Faces From the Past: A Study of Roman Face Pots from Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire

Braithwaite, Gillian

doi:doi:10.30861/9781407300856

Faces From the Past: A Study of Roman Face Pots from Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire

Gillian Braithwaite 2007 © BAR Publishing

In a world where pottery studies have tended to become increasingly insular as the volume of excavated pottery grows ever greater, Roman face pots do in fact provide a discrete body of material that is clearly inter-related and stretches across many Roman provincial boundaries and modern national frontiers, offering a particular insight into the movement of ideas and traditions within the Roman world.

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BAR pre-2020
BAR International Series pre-2020

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9781407300856 (paperback)
9781407331225 (ebook)

BAR Number

S1651

Subject

Roman
Ceramics and Pottery Studies
Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology
Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
Ritual / Religion / Temples
Mediterranean
Western Europe and Britain
Catalogues / Collections / Indexes / Bibliographies
Conflict / Military / Fortifications

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Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Museums visited that possess Roman face pots
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE The pre-Roman anthropomorphic pottery and masks of Greece, the Balkans and the East Mediterranean from the Neolithic to the Roman period
CHAPTER TWO The pre-Roman anthropomorphic pottery and face masks of Western Europe from the Neolithic to the Roman period
CHAPTER THREE The face pots of Roman Italy
CHAPTER FOUR The face pots of the Lower and Middle Rhineland
CHAPTER FOUR, PART II Rhineland face pots of Period Two: c. AD 90 to 260
CHAPTER FOUR, PART III Rhineland face pots of Period Three: the later third to the fourth century
CHAPTER FIVE The face pots of France, Belgium and Spain
CHAPTER SIX The face pots of the Rhine-Danube Corner
CHAPTER SEVEN The face pots of the Upper Danube
CHAPTER EIGHT The face pots of Pannonia, Moesia and Dacia.
CHAPTER NINE The face jars and face beakers of Roman Britain
CHAPTER NINE, PART II Period two: the later first to the early third century
CHAPTER NINE, PART III Period Three: the later second to fourth century
CHAPTER NINE, PART IV SOME UNUSUAL TYPES OF ROMANO-BRITISH ANTHROPOMORPHIC POTTERY
CHAPTER TEN FACE JARS AND FACE BEAKERS: ONE TRADITION OR TWO
CHAPTER XI THE MILITARY CONNECTION
CHAPTER XI, PART II Second to fourth century face pots: Military or civilian?
CHAPTER TWELVE Whose were the faces? An attempt to identify the face pot masks
CHAPTER XIII HOW WERE FACE POTS USED? An attempt to identify their function
CONCLUSION
Appendices I-VI
APPENDIX ONE. NOTES ON DIONYSUS-BACCHUS-LIBER AND OTHER DEITIES ASSOCIATED WITH HIM
APPENDIX TWO. A ROUGH GUIDE TO THE MOVEMENTS OF THE LEGIONS THAT WERE STATIONED IN THE RHINELAND, THE DANUBIAN PROVINCES AND BRITAIN FROM THE FIRST TO THE THIRD CENTURIES, AND TO THE FORTRESSES THEY OCCUPIED
APPENDIX THREE. THE BUST VASES OF NORTH EAST GALLIA BELGICA
APPENDIX FOUR. ROMAN HEAD VASES, BALSAMARIA AND STEELYARD WEIGHTS
APPENDIX FIVE. MASKS FROM THE ROMAN PERIOD: AS THEY APPEAR ON MASK BEAKERS, ANTEFIXES AND MARBLE RELIEFS, OR AS FREE-STANDING MASKS MADE OF TERRACOTTA OR METAL
APPENDIX SIX. SNAKE POTS: WITH TWO OR THREE HANDLES, WITH OR WITHOUT SPOUTS
Index of sites mentioned in the Catalogues to Chapters III-IX and the face pot Types found on them
Sources for the Drawings in Chapters I-II, and Appendices III-V
Bibliography
Photographs

Faces From the Past: A Study of Roman Face Pots from Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire

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