Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers: the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean
"What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient, pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the "divine" Augustus almost perfectly preserved on the walls of a temple in Ankara in Asia Minor, even t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient, pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the "divine" Augustus almost perfectly preserved on the walls of a temple in Ankara in Asia Minor, even though the city became a Christian imperial center? The prima facie explanation-that late Romans ignored the older epigraphic material around them-is proven untrue in this book. By gathering both literary and archaeological evidence, this study indicates that early Christians (and late pagans, Jews) in the eastern Mediterranean interpreted older inscriptions in Greek and other languages through their own worldviews. After establishing the modes of reading ancient inscriptions in the textual sources, the book presents a series of archaeological case studies spanning from Greece to Egypt, which reveal three possible reactions to epigraphic material-preservation, spoliation, and erasure-at pagan sanctuaries, the physical and discursive spaces in which the "culture wars" of early Christian hegemony were fought. Intersecting with research on spolia, damnatio memoriae, and the fates of pagan statues, this book makes a critical intervention in the fields of epigraphy and archaeology by arguing for the transtemporal agency of inscriptions. It adds a new facet to the study of "Christianization" in the Roman world by proposing that ancient inscriptions contributed to broader attitudes about the (pagan) past in late antiquity, attitudes that continued to color how people in the medieval period and beyond evaluated classical patrimony"-- |
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Contents List ofFigures Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviated Epigraphic Corpora 1. Introduction: Afterlives of Inscriptions Epigraphic Reincarnation at Megara Manufactured Violence Inscribed Sanctuaries Literacy in Late Antiquity Chapter Outline The Fine Print 2. The Use of Real or Imagined Inscriptions in Late Antique Literature The “Arch of Alexander” and the Ends of the Earth Writing the Past from Inscriptions Agathias and the Remarkable Afterlife of Chairemon Kosmas Indikopleustes: Hellenistic History in Late Antique Ethiopia Prokopios’Inscribed Ships Prophesying from Stone: Invented Oracles Epigraphic Omens at Chalcedon, Alexandria, and Carthage The Tübingen Theosophy: Converting Temples Plagiarizing for the Saints: The Life ofAbercius Conclusion: The Literary Afterlives of Ancient Inscriptions 3. Preservation: Tolerating Temples and Their Texts xi xvii xxi xxiii 1 1 7 15 17 20 23 28 28 30 34 38 43 45 45 48 52 65 69 Touring Temples 69 Inscribed Text and Figural Imagery at Unconverted Temples 74 Ephesos: Embodying Emperors on the Embolos 74 Museumification at Priene’s Temple of Athena? 77 Performative Bureaucracy at the Temple of Augustus and Roma at Mylasa 84 A Fallen God at Magnesia on the Maeander 88 Congregated Graffiti at Delphi 90 Secular or Sacred? Imperial Documents on Temples of Uncertain Use 95 The Res Gestae divi Augusti in Late Antique Ankara 96 A Tale of Two Temples at Aizanoi: Zeus at Church 113 Tolerance at Palmyra 120
viii CONTENTS Priests, Talking Columns, and Unreadable Texts at Christianized Temples Diokaisareia-Olba: A Careful Conversion "Archaeophilia" at Sardis’s Artemision Lagina: Early Christian Economics Everyday Hieroglyphs at Medinet Habu Reading Nonsense at Didyma Conclusion: Kings of the Past on Display 4. Spoliation: Integrating and Scrambling tions-Inscrip 121 121 122 128 134 139 143 147 (T)reading the Past: Epigraphic Spolia Underfoot Constructing Churches with Inscribed Text 147 155 The Korykian Cave: Building with Inscriptions Scrambling Apollo Klarios at Sagalassos Gods and Angels in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias Uncertain Reuse at Baalbek Klaros: Exporting Spolia Epigraphic Spolia Elsewhere Not Only Christians: The Synagogue at Sardis The Temple of Zeus at Labraunda: Spolia in medias res Conclusion: Mixed Re-Views of Old Texts in New Buildings 155 165 172 183 185 188 188 191 195 5. Erasure: [[Damnatio