The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia  -  Tuna Şare Ağtürk

Uncovering the Colourful Life of Diocletian’s Forgotten Capital

KORTE INHOUD

This ground-breaking volume offers the first publication of a major new monument of Roman power in Asia Minor - sixty-six painted marble frieze panels from the city of Nicomedia with an excellent archaeological and architectural context from the Tetrarchic period. During the rule of Diocletian, Nicomedia was the centre of the Late Roman Empire in the east, and the reliefs of the frieze, which decorate an imperial complex built at this time, represent an astonishing combination of imperial, mythological, and...
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2021 Uitgever: Brepols Publishers 198 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 2503594786 ISBN-13: 9782503594781