Greco-Roman Metal Sculpture from the Oriental Provinces of the Roman Empire and the bordering Arabian Lands. Studies on Iconography, Style, and Fabrication (Sculptures from Roman Syria III: The Metal Statuary)

这项计划中的研究旨在澄清阿拉伯王国的繁荣的古代地区(阿拉伯半岛、美索不达米亚)和莱万丁地区、罗马的叙利亚、阿拉伯和巴勒斯坦省(阿拉伯地理中的Bilad al-Sham)之间的历史相互依存关系。研究的时间间隔从马其顿征服时代(公元前332年)一直到伊斯兰教的兴起(公元7世纪)。作为古代艺术生产的一个领域，金属雕塑是一个方便的领域，因为保存的文献数量有限，在过去的几十年里，对石头和陶俑中类似的雕塑材料的科学调查一直在进行，金属制品的技术制作方面的证据可以估计是相当有希望的。由于目前的政治局势，不能再对雕塑材料进行记录；然而，托马斯·M·韦伯-卡约塔基斯在旅行期间和在该地区长期停留期间，已经广泛完成了这项工作。只有通过尸检才能解决的问题，可能会在审查今天保存在欧洲或美洲的藏品中的精选物品时得到回答。金属雕塑的技术方面将通过与雅克·塞涅的密切合作来揭示，后者指导了法国对杰拉什宙斯避难所内罗马金属铸造车间的挖掘。对保存下来的金属雕塑材料的彻底调查需要聘请三名在古典考古领域受过培训、在上述地理区域具有丰富经验的专家(该项目的负责人托马斯·M·韦伯-卡约塔基斯是一名参与其中的科学家，另外还有一名科学合作者)。与法国建筑师Jacques Seigne教授(图尔斯)、约旦冶金专家I.Lutfi Khalil教授(安曼)以及德国古代铸造技术领先专家Gerhard Zimmer教授(EichstäTT)达成的合作协议赋予了国际性和跨学科的合作。关于文献和碑文来源，法国专家皮埃尔-路易斯·加蒂尔教授(里昂)、莫里斯·萨特教授(图尔斯)和朱利安·阿奎特教授(里昂)口头批准了他们的支持。关于古老的闪族文字，特别是古老的南阿拉伯誓言铭文，约旦这一领域的专家Dres Omar Ghul教授和Hani Hayajneh教授(都是耶尔穆克大学伊尔比德大学)将进行合作。

The planned study aims at providing a contribution to the clarification of the art historic interdependence between the prospering ancient regions of the Arabic realm which laid beyond the limits of the Roman Empire (Arabian peninsula, Mesopotamia) and the Levantine areas, the Roman provinces of Syria, Arabia and Palestine (in Arabic geography the Bilad al-Sham). The chronological interval of research extends from the times of the Macedonian conquest (332 BC) until the rise of Islam (7th century AD). As a sector of the ancient art production, the metal sculpture is a convenient field because the preserved amount of documents is limited, the scientific investigation of comparable sculptural material out of stone and terracotta has proceeded during the past decades, and the evidence of the metal objects in terms of their technical fabrication may be estimated as rather promising. Due to the present political situation the documentation of the sculptural material cannot anymore be conducted; it has, however, been widely completed by Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis during his travels and long stays in the region. Questions which can only been solved by autopsy may be answered in reviewing selected items preserved today in the collections in Europe or America. The technological aspects of the metal sculpture will be revealed by the close cooperation with Jacques Seigne who directed the French excavation of the Roman metal casting workshop in the premises of the Zeus sanctuary at Jerash. The thorough investigation of the preserved sculptural material out of metal requires the engagement of three specialist trained in the field of Classical Archaeology with profound experiences in the said geographic area (director of the project with Thomas M. Weber-Karyotakis as an involved scientist and additionally one scientific cooperator). The internationality and interdisciplinarity is given by the agreed cooperation with the French architect Professor Dr Jacques Seigne (Tours), with the Jordanian specialist in metallurgy Professor I. Lutfi Khalil (Amman) and as advisor Professor Dr. Gerhard Zimmer (Eichstätt), the leading German specialist on ancient casting technologies. Concerning the literary and epigraphic sources the French experts Prof. Dr. Pierre-Louis Gatier (Lyon), Prof. Dr. Maurice Sartre (Tours) und Prof. Dr. Julien Aliquot (Lyon) approved their support orally. Concerning the old-Semitic, especially the old south-Arabian votive inscriptions, the Jordanian specialists in this field, the Professors Dres Omar Ghul and Hani Hayajneh (both Yarmouk University Irbid) will cooperate.