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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)[Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments in theRoman provinces: proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Romanprovincial art: Bucharest - Alba Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]Panhuysen, T.Publication date2016Document VersionFinal published versionPublished inCaiete ARALink to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Panhuysen, T. (2016). [Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments inthe Roman provinces: proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Roman provincialart: Bucharest - Alba Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]. Caiete ARA, 7, 325-326.General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s)and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an opencontent license (like Creative Commons).Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, pleaselet the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the materialinaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letterto: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Youwill be contacted as soon as possible.Download date:31 Aug 2023325Ulpianum [Kosovo]); Pilar Fernández Uriel and Marta Bailón García (‘Plantae Pedum’ à l ’amphithéâtre d’Italica. Une représentation des dévots ou une présence directe de ‘Nemesis Dea’ ?); Piotr Dyczek (New Head of Caryatid from Ancient Risinium [Montenegro]); Marija Buzov (The Findings of Sarcophagi reused as building material in the Church of  St. George in Mateško Selo); Angela Palmentieri (Materiali marmorei di spoglio dai teatri e anfiteatri campani);  Licinia Wrench (Mobilier liturgique paléochrétien. Quelques exemplaires provenant du territoire actuellement portugais).Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu (ed.), CulT And voTIvE monumEnTs In THE RomAn PRovInCEs. Proceedings of the 13th international Colloquium on Roman Provincial Art. bucharest – Alba Iulia – Constanţa, 27th of may – 3rd of June 2013, within the framework of Corpus Signorum imperii Romani, ImΛGInEs series studies in ancient arts and iconography 3, mega Publishing House, Cluj-napoca, 2015, 384 pages, well-illustrated, mostly b/w, Isbn 978-606-543-592-6This was the first time that the ICRPA-Colloquium so far moved up on the Balkans in south-eastern direction. Even one of the excursions of this Congress led the participants down to the old region of Scythia Minor at the mouth of the Danube to the Black Sea, once part of the Roman province of Moesia. When it was Romania’s turn, the workshops of the Colloquium were divided over three cities, namely Bucharest (outside the Roman Empire!), Alba Iulia (Dacia) and Constanţa (Moesia). The organizing institutions were Institutul de Arheologie “Vasile Pârvan” in Bucharest and Academia Română. Everything was excellent coordinated by Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu of the former Institute, as also the here reviewed Proceedings were edited by her. The book could be presented within two years after the end of the 13th Colloquium in Bucharest. This happened during the 14th Congress in Dijon (Fr.) in june 2015, a wonderful achievement! The bundle is distributed through exchange of libraries and scientists and as donation, but is unfortunately not available from the commercial booksellers. The themes of the Romanian Congress were: 1) Cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces: sculpture techniques, sources of stone material, craftsmanship and decoration – Iconography and symbolism. 2) Original display and the afterlife or cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces in the Roman time and Late Antiquity. 3) Recent Finds and Projects.The ICRPA-Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium in Bucharest presents in almost 400 pages a good idea of the variety and depth of the lectures and posters during the meeting. Eighteen articles are written in English, seven in German, five in Italian and two in French, 32 in total. All are preceded by a brief abstract in one of the other languages. It is a pity that, at the end 35, participants did not produce a contribution for this wonderful bundle, making the geographic balance uneven, with a predominance of studies on the Balkans area (Balkans [18]: Dalmatia (4), Moesia inferior (2), Dacia (6), Dardania (=Moesia) (1), Macedonia (3), Epirus (1), Achaia (1); Central Danube [4]: Noricum (2,) Pannonia (2). Furthermore: Germania superior (2), Italia (1), Hispania/Lusitania (2), Pontus (1), Syria (2), Arabia (2), Africa proconsularis (1)). In particular the contributions on the provinces of Gallia are missing.Under the head of the main theme Cult and votive monuments (18 lectures/10 written contributions) we only find one contribution on a sculpture from the West (Claudina Romero Mayorga, A new interpretation of a mithraic sculpture in Augusta Emerita, Hispania) and an interesting study on the northerly Noricum (Wolfgang Wohlmayr, Gottheiten und Kulte im nördlichen Teil Noricums nach Aussage der Weihedenkmäler. Ein