Feuilles de mémoire: Un carnet de dessins florentins du Louvre: De l'Académie du dessin à Filippo Baldinucci (Cyriacus. Studien Zur Rezeption der Antike) (French Edition) - Softcover

Biscontin Lalande, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3447103035 ISBN 13: 9783447103039

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

This is the first monograph devoted solely to the ceramics of Cyprus in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. The island was by then no longer divided into kingdoms but unified politically, first under Ptolemaic Egypt and later as a province in the Roman Empire. Submission to foreign rule was previously thought to have diluted - if not obliterated - the time-honoured distinctive Cypriot character. The ceramic evidence suggests otherwise.
The distribution of local and imported pottery in Cyprus points to the existence of several regional exchange networks, a division that also seems reflected by other evidence. The similarities in material culture, exchange patterns and preferential practices are suggestive of a certain level of regional collective self-awareness.
From the 1st century BC onwards, Cyprus became increasingly engulfed by mass produced and standardized ceramic fine wares, which seem ultimately to have put many of the indigenous makers of similar products out of business - or forced them to modify their output. Also, the ceramic record gradually became less diverse during the Roman Period than before - developments which we today might be inclined to view as symptoms of an early form of globalisation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3447103035
• ISBN 13: 9783447103039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492