Reuse and renovation in Roman material culture : functions, aesthetics, interpretations / edited by Diana Y. Ng, University of Michigan-Dearborn ; Molly Swetnam-Burland, College of William and Mary, Virginia.
This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonst...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reuse, renovation, reiteration / Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland
- 1. The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii / Brenda Langfellow
- 2. The vigiles, dynastic succession, and symbolic reappropriation in the caserma dei vigili at Ostia / Margaret L. Laird
- 3. Epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of Greek sculptors in the Roman world / Catherine M. Keesling
- 4. Gateways to the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and Athens / Adrian J. Ossi
- 5. Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture of late imperial Rome / Elisha Ann Dumser
- 6. Urban transformations at Aphrodisias in late antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation? / Esen Ogus
- 7. Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua / Gregor Kalas
- 8. The afterlife of the amphitheater: cultural biography ans social memory at Tarragona / Sheila Bonde.