Zeitgeist and Local Fashion in Limestone Portraits Busts from the Roman Province Syria Palaestina
Foredrag af Giovanni Colzani, postdoc ved LoCiS projektet. Foredraget er en del af LoCiS lecture series Statements in Stone, finansieret af Carlsbergfondet. Efter foredraget er projektet vært ved en lille reception
This lecture explores some aspects of the formal and stylistic language of limestone portrait busts from Roman Syria-Palaestina, dating to the second and third centuries AD and concentrated mainly in the necropoleis of Scythopolis and Samaria-Sebaste – though with parallels in the neighbouring Decapolis.