Ancient population · Antiquity
Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey)
Turkey_Hellenistic
Hellenistic (Antiquity, Turkey) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Turkey_Hellenistic), with 7 samples from Turkey, dated to c. 290 BCE – 200 CE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey), Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy) and Imperial (Antiquity, Italy); the nearest living populations are Greek Dodecanese Rhodes, Greek Dodecanese and Cypriot.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroups I2a and J2a; its mtDNA haplogroups include H20, H4a, HV2a and N1a.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 290 BCE – 200 CE
- Country
- Turkey
- Sampled near
- Gordion 39.14, 31.31
- Sites
- Gordion (4)
Halikarnassos (2)
Cedit - Samples
- 7
- Published in
- LazaridisReichScience2022
AkbariReichNature2026 - Catalogue
Turkey_HellenisticTurkey_Hellenistic_noUDGvariantTurkey_Hellenistic_o1outliersTurkey_Hellenistic_o2outliers
Nearest populations
Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_WestByzantine | 1.46 |
| 2 | Isola Sacra Roman Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_IsolaSacra_RomanImperial | 1.62 |
| 3 | Imperial (Antiquity, Italy)Italy_Imperial | 1.76 |
| 4 | Roman 5 (Antiquity, Turkey)Turkey_Roman_5 | 1.81 |
| 5 | Rome Imperial (Antiquity)Rome_Imperial | 1.87 |
| 6 | Early Byzantine 2 (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_EarlyByzantine_2 | 1.90 |
| 7 | Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)Turkey_Byzantine | 2.08 |
| 8 | Gordion Ancient (Chalcolithic)C_Gordion_Anc | 2.14 |
| 9 | Aegean Mugla Stratonikeia Byzantine (Medieval)Aegean_Mugla_Stratonikeia_Byz | 2.19 |
| 10 | Ottoman (Turkey) · Turkey_OttomanTurkey_Ottoman | 2.38 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greek Dodecanese RhodesGreek_Dodecanese_Rhodes | 1.36 |
| 2 | Greek DodecaneseGreek_Dodecanese | 1.79 |
| 3 | CypriotCypriot | 1.89 |
| 4 | Greek KosGreek_Kos | 2.37 |
| 5 | Greek Central AnatoliaGreek_Central_Anatolia | 2.95 |
| 6 | Romaniote JewRomaniote_Jew | 3.00 |
| 7 | Greek CreteGreek_Crete | 3.30 |
| 8 | Greek Crete LasithiGreek_Crete_Lasithi | 3.37 |
| 9 | Turkish JewTurkish_Jew | 3.38 |
| 10 | Turkish CreteTurkish_Crete | 3.38 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 9
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Catalogue entry | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA | mtDNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I3310 | Turkey_Hellenistic | F | 350-1 BCE | Halikarnassos | W | |
I3311 | Turkey_Hellenistic | M | 350-1 BCE | Halikarnassos | I2a1b1a2a1 I-P78 | H4a |
I3916 | Turkey_Hellenistic | F | 389-208 calBCE | Gordion | X2n | |
I4030_noUDG | Turkey_Hellenistic_noUDG | M | 350-1 BCE | Gordion | J2a2a1a J-Y29678 | H20 |
I4472 | Turkey_Hellenistic | F | 350-1 BCE | Cedit | N1a3 | |
I6573 | Turkey_Hellenistic | F | 350-1 BCE | Gordion | HV2a2 | |
I6574 | Turkey_Hellenistic | F | 129-244 calCE | Gordion | W3a1 | |
I3303 outlier | Turkey_Hellenistic_o1 | M | 361-166 calBCE | Halikarnassos | J2a1a4b J-L25 | K1a3 |
I4473 outlier | Turkey_Hellenistic_o2 | F | 350-1 BCE | Cedit | H |