The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43263-5
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1145 g

Reihe: Harvard Egyptological Studies

In The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens Giorgia Cafici offers the analysis of private, male portrait sculptures as attested in Egypt between the end of the Ptolemaic and the beginning of the Roman Period.


Ptolemaic/Early Roman portraits are examined using a combination of detailed stylistic evaluation, philological analysis of the inscriptions and historical and prosopographical investigation of the individuals portrayed. The emergence of this type of sculpture has been contextualised, both geographically and chronologically, as it belongs to a wider Mediterranean horizon.


The analysis has revealed that eminent members of the Egyptian elite decided to be represented in an innovative way, echoing the portraits of eminent Romans of the Late Republic, whose identity was surely known in Egypt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cafici, Giorgia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Map

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Ptolemaic Portraiture: Historical Prejudice and Previous Research

1 Project’s Motives and Objectives

2 History of Research

3 Methodology

4 Terminology and Conventions

2 Contextualising Ptolemaic Private Portraiture

1 Egypt between Greece and Rome

2 Ptolemaic Private Sculpture between Local Tradition and Artistic Innovation

3 Egyptian Portraiture and Its Coeval Mediterranean Context

3 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture: Stylistic, Archaeological and Prosopographical Analysis

1 Materials

2 Dimensions and Proportions

3 Statue Forms

4 Iconography

5 Treatment of the Face

6 Treatment of the Body

7 Dorsal Support

8 Inscriptions

9 Bases

10 Rework and Usurpation

11 Individuals

12 Provenance

4 Analysis, Interpretation and Dating

1 Ptolemaic Private Portraiture and Roman Republican Portraiture: Defining a Relationship

2 Sculptures without Realistic Traits

3 Sculptures Dated to the Early Ptolemaic Period and Statues of Uncertain Date

4 Conclusion

5 Catalogue

1 Introduction to the Catalogue

2 IP

3 UP

Appendix 1: ‘Alexandrian’ Portraits of the First Century BC

Appendix 2: Egyptian Antecedents of the Roman Republican Verism

Appendix 3: Map of Egypt

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgia Cafici, PhD (2017), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is former postdoctoral researcher at that university and currently President of the Centro Italiano di Egittologia “Giuseppe Botti”. She has published many articles on non-royal Ptolemaic sculpture.