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Dr. Konogan Beaufay (Oxford), Mosaic Floor Inscriptions in the Roman Bath Buildings of Italy

Online-Vortrag im Mittagskolloquium, Montag, 10. Mai 2021, 12:00 Uhr

News vom 07.05.2021

K. Beaufay wurde 2020 in Oxford promoviert und war danach Fellow an der British School at Rome. In diesem Semester ist er als Fellow an der BerGSAS/FU Berlin zu Gast am Instituts für Klassische Archäologie, gefördert durch das Oxford-Berlin Network in Ancient Studies (OXBER_HUM4, Berlin University Alliance).


During the Imperial period, bath buildings were an essential part of the daily life of the Romans, and were built all over the empire, oft­en funded by generous benefactors who would record and commemorate their munificence on inscriptions. While the vast majority of these commemorative inscriptions were written on stone plaques, an interesting, smaller subset consisted of inscriptions created in mosaic technique as part of the mosaic floor of a room, inside a bath complex. Some fi­fteen such inscriptions are known from Italy, and are dated to the late Republican and early Imperial periods. While the text of such mosaic floor inscriptions does not differ much from text on other support, their context and visual aspects do.

This talk will therefore tackle the issue of the materiality of these mosaic floor inscriptions, looking at their design, their architectural setting, their effect on the circulation of the bathers, and—asking more questions than offering answers—it will lead us to ponder over the intentions the benefactors had in setting them up, and the reasons that led to the progressive disappearance of the practice during the 1st cent. AD.

Online via Webex . May 05, 2021 . 12:00 h

Host: Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS)

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m3f42882a88401670d8e362107dc27a13

Meeting-ID: 121 889 1219, Pass: gqPPHThE767

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