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欣赏的埋葬装饰手段。当时，镶嵌花饰（opus tessellatum tableaux）完成了置于地下的坟墓的覆盖物，提供了“古典”类型的坟墓马赛克，其中绝大多数可以在北非找到。虽然这些非洲的例子在1976年传达了诺埃尔·杜瓦尔关于这种纪念碑的开创性言论的基本主题，而最近西班牙裔的库存，相比之下要窄得多，一直是一项全面研究的主题，但奇怪的是，没有专门针对意大利葬礼马赛克水库的整体论文，尽管坟墓领域和马赛克装饰的关联可能已经被引入并在那里得到了发展。邓巴宾，在古代马赛克的高级专家，主要目的是建立一个广泛的参考书。在地板，墙壁和拱顶上的坟墓马赛克应用的详尽纲要仍然是可管理的，因为它包括不超过约。150件物品散落在意大利和邻近的亚得里亚海地区。今天，这些作品只能通过查阅大量分布广泛的书目标题来单独或小组追踪。毫无疑问，对它们的集体编辑和研究将使我们能够揭示它们的多样性和它们所经历的变化。主要关注的是长期的发展，从共和时代后期开始，如果可能的话，试图在形成过程中限定一个特定的阶段，可以将适当的“坟墓马赛克”的出现分配给这个阶段。另一点是关于从异教到基督教的转变：我们在多大程度上可以说传统模式的持续性，以及哪些特征与新信仰相对应？因此，我们的努力将连接古典和基督教考古学的领域，从而承认主持变革的连续性。考虑到空间安排以及不同的社会背景，我们的项目将解决这些最后的安息地的一般家具中马赛克装饰的数量和质量的变化。马赛克的问题逐渐接管其他流派的作用是特别重要的，当涉及到马赛克放置在海拔位置（arcosolia，埋葬大厦）。最终，我们决心研究特定地区和领土之间的风格和/或图像的相互作用，特别是意大利和北非的例子之间的关系。要分析的坟墓马赛克目录部署广泛的年表，地理和正式的范围，以提供一个非常坚实的潜力，能够承诺耐人寻味的学术成果，是非常相关的，我们的知识古代社会。