Research Catalog

Title

'Gems of heaven' : recent research on engraved gemstones in late antiquity, c. 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
• British Museum.

Description

x, 274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 30 cm

Series Statement

British Museum research publication, 1747-3640 ; no. 177

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 177.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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 : the 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.

ISBN

• 9780861591770
• 0861591771

LCCN

2012371107

OCLC

• ocn751726260
• 751726260
• SCSB-1638091

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library