Memoriae]] or Conscious Uncoupling? Unnaming the Gods Violence against Statues Heads or Tails? Out of Sight, Out of Mind Ambiguous Afterlives Violence against Inscriptions Damnatio Memoriae Beyond Damnatio Memoriae Selective Erasures Identity Crisis at Aphrodisias Labraunda: A Rasura Out of Place A Tale of Two Temples at Aizanoi: Artemis in Absentia Roll of the Dice at Antioch ad Cragum Indiscriminate Erasure and Destruction Reverse Graffiti at the Korykian Cave Clifftop Temple Breaking the Past at Pisidian Antioch? Conclusion: Epigraphic Unnamings and a Fresh Start 6. Conclusion: Unepigraphic Readings Reading at the Temple of Augustus at Ankara Once More An
Archaeology of Reading Spolia: Breaking the Monolith 202 202 208 208 213 215 217 218 220 223 223 232 236 241 244 244 247 254 265 265 266 270
CONTENTS Word and Image: Inscriptions and Statues Land, Men, and Gods Epigraphy: A New Direction Bibliography Index ÎX 271 273 274 277 311 |
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| spelling | Sitz, Anna Marie 1988- Verfasser (DE-588)1194440436 aut Writing on the wall Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean Anna M. Sitz New York Oxford University Press [2023] © 2023 xxv, 321 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cultures of reading in the Ancient Mediterranean Titel der Dissertation: Writing on the wall Dissertation University of Pennsylvania 2017 "What did people in the early Christian period (4th-7th century CE) think about the ancient, pagan inscriptions filling their cities? Why, for example, is the famous Res Gestae of the "divine" Augustus almost perfectly preserved on the walls of a temple in Ankara in Asia Minor, even though the city became a Christian imperial center? The prima facie explanation-that late Romans ignored the older epigraphic material around them-is proven untrue in this book. By gathering both literary and archaeological evidence, this study indicates that early Christians (and late pagans, Jews) in the eastern Mediterranean interpreted older inscriptions in Greek and other languages through their own worldviews. After establishing the modes of reading ancient inscriptions in the textual sources, the book presents a series of archaeological case studies spanning from Greece to Egypt, which reveal three possible reactions to epigraphic material-preservation, spoliation, and erasure-at pagan sanctuaries, the physical and discursive spaces in which the "culture wars" of early Christian hegemony were fought. Intersecting with research on spolia, damnatio memoriae, and the fates of pagan statues, this book makes a critical intervention in the fields of epigraphy and archaeology by arguing for the transtemporal agency of inscriptions. It adds a new facet to the study of "Christianization" in the Roman world by proposing that ancient inscriptions contributed to broader attitudes about the (pagan) past in late antiquity, attitudes that continued to color how people in the medieval period and beyond evaluated classical patrimony"-- Inschrift (DE-588)4027107-9 gnd rswk-swf Rezeption (DE-588)4049716-1 gnd rswk-swf Tempel (DE-588)4059416-6 gnd rswk-swf Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd rswk-swf Spätantike (DE-588)4124227-0 gnd rswk-swf Levante (DE-588)4196563-2 gnd rswk-swf Architectural inscriptions / Middle East Christianity and culture / Middle East Language and culture / Middle East Christianity and other religions / Middle East Social perception / Middle East (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content Spätantike (DE-2581)TH000003969 gbd Griechische Epigraphik (DE-2581)TH000008361 gbd Lateinische Epigraphik (DE-2581)TH000008382 gbd Levante (DE-588)4196563-2 g Tempel (DE-588)4059416-6 s Inschrift (DE-588)4027107-9 s Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 s Spätantike (DE-588)4124227-0 s Rezeption (DE-588)4049716-1 s DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Regensburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034299682&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean |
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| title_auth | Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean |
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| title_full | Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean Anna M. Sitz |
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