Blick auf Iuvavum [Salzburg] und sein Umland). But on the other hand there are eight studies on the Northern Balkans and Greece ( jasna jeličić-Radonić, The cult of Dionysus or Liber, votive monuments in Salona; Marija kolega, Sculptures and votive monuments of deities in Aenona; Ante Rendić-Miočević, A reconstruction of the central part of the Nymphaeum (fountain) at Varaždinske Toplice (Aquae Iasae) with a relief depiction of Nymphs; Adriana Antal, Consecratio in formam Veneris in Roman Dacia; Iphigeneia Leventi, The relief statue base of Nummius Nigreinos, sacred herald of the Eleusinian mysteries. The iconography of Eleusinian cult initiates and officials in Roman Imperial times; Georgia Aristodemou, Mars Victor, Victoria and Nemesis Invicta. Three votive reliefs from the ancient theatre of Philippi (Kavala) reconsidered; Aleksandra Nikoloska, The world of Dionysos on monuments from the Republic of Macedonia; Exhlale Dobruna-Salihu, Three significant reliefs of grapevine and forest deities in Dardania).Within the second theme - Iconography and symbolism - thirteen lectures have been presented, of which six were converted into articles, two on the Middle East (Ilona Skupinska-Løvset, Incense altars and visualization of incense offerings in Roman Syria; Delphine Seigneuret, La panneaux sculptés de Khirbet edh-Dharih [ Jordanie centrale]: remarques sur la restitution, la technique et l ’iconographie), and four on the Balkans (Sorin Nemeti, I rilievi dei Cavalieri Danubiani. Spunti per l ’interpretazione diacronica delle varianti regionali; Mirjana Sanader, Der Januskult in den Provinzen des Römischen Reiches unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ikonographie zweier Reliefs aus Dalmatien und Dakien; Nade Proeva, Les croyances funéraires des Macédoniens: l ’héroïsation et la divinisation des défunts à l ’époque romaine; Luca Bianchi, Edifici Excerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.326 in miniatura ed esigenze d’apparato: l ’edicola funeraria pannonico-dacica). A later added article concerns the Mithraic iconography (Maria Weiss, Der bärtige Ruhende auf den Seitenregistern der Mithrasmonumente). Within the theme of Afterlife of cult and votive monuments were four lectures, two of which are published here by Piotr Dyczek (Sculptures from the “templum Aesculapii et Hygiae” in the legionary hospital at Novae (Moesia Inferior) and jutta Ronke (Fortuna-Fragmente aus der Germania superior. Zur ‘antiken Glücksgöttin von der Baustelle‘). The lectures on material and technique are missing in the bundle, but that is compensated by the publication of some interesting posters on those areas. Also from the exciting topic Varia and disputationes some fine articles are created (Florina Panait Bîrzescu, Local cult statues or itinerant coin-types? Some remarks on the iconography of the Western-Pontic coinage; Manfred Hainzmann, SAGUM – Zu problematischen Datierungsansätzen eines keltisch-römischen Kleidungsstückes). From the category Architectural decoration the best lectures are returning as fine publications in this volume (Walburg Boppert and Christine Ertel, Ein frühkaiserzeitliches Konsolengesims aus dem Theater in Mogontiacum [Mainz, Germania Superior]; klaus Stefan Freyberger, Funktion und Bedeutung monumentaler Steinmale in Heiligtümern der östlichen Mittelmeerwelt aus römischer Zeit). Both articles are exemplary documented and illustrated.It has become common practice to give space on posters to new finds and subjects that don‘t quite fit within the themes of the Colloquium. In this bundle researchers have also been given the opportunity to rework their subjects into articles, which has led to a significant enrichment of the content: Lea Stirling and Nejib Ben Lazreg, A new portrait of Septimius Severus in the Musée Archéologique de Lamta [Tunisia]; Fulvia Ciliberto, Un rilievo con zodiaco nabateo a Gerusalemme; Alexandru Gh. Sonoc and Mihai Chiriac, Brief comments on some Roman provincial sculptures from the Sibiu County; Adam jarych, How the Romans looted works of art from the third to the first century B.C. The case of Ambracia’s plunders in 189 B.C.; Filomena Limão and Miguel Pessoa, Sculpting space. The iconography of the architectural sculpture in the Roman Villa of Rabaçal (Portugal); Paola Ventura and Annalisa Giovannini, Sorelle, spose, madri. Il mondo al femminile nei monumenti funerari di Aquileia. The contributions on the stone materials used in Roman Dacia (Irina Nemeti, Luminiţa Săsăran and Emanoil Săsăran, Monumenti scultorei nelle collezioni del Museo Nazionale di Storia della Transilvania. Studio sulle officine e le cave di pietra della Dacia Porolissensis) and on the possibilities of identifying Mediterranean marbles ( judit Zöldföldi, Conditions for successful provenance studies on marble) will prove their value in the years to come. Both the Colloquium as the publication are closed off by a major basic study for further research on the Roman sarcophagi in the Balkans area by Guntram koch: Some considerations on the sarcophagi of Roman Imperial Times in the Provinces of the Balkans, especially Moesia Inferior.In the