The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture: Late Antique Responses and Practices

433 Pages·2016·9.49 MB·English

by  Lea Stirling (Author)

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The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture
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The Afterlife of Greek
and Roman Sculpture
Late Antique Responses
and Practices
Troels Myrup Kristensen and
Lea Stirling, editors
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
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Names: Kristensen, Troels Myrup, editor. | Stirling, Lea Margaret, editor.
Title: The afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture : late antique responses and practices /
Troels Myrup Kristensen and Lea Stirling, editors.
Description: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016. | “This book developed out of
two seminars held in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus
University on 26 September 2008 and 25 March 2011.” | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016012907| ISBN 9780472119691 (hardback) | ISBN 9780472121823
(e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Sculpture, Classical—Appreciation—History—To 1500—Congresses. |
Altered sculptures—History—To 1500—Congresses. | Sculpture materials—Recycling—
History—to 1500—Congresses. | Classical antiquities—Destruction and pillage—
History—to 1500—Congresses. | BISAC: HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. | ART / History /
Ancient & Classical.
Classification: LCC NB85 .A39 2016 | DDC 735/.22—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016012907
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
The Lives and Afterlives of Greek and Roman Sculpture:
From Use to Refuse / Troels Myrup Kristensen and Lea Stirling 1
Part I. Practices of Deposition and Reuse
one: Metal Sculpture from Roman Britain: Scraps but
Not Always Scrap / Ben Croxford 27
two: Sculptural Deposition and Lime Kilns at Roman Villas in Italy
and the Western Provinces in Late Antiquity / Beth Munro 47
three: “Christ- Loving Antioch Became Desolate”: Sculpture, Earthquakes,
and Late Antique Urban Life / Troels Myrup Kristensen 68
Part II. Regional Perspectives
four: Old Habits Die Hard: A Group of Mythological Statuettes from
Sagalassos and the Afterlife of Sculpture in Asia Minor / Ine Jacobs 93
five: The Reuse of Ancient Sculpture in the Urban Spaces of
Late Antique Athens / Nadin Burkhardt 118
six: Crosses, Noses, Walls, and Wells: Christianity and the
Fate of Sculpture in Late Antique Corinth / Amelia R. Brown 150
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seven: The Reuse of Funerary Statues in Late Antique Prestige
Buildings at Ostia / Cristina Murer 177
eight: Germans, Christians, and Rituals of Closure: Agents of
Cult Image Destruction in Roman Germany / Philip Kiernan 197
nine: The Fate of Classical Statues in Late Antique and
Byzantine Sicily: The Cases of Catania and Agrigento /
Denis Sami 223
ten: The Fate of Sculpture on the Lower Danube in Late Antiquity:
Preliminary Observations / Cristina- Georgeta Alexandrescu 243
Part III. Grand Narratives
eleven: Shifting Use of a Genre: A Comparison of Statuary Décor
in Homes and Baths of the Late Roman West / Lea Stirling 265
twelve: The Disappearing Imperial Statue: Toward a
Social Approach / Benjamin Anderson 290
thirteen: The Sunset of 3D / Paolo Liverani 310
fourteen: Travelers’ Accounts of Roman Statuary in the
Near East and North Africa: From Limbo and Destruction
to Museum Heaven / Michael Greenhalgh 330
Contributors 349
Bibliography 353
Index 413
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Acknowledgments
This book developed out of two seminars held in the Department of History
and Classical Studies at Aarhus University on 26 September 2008 and 25 March
2011. On these occasions, six of the contributions were first presented in earlier
versions (Beth Munro, Ine Jacobs, Nadin Burkhardt, Philip Kiernan, Benjamin
Anderson, and Paolo Liverani). Ben Croxford, Troels Myrup Kristensen, and
Lea Stirling also presented, but these contributions have been published in
other formats. Funding for the two seminars came from the Danish Council for
Independent Research, the Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology,
and the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. We are grateful to the
Classics Department at the University of Manitoba for subvention of the im-
ages in the book. The editors would like to sincerely thank these institutions for
their generous help and their continued support. Andrea Signore, Angela May,
Megan Murray, and Sophie Lawall assisted with editing in Winnipeg; Nicola
Daumann and Stine Birk in Aarhus. We thank them all.
TMK would like to dedicate this work to the memory of his grandmother,
Christence Myrup (1907– 2001), a remarkable woman who embodied the power
of both tradition and education. LMS would like to dedicate this work to her
husband Mark Lawall, in gratitude for patience and humour, as we pass the vi-
cennalia of our marriage.
TMK
LMS

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Introduction