Ancient Cities Collection: 50 Artay Models Named After Anatolian Sites

Fifty of Artay Lighting’s bollard and pole models are named after ancient settlements in Anatolia — Ephesus, Aphrodisias, Zeugma, Xanthos, Sardis, Troy and forty-four others. Six of those names belong to sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

This page is the complete list. It gives every model name, its product code, the ancient region the settlement belonged to, the modern Turkish province it lies in, and what the site is known for. If you are specifying an Artay product and want to know where its name comes from, or you are looking for a model and only remember the name, this is the index.

Why are Artay lighting models named after ancient cities?

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999, and what it casts is street and urban lighting: poles that stand in squares, promenades and old town centres, and bollards that light the paths through them. A lighting pole installed today will still be standing in the same square in thirty years.

Anatolia has a longer version of the same idea. The settlements these models are named after have stood on their sites for two thousand years and more — several of them still with their theatres, colonnaded streets and harbour walls in place. Naming a pole after Patara or Aspendos is a small acknowledgement of that: these are objects made for public space, in a country with a very long record of building public space.

The naming is also how the ranges are organised internally, which is why two families — bollards and urban poles — draw on two different sets of names.

Which Artay bollard models are named after ancient cities?

Thirty models in the bollard range carry the names of ancient settlements. Every name below links to the product page for that model.

Two further bollards take their names from Anatolia without naming a single city. Lykia (ART 1529) is named for the ancient region of Lycia rather than a city — the Teke peninsula across today’s Antalya and Muğla, homeland of Xanthos, Patara, Myra and the Lycian League. Antioch (ART 1531) is named for Antioch on the Orontes — today Antakya in Hatay, and the one outlier in this list, since the ancient city belonged to Syria rather than to Asia Minor.

Which Artay urban lighting pole models are named after ancient cities?

Eighteen models in the urban pole range are named for ancient settlements. These are the poles specified for squares, promenades, park paths and pedestrian streets.

One entry needs a qualification. Andriake (ART 1345) was not an independent city but the harbour of Myra, about five kilometres from it, at Çayağzı in Demre. Hadrian’s granary still stands there and now houses the Museum of Lycian Civilizations.

Which of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?

Six of the model names belong to properties inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, across seven models — Xanthos and Letoon are the two halves of a single inscribed property, and Artay makes a bollard named after each.

A number of the other settlements in the list appear on Türkiye’s Tentative List, the register of properties a country intends to nominate. That list changes, so it is not reproduced here; the UNESCO World Heritage Centre publishes the current version.

Where are these sites?

Lycia supplies the largest group — Xanthos, Letoon, Patara, Myra, Andriake, Simena, Kyaneai, Limyra, Olympos, Phaselis, Pinara, Sidyma, Oinoanda and Arykanda, spread across Antalya and Muğla. Caria comes next, with Knidos, Kaunos, Labranda, Euromos, Stratonikeia, Alabanda, Aphrodisias, Mylasa and Herakleia in Muğla and Aydın.

Ionia contributes Ephesus, Miletus, Didyma, Teos and Magnesia; Pamphylia gives Perge, Aspendos and Side; Pisidia gives Termessos, Sagalassos and Selge; and Cilicia gives Anemurium, Anazarbos, Korykos and Elaiussa Sebaste in Mersin and Adana. Phrygia supplies Hierapolis and Laodikeia in Denizli, Lydia supplies Sardis in Manisa, and the Troad supplies Troy and Assos in Çanakkale. Two names come from further east, in Commagene on the Euphrates: Arsameia in Adıyaman and Zeugma in Gaziantep.

Can these models be made in a form that is not in the catalogue?

Yes. The aluminium bodies in both families are cast rather than fabricated, in Artay’s own die-cast foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy. Casting means the shape comes from a die, so a form that does not yet exist can be made — a base carrying a municipality’s emblem, a column profile matched to a facade, a pole family unique to one city.

A new die is cut in Artay’s own tool shop in four to six weeks; a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval, and repeat orders on an existing die ship in three weeks. Changing only the dimensions, finish or colour of an existing model needs no die and carries no tooling cost at all.

Artay luminaires are CE marked; manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. The company exports to more than 33 countries and manufactures under other brands’ names as OEM and private label. Send a drawing, a 3D model, a photograph or a written specification to info@artaylighting.com.

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