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Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main themes of the book. Authors examine such subjects as painting from Dura-Europos, Hellenistic sculpture at Saqqara in Egypt, Roman cameo glass, Pompeian fresco, and aspects of Venus in portrait sculpture. The essays on Dura-Europos are especially valuable in light of the present turmoil in the region.

Professor Downey’s influence shines through in these discussions, which echo her mentorship of several generations of art history and archaeology students and recognize her scholarly achievements. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.

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Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main themes of the book. Authors examine such subjects as painting from Dura-Europos, Hellenistic sculpture at Saqqara in Egypt, Roman cameo glass, Pompeian fresco, and aspects of Venus in portrait sculpture. The essays on Dura-Europos are especially valuable in light of the present turmoil in the region.

Professor Downey’s influence shines through in these discussions, which echo her mentorship of several generations of art history and archaeology students and recognize her scholarly achievements. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.

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Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

Icon, Cult, and Context: Sacred Spaces and Objects in the Classical World

Overview

This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main themes of the book. Authors examine such subjects as painting from Dura-Europos, Hellenistic sculpture at Saqqara in Egypt, Roman cameo glass, Pompeian fresco, and aspects of Venus in portrait sculpture. The essays on Dura-Europos are especially valuable in light of the present turmoil in the region.

Professor Downey’s influence shines through in these discussions, which echo her mentorship of several generations of art history and archaeology students and recognize her scholarly achievements. The broad temporal and geographic parameters of the volume are expansive, and the juxtaposition of images and analyses leads to surprising new conclusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938770067
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Publication date: 04/15/2016
Series: Monographs , #83
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Maura K. Heyn is an associate professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Ann Irvine Steinsapir is a visiting assistant professor at Pepperdine University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Editors' Bios xi

Contributors xiii

Tabula Gratulatoria xv

List of Figures xviii

List of Plates xxiii

Chapter 1 From Heracles to Zeus Megistos: Susan Downey's Academic Contributions Maura K. Heyn Ann Irvine Steinsapir 1

Chapter 2 Menerva on the Couch: A Votive Figurine from Cerveteri of Unusual Iconography Helen (Ili) Nagy 5

Chapter 3 A New Interpretation of the Mounted Hunters in the Mithraeum of Dura-Europos Lucinda Dirven 17

Chapter 4 Revisiting the "Temple of Bêl" at Dura-Europos: A Note on the Fragmentary Fresco from the Naos Ted Kaizer 35

Chapter 5 Ariadne Transformed in Pompeii"s House of Fabius Rufus Lillian B. Joyce 47

Chapter 6 The Importance of Being Venus Eve D'Ambra 65

Chapter 7 A Portrait of a Bearded Man Flanked by Isis and Serapis Mary Louise Hart 79

Chapter 8 A Deuteronomic Theme and Second Sophistic Rhetoric in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Paintings May Oppenheim Talbot 91

Chapter 9 The Religious Iconography of Roman Cameo Glass Karol B. Wight 103

Chapter 10 The Hellenistic Sculptural Program of the Sarapieion at Saqqara and the Ptolemaic Crown Shanna Kennedy-Quigley 115

Chapter 11 The Sanctuary of Artemis Leukophryene as an Expression of Conflicted Civic Identity Amanda Herring 133

Chapter 12 Recent Discoveries Concerning Religious Life in Europos-Dura Pierre Leriche 153

Appendix: Selected Publications Susan B. Downey 191

Index 195

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