new theories concerning the primary material under study, the funerary klinai of Anatolia. The present work goes well beyond the limits of Anatolia, however, to consider all aspects of klinai in the Archaic and Classical world as well as other funerary couches in the Mediterranean and analogues in other cultures and time periods. The idea of investigating the tradition of burials on funeral couches emerged somewhat by chance, after the discovery of the Lale Tepe tumulus near Ahmetli in 1999. The following season of the Sardis excavations was delayed while the team awaited a permit and the arrival of a government representative; in the meantime, we split our time between field trip excursions to sites such as Lale Tepe and browsing the expedition library. There one can find a rich and inspiring assortment of scholarship and archival records, from published books to unpublished dissertations, manuscripts, and reports. So it was upon the work of former Sardis researchers that this study was founded: Barbara McLauchlin, Nicholas Cahill, Christopher Ratté, Elspeth Dusinberre, Christopher Roosevelt, and, of course, my teacher and adviser Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. (1937–2012), to whose enduring inspiration I owe so much, and who will surely serve as a model of scholarship and graciousness for generations of archaeologists to come. Without his enthusiastic encouragement, this book would not have been written. In addition to selflessly providing personal notes and photographs and a draft of his unpublished manuscript on tombs of the Lydian and Persian periods at Sardis, Greenie was always eager to discuss klinai with me and would give careful consideration even to my most tentative ideas. His inspiration and support lie behind nearly every page of my manuscript, and I can only hope that the finished book lives up to his legacy. Thanks are also owed to the other members of my dissertation committee at Berkeley, David Stronach and Andrew Stewart, who both gave invaluable direction to my initial research and constructive feedback on my developing ideas. Support for the dissertation research and writing was provided by a fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey, a Humanities Research Grant from the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of California. Firsthand research was carried out in Turkey in 2002 with the kind permission of the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. For Acknowledgments xv assistance and permission to study material in Turkey in 2002, I am grateful to Kazım Akbıyıkoğlu, then director of the Uşak Museum; Numan Tuna of the Middle East Technical University Museum; and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis. Further research was conducted at Gordion and in the Ankara Museum in 2011 thanks to the kind permission of G. Kenneth Sams and the Gordion Excavations. H. Ali Ekinci and Alime Çankaya at the Burdur Museum also provided welcome assistance and shared information about the interesting tombs recently discovered near Burdur. The writing of the present book was made possible by the generous support of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and the University of Richmond School of Arts and Sciences. It benefited greatly from the libraries and librarian assistance at the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and Dumbarton Oaks. And it could not have been completed without the tireless assistance of the Interlibrary Loan department of the University of Richmond Library. Funds for illustrations were provided by a publication subvention grant of the Archaeological Institute of America and by the Department of Classical Studies and School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Richmond. For image permissions and assistance in securing them, I am especially grateful to İlknur Özgen, Bilkent University; Sabiha Pazarcı, Uşak Museum; Zeynep Kızıltan, Istanbul Archaeological Museum; Maria Hadjicosti, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; Bahadır Yıldırım and Elizabeth Gombosi, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis; Gareth Darbyshire, Gordion Project; Yaşar Ersoy, Klazomenai Excavations; Rosalba Panvini, Museo Archeologico Regionale di Caltanissetta; Nikolaos Kaltsas, National Archaeological Museum of Athens; and Jutta Stroszeck, German Archaeological Institute, Athens. I...

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