Roman Sculpture in Greece, Acropolis Museum 12-14.12.2019

Abstracts of the papers presented at the international workshop "Reframing Antique Sculpture in Roman Greece" (20-21 Oct. 2022, Athens). The abstracts are organized by sessions

Handbook of Greek Sculpture, 2019

The earliest surviving marble copies of Classical masterpieces were found on Delos and date from the first century B.C. The heyday of copying is the first and second century A.D. On principle, Roman copies of Greek works found in Greece indicate that the originals were in Greece too though this does not apply to the Ephesian Amazon, Achilles and Penthesileia and the Pasquino group from the Villa of Herodes Atticus in Loukou, the originals of which must have stood in Asia Minor.

In the course of the excavation two marble sculptures that were possibly built into one of the harbour walls, were retrieved from a depth of 2.50 m. The first is a cuirassed statue, the other a bearded portrait head. Both seem to be Attic but do not belong together. This paper is a preliminary presentation of the two sculptures.

This impressive and ambitious volume examines the complete assemblage of funerary sculpture found between 1931 and 2011 in the Athenian Agora and dating from the Classical to Roman periods. Although none of the pieces considered were found in situ or near a grave context the assignment of each to the category of funerary sculpture is the result of a careful and persuasive comparative approach. The book is divided into three main parts. The first part (chapters 1 to 3) covers the history of research, and provides an overview of funerary sculpture across Athens and Attica before focusing on the Agora. The second consists of a catalogue with 389 entries, the items carefully described and discussed over nearly 150 pages (chapters 4 to 6). The third comprises 128 high quality photographs taken by Angelique Sideris for every item. The extensive bibliography at the beginning, alongside the concordance and a number of well-designed indices at the end enormously facilitate easy navigation of this well-structured and well-edited book.

Hesperia 90.3, 2021

This article discusses 22 marble sculptures from the Agora excavations of 1890–1891 and 1931 to the present. It attributes them to the Temple of Ares (originally the Temple of Athena Pallenis at Pallene) on the basis of their scales, findspots, subject matter, technique, and styles. Both pediments featured Athena, and on the east a young hero, probably Theseus. The metopes showed Theseus's victory over the Pallantids (east) and an Amazonomachy (west). The akroteria comprised a descending wingless female, possibly Hebe, and two Nereids riding dolphins (east), and two Nikai flanking a central female figure, perhaps Iris (west). A coda announces a final, concluding article that will seek to draw together the preceding three in a series.

University romangreece.create.fsu.edu 2/11 international team of scholars that will gather for this conference at Florida State University will present new evidence and interpretations from material culture on the Athenian Acropolis, Athens writ large, Corinth, Nikopolis, Delos, and urban centers of northern Greece, especially in Macedonia. A diverse array of evidence will be presented by speakers at the conference, including portrait sculpture, painted and sculpted altars, architecture and urban layouts, inscriptions (and reused bases), etc. Further, because of the religious and cultural landscape of Greece, there are a number

From Kallias to Kritias, 2021

Around A.D. 170-190, Pausanias saw a temple in the Athenian Agora dedicated to Ares (Paus. 1.8.4-5). In the 1930s and 1950s, the Agora’s American excavators discovered a Roman-period foundation of the right size to support such a temple, together with fragments of its Doric superstructure (demolished in the early Byzantine period), and dated it to the 430s or 420s. In 1997 Manolis Korres proved beyond reasonable doubt that originally it had stood at Pallene in central Attica and was dedicated to Athena Pallenis. Building on the work of the late Patricia Boulter, Homer Thompson, Evelyn Harrison, and Angelos Delivorrias, since 2012 the presenter and a team of graduate students from the University of California at Berkeley have succeeded in identifying over 100 fragments of its sculptural embellishment, comprising figural akroteria, pediments, metopes, friezes, and cult statues. This paper sketches the results to date of this joint research and retrieval project.

The contents of the present volume of the Catalogue General are arranged in a way which requires a word of explanation. For various reasons it was not possible to obtain a complete survey of the whole material before proceeding to catalogue it. Many of the less important objects were stored away in the magazines of the old palace at Ghizeh, where they had an excellent chance of eluding observation. During the last two years again the collection has been in a state of fluK : new objects have been constantly coming in from excavations and accidental finds ''\ while part of the older material has been from time to time transferred to the Museum of Alexandria. Instead, therefore, of publishing the text in the rather haphazard order in which it was necessarily written I have rearranged it to a certain extent, so that for instance the archaic statuettes and the funerary stelae will be found gathered together in two compact groups instead of being incongruously scattered about. The advantage of this is obvious. The drawback is that the numbers assigned to the objects do not follow each other in the text in their natural order : hence it has been necessary to draw up an index (I, p. 7 5) giving the page on which each number occurs. The existence of this index is the practical point to which I wish to call attention.