articles that fit within the main themes, iconographic and other aspects of the gods world are discussed with regard to Asclepius, Dionysus, Fortuna, Isis, janus, jupiter, Mars, Mithras, Nemesis, the nymphs, Saturn, Venus, Victoria, but also subjects like architecture, sacrifice, cult and processions (Eleusis). Methodically the topics usually are treated within a geographically defined area, whereby also aspects such as Romanisation and identification with regional gods are coming in. Two contributions are dealing with aspects of the funeral art, one on the hero worshipping of the dead (N. Proeva) and a second is a typological-chronological study on the Dacian-Pannonian aedicula tomb (L. Bianchi). Here we should also mention the research about the Heros Equitans (S. Nemeti). During the Congress M. Hainzmann lashed out against the hard terminus post quem-dating of the representation of the Roman sagum on reliefs in Noricum, as recently published by his Austrian colleague E. Pochmarski. In his article he is elaborating his arguments in a scientific and neutral manner, making his written contribution to an important part of the book.Browsing in a bundle with conference proceedings like this evokes memories and provides us a lot to go on with our investigation. It is good to note that the book has a nice format and is carefully edited. Some contributions are illustrating how beautiful such a book could be (Boppert/Ertel; Freyberger), when the authors would deliver all necessary illustrations (for example maps with place names are now sorely missed). It should be a condition to use only photographic illustrations of the best quality, which should be printed in colour when possible. With regards to the graphic quality the Bucharest-Proceedings are not quite up to the Pula-Proceedings. But what can the reader be surprised by nice drawings in some contributions (for example A. Antal). Irritating indeed is the exclusive use by some authors of ancient place names, without any reference to the modern one and also without an indication on a map. Since the contributions are usually treating sculpture from the period before the fourth century, one should avoid administrative names, such as Dardania, which was only officially introduced under Diocletian. In our times, in which the heritage of Syria is under heavy pressure, it is gratifying to find some contributions in this volume, in which Palmyra and Dura Europos are playing a prominent role. Titus PanhuysenExcerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.

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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl)UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)[Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments in theRoman provinces: proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Romanprovincial art: Bucharest - Alba Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]Panhuysen, T.Publication date2016Document VersionFinal published versionPublished inCaiete ARALink to publicationCitation for published version (APA):Panhuysen, T. (2016). [Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments inthe Roman provinces: proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Roman provincialart: Bucharest - Alba Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]. Caiete ARA, 7, 325-326.General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s)and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an opencontent license (like Creative Commons).Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, pleaselet the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the materialinaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letterto: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Youwill be contacted as soon as possible.Download date:26 Jul 2022325Ulpianum [Kosovo]); Pilar Fernández Uriel and Marta Bailón García (‘Plantae Pedum’ à l ’amphithéâtre d’Italica. Une représentation des dévots ou une présence directe de ‘Nemesis Dea’ ?); Piotr Dyczek (New Head of Caryatid from Ancient Risinium [Montenegro]); Marija Buzov (The Findings of Sarcophagi reused as building material in the Church of  St. George in Mateško Selo); Angela Palmentieri (Materiali marmorei di spoglio dai teatri e anfiteatri campani);  Licinia Wrench (Mobilier liturgique paléochrétien. Quelques exemplaires provenant du territoire actuellement portugais).Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu (ed.), CulT And voTIvE monumEnTs In THE RomAn PRovInCEs. Proceedings of the 13th international Colloquium on Roman Provincial Art. bucharest – Alba Iulia – Constanţa, 27th of may – 3rd of June 2013, within the framework of Corpus Signorum imperii Romani, ImΛGInEs series studies in ancient arts and iconography 3, mega Publishing House, Cluj-napoca, 2015, 384 pages, well-illustrated, mostly b/w, Isbn 978-606-543-592-6This was the first time that the ICRPA-Colloquium so far moved up on the Balkans in south-eastern direction. Even one of the excursions of this Congress led the participants down to the old region of Scythia Minor at the mouth of the Danube to the Black Sea, once part of the Roman province of Moesia. When it was Romania’s turn, the workshops of the Colloquium were divided over three cities, namely Bucharest (outside the Roman Empire!), Alba Iulia (Dacia) and Constanţa (Moesia). The organizing institutions were Institutul de Arheologie “Vasile Pârvan” in Bucharest and Academia Română. Everything was excellent coordinated by Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu of the former Institute, as also the here reviewed Proceedings were edited by her. The book could be presented within two years after the end of the 13th Colloquium in Bucharest. This happened during the 14th Congress in Dijon (Fr.) in june 2015, a wonderful achievement! The bundle is distributed through exchange of libraries and scientists and as donation, but is unfortunately not available from the commercial booksellers. The themes of the Romanian Congress were: 1) Cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces: sculpture techniques, sources of stone material, craftsmanship and decoration – Iconography and symbolism. 2) Original display and the afterlife or cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces in the Roman time and Late Antiquity. 3) Recent Finds and Projects.The ICRPA-Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium in Bucharest presents in almost 400 pages a good idea of the variety and depth of the lectures and posters during the meeting. Eighteen articles are written in English, seven in German, five in Italian and two in French, 32 in total. All are preceded by a brief abstract in one of the other languages. It is a pity that, at the end 35, participants did not produce a contribution for this wonderful bundle, making the geographic balance uneven, with a predominance of studies on the Balkans area (Balkans [18]: Dalmatia (4), Moesia inferior (2), Dacia (6), Dardania (=Moesia) (1), Macedonia (3), Epirus (1), Achaia (1); Central Danube [4]: Noricum (2,) Pannonia (2). Furthermore: Germania superior (2), Italia (1), Hispania/Lusitania (2), Pontus (1), Syria (2), Arabia (2), Africa proconsularis (1)). In particular the contributions on the provinces of Gallia are missing.Under the head of the main theme Cult and votive monuments (18 lectures/10 written contributions) we only find one contribution on a sculpture from the West (Claudina Romero Mayorga, A new interpretation of a mithraic sculpture in Augusta Emerita, Hispania) and an interesting study on the northerly Noricum (Wolfgang Wohlmayr, Gottheiten und Kulte im nördlichen Teil Noricums nach Aussage der Weihedenkmäler. Ein Blick auf Iuvavum [Salzburg] und sein Umland). But on the other hand there are eight studies on the Northern Balkans and Greece ( jasna jeličić-Radonić, The cult of Dionysus or Liber, votive monuments in Salona; Marija kolega, Sculptures and votive monuments of deities in Aenona; Ante Rendić-Miočević, A reconstruction of the central part of the Nymphaeum (fountain) at Varaždinske Toplice (Aquae Iasae) with a relief depiction of Nymphs; Adriana Antal, Consecratio in formam Veneris in Roman Dacia; Iphigeneia Leventi, The relief statue base of Nummius Nigreinos, sacred herald of the Eleusinian mysteries. The iconography of Eleusinian cult initiates and officials in Roman Imperial times; Georgia Aristodemou, Mars Victor, Victoria and Nemesis Invicta. Three votive reliefs from the ancient theatre of Philippi (Kavala) reconsidered; Aleksandra Nikoloska, The world of Dionysos on monuments from the Republic of Macedonia; Exhlale Dobruna-Salihu, Three significant reliefs of grapevine and forest deities in Dardania).Within the second theme - Iconography and symbolism - thirteen lectures have been presented, of which six were converted into articles, two on the Middle East (Ilona Skupinska-Løvset, Incense altars and visualization of incense offerings in Roman Syria; Delphine Seigneuret, La panneaux sculptés de Khirbet edh-Dharih [ Jordanie centrale]: remarques sur la restitution, la technique et l ’iconographie), and four on the Balkans (Sorin Nemeti, I rilievi dei Cavalieri Danubiani. Spunti per l ’interpretazione diacronica delle varianti regionali; Mirjana Sanader, Der Januskult in den Provinzen des Römischen Reiches unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ikonographie zweier Reliefs aus Dalmatien und Dakien; Nade Proeva, Les croyances funéraires des Macédoniens: l ’héroïsation et la divinisation des défunts à l ’époque romaine; Luca Bianchi, Edifici Excerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.326 in miniatura ed esigenze d’apparato: l ’edicola funeraria pannonico-dacica). A later added article concerns the Mithraic iconography (Maria Weiss, Der bärtige Ruhende auf den Seitenregistern der Mithrasmonumente). Within the theme of Afterlife of cult and votive monuments were four lectures, two of which are published here by Piotr Dyczek (Sculptures from the “templum Aesculapii et Hygiae” in the legionary hospital at Novae (Moesia Inferior) and jutta Ronke (Fortuna-Fragmente aus der Germania superior. Zur ‘antiken Glücksgöttin von der Baustelle‘). The lectures on material and technique are