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Memories in Stone: Figured Grave Reliefs from Aegean Thrace brings together for the first time a ... more Memories in Stone: Figured Grave Reliefs from Aegean Thrace brings together for the first time a group of 70 decorated funerary reliefs from the region between the Nestos and the Hebros rivers, dated between the sixth century BC and the third century AD. Typological, epigraphic and iconographical analysis underlines the various influences that permeated this region with preeminent artistic predilections from the northeastern Aegean and Asia Minor. Major iconographic themes, such as the rider and the funerary banquet prevail between the first century BC and the third century AD, whereas popular features of the Roman repertoire are, so far, not common east of the Nestos river. An artistic overview of the iconography used in other parts of ancient Thrace, especially after the first century BC, underlines the conclusion that no one, single ‘Thracian style’ can be recognized in the art of the province, but rather inland and coastal areas develop their own character and artistic references. The results of the isotopic analysis of marble performed on a group of selected stelai give additional information regarding marble sources and their exploitation in the region. The discussion is complemented by rich photographic documentation.
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A Cultural History of Furniture presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the presen... more A Cultural History of Furniture presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of furniture in its physical, social and cultural context. 1. A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE) 2. A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (500-1500) 3. A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration (1500-1700) 4. A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment (1700-1800) 5. A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry (1800-1900) 6. A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age (1900-present) Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Design and Motifs 2. Makers, Making and Materials 3. Types and Uses of Furniture 4. The Domestic Setting 5. The Public Setting 6. Exhibition and Display 7. Furniture and Architecture 8. Visual Representations 9. Verbal Representations This structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes. Superbly illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most comprehensive and authoritative survey available on furniture throughout history
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together with Lothar Haselberger Cover illustration, hàaytti. Frontispiece, Johann k lad. M. VITR... more together with Lothar Haselberger Cover illustration, hàaytti. Frontispiece, Johann k lad. M. VITRUVI POLLIONIS DE ARCHITECTURA. Amsterdam. Lodculjk EÌievkr. 1649. Catahffte Entry #14.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century and in one of the seminal studies on ancient furniture,... more At the beginning of the twentieth century and in one of the seminal studies on ancient furniture, Caroline L. Ransom introduced the subject by admitting that "the monumental evidence [on ancient beds] is far from satisfying …. There are fundamental problems of form and construction to which the ancient sources, literary and monumental taken together, do not furnish adequate answers" (Ransom 1905: 13-14). The ancient material that Ransom had at her disposal in 1905 amounted to a bronze Etruscan bed from the seventh century bCe and another from about 200 bCe, "possibly the only one from the second century" (14). She noted numerous beds dating from the centuries immediately before and after Christ, followed by a break in the second century Ce. With the then available amount of excavated furniture pieces she stressed that discussions should depend upon relief sculpture, wall paintings, and vase decorations in which beds appear. In her time, Greek reliefs, Etruscan wall paintings, and vase paintings of the sixth and fifth centuries bCe along with wall decorations of Roman date were the principal source of information in regard to ancient beds. Twenty years after Ransom's study, Gisela M.A. Richter, for many years Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, published a meticulous study on various kinds of Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1926) with more excavated material on which to base her findings. An appendix by Albert Baker provided about twenty drawings of Greek types. Richter later revised her work in 1966 adding material and illustrations, creating a superb reference for an overlooked category of ancient material. A brief account of earlier Aegean furniture was added, along with references to furniture on Linear B tablets. The classification developed in 1926, in which each type of furniture is studied separately, was still used and further
Our earliest verbal documentation of furniture comes from the early states developed in Egypt and... more Our earliest verbal documentation of furniture comes from the early states developed in Egypt and the Near East (including Hittite Anatolia in the second millennium bCe). However, furniture documented in records of transactions or inventories throughout its history is seldom descriptive. Except for the materials used, we mostly find simply the terms for different types of furniture. Uncertainties surround details in their form and means of construction. These problems notwithstanding, this chapter will focus on the terms used for furniture in written documents. A primary selection of such terms from Egypt and the Near East has been gathered in Table .1 with suggestions for further reading. Some of our earliest evidence is interesting in the way it reveals aspects of the ancient conceptualization of objects that we categorize as "furniture." One Sumerian word for "throne," for instance, is the compound gĩšgal "great wooden" (gĩš "wood"/"wooden thing" + gal "great"), the only Sumerian type of furniture to explicitly indicate its high elite function through such a transparent formation. Besides the terms included in Table .1, furniture vocabulary is greatly enriched by periphrases formed by the modification of terms used generically, as is frequently the case with Sumerian gĩš gu-za "seat," ná "bed," and banšur "table" (Akkadian kussû, eršu, and paššūru, respectively) (Salonen 1963: 34-75, 110-37, 176-92). As a conceptual category, furniture is often explicitly associated with portability and mobility, a property most explicitly shown by the frequent examples (in both imagery and actual finds) of folding legs, collapsible parts,
Although in private life wealthy individuals presumably exhibited their power and status through ... more Although in private life wealthy individuals presumably exhibited their power and status through their possessions, we have neither direct literary sources nor enough extant objects from domestic settings pertaining to furniture to fully substantiate this. Only occasionally literary evidence, such as in Aristophane's Wasps (1214-15), praises metal vessels, the decoration of the ceiling, and the woven hangings in a private banquet as a proper way to start a discussion during the party. On the other hand, surviving temple inventories make it clear that temples were built to house precious dedications of gold and silver, along with gemstones, ivory, fine woods, and luxurious textiles. Precious materials added to their appeal and manifested the wealth and power of their donors. In Greek thought the possession and appreciation of extravagant accoutrements not only demonstrated wealth and refinement, but also were associated with the excesses of kingship and tyranny. The word tryphe (softness) had largely negative connotations. It was potentially disruptive, led to softness, effeminacy, and corruption (Andrianou 2009: 123-9). Luxury goods derived mainly from the East became unfashionable around the time of the Persian Wars in the early fifth century bCe and were especially suspect in democratic Athens, yet tryphe was not an entirely negative concept (Lapatin 2015: 2). Literary evidence for deliberate, clear display in conjunction with furniture only becomes available at a later date, associated with the life and the public processions of Hellenistic kings and the royal elite.
