Roman Sculpture from the North West Midlands

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-726290-0
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 147 Seiten, Format (B × H): 279 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Great Britain 1

This catalogue of the sculptures from this region of Roman Britain covers locally carved sculptures, and provide an index of Romanisation in the far north-west of the Roman Empire - in particular at Devra (Chester), Viroconium (Wroxeter), and at Letcetum (Wall, Staffs).

This is the first comprehensive catalogue of the sculpture from this region of Roman Britain, including the first proper record of the sculpture from Wroxeter.;The sculptures, all in local sandstone, were carved locally and provide an index of Romanisation in the far north-west of the Roman Empire - at the Fortress of Legio II Adivtrix and then Legio XX Valeria Victrix at Devra (Chester), and at the Fortress and subsequently the civil town of the Cornovii at Viroconium (Wroxeter). The sculpture from Letcetum (Wall, Staffs) is also considered.;The works range in quality from highly accomplished and decorative altars and tombstones, to rather ham-fisted efforts which hint that it was not always possible to attract sculptors to these relatively remote places. Such factors are discussed in an extended introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henig, Martin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Webster, Graham

Blaag, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen

Über Autor(innen)

Henig, Martin (Visiting Lecturer in Roman Art, University of Oxford)