Roman strigillated sarcophagi [electronic resource] : art and social history / Janet Huskinson.
Huskinson, Janet, author.
2015
NB1810 .H87 2015eb
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Title Roman strigillated sarcophagi [electronic resource] : art and social history / Janet Huskinson.
Author Huskinson, Janet, author.
ISBN 9780191802522 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203246
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 349 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203246 doi
Call Number NB1810 .H87 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 733.509376
Summary This volume provides a full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, which are the largest group of decorated marble sarcophagi to survive in the city of Rome. Characterised by panels of carved fluting, resembling the curved strigil used by Roman bathers to scrape off oil, and limited figure scenes, they were produced from the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, and thus cover a critical period in Rome, from empire to early Christianity. This study focuses on their rich potential as a historical source for exploring the social and cultural life of the city in the later empire.
Note This volume provides a full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, which are the largest group of decorated marble sarcophagi to survive in the city of Rome. Characterised by panels of carved fluting, resembling the curved strigil used by Roman bathers to scrape off oil, and limited figure scenes, they were produced from the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, and thus cover a critical period in Rome, from empire to early Christianity. This study focuses on their rich potential as a historical source for exploring the social and cultural life of the city in the later empire.
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1. Introducing the questions
2. Introducing the sarcophagi
Part I. Production, Use, and Viewing. 3. Making and acquiring strigillated sarcophagi
4. Strigilated sarcophagi and their burial contexts
5. The decoration of strigillated sarcophagi
6. Viewing strigillated sarcophagi
Part II. Representations. 7. Representing Romans
8. Mythological imagery
9. Symbolic figures
10. Representing Christians and their beliefs
11. Strigillated sarcophagi and the Jewish community in Rome
Part III. Reception. 12. The reception of Roman strigillated sarcophagi: approaches to its study
13. The reuse of strigillated sarcophagi in historical context
14. Adopting the strigillated motif: some case studies.

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