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Carvers and customers in Roman Palmyra : the production economy of limestone loculus reliefs

Title
Carvers and customers in Roman Palmyra : the production economy of limestone loculus reliefs / by Julia Steding.
Author
Steding, Julia
Publication
  • Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2022.
  • ©2022

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xi, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, map, plans; 28 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; volume 7
Uniform Title
Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; 7.
Alternative Title
Production economy of limestone loculus reliefs
Subject
  • Portrait sculpture, Roman > Syria > Tadmur
  • Limestone sculpture > Syria > Tadmur
  • Limestone sculpture
  • Portrait sculpture, Roman
  • Syria > Tadmur
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-172) and index.
Call Number
JFF 22-775
ISBN
  • 2503597858
  • 9782503597850
OCLC
1304243984
Author
Steding, Julia, author.
Title
Carvers and customers in Roman Palmyra : the production economy of limestone loculus reliefs / by Julia Steding.
Publisher
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; volume 7
Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history ; 7.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-172) and index.
Research Call Number
JFF 22-775
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