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Simon Keay Award in Mediterranean Archaeology: Revisiting the sculptures of Sperlonga: new research and community engagement

Levitan, Rebecca

Papers of the British School at Rome, 2023-10, Vol.91, p.371-372 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Simon Keay Award in Mediterranean Archaeology: Revisiting the sculptures of Sperlonga: new research and community engagement
Autor: Levitan, Rebecca
Assuntos: Archaeology ; Greek civilization ; Library Research ; Marble ; Museums ; Research Reports ; Roman civilization ; Sculpture
É parte de: Papers of the British School at Rome, 2023-10, Vol.91, p.371-372
Descrição: My work generally focuses on Greek and Roman sculpture and its ancient display contexts. During my time as the 2023 Simon Keay Fellow, I conducted research related to Sperlonga, a site associated with the Emperor Tiberius. Sperlonga is located in the aptly named ‘Riviera de Ulisse’ about an hour and a half south of Rome. Known archaeological remains comprise a maritime villa and marine cave/grotto used for fish farming, the latter of which seems to match literary accounts describing a rockfall in a marine cave that nearly killed the emperor. Not mentioned in these sources is the elaborate decoration of the grotto, which included colossal marble sculptures depicting Odysseus and his crew's adventures around the Mediterranean, attributed by signature to three Rhodian artists. These sculptures, the focus of my project, are now highly fragmentary; there are over 7,000 marble fragments housed in the museum and storerooms.
Editor: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Idioma: Inglês;Italiano

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