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Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
  • Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity
  • Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
  • Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    12 March 2020
  • In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile engagement, enabling them to effectively work as non-threatening instruments of cultural blending. Reconstructing the embodied experience of miniaturization in detailed case studies, Langin-Hooper illuminates the dynamic process of combining Greek and Babylonian sculpture forms, social customs, and viewing habits into new, hybrid works of art. Her innovative focus on figurines as instruments of both personal encounter and global cultural shifts has important implications for the study of tiny objects in art history, anthropology, classics, and other disciplines.

  • Three - Traces

  • Felipe Rojas, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 61-103

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 analyzes the range of indices of antiquity that interpreters in Roman Anatolia consider meaningful. It examines the groupings of remains that interpreters formed to frame or support their favored historical narratives and calls attention to the fact that ancient groupings do not always correspond to what modern archaeologists usually consider archaeologically meaningful evidence.

  • Two - Interpreters

  • Felipe Rojas, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 18-60

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 asks who was interested in and knowledgeable about the physical traces of the past in Roman Anatolia. The chapter is focused on the various people in the region who interacted daily with ruins and other such indices of antiquity. It sheds light on the very wide social range of ancient interpreters, on the dynamics of interaction among them, and on the different strategies of interaction with realia that those various people had.

  • One - Introduction

  • Felipe Rojas, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 provides examples of the types of data available, specifies the temporal and spatial scope of the investigations, and offers brief descriptions of the individual chapters of the book.

  • Five - Beyond Anatolia

  • Felipe Rojas, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 144-179

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 offers a series of interrelated vignettes that shed light on Roman-period in interest in material remains of the past in regions other than Anatolia. These vignettes are intended as an invitation to historians and archaeologists working beyond Anatolia to explore the specific political and cultural circumstances in which archaeophilia is mainfest in different parts of the Roman world.

  • Four - Horizons

  • Felipe Rojas, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    The Pasts of Roman Anatolia
    Published online:
    04 October 2019
    Print publication:
    17 October 2019, pp 104-143

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 surveys some of the many memory horizons available to the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interested in the physical traces of the past. Rome loomed large throughout much of the region, but Anatolian interpreters of antiquities also tapped into historical traditions that did not recognize Rome as a center, including ones that modern scholars associate more readily with Mesopotamia, Iran, the Levant, and the Caucasus. This chapter shows how some traces of the past served to substantiate different, conflicting, and even contradictory historical narratives at local, regional, and transregional scales. The conclusions to this chapter summarize my opinions on archaeophilia as it is attested specifically in Roman Anatolia.

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