IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 344: ERC STONE-MASTERS Project, II: Erring Artisans - A Fresh Look on Stonecutters and Casual Carvers of Inscriptions in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Monday 1 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | ERC Projekt STONE-MASTERS, Uniwersytet Warszawski (StG 101040152) |
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| Organiser: | Pawel Nowakowski, Wydział Historii, Projekt ERC STONE-MASTERS, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Pawel Nowakowski, Wydział Historii, Projekt ERC STONE-MASTERS, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Paper 344-a | Late Antique Epigraphy in the Provinces: The Workshops of Aquitanica (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts and Epigraphy |
| Paper 344-b | The Evolution of Iconography and Form in the Late Antique Funerary Inscriptions of Pannonia Inferior (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Epigraphy and Religious Life |
| Paper 344-c | Vandalising or Neutralising Space?: Graffiti Authors in Late Antique Sagalassos, South-West Turkey (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Epigraphy and Social History |
| Abstract | The session explores errors in current knowledge and interpretative patterns in research on late antique stonecutters and casual carvers of inscriptions. In the first paper, Lorena Pérez Yarza revisits opinions on workshops active in Aquitanica (southern Gaul) to clear the epigraphic horizon of specimens wrongly dated to later antiquity. Thereafter, Marina Bastero Acha ventures to systematize the funerary inscriptions of Pannonia Inferior, and to reveal their regional workshops of origin through a careful study of formulae, family portraits and sacrificial scenes. Finally, Andrés Rea refutes interpretations of early medieval graffiti as signs of decay, criminality, and vandalism. Using as a case study the rich collection of secondary inscriptions from Sagalassos (Asia Minor), he sketches the day-to-day life of their makers. |