missing in the bundle, but that is compensated by the publication of some interesting posters on those areas. Also from the exciting topic Varia and disputationes some fine articles are created (Florina Panait Bîrzescu, Local cult statues or itinerant coin-types? Some remarks on the iconography of the Western-Pontic coinage; Manfred Hainzmann, SAGUM – Zu problematischen Datierungsansätzen eines keltisch-römischen Kleidungsstückes). From the category Architectural decoration the best lectures are returning as fine publications in this volume (Walburg Boppert and Christine Ertel, Ein frühkaiserzeitliches Konsolengesims aus dem Theater in Mogontiacum [Mainz, Germania Superior]; klaus Stefan Freyberger, Funktion und Bedeutung monumentaler Steinmale in Heiligtümern der östlichen Mittelmeerwelt aus römischer Zeit). Both articles are exemplary documented and illustrated.It has become common practice to give space on posters to new finds and subjects that don‘t quite fit within the themes of the Colloquium. In this bundle researchers have also been given the opportunity to rework their subjects into articles, which has led to a significant enrichment of the content: Lea Stirling and Nejib Ben Lazreg, A new portrait of Septimius Severus in the Musée Archéologique de Lamta [Tunisia]; Fulvia Ciliberto, Un rilievo con zodiaco nabateo a Gerusalemme; Alexandru Gh. Sonoc and Mihai Chiriac, Brief comments on some Roman provincial sculptures from the Sibiu County; Adam jarych, How the Romans looted works of art from the third to the first century B.C. The case of Ambracia’s plunders in 189 B.C.; Filomena Limão and Miguel Pessoa, Sculpting space. The iconography of the architectural sculpture in the Roman Villa of Rabaçal (Portugal); Paola Ventura and Annalisa Giovannini, Sorelle, spose, madri. Il mondo al femminile nei monumenti funerari di Aquileia. The contributions on the stone materials used in Roman Dacia (Irina Nemeti, Luminiţa Săsăran and Emanoil Săsăran, Monumenti scultorei nelle collezioni del Museo Nazionale di Storia della Transilvania. Studio sulle officine e le cave di pietra della Dacia Porolissensis) and on the possibilities of identifying Mediterranean marbles ( judit Zöldföldi, Conditions for successful provenance studies on marble) will prove their value in the years to come. Both the Colloquium as the publication are closed off by a major basic study for further research on the Roman sarcophagi in the Balkans area by Guntram koch: Some considerations on the sarcophagi of Roman Imperial Times in the Provinces of the Balkans, especially Moesia Inferior.In the articles that fit within the main themes, iconographic and other aspects of the gods world are discussed with regard to Asclepius, Dionysus, Fortuna, Isis, janus, jupiter, Mars, Mithras, Nemesis, the nymphs, Saturn, Venus, Victoria, but also subjects like architecture, sacrifice, cult and processions (Eleusis). Methodically the topics usually are treated within a geographically defined area, whereby also aspects such as Romanisation and identification with regional gods are coming in. Two contributions are dealing with aspects of the funeral art, one on the hero worshipping of the dead (N. Proeva) and a second is a typological-chronological study on the Dacian-Pannonian aedicula tomb (L. Bianchi). Here we should also mention the research about the Heros Equitans (S. Nemeti). During the Congress M. Hainzmann lashed out against the hard terminus post quem-dating of the representation of the Roman sagum on reliefs in Noricum, as recently published by his Austrian colleague E. Pochmarski. In his article he is elaborating his arguments in a scientific and neutral manner, making his written contribution to an important part of the book.Browsing in a bundle with conference proceedings like this evokes memories and provides us a lot to go on with our investigation. It is good to note that the book has a nice format and is carefully edited. Some contributions are illustrating how beautiful such a book could be (Boppert/Ertel; Freyberger), when the authors would deliver all necessary illustrations (for example maps with place names are now sorely missed). It should be a condition to use only photographic illustrations of the best quality, which should be printed in colour when possible. With regards to the graphic quality the Bucharest-Proceedings are not quite up to the Pula-Proceedings. But what can the reader be surprised by nice drawings in some contributions (for example A. Antal). Irritating indeed is the exclusive use by some authors of ancient place names, without any reference to the modern one and also without an indication on a map. Since the contributions are usually treating sculpture from the period before the fourth century, one should avoid administrative names, such as Dardania, which was only officially introduced under Diocletian. In our times, in which the heritage of Syria is under heavy pressure, it is gratifying to find some contributions in this volume, in which Palmyra and Dura Europos are playing a prominent role. Titus PanhuysenExcerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.

