Senatori romani nel Pretorio di Gortina: le statue di Asclepiodotus e la politica di Graziano dopo Adrianopoli ed. by Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo (review)
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ISBN: 9788876426902 <p>This edited book aims at providing a complete picture of the puzzling group of honorary epigraphy found in Gortina (Crete) in the area of the long-standing Praetorium. The ensemble was dedicated there in connection with reconstruction works during the mandate of the governor Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus (382–383) for reasons not openly stated. The analysis and interpretation of the thirteen remaining inscribed bases and scattered fragments is the pivotal point of a multidisciplinary survey drawing evidence from several contexts and different approaches to frame the realization within the political fragility in the aftermath of the defeat at Adrianople. The variety yet perfect complementarity of the authors and their expertise is the key point of this book, entirely in Italian, that represents a most welcome synthesis of the results achieved during five excavation campaigns in Gortina (2008, 2010, 2013, 2016) and Olous (2012) by the team of the Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, in collaboration with the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene.</p> <p>Already partly presented elsewhere, the various contributions and interpretations are offered now in a unitary publication enriched with further discussions on relevant and related topics built on the dialogue with the main primary and secondary literature in light of the newly gathered evidence. The volume is articulated in six independent chapters made mutually coherent and cohesive by internal cross-references that, while anticipating where necessary topics covered elsewhere, do not cause unpleasant and redundant repetition.</p> <p>The declared purpose of the volume is a new interpretation of the group of inscriptions from a multifaceted perspective involving material, archaeological, textual, prosopographical, chronological, and historical analysis. Tantillo devotes the first chapter to a brief introduction to the province of Crete and its recent administrative history, emphasizing the westward orientation of the region in the bipartite division between the <em>partes Orientis</em> and <em>Occidentis</em> of the prefectural offices. The focus shifts then to the area of the Praetorium. Through rigorous examination of the other honorary epigraphic documentation from the area prior and later to the group, the author demonstrates the long-standing significance of the site as a place of public celebration for local and non-local political authorities and elites. The corpus itself comes to the foreground with the material and epigraphical analysis conducted by Bigi and Tantillo in the second and third chapters. Exceptional in terms of the unity of the project in which such a large number of dedications are included, the dossier is, conversely, part of a long local tradition <strong>[End Page 285]</strong> of reuse, typical of the late empire, and it is entirely engraved on architectural elements. The choice, made possibly in part with attention to the hierarchy of the honored figures, seems to have fallen on locally available materials decontextualized from their initial purpose. The project seems therefore inconsistent with the reconstructive hypothesis suggested elsewhere, which argues that statues (to date lost) and inscriptions were originally designed as part of a single monument.</p> <p>The stylistic and formulaic uniformity of the dedications is identified by Tantillo as the second <em>trait d'union</em> of the corpus that confirms its substantial unity of intent and realization. The following prosopographical roundup shows the substantial Roman and Campano-centric perspective of the ensemble composed of figures belonging to the highest senatorial ranks and apparently mostly untethered from any relations with Crete. The comparison of the <em>cursus honorum</em> of the characters, the imperial dedications, and the period of activity of the promoting governor makes it possible to date the overall idea of the project within the first half of 383, though with possibly different stages of planning and implementation.</p> <p>The presence among the honorees of the renowned Petronius Probus presses Porena into a long and dense discussion articulated in the next two chapters on the aristocrat's complex prefectorial career and...</p> </p>","PeriodicalId":16220,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Late Antiquity","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Late Antiquity","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2024.a926293","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Senatori romani nel Pretorio di Gortina: le statue di Asclepiodotus e la politica di Graziano dopo Adrianopoli ed. by Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo
Sara Baldin
Senatori romani nel Pretorio di Gortina: le statue di Asclepiodotus e la politica di Graziano dopo Adrianopoli Edited by Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo Studi 49. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2020. Pp. 274. ISBN: 9788876426902
This edited book aims at providing a complete picture of the puzzling group of honorary epigraphy found in Gortina (Crete) in the area of the long-standing Praetorium. The ensemble was dedicated there in connection with reconstruction works during the mandate of the governor Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus (382–383) for reasons not openly stated. The analysis and interpretation of the thirteen remaining inscribed bases and scattered fragments is the pivotal point of a multidisciplinary survey drawing evidence from several contexts and different approaches to frame the realization within the political fragility in the aftermath of the defeat at Adrianople. The variety yet perfect complementarity of the authors and their expertise is the key point of this book, entirely in Italian, that represents a most welcome synthesis of the results achieved during five excavation campaigns in Gortina (2008, 2010, 2013, 2016) and Olous (2012) by the team of the Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, in collaboration with the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene.
Already partly presented elsewhere, the various contributions and interpretations are offered now in a unitary publication enriched with further discussions on relevant and related topics built on the dialogue with the main primary and secondary literature in light of the newly gathered evidence. The volume is articulated in six independent chapters made mutually coherent and cohesive by internal cross-references that, while anticipating where necessary topics covered elsewhere, do not cause unpleasant and redundant repetition.
