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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>A new book on the longest known Anatolian Seljuk
inscription has recently been published in Turkish and English with copious
illustrations:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4>Scott Redford and Gary Leiser<SPAN
class=655060914-22082008>, "</SPAN>Victory Inscribed: The Seljuk Fetihname on
the Citadel Walls of Antalya, Turkey<SPAN class=655060914-22082008>",
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Istanbul: AKMED, 2008. (Adalya
supplementary series 7)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>This book consists of a new translation of, and
historical, architectural, urbanistic, and epigraphic commentary on, a victory
screed<SPAN class=655060914-22082008> </SPAN>(fetihname/fathnama) written in the
spring of 1216 after the Seljuk reconquest of the city of Antalya on the south
coast of Anatolia, carved on column shafts, and inserted into the walls of
Antalya citadel.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The fetihname inscription had previously been
available only in Ahmed Tevhid's incomplete 1926 transcription. This new study
corrects many readings, and adds several previously unread lines. It also places
the inscription in the context of medieval Anatolian history, the growth of the
city of Antalya, and Seljuk epigraphy.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>With contributions by Burhan Varkivanc, WM
Thackston, Jr., and Veronica Kalas</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Available from:</FONT></P>
<P><A href="http://akmed.kaleicimuzesi.com"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Garamond
size=4>http://akmed.kaleicimuzesi.com</FONT></U></FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>and<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.zerobooksonline.com/eng/index.asp"><U><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Garamond
size=4>http://www.zerobooksonline.com/eng/index.asp</FONT></U></FONT></A></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>