Carvers And Customers In Roman Palmyra
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Carvers And Customers In Roman Palmyra
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Author : Julia Steding
language : en
Publisher: 3repols Publishers
Release Date : 2022
Carvers And Customers In Roman Palmyra written by Julia Steding and has been published by 3repols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Limestone sculpture categories.
Palmyra, located in the Syrian desert, is famous for the portraiture of its citizens, produced when the ancient city was at the height of its powers in the Roman era. At this time, several hundred funerary monuments were built and the Palmyrenes decorated their tombs with numerous portraits. The most common of these are the loculus reliefs that depicted Palmyra's men, women, and children, and were used to close off the niches in tombs behind which the dead were buried. Between AD 50 and AD 273, these stone slabs were produced in sufficient numbers to make Palmyra home to the largest corpus of funerary portraits outside Rome itself. This volume offers a fresh and nuanced analysis of Palmyrene funerary reliefs and their production in order to shed light not just on the people they depicted, but on the individuals responsible for their creation. Across a range of different case studies, the author explores the making of single portraits from the local limestone, examining how Palmyrene carvers worked, the techniques they used, the tools they employed, the ways in which style and technique changed over time, and the mode of production that was in place. Furthermore, the workshops' organization, the interaction between carvers and customers, and their influence on the portraits are explored. In doing so, the volume offers not just a detailed study of limestone carving and the techniques that underpinned Palmyra's famous portraits, but also offers a significant contribution to wider research on funerary portraiture of the city and in Roman Syria.
The Oxford Handbook Of Palmyra
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Author : Rubina Raja
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Oxford Handbook Of Palmyra written by Rubina Raja and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Architecture categories.
With contributions from thirty archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, and philologists, this book covers Palmyra's archaeological remains and history from its earliest phases in the pre-Roman era to the destruction of many of its monuments during the Syrian Civil War and subsequent looting. The authors give comprehensive overviews of already published evidence, as well as significant new findings and analyses from fieldwork, and cover a broad range of themes, which not only relate to the archaeology and history of the site, but also to its relationship with the rest of the ancient world as a major trade hub during the Roman period.
Public Statues Across Time And Cultures
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Author : Christopher P. Dickenson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-08
Public Statues Across Time And Cultures written by Christopher P. Dickenson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-08 with Art categories.
This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context and of written discourses having to do with how they were experienced. Bringing together experts working on statues in different cultures, the book sheds light on similarities and differences in the role that public statues had in different times and places throughout history. The book will also provide insight into the diverse methods and approaches that scholars working on these different periods use to investigate statues. The book will appeal to historians, art historians and archaeologists of all periods who have an interest in the display of sculpture, the reception of public art or the significance of public monuments.
The Economics Of The Roman Stone Trade
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Author : Ben Russell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013
The Economics Of The Roman Stone Trade written by Ben Russell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Art categories.
Russell provides an examination of the production, distribution, and use of carved stone objects in the Roman world. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, he offers an assessment of the practicalities of stone transport and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.
The Art Of Palmyra
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Author : Malcolm A. R. Colledge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Art Of Palmyra written by Malcolm A. R. Colledge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Art categories.
Worlds Apart Trading Together The Organisation Of Long Distance Trade Between Rome And India In Antiquity
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Author : Kasper Grønlund Evers
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2017-12-31
Worlds Apart Trading Together The Organisation Of Long Distance Trade Between Rome And India In Antiquity written by Kasper Grønlund Evers and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-31 with Social Science categories.
This book sets out to replace the outdated notion of ‘Indo-Roman trade’, integrating new findings from the last 30 years. Analysis conducted demonstrates that highly substantial levels of trade took place between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the 1st–6th c. altering consumption and production in India, South Arabia and the Roman Empire.
Palmyra
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Author : Iain Browning
language : en
Publisher: William Andrew
Release Date : 1979
Palmyra written by Iain Browning and has been published by William Andrew this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Palmyra (Syria) categories.
Individualizing The Dead
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Author : Maura Heyn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05
Individualizing The Dead written by Maura Heyn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05 with categories.
During the Roman era, when the ancient city of Palmyra was at the height of its powers, several thousand funerary portraits were sculpted, each carefully crafted to represent the men, women, and children who had once lived there as members of the Palmyrene elite. In their commemorative monuments, these individuals were given specific attributes to express their social status, wealth, identity, and skills. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of these funerary portraits, and illuminates in particular the addition of attributes and how and why they were used by both artists and their patrons. The eight contributions gathered here examine the range of choices available to commissioners of art works in Palmyra, the prevalence or rarity of specific attributes, and the ways in which the variation and selection of attributes could be used in funerary, religious, or public contexts to express social cohesion and group identity, as well as to demonstrate individuality. Crucially, while these funerary monuments may be closely associated with Palmyra, they in fact provide clear evidence of the city's relationships across the wider region: examination of the different attributes suggests that the Palmyrenes were aware of how these were used, perceived, and adapted by neighbouring people as a way of transmitting various social meanings and expressing their own values.
Essays On Ancient Anatolian And Syrian Studies In The 2nd And 1st Millennium B C
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Author : Mikasa no Miya Takahito
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 1991
Essays On Ancient Anatolian And Syrian Studies In The 2nd And 1st Millennium B C written by Mikasa no Miya Takahito and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Kaman-Kalehöyük Site (Turkey) categories.
The Indo Roman Pepper Trade And The Muziris Papyrus
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Author : Federico De Romanis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-15
The Indo Roman Pepper Trade And The Muziris Papyrus written by Federico De Romanis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Social Science categories.
This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of a South Indian cargo imported on a ship named the Hermapollon. The two texts, whose informative potential has long been underexploited, clarify several aspects of the early Roman Empire's trade with South India, including transport logistics, financial and legal elements in the loan agreement funding the commercial enterprise, the trade goods included in the South Indian cargo, and the technicalities of calculating and collecting Roman customs duties on the Indian imports. This study also considers imperial fiscal policy as it related to the South Indian trade, the overall evolution of Rome's trade relations with South India, the structure and organization of South Indian trade stakeholders, and the role played by private tax-collectors. The in-depth analysis sheds new light on this important sector of the Roman economy during the first two centuries AD in two innovative ways: through a balanced consideration of South Indian sources and data, and by drawing comparisons with the pepper trade from late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and early modernity, resulting in a longue durée perspective on the western trade in South Indian pepper.