Régine Hunziker-Rodewald, Ulrike Steinert, Zsolt Simon

Sven Günther, Ergün Laflı

This book is only the second conference proceedings which
has been devoted in large part to gems from specific sites in the Graeco-Roman
world. The first, held in Aquileia in 2008, was centred on the large quantity of
intaglios manufactured in that city at the head of the Adriatic and thus at a key
point to trade with the north western provinces and beyond and so the focus was
on the western part of the Roman Empire. The only other major international
conferences on gems have dealt with their afterlife in Medieval, Renaissance, and
Neo-Classical Europe, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 1994;
and on Late Roman gems, at the British Museum in 2009. In addition the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden staged a conference on a slightly smaller scale at
the culmination of their Engraved Gems project in 2016 with a group of papers
on various aspects of glyptics, published in the following year.
The extensive range of papers published here is in large part concerned with
Fundgemmen, as was the Aquileia conference but the contributions are in many
respects more comprehensive, dealing with gems from sites all around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, which were the heartland of Greek and Roman power and culture. 

Reihe + Nummer: AOAT 474

ISBN: 978-3-86835-371-6
 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2025

Seitenanzahl: xxv + 663 pp.