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Author Velentza, Katerina

Title The Maritime Transport of Sculptures in the Ancient Mediterranean
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2022

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 1: The porphyry sculptural group of the Tetrarchs, embedded in the façade of St Mark's cathed -- Figure 2: Marble statue of Herakles from the Antikythera shipwreck. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. ©Author. -- Figure 3: The Youth of Antikythera, from the Antikythera shipwreck. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. ©Author. -- Figure 4: The medium-scale bronze sculpture found at the sea off Marathon. Now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens. ©Author
Figure 5: The god (Zeus/Poseidon) found off cape Artemission. Now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens. ©Author. -- Figure 6: The bronze sculptural group of the Horse and the Jockey found off cape Artemission. Now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens. ©Author. -- Figure 7: The large-scale marble female sculpture found in the sea off Rhodes. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes. ©Author. -- Figure 8: One of the sculptural reliefs retrieved from a shipwreck in the harbour of Piraeus. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. ©Author
Figure 9: Head of a large-scale marble statue, probably retrieved from a shipwreck in the harbour of Piraeus. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. ©Author. -- Figure 10: Unfinished small-scale marble sculpture, probably retrieved from a shipwreck in the harbour of Piraeus. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. ©Author. -- Figure 11: Bronze statue of a young boy found in the sea off Hierapetra, in Crete, Greece. Now in the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion. ©Author
Figure 12: The under life-size bronze male sculpture found off Fano, Italy. Now in the Getty Villa, in Los Angeles, USA. ©Author. -- Figure 13: Riace statue A, now in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia. ©Author. -- Figure 14: Riace statue B, now in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia. ©Author. -- Figure 15: The Northern Aegean sculpture, a fragment from a bronze equestrian statue with Julio-Claudian portrait characteristics. Now in the National Archaeological Museum at Athens. ©Author
Figure 16: The Marsala 1980s sculpture, a large-scale marble statue of a warrior, displayed in the Museo Archeologico Regionale Lilibeo di Marsala -- Baglio Anselmi. ©Author. -- Figure 17: Three sculptures and a column capital from the Lixouri shipwreck. Now in the Building of Pasha in the castle of Pylos, Greece. ©Author. -- Figure 18: The Mazara del Vallo 1998 sculpture, also known as the bronze statue of the dancing satyr, displayed in the Museo del Satiro Danzante in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. ©Author
Summary With a focus on the underwater context of sculptures retrieved from beneath the sea, this volume examines where, when, why and how sculptures were transported on the Mediterranean Sea during Classical Antiquity through the lenses of both maritime and classical archaeology
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Figure 19: The Mazara del Vallo 1999 sculpture, fragment of the foot and leg of an elephant sculpture, displayed in the Museo del Satiro Danzante in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. ©Author
Subject Sculpture, Classical -- Transportation -- History
Shipping -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Underwater archaeology.
underwater archaeology.
Shipping
Underwater archaeology
Mediterranean Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781803273310
1803273313