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Statues in the Temples of Pompeii: Combinations of Gods, Local Definition of Cults, and the Memory of the City 1 William Van Andringa

in Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World Published in print: 2012 Published Online: May Publisher: Oxford University Press 2012 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199572069 eISBN: 9780191738739 acprof:oso/9780199572069.003.0005 Item type: chapter

Pompeian citizens were surrounded by the sacred. Not only were there a lot of cult places in the town, there were also crowds of statues of divinities inside each sanctuary, usually set up as votive offerings. In a world of polytheism, the gods were never alone. Each divinity had multiple aspects and zones of competence, and the association with other gods in sanctuary spaces allows us to define their ‘personalities’ more sharply. This chapter studies the statues found in the sanctuaries of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and shows that the collocation of gods in a sanctuary and their association with the emperor or with local notables was a way of defining the religious interests of the cult in question. Most prominent here are the statues of ancestral divinities, embodiments of the city's religious and historical memory of the city.

Bail in Herculaneum and Puteoli ERNEST METZGER

in Litigation in Roman Law Published in print: 2005 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198298557 eISBN: 9780191707520 acprof:oso/9780198298557.003.0004 Item type: chapter

This chapter examines the epigraphic evidence that supports the existence of a practice of introducing civil lawsuits by vadimonium (bail) in Rome during the classical period. The first useful epigraphic evidence of vadimonium was discovered in the 1930s in Herculaneum: a series of waxed, wooden tablets that recorded vadimonia from the first century AD. These tablets were interpreted by their first editors Page 1 of 5

as extra-judicial vadimonia. The vadimonia in the Puteoli archive are in all relevant respects identical to the Herculaneum vadimonia: they all follow largely the same formula. And like the Herculaneum vadimonia, the Puteoli vadimonia were immediately accepted as examples of extrajudicial vadimonia. This chapter describes the physical features of the tablets, their contents, provenance, and place of appearance.

Gems and Ruins in Bourbon Naples Marina Belozerskaya

in Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese Published in print: 2012 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press January 2013 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199739318 eISBN: 9780199979356 acprof:oso/9780199739318.003.0008 Item type: chapter

After the last Farnese duke died, the family art collection passed to Charles Bourbon, king of Naples, who turned his backward city into a mecca for Grand Tourists. They came to see the royal treasures that included the Tazza as well as newly excavated artifacts from Herculaneum and Pompeii. In Naples the Tazza became accessible to lovers of the past as never before—through its display in the royal museum as well as a number of publications that illustrated it in engravings.

‘Kennzeichen der griechischen Meisterstücke’: Winckelmann’s early Roman writings and the discourse of connoisseurship Katherine Harloe

in Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft Published in print: 2013 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press September 2013 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199695843 eISBN: 9780191755880 acprof:oso/9780199695843.003.0003 Item type: chapter

Chapter 3 discusses the writings Winckelmann published from Rome and Florence before his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums in order to demonstrate the importance to them of eighteenth-century discourses of connoisseurship. The close relation that obtained between the activities of eighteenth-century connoisseurs and antiquarians is explored, and Winckelmann’s works, including his descriptions of Philipp von Stosch’s collection of engraved gems and of the Torso Belvedere, are analysed in detail in order to show how his approach to the periodization and visual analysis of artefacts was influenced by connoisseurial methods Page 2 of 5

developed by Jonathan Richardson, Caylus, and Mariette, among others. The chapter closes with a discussion of Winckelmann’s role in making public the antiquities newly discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Sewers, Archaeobotany, and Diet at Pompeii and Herculaneum Erica Rowan

in Economy of Pompeii Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press January 2017 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198786573 eISBN: 9780191828898 acprof:oso/9780198786573.003.0005 Item type: chapter

This chapter by Erica Rowan discusses food consumption and diet in both Pompeii and Herculaneum. It starts from the archaeobotanical remains found in the sewer underneath Cardo V at Herculaneum, highlighting the varied and cosmopolitan diet of the people living in the relatively small apartments above the sewer. This picture is then compared to the archaeobotanical evidence from Pompeii and discussed in the wider context of the regional food economy. Introducing a chronological dimension, the author argues that the varied and cosmopolitan diet in both Pompeii and Herculaneum appears to have been a development of the last centuries BC—earlier, the diet appears to have been much more locally oriented.

