The Production Economy of Funerary Portraiture-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Production Economy of Funerary Portraiture

Published:2024-01-23 Issue: Volume: Page:499-516
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Container-title:The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra
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Author:

Steding Julia¹

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University

Abstract

Abstract This chapter discusses the production of Palmyrene funerary portraiture. When studying the surfaces of the objects, all carved in local limestone, many tool traces can be detected. This makes it possible to reconstruct the steps of stone carving and to explain the process from the quarrying of stone to the finishing of a portrait. On the one hand, this leads to new insights into the carving of limestone in ancient Syria and the economic structures that were affecting or leading the production. On the other hand, the study of production processes will lead to insights into workshops and their organization. This includes the discussion of changes in style in relation to technical changes and changes in the production of portraits.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Reference61 articles.

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2. Bessac, Jean-Claude. 2021. ‘Le calcaires de Palmyre face aux autres roches de décoration architecturale et de sculpture’. In Production Economy in Greater Roman Syria: Trade Networks and Production Processes, edited by Rubina Raja and Julia Steding, 49–70. Turnhout: Brepols.

3. Blume-Jung, Clarissa. 2021. ‘The Polychrome of Palmyrene Portraits: Workmen and Colouration’. In Production Economy in Greater Roman Syria: Trade Networks and Production Processes, edited by Rubina Raja and Julia Steding, 33–48. Turnhout: Brepols.