The book discusses the grave stelai and reliefs from the Bosporan kingdom. Occupying the eastern ... more The book discusses the grave stelai and reliefs from the Bosporan kingdom. Occupying the eastern Crimea and the Taman peninsula of the northern shore of the Black Sea, this ancient Greek state was situated in an important contact zone of the Greek world. The permant interaction of Greeks and indigeneous peoples resulted in a dynamic local culture. In this respect, the grave stelai erected in the Bosporan necropoleis and their numerous relief depictions dating from the 5th cent. BC to the 3rd cent AD are a unique source: They provide us not only with pictorial evidence for local identities but are, ultimately, also of great value for our understanding of the development and transformation of this local culture in general.
Nonetheless, these monuments have been widely neglected by non-russian/ukrainian scholarship since the fundamental compilation 'Griechische Grabreliefs aus Südrussland' by G. von Kieseritzky and C. Watzinger, published already in 1909. But since then the number of known monuments has considerably grown and offers new insights into Bosporan culture.
Therefore, the book deals not only with problems of typology, stylistic developments and the reliefs' chronology. A major part focusses on the analysis of the imagery of the relief stelai (mainly from the 2nd BC to the 2nd AD) and the development and originality of the iconographies compared to the monuments of Greece and Asia Minor as well as to the neighbouring Greek cities of the northern Pontic region like Chersonesos. Discussed are local iconographies and their interpretation regarding social role models and value systems. Attention is also paid to the reflexes and deliberate use of contemporary local material culture in the iconographies. In addition, an attempt is made to embed the monuments in the context of the local funerary culture, i.e. the contemporary Bosporan necropoleis with their manifold forms of sepulchral self-representation.
A. Haug, A. Hielscher, A.-L. Krüger (Hrsg.), Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity Design and Experience (Berlin 2023) 35-55, 2023
The paper seeks to approach the social dimension of ancient urban neighbourhoods by turning towar... more The paper seeks to approach the social dimension of ancient urban neighbourhoods by turning towards a densely built-up inner city area of Classical Athens situated in the valley between the Pnyx and the Acropolis. The area was excavated by Wilhelm Dörpfeld in yearly campaigns from 1891 to 1898 and comprises a stretch of one of the major streets of Classical Athens with adjacent architectural complexes and houses as well as side streets and public infrastructure. Yet it is an urban area only rarely considered in discussions on Classical Greek urban life. Although resulting from an old excavation with only limited documentation, the identifiable functional diversity of this built environment and its streetscape can still, in combination with a rich Athenian literary tradition, offer insights into facets of localised neighbourhood sociality and how it might have been shaped by its places. In addition, we gain an impression of the texture of an urban area of Athens and some of the factors that must have contributed not only to its daily experience as a built environment, but also to its differences in character compared to other urban quarters of the city during the Classical period. The 'Dörpfeld area' can thus add a Classical Athenian perspective to the topic of ancient neighbourhoods.
U. Veit, M. Wöhrl (Hrsg.), SteinWelten. Ein interdisziplinärer Rundgang anhand von Objekten aus den Sammlungen der Universität Lepzig (Leipzig 2020), 121., 2020
The book discusses the grave stelai and reliefs from the Bosporan kingdom. Occupying the eastern ... more The book discusses the grave stelai and reliefs from the Bosporan kingdom. Occupying the eastern Crimea and the Taman peninsula of the northern shore of the Black Sea, this ancient Greek state was situated in an important contact zone of the Greek world. The permant interaction of Greeks and indigeneous peoples resulted in a dynamic local culture. In this respect, the grave stelai erected in the Bosporan necropoleis and their numerous relief depictions dating from the 5th cent. BC to the 3rd cent AD are a unique source: They provide us not only with pictorial evidence for local identities but are, ultimately, also of great value for our understanding of the development and transformation of this local culture in general.
Nonetheless, these monuments have been widely neglected by non-russian/ukrainian scholarship since the fundamental compilation 'Griechische Grabreliefs aus Südrussland' by G. von Kieseritzky and C. Watzinger, published already in 1909. But since then the number of known monuments has considerably grown and offers new insights into Bosporan culture.
