Ritual and Identity: British Collections of Bronze Figurines from First-Millennium-BC pre-Roman Italy

仪式与身份：英国收藏的公元前一千年前罗马意大利的青铜雕像

• 批准号: 2447866
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2447866
• 关键词: Ritual; Identity; British; Collections; Bronze

My doctoral research project aims to develop our knowledge and understanding of schematic bronze figurines from pre-Roman Italy, using the collections available in British museums as a core data set. These simple anthropomorphic or zoomorphic bronzes are, at present, understudied, and their meanings and roles remain largely enigmatic. In view of this, my research project would seek to offer new insights into their development across time and space, as well as their ritual and social significance. This will also help museums, in Britain and elsewhere, to better contextualise and display these figurines, and to move beyond their conceptualisation as 'minor art'. Votive bronze figurines from pre-Roman central Italy, of which schematic figurines are a subgroup, are known in their thousands, and are well represented in museum collections in both Europe and North America. Efforts have been made to catalogue, date, and provenance Italic 1 votive figurines, and they are considered as playing an important part in the celebrated 2 Etruscan metalworking tradition. The less well-known schematic figurines are included in 3 the earliest comprehensive catalogue and classification system of Archaic Italian bronze votive figurines, compiled by Giovanni Colonna. Most schematic figurines are now described by affinity to the workshops Colonna established, such as the 'Esquiline' Group (86 figurines representing male and female offerers); the 'Nocera Umbra' Group (circa 170 figurines, some representing male and female offerers, others representing Mars in a warrior stance); and the 'Foligno' Group (25 figurines, all but one representing Mars). More recently, schematic 4 votive figurines have occupied an important place in academic work dealing with Umbrian social structure. These are region-specific discussions in the service of a wider quest for 5 understanding the history of state development in Umbria.

我的博士研究项目旨在利用英国博物馆的藏品作为核心数据集，发展我们对前罗马意大利青铜雕像示意图的知识和理解。目前，这些简单的拟人或兽形青铜器尚未得到充分研究，它们的意义和作用在很大程度上仍然是个谜。有鉴于此，我的研究项目将寻求对它们跨越时间和空间的发展，以及它们的仪式和社会意义提供新的见解。这也将帮助英国和其他地方的博物馆更好地结合和展示这些雕像，并超越它们作为“小艺术”的概念。来自前罗马意大利中部的许愿青铜雕像（示意图雕像是其中的一个子组）数量达数千件，在欧洲和北美的博物馆收藏中都有很好的体现。我们已努力对 Italic 1 许愿雕像进行编目、日期和出处，它们被认为在著名的 2 伊特鲁里亚金属加工传统中发挥着重要作用。不太为人所知的示意性雕像包含在由乔瓦尼·科隆纳 (Giovanni Colonna) 编制的最早的意大利古风青铜雕像综合目录和分类系统中。大多数示意性雕像现在都是根据科隆纳建立的工作室的亲和力来描述的，例如“Esquiline”小组（86 个雕像代表男性和女性献祭者）； “Nocera Umbra”群（约 170 个雕像，一些代表男性和女性供奉者，另一些则代表战士姿态的火星）；以及“Foligno”组（25 个雕像，除了一个代表火星）。最近，示意图 4 的许愿雕像在处理翁布里亚社会结构的学术工作中占据了重要地位。这些是针对特定地区的讨论，旨在更广泛地寻求 5 了解翁布里亚国家发展的历史。