"Woodworking and Furniture" in Cultural History of Craft, volume I, ed. B. Russell (forthcoming)
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Shakespeare 1597/2004, 2.2.43. 2 Joana Sequeira developed her work under the scope of the project... more Shakespeare 1597/2004, 2.2.43. 2 Joana Sequeira developed her work under the scope of the project "Wor(l)ds of Cultural Diversity: Dress and Textiles in Portugal, 13th-15th centuries" (
Per uso strettamente personale dell'autore. È proibita la riproduzione e la pubblicazione in open... more Per uso strettamente personale dell'autore. È proibita la riproduzione e la pubblicazione in open access. For author's personal use only. Any copy or publication in open access is forbidden.
As part of a larger, synthetic study of the figural tombstones from Aegean Thrace, twelve funerar... more As part of a larger, synthetic study of the figural tombstones from Aegean Thrace, twelve funerary stelai were sampled in order to identify the provenance of their marble. The stelai date from the fifth century B.C. to the first century A.D. and depict iconography influenced by Attic and Ionian centers (standing and seated female figures, Heros Equitans and funerary banquets). The samples were characterized archaeometrically by minero-petrographic analyses (polarizing microscopy on thin sections and X-Raydiffraction on powders) with the mass-spectrometric determination of the C & O stable-isotope ratio. Supposing that local marbles (as well as imported ones) could have been used for such stelai, the ancient marble quarries of Marmaritsa, situated on the SW slopes of Mount Ismaros, close to the archaeological site of Maroneia, were also sampled and analyzed using the same method. The results were then compared with those of the local marble and the most updated international database of the most productive-high quality marbles used in Greek and Roman antiquity. Thus far, the results indicate that some of the funerary stelai employed dolomitic marbles from Pentele, Proconnesos and Thasos while the remainder used Thracian marbles from Marmaritsa and another source as of yet unidentified.
"Macedonia" : fully annotated bibliography of ancient Macedonia from the prehistoric to the late Roman period in http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com (2011) in collaboration with M. B. Hatzopoulos
1. Πήλινος πίνακας από τους Επιζεφύριους Λοκρούς στην Κάτω Ιταλία (Museo Nazionale Archeologico d... more 1. Πήλινος πίνακας από τους Επιζεφύριους Λοκρούς στην Κάτω Ιταλία (Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto, αρ. ευρ. IG 8332). της κατοικίας, αλλά σε ευρήματα τάφων και ιερών για να απαντήσουμε σε ερωτήματα όπως αν διέθεταν κλίνες οι κατοικίες ή πώς στηρίζονταν τα τραπέζια. Η ποικιλία των ταφικών επίπλων που περιείχαν οι τάφοι σε συνδυασμό με την εικονογραφία (αγγεία αλλά και ταφι κή ζωγραφι κή) έρχονται αρωγοί στην ανασύνθεση των επίπλων της αρχαιότητας. Όπως συμβαίνει συχνά με τα αρχαιολογικά δεδομένα, επειδή τα υλικά κατάλοιπα επίπλων από τις κατοικίες δεν αρκούν για να σχημα τίσουμε μία πλήρη εικόνα, συμπληρώνουμε τα κενά κατά το δυνατόν συνδυάζοντας ευρήματα από διαφορετικούς γεωγραφικά ανασκαφικούς χώρους, φιλολογικές πηγές και εικονογρα φία. Από την άλλη, ορισμένα είδη επίπλων, όπως για παράδειγμα οι μαρμά-ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ & ΤΕΧΝΕΣ τχ. 113 47 2. Σχεδιαστική αποκατάσταση θρανίου από την Οικία των Σφραγισμάτων στη Δήλο (EfA). 3. Αναπαράσταση του ασημένιου δίφρου που βρέθηκε σε τάφο της Σταυρούπολης Θεσσαλονίκης (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης, ΜΘ 7440). 4. Το εσωτερικό του μακεδονικού «Τάφου των Ερώτων» της Ερέτριας στα τέλη του 19ου αι. (1894), με τον ένα από τους δύο θρόνους και τις δύο ταφικές κλίνες. 5. Ο θρόνος του μακεδονικού τάφου ΙΙ του «Τύμβου Μπέλλα» στη Βεργίνα, αρχές 3ου αι. π.Χ.
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