Research Catalog

Title

'Gems of heaven' : recent research on engraved gemstones in late antiquity, AD 200-600 / edited by Chris Entwistle and Noël Adams.

Publication

London : British Museum, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Entwistle, Christopher.
• Adams, Noël.

Description

x, 274 p. : col. ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

British Museum research publication; no. 177

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; 177.

Subject

• Gems, Ancient
• Gems, Byzantine
• Gems, Classical
• Art objects, Byzantine
• Art objects, Classical
• Gems > History

Note

• Conference proceedings.

Contents

Non-destructive gemmological tests for the identification of ancient gems / Çiğdem Lüle -- A case study on gemstone origins: Chrysothrix, a group of Roman magical gems / Lisbet Thoresen -- The garnet millennium: the role of seal stones in garnet studies / Noël Adams -- Lithóis Indikois: preliminary characterisation of garnet seal stones from central and south Asia / Noël Adams, Çiğdem Lüle and Emma Passmore -- Archaeologies of magical gems / Richard Gordon -- Text, image and medium: the evolution of Graeco-Roman magical gemstones / Chris Faraone -- The colours [colors] of magical gems / Attilio Matrocinque -- Magic and medicine: gems and the power of seals / Véronique Dasen -- Magical gems and classical archaeology / Árpád M. Nagy -- Studies on magical amulets in the British Museum / Simone Michel-von Dungern -- 'Grylloi' / Ken Lapatin -- Engraved gems from sites with a military presence in Roman Palestine: the cases of Legio and Aelia Capitolina / Orit Peleg-Barkat and Yotam Tepper -- Selected antique gems from Israel: excavated glyptics from Roman-Byzantine tombs / Shua Amorai-Stark and Malka Hershkovitz -- Christian gems from Portugal in context / Graça Cravinho and Shua Amorai-Stark -- Intaglios and cameos from Gaul in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD / Hélèn Guiraud -- Late Roman gems from Tilurim in Croatia / Bruna Nardelli -- Three degrees of separation: detail reworking, type updating and identity. Transformation in Roman imperial glyptic portraits in the round / Elisabetta Gagetti -- Gem portraits of soldier-emperors / Erika Zwierlein-Diehl -- Gods or mortals: images on imperial portrait gems, medallions and coins in the 3rd century AD / Adrian Marsden -- Love and passion: personal cameos in late antiquity from the content collection / Helen Molesworth and Martin Henig -- The Belgrade cameo / Antje Krug -- Late antique and early Christian gems: some unpublished examples / Jeffrey Spier -- The argument from silence: iconographic statements of 1981 on faked gems reconsidered / Josef Engemann -- The Constanza carnelian and the development of crucifixion iconography in late antiquity / Felicity Harley-McGowan -- Seals in transition: their change of function and value in late antiquity / Gertrud Platz-Horster -- Myth revisited: teh re-use of mythological cameos and intaglios in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Gemma Sena Chiesa -- Inscriptions on portrait gems and discs in late antiquity (4th to 6th centuries AD): between epigraphical tradition and numismatic particularism / Sébastien Aubry -- Roman intaglios oddly set: the transformative power of the metalwork mount / Genevra Kornbluth -- The re-use and re-interpretation of gemstones in medieval Hungary / Tamás Gesztelyi -- Reflections on gems depicting the contest of Athena and Poseidon / Hadrien Rambach.

Call Number

JQF 12-1393

ISBN

• 9780861591770 (pbk.)
• 0861591771 (pbk.)

OCLC

751726260

Title

'Gems of heaven' : recent research on engraved gemstones in late antiquity, AD 200-600 / edited by Chris Entwistle and Noël Adams.

Imprint

London : British Museum, 2011.

Series

British Museum research publication; no. 177

Research publication (British Museum) ; 177.

Added Author

Entwistle, Christopher.

Adams, Noël.

Research Call Number

JQF 12-1393