The declared purpose of the volume is a new interpretation of the group of inscriptions from a multifaceted perspective involving material, archaeological, textual, prosopographical, chronological, and historical analysis. Tantillo devotes the first chapter to a brief introduction to the province of Crete and its recent administrative history, emphasizing the westward orientation of the region in the bipartite division between the partes Orientis and Occidentis of the prefectural offices. The focus shifts then to the area of the Praetorium. Through rigorous examination of the other honorary epigraphic documentation from the area prior and later to the group, the author demonstrates the long-standing significance of the site as a place of public celebration for local and non-local political authorities and elites. The corpus itself comes to the foreground with the material and epigraphical analysis conducted by Bigi and Tantillo in the second and third chapters. Exceptional in terms of the unity of the project in which such a large number of dedications are included, the dossier is, conversely, part of a long local tradition [End Page 285] of reuse, typical of the late empire, and it is entirely engraved on architectural elements. The choice, made possibly in part with attention to the hierarchy of the honored figures, seems to have fallen on locally available materials decontextualized from their initial purpose. The project seems therefore inconsistent with the reconstructive hypothesis suggested elsewhere, which argues that statues (to date lost) and inscriptions were originally designed as part of a single monument.
The stylistic and formulaic uniformity of the dedications is identified by Tantillo as the second trait d'union of the corpus that confirms its substantial unity of intent and realization. The following prosopographical roundup shows the substantial Roman and Campano-centric perspective of the ensemble composed of figures belonging to the highest senatorial ranks and apparently mostly untethered from any relations with Crete. The comparison of the cursus honorum of the characters, the imperial dedications, and the period of activity of the promoting governor makes it possible to date the overall idea of the project within the first half of 383, though with possibly different stages of planning and implementation.
The presence among the honorees of the renowned Petronius Probus presses Porena into a long and dense discussion articulated in the next two chapters on the aristocrat's complex prefectorial career and...
以下是内容的简要摘录,以代替摘要:评论者 Sara Baldin Senatori romani nel Pretorio di Gortina: le statue di Asclepiodotus e la politica di Graziano do Adrianopoli ed. by Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo Sara Baldin Senatori romani nel Pretorio di Gortina: le statue di Asclepiodotus e la politica di Graziano do Adrianopoli Edited by Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo Studi 49.比萨:比萨高等师范学院,2020 年。第 274 页。ISBN: 9788876426902 这本编辑过的书旨在全面介绍在戈尔蒂纳(克里特岛)发现的一组令人费解的荣誉墓志,该墓志位于历史悠久的禁卫军地区。在总督 Oecumenius Dositheus Asclepiodotus(382-383 年)的任期内,由于未公开说明的原因,在重建工程中将这组墓志献给了那里。对剩余的 13 个刻有文字的底座和零散碎片的分析和解释是一项多学科调查的关键点,这项调查从多种背景和不同方法中汲取证据,在阿德里安堡战败后政治脆弱的背景下实现这一目标。作者及其专长的多样性和完美互补性是这本完全以意大利文撰写的书的关键点,它是卡西诺和拉齐奥默里迪翁大学团队与意大利阿特内考古学校合作,在戈尔蒂纳(2008、2010、2013、2016 年)和奥卢斯(2012 年)进行的五次发掘活动中取得的成果的综合,非常值得欢迎。该书的部分内容已在其他地方介绍过,现在又在统一的出版物中提供了各种贡献和解释,并根据新收集的证据,在与主要的第一手和第二手文献对话的基础上,对相关主题进行了进一步的讨论。全书共分六个独立章节,通过内部交叉引用,使各章节之间相互连贯和具有凝聚力,在必要时对其他章节涉及的主题进行预测,但不会造成令人不快的多余重复。本卷的公开目的是从材料、考古、文本、拓片、年代学和历史分析等多角度对这组碑文进行全新解读。Tantillo 在第一章中简要介绍了克里特岛省及其近代行政史,强调了该地区的西向性,即省办公室的东方和西方两部分。随后,重点转移到了禁卫军地区。通过对该地区之前和之后的其他荣誉书信文献的严格审查,作者证明了该遗址作为当地和非当地政治当局和精英的公共庆典场所的长期重要性。在第二章和第三章中,Bigi 和 Tantillo 对材料和书信进行了分析,从而凸显了文献本身。就项目的统一性而言,该卷宗是一个例外,其中包含了大量的献辞,但反过来说,该卷宗也是当地悠久的重复使用传统的一部分,是帝国晚期的典型特征,而且完全刻在了建筑构件上。可能是考虑到尊贵人物的等级制度,选择了当地现有的材料,而这些材料似乎已经脱离了其最初的用途。因此,该项目似乎与其他地方提出的重建假说不一致,该假说认为雕像(至今已遗失)和碑文最初是作为单一纪念碑的一部分而设计的。坦蒂略认为,献词在风格和公式上的统一是该文献的第二个共同特征,它证实了该文献在意图和实现上的实质性统一。下面的传记综述表明,由元老院最高级别的人物组成的合奏曲具有浓厚的罗马和坎帕诺中心观点,而且显然大多与克里特岛没有任何关系。通过比较这些人物的荣誉称号、帝国献礼以及晋升总督的活动时间,可以将该项目的总体构想确定为 383 年上半年,尽管可能有不同的规划和实施阶段。著名的佩特罗尼乌斯-普罗布斯(Petronius Probus)被列入受表彰者行列,这让波雷纳不得不在接下来的两章中就这位贵族复杂的总督生涯和他的政治生涯进行冗长而深入的讨论。