Mosaics at the sepulchre / sepulchral mosaics. Burial and tesselated adornment in the Italic and Adriatic areas from the pagan beginnings to Christian Late Antiquity

坟墓上的马赛克/坟墓马赛克。

• 批准号: 249155956
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Achim Arbeiter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Christliche Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/249155956?language=en
• 关键词: Mosaics; sepulchre; sepulchral; mosaics.; Burial

Particularly during Late Antiquity, sepulchral mosaics constituted an appreciated means of burial embellishment. At that time, the opus tessellatum tableaux which finished the coverings of tombs disposed in the ground provided the "classical" type of grave mosaics, whose overwhelming majority can be found in North Africa. While those African examples conveyed, in 1976, the essential subject matter of Noël Duval's groundbreaking remarks on this kind of monuments and while quite recently the Hispanic inventory, much narrower in comparison, has been the topic of a comprehensive study, there is, strangely, no overall treatise dedicated to the reservoir of funerary mosaics in Italy, in spite of the association of sepulchral domain and mosaic decoration having probably been introduced and developed precisely there.Our project which counts on the support assured by Prof. K. Dunbabin, a senior specialist in Ancient mosaics, aims chiefly at the establishment of a book of broad reference. The exhaustive compendium of sepulchral mosaic applications on floors, walls and vaults remains manageable since it comprises no more than approx. 150 items scattered over Italy and the adjacent Adriatic area. Today, those pieces are only to be traced individually or in small groups by means of consulting a large number of far-flung bibliographic titles. Their collective edition and research, unquestionably a desideratum, will allow us to disclose the variety they hold and the changes they underwent.Major attention will be paid to long-term developments, starting in the Late Republican age and trying, if possible, to circumscribe a specific stage within the formative process to which the emergence of the proper "grave mosaic" can be assigned. Another point concerns the transition from pagan to Christian circumstances: To what extent can we state persistencies of conventional patterns, and which traits correspond to the new faith? Accordingly, our endeavour will connect the domains of Classical and Christian Archaeology and thus acknowledge the continuity that presided transformation.Taking into account the spatial arrangements as well as the diverse social settings, our project is going to address the changing quantity and quality of mosaic adornment within the general furnishings of those last resting-places. The issue of mosaics gradually taking over the role of other genres is of special importance when it comes to mosaics placed at elevational positions (arcosolia, burial edifices).Ultimately, we are determined to examine stylistic and/or iconographic interactions among particular regions and territories, regarding notably the relationship between Italic and North African examples.The catalogue of sepulchral mosaics to be analysed deploys as broad a chronologic, geographic and formal range as to offer a very solid potential capable to promise intriguing scholarly results that are of great relevance to our knowledge of Ancient society.

特别是在古代晚期，坟墓马赛克构成了一种受人赞赏的墓葬装饰手段。当时，完成地下坟墓覆盖物的作品镶嵌图案提供了“古典”类型的坟墓马赛克，其中绝大多数可以在其中找到。北非。虽然这些非洲例子传达了 1976 年诺埃尔·杜瓦尔 (Noël Duval) 对此类纪念碑的开创性评论的基本主题，但也相当重要。最近，西班牙裔库存（相比之下要窄得多）已成为一项全面研究的主题，奇怪的是，尽管墓地领域和马赛克装饰之间的联系可能已经存在，但奇怪的是，没有专门针对意大利葬礼马赛克库的全面论述。我们的项目得到了古代马赛克高级专家 K. Dunbabin 教授的支持，其主要目标是建立一本具有广泛参考价值的书。地板、墙壁和拱顶上的坟墓马赛克应用仍然可以管理，因为它由散布在意大利和邻近的亚得里亚海地区的不超过 150 件物品组成，如今，这些碎片只能通过大量咨询来单独或以小组形式进行追踪。他们的集体编辑和研究无疑是迫切需要的，这将使我们能够披露他们所拥有的多样性和他们所经历的变化。将主要关注长期发展，从共和时代晚期开始，如果可能的话，试图在形成过程中界定一个特定的阶段，可以将适当的“坟墓马赛克”的出现分配给该阶段。另一点涉及从异教到基督教环境的转变：在多大程度上。我们能否说明传统模式的持久性，以及哪些特征对应于新的信仰？因此，我们的努力将连接古典考古学和基督教考古学的领域，从而承认主导转变的连续性。考虑到空间安排以及多样性。社会的我们的项目将解决这些最后安息之地的一般陈设中马赛克装饰的数量和质量的变化，当涉及到安息地的马赛克时，马赛克逐渐取代其他类型的角色尤为重要。最终，我们决定研究特定地区和领土之间的风格和/或图像相互作用，特别是斜体和北非示例之间的关系。待分析的墓葬马赛克具有广泛的时间、地理和形式范围，提供了非常坚实的潜力，能够产生有趣的学术成果，这些成果与我们对古代社会的了解密切相关。