Late Roman sarcophagi in central Italy made from scavenged blocks

• J.J. Herrmann ^[1]
  1. [1] School of the Museum of Fine Arts

     School of the Museum of Fine Arts

     City of Boston, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 93-103
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Many late 3rd and 4th-century sarcophagi in Rome and Naples seem to have been made of adapted or reused blocks. Backs and sides of these sarcophagi display various kinds of anomalies or inconsistencies, which reveal that they were either made from blocks originally intended for different purposes or else adapted from defective or abandoned material. Some of the blocks were originally intended as architectural decoration, and it therefore appears likely that the sculptors of sarcophagi also produced architectural decoration and had access to deposits of unfinished blocks. The material for this study came primarily from collections in four museums where the backs of sarcophagi were relatively visible: the Museo Pio Cristiano of the Vatican; the Chiostro Grande of the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome; the Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples; and the Archaeological Museum, Split, Croatia.