Therefore, the book deals not only with problems of typology, stylistic developments and the reliefs' chronology. A major part focusses on the analysis of the imagery of the relief stelai (mainly from the 2nd BC to the 2nd AD) and the development and originality of the iconographies compared to the monuments of Greece and Asia Minor as well as to the neighbouring Greek cities of the northern Pontic region like Chersonesos. Discussed are local iconographies and their interpretation regarding social role models and value systems. Attention is also paid to the reflexes and deliberate use of contemporary local material culture in the iconographies. In addition, an attempt is made to embed the monuments in the context of the local funerary culture, i.e. the contemporary Bosporan necropoleis with their manifold forms of sepulchral self-representation.
A. Haug, A. Hielscher, A.-L. Krüger (Hrsg.), Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity Design and Experience (Berlin 2023) 35-55, 2023
The paper seeks to approach the social dimension of ancient urban neighbourhoods by turning towar... more The paper seeks to approach the social dimension of ancient urban neighbourhoods by turning towards a densely built-up inner city area of Classical Athens situated in the valley between the Pnyx and the Acropolis. The area was excavated by Wilhelm Dörpfeld in yearly campaigns from 1891 to 1898 and comprises a stretch of one of the major streets of Classical Athens with adjacent architectural complexes and houses as well as side streets and public infrastructure. Yet it is an urban area only rarely considered in discussions on Classical Greek urban life. Although resulting from an old excavation with only limited documentation, the identifiable functional diversity of this built environment and its streetscape can still, in combination with a rich Athenian literary tradition, offer insights into facets of localised neighbourhood sociality and how it might have been shaped by its places. In addition, we gain an impression of the texture of an urban area of Athens and some of the factors that must have contributed not only to its daily experience as a built environment, but also to its differences in character compared to other urban quarters of the city during the Classical period. The 'Dörpfeld area' can thus add a Classical Athenian perspective to the topic of ancient neighbourhoods.
U. Veit, M. Wöhrl (Hrsg.), SteinWelten. Ein interdisziplinärer Rundgang anhand von Objekten aus den Sammlungen der Universität Lepzig (Leipzig 2020), 121., 2020
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Nonetheless, these monuments have been widely neglected by non-russian/ukrainian scholarship since the fundamental compilation 'Griechische Grabreliefs aus Südrussland' by G. von Kieseritzky and C. Watzinger, published already in 1909. But since then the number of known monuments has considerably grown and offers new insights into Bosporan culture.
Therefore, the book deals not only with problems of typology, stylistic developments and the reliefs' chronology. A major part focusses on the analysis of the imagery of the relief stelai (mainly from the 2nd BC to the 2nd AD) and the development and originality of the iconographies compared to the monuments of Greece and Asia Minor as well as to the neighbouring Greek cities of the northern Pontic region like Chersonesos. Discussed are local iconographies and their interpretation regarding social role models and value systems. Attention is also paid to the reflexes and deliberate use of contemporary local material culture in the iconographies. In addition, an attempt is made to embed the monuments in the context of the local funerary culture, i.e. the contemporary Bosporan necropoleis with their manifold forms of sepulchral self-representation.
Nonetheless, these monuments have been widely neglected by non-russian/ukrainian scholarship since the fundamental compilation 'Griechische Grabreliefs aus Südrussland' by G. von Kieseritzky and C. Watzinger, published already in 1909. But since then the number of known monuments has considerably grown and offers new insights into Bosporan culture.
Therefore, the book deals not only with problems of typology, stylistic developments and the reliefs' chronology. A major part focusses on the analysis of the imagery of the relief stelai (mainly from the 2nd BC to the 2nd AD) and the development and originality of the iconographies compared to the monuments of Greece and Asia Minor as well as to the neighbouring Greek cities of the northern Pontic region like Chersonesos. Discussed are local iconographies and their interpretation regarding social role models and value systems. Attention is also paid to the reflexes and deliberate use of contemporary local material culture in the iconographies. In addition, an attempt is made to embed the monuments in the context of the local funerary culture, i.e. the contemporary Bosporan necropoleis with their manifold forms of sepulchral self-representation.