Kenan Erim

Kenan Tefvik Erim (February 13, 1929 İstanbul - November 3, 1990 Ankara) was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey.

Life

His father Tevfik Erim was a diplomat who was a member of the Political Section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in the 1930s and of the Turkish delegation to the United Nations in the 1950s. So, although of Turkish birth, Kenan Erim was raised and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and undertook university studies in the USA. He took his first degree in Classical archaeology at New York University (NYU) in 1953, and his PhD at Princeton University in 1958. In 1957 he lectured at Indiana University, and from 1958 on he was employed by NYU, where he became full professor in 1971. NYU still supervises the excavations at Aphrodisias to this day.

Honours

*1986: Liberty Medal of New York City
*1987: Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
*1988: National Geographic Society Centennial Medal

Bibliography

* 'Morgantina', "American Journal of Archaeology" 62 (1958), pp. 79-90 (reprinted in "Morgantina Studies" II, Princeton University Press, 1989)
* 'Two inscriptions from Aphrodisias', "Papers of the British School at Rome" 37 (1969), 92-5
* 'A letter of Gordian III from Aphrodisias in Caria' (with J. Reynolds), "Journal of Roman Studies" 59 (1969), 56-58
* 'The copy of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices from Aphrodisias in Caria' (with J. Reynolds), "Journal of Roman Studies" 60 (1970), 120-140
* 'Diocletian's Currency Reform, a new inscription from Aphrodisias' (with J. Reynolds & M. Crawford), "Journal of Roman Studies" 61 (1971), 171-77
* 'A portrait sculpture of Domitian from Aphrodisias, Opuscula Romana 9 (1973), 135-42
* 'The Aphrodisias copy of Diocletian's Price Edict' (with J. Reynolds), "Journal of Roman Studies" 63 (1973), 99-110
* 'Aphrodisias' (with J. Reynolds) in (edd. Inan, Alföldi), "Römische und frühbyzantinische Porträtplastik aus der Turkei" (Mainz, 1979), nos. 173-209
* 'A relief showing Claudius and Britannia from Aphrodisias', "Britannia" 13 (1982), 277-81
* 'Sculptors from Aphrodisias: some new inscriptions' (with C. Roueché), "Papers of the British School at Rome" 50 (1982), 102-15
* "Aphrodisias, City of Venus Aphrodite", 1986
* Aphrodisias Bibliography (with J. de la Genière) in "Aphrodisias de Carie: Colloque Lille 1985", Paris, 1987, 159-165
* 'Sculptors of Aphrodisias in the inscriptions of the city', "Festschrift J. Inan" (Istanbul, 1989, appeared 1991), 517-538.

References

*G.W. Bowersock, 'Kenan Tevfik Erim, 1929-1990', "American Journal of Archaeology" 95, (1991), pp. 281-283 (available online from Jstor at [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9114%28199104%2995%3A2%3C281%3AKTE1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A] )