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Dispatches from the Home Front: The Anaglypha Panels in Rome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2022

Elizabeth Wolfram Thill
Elizabeth Wolfram Thill*
Affiliation:
World Languages and Cultures Department, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis ethill@iupui.edu
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Abstract

Discovered in the Forum Romanum, the Anaglypha Panels have traditionally been viewed as a monument concerned exclusively with the capital city. A new interpretation presented here argues that instead the panels represent a direct Senatorial response to Hadrianic provincial policy. This response drew on a recent more traditional monument, the Column of Trajan. By employing specific visual references from that military monument, the Anaglypha Panels plastered over the ideological gap left by Hadrian's reliance on peaceful consolidation. Rather than an obsequious paean to the emperor, the Anaglypha Panels can be seen as a Senatorial reminder of their expectations of their emperor, and even a rebuke to the emperor who turned his eyes from Rome.

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Anaglypha Panelsmonumental reliefsRoman sculptureSenateForum Romanum
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Britannia , Volume 53 , November 2022 , pp. 5 - 30
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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