Experiencing the Last Days of Pompeii in Late NineteenthCentury Philadelphia Jon L. Seydl

in Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today Published in print: 2011 Published Online: April Publisher: Oxford University Press 2015 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199569366 eISBN: 9780191808265 acprof:osobl/9780199569366.003.0015 Item type: chapter

This chapter examines how Philadelphians both presented and experienced the cataclysm of Pompeii's destruction through three examples: Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii by Randolph Rogers, one of the most important nineteenth-century American sculptures; an 1878 installation of peephole cabinet views of tableaux narrating the last days of Pompeii; and the 1904 installation of reproduction bronzes from Herculaneum at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The chapter demonstrates important ways in which understanding of the ancient sites shifted in the late nineteenth century, especially how Pompeii became

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a field on which Philadelphians played out ideas about social class, education, and popular spectacle.

The Censorship Myth and the Secret Museum Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands

in Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today Published in print: 2011 Published Online: April Publisher: Oxford University Press 2015 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199569366 eISBN: 9780191808265 acprof:osobl/9780199569366.003.0020 Item type: chapter

This chapter examines ‘the censorship myth’ surrounding the erotic material unearthed in Pompeii and Herculaneum. It focuses on the Anglophone dissemination of the story, which describes eighteenthcentury excavators of Pompeii and Herculaneum, shocked at the evidence of licentiousness they uncovered, ‘hastily’ locking it away. The objects, in other words, created the need for censorship. The idea that what the ‘excited antiquarians’ experienced was ‘a sense of betrayal’ is based on the familiar notion that discovery of these objects challenged the foundations of Western ideas about civilization and imperialism. The chapter suggests that, even though many elements of the story have their basis in fact, it contains elements of fiction or selective use of the available evidence. Indeed, the objects were not all locked away immediately; the collection was created gradually, in piecemeal fashion, at times in a deliberate attempt to create a basis for scholarship about sex.

Ruins and Forgetfulness: The Case of Herculaneum Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

in Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today Published in print: 2011 Published Online: April Publisher: Oxford University Press 2015 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199569366 eISBN: 9780191808265 acprof:osobl/9780199569366.003.0025 Item type: chapter

This chapter addresses the question of why Herculaneum failed to capture popular imagination. It suggests that the reasons are not merely to do with the relatively small size of the site, but go back to the roots of tourism in the eighteenth century. The submergence of Herculaneum in the popular imagination is due to a series of interconnected factors, as part of a paradigm shift that took place in the 1760s: that it was connected with the departure of Charles Bourbon to take up the throne of Spain, and the accession of his son Ferdinand IV in 1759; that it was Page 4 of 5

linked to the public relations disaster of Winckelmann's Sendschreiben of 1762 and its French translation in 1764; to the death of Karl Weber in 1764, and to the arrival of Sir William Hamilton in Naples in the same year; and that it involved a major rethinking by the Bourbon regime of the purpose of excavation, which grasped the popular appeal of the Temple of Isis at Pompeii, excavated in 1765, and exploited the new wave of Grand Tourism made possible by the peace of Paris of 1763.

The Power of Nuisances on the Roman Street* Jeremy Hartnett

in Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. Published in print: 2011 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press March 2015 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199583126 eISBN: 9780191804519 acprof:osobl/9780199583126.003.0006 Item type: chapter

This chapter focuses on the connection between urban society and obstructions to the flow of traffic. In what ways was passage on urban streets obstructed and, more importantly, to what ends and with what implications? The goal is not merely to produce a list of traffic impediments, but also to explore what light the broad category of ‘nuisance’ can shed on various aspects of urban dynamics, including movement, law, inscribed social privilege, and visibility. The case studies for this investigation are the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The chapter also draws on legal opinions and charters, primarily from Rome to offer a textual counterpoint and a degree of context to the material evidence.

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