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[Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces:
proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Roman provincial art: Bucharest - Alba
Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]
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Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]. Caiete ARA, 7, 325-326.
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Ulpianum [Kosovo]); Pilar Fernández Uriel and Marta 
Bailón García (‘Plantae Pedum’ à l ’amphithéâtre d’Italica. 
Une représentation des dévots ou une présence directe de 
‘Nemesis Dea’ ?); Piotr Dyczek (New Head of Caryatid 
from Ancient Risinium [Montenegro]); Marija Buzov 
(The Findings of Sarcophagi reused as building material 
in the Church of  St. George in Mateško Selo); Angela 
Palmentieri (Materiali marmorei di spoglio dai teatri e 
anfiteatri campani);  Licinia Wrench (Mobilier liturgique 
paléochrétien. Quelques exemplaires provenant du territoire 
actuellement portugais).
Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu (ed.), CulT And voTIvE 
monumEnTs In THE RomAn PRovInCEs. 
Proceedings of the 13th international Colloquium on Roman 
Provincial Art. bucharest – Alba Iulia – Constanţa, 27th of may 
– 3rd of June 2013, within the framework of Corpus Signorum 
imperii Romani, ImΛGInEs series studies in ancient arts and 
iconography 3, mega Publishing House, Cluj-napoca, 2015, 384 
pages, well-illustrated, mostly b/w, Isbn 978-606-543-592-6
This was the first time that the ICRPA-Colloquium 
so far moved up on the Balkans in south-eastern 
direction. Even one of the excursions of this Congress 
led the participants down to the old region of Scythia 
Minor at the mouth of the Danube to the Black Sea, 
once part of the Roman province of Moesia. When it 
was Romania’s turn, the workshops of the Colloquium 
were divided over three cities, namely Bucharest (outside 
the Roman Empire!), Alba Iulia (Dacia) and Constanţa 
(Moesia). The organizing institutions were Institutul de 
Arheologie “Vasile Pârvan” in Bucharest and Academia 
Română. Everything was excellent coordinated by 
Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu of the former Institute, 
as also the here reviewed Proceedings were edited by her. 
The book could be presented within two years after the 
end of the 13th Colloquium in Bucharest. This happened 
during the 14th Congress in Dijon (Fr.) in june 2015, 
a wonderful achievement! The bundle is distributed 
through exchange of libraries and scientists and as 
donation, but is unfortunately not available from the 
commercial booksellers. 
The themes of the Romanian Congress were: 
1) Cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces: 
sculpture techniques, sources of stone material, craftsmanship 
and decoration – Iconography and symbolism. 2) Original 
display and the afterlife or cult and votive monuments in the 
Roman provinces in the Roman time and Late Antiquity. 3) 
Recent Finds and Projects.
The ICRPA-Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium in 
Bucharest presents in almost 400 pages a good idea of the 
variety and depth of the lectures and posters during the 
meeting. Eighteen articles are written in English, seven 
in German, five in Italian and two in French, 32 in total. 
All are preceded by a brief abstract in one of the other 
languages. It is a pity that, at the end 35, participants 
did not produce a contribution for this wonderful 
bundle, making the geographic balance uneven, with a 
predominance of studies on the Balkans area (Balkans 
[18]: Dalmatia (4), Moesia inferior (2), Dacia (6), 
Dardania (=Moesia) (1), Macedonia (3), Epirus (1), Achaia 
(1); Central Danube [4]: Noricum (2,) Pannonia (2). 
