‎Rubina Raja (ed)‎
‎Portraying the Individual in the Roman East Local Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st?4th Centuries AD)‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xxii + 345 p. Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:81 b/w, 282 col., 1 tables b/w. Language(s):English. new. ISBN 9782503622750.‎

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‎Summary While the statues and busts of Rome have long captivated scholarly attention, the extraordinary diversity of portraits produced across the empire's so-called peripheries has remained underexplored. As new discoveries and research projects, such as the Palmyra Portrait Project, expand our understanding of provincial visual culture, fresh questions emerge about the nature, function, and interpretation of Roman period portraiture. This volume revisits portraiture by looking beyond the Roman empire?s core to its vibrant borderlands, revealing how traditions of representing the individual varied dramatically across cities, regions, and time. The contributions gathered here examine both adherence to, and departures from, mainstream portrait conventions, highlighting the creative negotiations between local identities and imperial visual norms, engaging with a wide range of media ? sculpture, mosaics, and paintings ? and addressing issues such as workshop practices and the circulation of resources. Case studies explore reworking and reuse, the reconstruction of display contexts, and the development of regional visual languages over time. In shifting the lens from centre to regional situations, this volume reveals portraits as powerful expressions of identities and cultural entanglement across the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Portraying the Individual in the Roman East: Local?Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st?4th Centuries AD) Rubina Raja 1. Roman ?Mummy Portraits? ? Panel Paintings, Painted Shrouds, and Stucco Masks: The Appropriation of the Graeco-Roman ?Individual Portrait? by the Death Industry of Roman Egypt Christopher H. Hallet 2. Portrait Mummies from Antino polis as Evidence for lite Interaction between Egypt and Syria Barbara E. Borg 3. Locally Crafted Empires: The Case of the Palmyrene Portrait Habit and the Legacy of Greek Art Rubina Raja 4. Putting Portraits in the Big Picture: Otacilia Severa and Faustina the Elder in Palmyra Olympia Bobou, Dario Calomino, Julia Lenghan, and Rubina Raja 5. Theoi Sebastoi Olympioi: Hellenising Imperial Images in the Greek East R. R. R. Smith 6. Portraying the Emperor ? Seeing the Emperor: Between Typology and Individuality in a Colossal Portrait in Sagalassos Jane Fejfer, Jeroen Poblome, anf Peter Talloen 7. The Portrait Statues from the Artemision at Messene ? Expressing Identity and Representing Power Olympia Bobou and Christopher Dickenson 8. Funerary Portraits from Hierapolis in Syria Michael Bl mer 9. The Other Half of the Empire: On Early Depictions of Individuals in Sepulchral Art in the West Dietrich Boschung 10. Funerary Portraits on the Rhine in the First Half of the First Century AD: Sartorial Expressions of Cultural Awareness and Ethnic Belonging Maureen Caroll 11. Citizens, Emperors, and Gods: Portraiture in the Roman Central Balkans Nade?da Gavrilovi? Vitas 12. From Periphery to Centre Stage: ?Zenobia in Chains? (1859) by Harriet Hosmer and ?The Death of Cleopatra? (1876) by Edmonia Lewis Amalie Skovm ller‎