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Hellenistic
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Roman
Hellenistic #19 Roman
Leon Levy and Shelby White Court
Hellenistic / Roman Funerary Art
Celtics / Gauls
live bound Danube and Rhine
wear tight fitting trousers
Celtics specifically use long cutting swords hung at right side from chain belt
Scabbard
Many Barbarian statues in Pergamon of Asia Minor
Hellenistic Southern Italy use imported marble for important commission heads, and limestone for bodies
Tarentum: tradition of limestone funerary monuments
Vase with anthropomorphic embellishment like necklace became popular in 4th BC from South Italy to Black Sea
Wreath of ivy leaves and korymboi (ivy berry)
Dionysos attribute: ivy tipped thyrsos (staff)
2012.546
cult of Demeter and Kore in South Italy and Sicily / Titian, sitting near the well head
Stephanos Athletes
broad shoulder: second quarter 5BC
small head long leg: mid 4BC
Mosaic glass vessel: late 3BC began mass produced, a characteristic of Hellenistic glassware - many are hemispherical shaped
Centuripe vase
Canosa group of Hellenistic glassware
06.1021.248a-e
Daunian
/ mold made figures were fastened with pegs to the flange that serves as a ground line
triton and tritoness- marine mythology in south Italy contrasts with Athenian
Mastery of Tarentine Coroplastic art - terracotta
06.1021.227
Figure painted white inside the naiskos, outside are red. Are they statues? Or does the white signify a change in substance though not in form brought about by death?
recurring question in ancient funerary representation is which figure is alive and which deceased.
Syncretic deity Isis-Tyche
Bridle a horse
Celtics migrated east to Thrace and Asia Minor are Galatians - work as mercenary
Egyptian Faience Ware
mastered early Predynastic period, late 4BC, used into H and R
Glass Group III
in Late H strictly two shapes: alabastra and amphoriskoi
Hadra Hydria
tendency towards slimmer more elongated proportion in 3BC
strophion
Aphrodite wrapping it around, a chandelier of cloth as support for breasts
Hero: mostly depict on horseback or dining at funerary banquet
Nereid riding triton, Iliad
Augustan classism: smooth feature and fashionable hairstyle
Roman funerary: cremation 400BC to 2AD, then inhumation
Columbaria, communal tomb with niches
Cinerary urn: limestone terra - carved marble 1BC late Republic - glass 1AD
Glass fruit bowl survived because found second use as urn
Come in many shapes, from shrine or altar to container
Egyptian kept using mummification in R period; Jews used ossuary and lead sarcophagi (East through h Syria and Israel, but also found in Britain where lead mine was); Cyprus used drum shaped limestone tomb mark, cippi, in R period
Plane non-handle glass jar found mostly in Italy and Greek East because they were not for practical use? So just for cremation urn
Tropaia- war trophy
/ what inspired M’s battle scene
Marble imitation of wicker basket common as cometary urn in early Imperial, mostly for female burial
weaving is one of the activities that a virtuous matron should pursue
1909 （09.221.2)
Double portrait bust
likely outdoor funerary monument for prosperous freed slaves
/ like Lombard double portrait
acroteria
Guilloche pattern
Lesbian
Hygieia, personification of Health, daughter of Asklepios God of Healing
both figures associated with with snakes
Composite capitals are associated with emperor comissions
Lucius Verus less liked than Marcus Aurelius due to his troop brought back plague
Antonine character: luxuriant drill work in hair and engraved eyes to dramatize naturalistic image
Marcus Aurelius: large oval eyes, voluminous curls
later assumed long beard, the Philosopher King, adherence to Stoicism “Mediations”
Lucius Verus period: high polished flesh, oval shaped looped knot of hair
Antoninus Pius
last Emerson to spend most reign in Rome city, no war or travel. Edward Gibbon “the condition of the human race was most happy and most prosperous”
Woman cloth: chiton tied at waist, another chiton or Pepsis fasten on shoulders, himation cloak
Mid Antonine beauty standard; puffy feature, prominent eyes, deeply waved hair
Jeunesse doree
Bear- spring
Lion-summer
Bull-fall
Boar-winter
Short beard popular in 2AD