Furthermore: Germania superior (2), Italia (1), Hispania/
Lusitania (2), Pontus (1), Syria (2), Arabia (2), Africa 
proconsularis (1)). In particular the contributions on the 
provinces of Gallia are missing.
Under the head of the main theme Cult and votive 
monuments (18 lectures/10 written contributions) we 
only find one contribution on a sculpture from the West 
(Claudina Romero Mayorga, A new interpretation of a 
mithraic sculpture in Augusta Emerita, Hispania) and an 
interesting study on the northerly Noricum (Wolfgang 
Wohlmayr, Gottheiten und Kulte im nördlichen Teil 
Noricums nach Aussage der Weihedenkmäler. Ein Blick auf 
Iuvavum [Salzburg] und sein Umland). But on the other 
hand there are eight studies on the Northern Balkans 
and Greece ( jasna jeličić-Radonić, The cult of Dionysus 
or Liber, votive monuments in Salona; Marija kolega, 
Sculptures and votive monuments of deities in Aenona; Ante 
Rendić-Miočević, A reconstruction of the central part of 
the Nymphaeum (fountain) at Varaždinske Toplice (Aquae 
Iasae) with a relief depiction of Nymphs; Adriana Antal, 
Consecratio in formam Veneris in Roman Dacia; Iphigeneia 
Leventi, The relief statue base of Nummius Nigreinos, 
sacred herald of the Eleusinian mysteries. The iconography 
of Eleusinian cult initiates and officials in Roman Imperial 
times; Georgia Aristodemou, Mars Victor, Victoria and 
Nemesis Invicta. Three votive reliefs from the ancient theatre 
of Philippi (Kavala) reconsidered; Aleksandra Nikoloska, 
The world of Dionysos on monuments from the Republic of 
Macedonia; Exhlale Dobruna-Salihu, Three significant 
reliefs of grapevine and forest deities in Dardania).
Within the second theme - Iconography and 
symbolism - thirteen lectures have been presented, of 
which six were converted into articles, two on the 
Middle East (Ilona Skupinska-Løvset, Incense altars and 
visualization of incense offerings in Roman Syria; Delphine 
Seigneuret, La panneaux sculptés de Khirbet edh-Dharih 
[ Jordanie centrale]: remarques sur la restitution, la technique 
et l ’iconographie), and four on the Balkans (Sorin Nemeti, I 
rilievi dei Cavalieri Danubiani. Spunti per l ’interpretazione 
diacronica delle varianti regionali; Mirjana Sanader, Der 
Januskult in den Provinzen des Römischen Reiches unter 
besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ikonographie zweier Reliefs 
aus Dalmatien und Dakien; Nade Proeva, Les croyances 
funéraires des Macédoniens: l ’héroïsation et la divinisation 
des défunts à l ’époque romaine; Luca Bianchi, Edifici 
Excerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.
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in miniatura ed esigenze d’apparato: l ’edicola funeraria 
pannonico-dacica). A later added article concerns the 
Mithraic iconography (Maria Weiss, Der bärtige Ruhende 
auf den Seitenregistern der Mithrasmonumente). 
Within the theme of Afterlife of cult and votive 
monuments were four lectures, two of which are 
published here by Piotr Dyczek (Sculptures from the 
“templum Aesculapii et Hygiae” in the legionary hospital 
at Novae (Moesia Inferior) and jutta Ronke (Fortuna-
Fragmente aus der Germania superior. Zur ‘antiken 
Glücksgöttin von der Baustelle‘). The lectures on material 
and technique are missing in the bundle, but that is 
compensated by the publication of some interesting 
posters on those areas. Also from the exciting topic 
Varia and disputationes some fine articles are created 
(Florina Panait Bîrzescu, Local cult statues or itinerant 
coin-types? Some remarks on the iconography of the 
Western-Pontic coinage; Manfred Hainzmann, SAGUM 
– Zu problematischen Datierungsansätzen eines keltisch-
römischen Kleidungsstückes). 
From the category Architectural decoration the 
best lectures are returning as fine publications in this 
volume (Walburg Boppert and Christine Ertel, Ein 
frühkaiserzeitliches Konsolengesims aus dem Theater in 
Mogontiacum [Mainz, Germania Superior]; klaus Stefan 
Freyberger, Funktion und Bedeutung monumentaler 
Steinmale in Heiligtümern der östlichen Mittelmeerwelt aus 
römischer Zeit). Both articles are exemplary documented 
and illustrated.
