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Chersonesan Studies 1 : The Polychrome Grave Stelai from the Early Hellenistic Necropolis / Richard Posamentir.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292784956
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  • 939 .5 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Author’s Preface -- I. The Polychrome Grave Stelai from the Early Hellenistic Necropolis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Catalog of Grave Stelai -- 3. Shape and Object Analysis -- 4. Painting -- 5. Stelai from Inside the Tower of Zeno -- 6. Stelai from Outside the Tower of Zeno -- 7. Dating of the Grave Stelai -- 8. Associated Elements: Crownings, Bases, Naiskoi, and Anthropomorphic Stones -- 8a. Catalog of Associated Elements -- 9. The Location and Appearance of the Necropolis in the Hellenistic Period -- 10. Stelai Comparisons -- 11. Conclusion: The Necropolis, Its Destruction, and the Tower of Zeno -- II. Specialist Studies -- 12. The People of the Citadel Necropolis -- 12a. Catalog of Inscriptions -- 13. Pigment Analyses for the Grave Stelai and Architectural Fragments from Chersonesos -- References -- Index -- Index of Catalog Numbers -- Illustration Credits
Summary: Chersonesan Studies 1 presents the painted grave stelai of the Early Hellenistic necropolis of Chersonesos Taurike, a Greek city on the northern shore of the Black Sea. This unique collection of over one hundred objects is of major interest to students of ancient art and Greek culture. Their polychrome decoration has been extraordinarily well preserved, a rarity in the ancient world. They compose a remarkable, even unique, body of evidence of Greek funerary memorial sculpture: their shapes are gender-specific, their depicted objects are gender- and age-specific, and they can be ascribed to a handful of specific workshops. Their surprising uniformity requires an explanation, since comparable assemblages from other parts of the Greek world show substantial diversity in all these aspects. This book provides the first complete catalog and description of the stelai, together with full-color illustrations of all the significant stelai and many details. Through his painstaking recovery and reassembling of fragments, as well as the use of advanced photographic techniques, Richard Posamentir has been able to add a whole new dimension to the study of these artifacts. The volume covers the history of the stelai, analysis of the workshops, and reconstruction of the necropolis that the stelai originally graced. A comparison chapter discusses how the stelai fit into the context of Greek funerary art and provides insights into the culture and society of a city on the Black Sea.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Author’s Preface -- I. The Polychrome Grave Stelai from the Early Hellenistic Necropolis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Catalog of Grave Stelai -- 3. Shape and Object Analysis -- 4. Painting -- 5. Stelai from Inside the Tower of Zeno -- 6. Stelai from Outside the Tower of Zeno -- 7. Dating of the Grave Stelai -- 8. Associated Elements: Crownings, Bases, Naiskoi, and Anthropomorphic Stones -- 8a. Catalog of Associated Elements -- 9. The Location and Appearance of the Necropolis in the Hellenistic Period -- 10. Stelai Comparisons -- 11. Conclusion: The Necropolis, Its Destruction, and the Tower of Zeno -- II. Specialist Studies -- 12. The People of the Citadel Necropolis -- 12a. Catalog of Inscriptions -- 13. Pigment Analyses for the Grave Stelai and Architectural Fragments from Chersonesos -- References -- Index -- Index of Catalog Numbers -- Illustration Credits

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Chersonesan Studies 1 presents the painted grave stelai of the Early Hellenistic necropolis of Chersonesos Taurike, a Greek city on the northern shore of the Black Sea. This unique collection of over one hundred objects is of major interest to students of ancient art and Greek culture. Their polychrome decoration has been extraordinarily well preserved, a rarity in the ancient world. They compose a remarkable, even unique, body of evidence of Greek funerary memorial sculpture: their shapes are gender-specific, their depicted objects are gender- and age-specific, and they can be ascribed to a handful of specific workshops. Their surprising uniformity requires an explanation, since comparable assemblages from other parts of the Greek world show substantial diversity in all these aspects. This book provides the first complete catalog and description of the stelai, together with full-color illustrations of all the significant stelai and many details. Through his painstaking recovery and reassembling of fragments, as well as the use of advanced photographic techniques, Richard Posamentir has been able to add a whole new dimension to the study of these artifacts. The volume covers the history of the stelai, analysis of the workshops, and reconstruction of the necropolis that the stelai originally graced. A comparison chapter discusses how the stelai fit into the context of Greek funerary art and provides insights into the culture and society of a city on the Black Sea.

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