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Saints and salvation : the Wilshere collection of gold-glass, sarcophagi and inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy

Title
Saints and salvation : the Wilshere collection of gold-glass, sarcophagi and inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy / edited by Susan Walker ; with contributions by Sean V. Leatherbury and David Rini ; scientific analysis by Annelore Blomme [and six others].
Publication
[Oxford] : Ashmolean Museum, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Walker, Susan, 1948-
  • Leatherbury, Sean Villareal, 1984-
  • Rini, David
  • Ashmolean Museum.
Description
240 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 28 cm
Summary
Dr. Susan Walker tells the story of Charles Wilshere's passionate interest in early Christian and Jewish archaeology. His collection was formed in Italy from 1860-1880 and has mostly been on public display ever since, in London and Oxford, where it is now shown in the Ashmolean Museum. The collection includes gold-glass and gravestones from two interesting collections of the southern Italian enlightenment, and Jewish tombstones from the Vigna Randanini. Recent examination of the gold-glass has revealed interesting new information about how the glass was made in fourth-century Rome. The collection also offers a glimpse of the religious and social history of fourth-century Rome: Christians were discouraged from honouring their dead in pagan style with exuberant funerary feasts, and instead were encouraged to honour the memory of Christian martyrs. The Jewish community shared the traditional enthusiasm for feasting at the grave, and bought their gold-glass from the same workshops.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index.
Contents
Part 1. The formation of the Wilshere collection -- Part 2. The Wilshere collection in context -- Catalogue / Susan Walker with contributions by Sean V. Leatherbury and David Rini -- Gold-glass -- Sarcophagi and a cinerary urn -- Funerary inscriptions -- Christian votive relief and silver spoon -- Concordance of objects from the Wilshere collection / Susan Walker -- Transcriptions of Wilshere's inventory of objects loaned to the Leeds Exhibition, 1868 / Susan Walker -- The Declaration of Trust in favour of Pusey House, 1895 / Susan Walker -- Analysis of gold-glass from the Ashmolean Museum / Andrew Shortland, Kelly Domoney and Julian Henderson -- Sr-Nd isotopic characterisation of a Roman gold-glass sample (Ashmolean Museum, entry AN 2007.26) / Patrick Degryse & Annelore Blomme -- Stable isotope analysis of marble inscriptions from the Wilshere collection, Ashmolean Museum / Peter Ditchfield -- Report on the ancient mortar on inscriptions from the Wilshere collection, Ashmolean Museum / Graham Morgan.
Call Number
JQF 18-1169
ISBN
  • 9781854442901
  • 1854442902
OCLC
1037627735
Title
Saints and salvation : the Wilshere collection of gold-glass, sarcophagi and inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy / edited by Susan Walker ; with contributions by Sean V. Leatherbury and David Rini ; scientific analysis by Annelore Blomme [and six others].
Publisher
[Oxford] : Ashmolean Museum, [2017]
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-237) and index.
Added Author
Walker, Susan, 1948- editor.
Leatherbury, Sean Villareal, 1984- contributor.
Rini, David, contributor.
Ashmolean Museum.
Research Call Number
JQF 18-1169
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