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Art and inscriptions in the ancient world
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Art and inscriptions in the ancient world

Author: Zahra Newby; Ruth E Leader-Newby
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Zahra Newby; Ruth E Leader-Newby
ISBN: 0521868513 9780521868518
OCLC Number: 70668775
Description: xvii, 303 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: The problems with honouring Samos : an Athenian document relief and its interpretation / Alastair Blanshard -- Idem ego sum discumbens, ut me videtis : inscription and image on Roman ash chests / Glenys Davies -- A painted garland : weaving words and images in the House of the Epigrams at Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann -- The motto in the grotto : inscribing illustration and illustrating inscription at Sperlonga / Michael Squire -- Writing on archaic Greek pottery / Robin Osborne and Alexandra Pappas -- Reading the allegory of the Archesilaos relief / Zahra Newby -- Inscribed mosaics in the Late Roman Empire : perspectives from East and West / Ruth Leader-Newby -- Hellenistic honorific statues and their inscriptions / John Ma -- Reusing statues, rewriting inscriptions and bestowing honours in Roman Athens / Julia L. Shear -- 'Honour takes wing' : unstable images and anxious orators in the Greek tradition / Verity Platt.
Responsibility: edited by Zahra Newby and Ruth Leader-Newby.
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