The sculptures of Apollonia (Albania): Town history mirrored by mobile stone monuments

阿波罗尼亚（阿尔巴尼亚）城市的雕塑是亚得里亚海东南部同类雕塑中最重要的一个，就传统的范围和范围而言。该项目旨在对这组材料进行系统的摄影和科学编目。除了各种类型的雕塑和浮雕外，其他由石头制成的雕塑物体，如装饰的建筑构件和仅带有铭文的石碑也将被纳入调查范围。对于古典考古学来说，这些基本上未出版的纪念碑收藏有望为东西方（文化）地理交汇处的文化模式的挪用和转移的动态过程提供重要的新见解。在高密度，频谱的雕塑延伸从公元前6世纪到公元3世纪。对雕塑的连贯性检查不仅可以对阿波罗尼亚的文化和社会历史发展进行有根据的评估。相反，该项目的重点主要是在战略上重要的港口城市，因为作为一个文化中心，它使北方希腊（小亚细亚）和Magna Graffic（意大利中部）之间的联系以一种迄今未被认可的方式变得可理解和有意义。虽然这座城市本身在后古代时期并没有被建造，只是通过挖掘和调查有选择地进行了探索，但许多雕塑可以被分配到特定的环境和/或功能。这使得纪念碑的不同交流空间和不同的（社会）赞助人和接受者群体变得有形。由于德国-阿尔巴尼亚项目组的紧张筹备工作，现在有机会完成对艺术作品及其图像的全面文献编目和科学分析，并使其公开。在实践层面上，这意味着专业摄影记录程序与德国及其他地区德语专家网络的科学能力紧密相连。以艺术历史和文化历史背景化的艺术品形式的方法论方法与科学分析程序相结合，主要用于确定石头的来源，并允许对资源管理进行重要陈述。该项目的研究结果将迅速纳入相关的在线研究数据库iDAI.objects（“ARACHNE”），纳入一份载有详细总体综合资料的印刷总目录，并纳入阿波罗尼亚考古指南。该项目通过科学评估，为拯救阿尔巴尼亚的世界文化遗产免遭腐朽和忽视作出了重要贡献。

The sculptures of the city of Apollonia (Albania) form the most important conglomerate of its kind in the south-east of the Adriatic in terms of extent and spectrum of the tradition. The project aims at the systematic photographic and scientific cataloguing of this group of material. In addition to the various types of sculpture and reliefs, other sculptural objects made of stone such as decorated building elements and stelae with mere inscriptions will also be included in the investigations. For classical archaeology the largely unpublished collection of monuments promises to provide significant new insights into the dynamic processes of appropriation and transfer of cultural models at a (cultural-)geographical intersection between East and West. In high density, the spectrum of the sculptures extends from the 6th century BC to the 3rd century AD. The coherent examination of the sculptures not only enables a well-founded assessment of the cultural and socio-historical development of Apollonia. Rather, the focus of the project is primarily on the strategically important port city because, as a cultural hub, it makes connections between northern Greece (Asia Minor) and Magna Graecia (Central Italy) comprehensible and meaningful in a hitherto unrecognised way. Although the city itself, which was not built over in post-antiquity, has only been explored selectively through excavations and surveys, many of the sculptures can be assigned to specific contexts and/or functions. This makes the different communication spaces of the monuments and different (social) groups of patrons and recipients tangible. Thanks to the intensive preparatory work of the German-Albanian project team, there is now the opportunity to complete the comprehensive documentary cataloguing and scientific analysis of the art works and their imagery and make them publicly accessible. On a practical level, this means a close interlocking of professional photographic recording procedures and the scientific competences of a network of German-speaking experts in Germany and beyond. The methodological approach in the form of an art-historical and cultural-historical contextualisation of the artefacts is flanked by scientific analysis procedures, which primarily serve to determine the provenance of the stones and allow important statements to be made about resource management. The findings of the project will promptly be incorporated into the relevant online research database iDAI.objects (“ARACHNE”), into a printed general catalogue with a detailed overarching synthesis, and into an archaeological guide to Apollonia. The project makes an important contribution to saving the cultural world heritage in Albania from decay and neglect through its scientific appreciation.