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Author Birk, Stine, author.

Title Depicting the dead : self-representation and commemoration on Roman sarcophagi with portraits / Stine Birk.

Publication Info. Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity Ser. ; v. 11
Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 11.
Summary Explores how to read Roman sarcophagi, starting from those adorned with portraits and placing them within a social context; investigates gender values and childhood as reflected in the visual language of sarcophagus reliefs and shows how standardised iconography could be used to construct personal and social memory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
Contents Introduction: Negotiating identity on sarcophagi -- Images for contemplation -- Exempla Virtutis: Portraits and self-representation on sarcophagi -- Visualising gender -- Filiae Innocentissimae, Filio Dulcissimo: Commemorating children -- Retrospect
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Subject Sarcophagi, Roman -- Portraits -- History.
Sarcophagi, Roman.
Portraits.
History.
Portrait sculpture, Roman -- History.
Portrait sculpture, Roman.
Portrait sculpture, Roman -- Catalogs.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
History.
Electronic books.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Catalogs.
Other Form: Print version: Birk, Stine. Depicting the dead. Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2013] 9788771240184 (OCoLC)829679859
ISBN 9788771244168 (electronic book)
8771244166 (electronic book)
9788771240184 (hardback)
8771240187 (hardback)