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Faces From the Past: A Study of Roman Face Pots from Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire
Gillian Braithwaite
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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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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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FOREWORD
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Museums visited that possess Roman face pots
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER ONE The pre-Roman anthropomorphic pottery and masks of Greece, the Balkans and the East Mediterranean from the Neolithic to the Roman period
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CHAPTER TWO The pre-Roman anthropomorphic pottery and face masks of Western Europe from the Neolithic to the Roman period
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CHAPTER THREE The face pots of Roman Italy
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CHAPTER FOUR The face pots of the Lower and Middle Rhineland
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CHAPTER FOUR, PART II Rhineland face pots of Period Two: c. AD 90 to 260
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CHAPTER FOUR, PART III Rhineland face pots of Period Three: the later third to the fourth century
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CHAPTER FIVE The face pots of France, Belgium and Spain
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CHAPTER SIX The face pots of the Rhine-Danube Corner
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CHAPTER SEVEN The face pots of the Upper Danube
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CHAPTER EIGHT The face pots of Pannonia, Moesia and Dacia.
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CHAPTER NINE The face jars and face beakers of Roman Britain
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CHAPTER NINE, PART II Period two: the later first to the early third century
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CHAPTER NINE, PART III Period Three: the later second to fourth century
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CHAPTER NINE, PART IV SOME UNUSUAL TYPES OF ROMANO-BRITISH ANTHROPOMORPHIC POTTERY
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CHAPTER TEN FACE JARS AND FACE BEAKERS: ONE TRADITION OR TWO
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CHAPTER XI THE MILITARY CONNECTION
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CHAPTER XI, PART II Second to fourth century face pots: Military or civilian?
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CHAPTER TWELVE Whose were the faces? An attempt to identify the face pot masks
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CHAPTER XIII HOW WERE FACE POTS USED? An attempt to identify their function
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CONCLUSION
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Appendices I-VI
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APPENDIX ONE. NOTES ON DIONYSUS-BACCHUS-LIBER AND OTHER DEITIES ASSOCIATED WITH HIM
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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
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APPENDIX THREE. THE BUST VASES OF NORTH EAST GALLIA BELGICA
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APPENDIX FOUR. ROMAN HEAD VASES, BALSAMARIA AND STEELYARD WEIGHTS
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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
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APPENDIX SIX. SNAKE POTS: WITH TWO OR THREE HANDLES, WITH OR WITHOUT SPOUTS
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Index of sites mentioned in the Catalogues to Chapters III-IX and the face pot Types found on them
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Sources for the Drawings in Chapters I-II, and Appendices III-V
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Bibliography
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Photographs
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Published: 2007
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407331225 (ebook)
- 9781407300856 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1651