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Funerary Reliefs from the West Pontic Area (6th-1st Centuries Bc)

Funerary Reliefs from the West Pontic Area (6th-1st Centuries Bc)

Hardcover

Series: Colloquia Antiqua, Book 14

ArchaeologyAncient Greece

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ISBN10: 9042930888
ISBN13: 9789042930889
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Mar 24 2015
Pages: 361
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
This book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1stcenturies BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the wholewestern Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria and Romania). It studiesmonuments with relief decoration - 98 pieces (from Apollonia, Bizone, Callatis, Dionysopolis, Histria, Mesambria, Naulochos, Odessos andOrgame) are examined and illustrated in a geographically arrangedcatalogue, which is preceded by a full discussion of typologies, iconography, chronology, compositional elements, material, workshops andproduction, etc. The book is not merely a case study but also anexamination of Greek funerary art in general, offering parallels frommainland Greece, the Greek islands and Asia Minor, and noting generaltendencies as well as local peculiarities specific to the western BlackSea.

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