It has become common practice to give space on 
posters to new finds and subjects that don‘t quite fit 
within the themes of the Colloquium. In this bundle 
researchers have also been given the opportunity to 
rework their subjects into articles, which has led to a 
significant enrichment of the content: Lea Stirling and 
Nejib Ben Lazreg, A new portrait of Septimius Severus 
in the Musée Archéologique de Lamta [Tunisia]; Fulvia 
Ciliberto, Un rilievo con zodiaco nabateo a Gerusalemme; 
Alexandru Gh. Sonoc and Mihai Chiriac, Brief comments 
on some Roman provincial sculptures from the Sibiu County; 
Adam jarych, How the Romans looted works of art from the 
third to the first century B.C. The case of Ambracia’s plunders 
in 189 B.C.; Filomena Limão and Miguel Pessoa, 
Sculpting space. The iconography of the architectural sculpture 
in the Roman Villa of Rabaçal (Portugal); Paola Ventura 
and Annalisa Giovannini, Sorelle, spose, madri. Il mondo al 
femminile nei monumenti funerari di Aquileia. 
The contributions on the stone materials used in 
Roman Dacia (Irina Nemeti, Luminiţa Săsăran and 
Emanoil Săsăran, Monumenti scultorei nelle collezioni del 
Museo Nazionale di Storia della Transilvania. Studio sulle 
officine e le cave di pietra della Dacia Porolissensis) and on 
the possibilities of identifying Mediterranean marbles 
( judit Zöldföldi, Conditions for successful provenance 
studies on marble) will prove their value in the years to 
come. Both the Colloquium as the publication are 
closed off by a major basic study for further research on 
the Roman sarcophagi in the Balkans area by Guntram 
koch: Some considerations on the sarcophagi of Roman 
Imperial Times in the Provinces of the Balkans, especially 
Moesia Inferior.
In the articles that fit within the main themes, 
iconographic and other aspects of the gods world are 
discussed with regard to Asclepius, Dionysus, Fortuna, 
Isis, janus, jupiter, Mars, Mithras, Nemesis, the 
nymphs, Saturn, Venus, Victoria, but also subjects like 
architecture, sacrifice, cult and processions (Eleusis). 
Methodically the topics usually are treated within a 
geographically defined area, whereby also aspects such 
as Romanisation and identification with regional gods 
are coming in. Two contributions are dealing with 
aspects of the funeral art, one on the hero worshipping 
of the dead (N. Proeva) and a second is a typological-
chronological study on the Dacian-Pannonian aedicula 
tomb (L. Bianchi). Here we should also mention the 
research about the Heros Equitans (S. Nemeti). During 
the Congress M. Hainzmann lashed out against the 
hard terminus post quem-dating of the representation 
of the Roman sagum on reliefs in Noricum, as recently 
published by his Austrian colleague E. Pochmarski. In 
his article he is elaborating his arguments in a scientific 
and neutral manner, making his written contribution to 
an important part of the book.
Browsing in a bundle with conference proceedings 
like this evokes memories and provides us a lot to go 
on with our investigation. It is good to note that the 
book has a nice format and is carefully edited. Some 
contributions are illustrating how beautiful such a book 
could be (Boppert/Ertel; Freyberger), when the authors 
would deliver all necessary illustrations (for example 
maps with place names are now sorely missed). It should 
be a condition to use only photographic illustrations 
of the best quality, which should be printed in colour 
when possible. With regards to the graphic quality the 
Bucharest-Proceedings are not quite up to the Pula-
Proceedings. But what can the reader be surprised by 
nice drawings in some contributions (for example A. 
Antal). Irritating indeed is the exclusive use by some 
authors of ancient place names, without any reference to 
the modern one and also without an indication on a map. 
Since the contributions are usually treating sculpture 
from the period before the fourth century, one should 
avoid administrative names, such as Dardania, which was 
only officially introduced under Diocletian. In our times, 
in which the heritage of Syria is under heavy pressure, it 
is gratifying to find some contributions in this volume, 
in which Palmyra and Dura Europos are playing a 
prominent role. 
Titus Panhuysen
Excerpt from Caiete ARA 7, 2016.


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[Review of: C.-G. Alexandrescu (2015) Cult and votive monuments in the Roman provinces: proceedings of the 13th international colloquium on Roman provincial art: Bucharest - Alba Iulia - Constanţa, 27th of May-3rd of June 2013]

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