Studia Varia; From the J. Paul Getty Museum Volume 2

by Marion True; Mary Louise Hart

• ISBN13: 9780892366347
• ISBN10: 0892366346
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

This is the second volume in a series on wide-ranging topics relating to objects in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum. It consists of seven articles in English, German, and Italian. Chronologically ranging from Pier Giovanni Guzzo's presentation of two early sixth-century-B.C. silver cups to a technical analysis by Maya Elston and Jeffrey Maish of a rare late-antique wooden sarcophagus from Egypt. Despoina Tsiafakis discusses a South Italian bronze askos in the shape of a siren, and Gina Salapata analyzes a pair of South Italian terra-cotta arulae. As a companion text to his publication of an important jewelry assemblage in Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt (see p. 13), Michael Pfrommer presents an in-depth scholarly interpretation of the jewelry. Janet Burnett Grossman has compiled a catalogue of portraits of Alexander the Great in various media from the Getty Museum; and two life-size bronze portraits of delicati, thought to be from Gaul, are the topic of John Pollini's detailed discussion.

Table of Contents

Coppe ioniche in argento	1	(6)
Pier Giovanni Guzzo
Life and Death at the Hands of a Siren	7	(18)
Despoina Tsiafakis
Tρτψiλζτos Aδwvts:
An Exceptional Pair of Terra-cotta Arulae from South Italy	25	(26)
Gina Salapata
Images of Alexander the Great in the Getty Museum	51	(28)
Janet Burnett Grossman
Hellenistisches Gold und ptolemaische Herrscher	79	(36)
Michael Pfrommer
Two Bronze Portrait Busts of Slave Boys from a Shrine of Cobannus in Gaul	115	(38)
John Pollini
Technical Investigation of a Painted Romano-Egyptian Sarcophagus from the Fourth Century A. D.	153
Maya Elston
Jeffrey Maish