Aegyptiaca Romana : nilotic scenes and the Roman views of Egypt /

Aegyptiaca Romana : nilotic scenes and the Roman views of Egypt /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Versluys, M. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 144.
Subjects:
332 B.C.-640 A.D
Civilization.
Antiquities.
Art, Egyptian > Rome.
Art, Roman > Egyptian influences.
Religion.
Rome > Civilization > Egyptian influences.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > Antiquities.
Egypt > Religion > 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Egypt.
Rome > Religion.
Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction
  • 1.. The relations between Rome and Egypt
  • 1.1. Political aspects
  • 1.2. Economic aspects
  • 1.3. Religious aspects
  • 1.4. Cultural aspects
  • 2.. 'Forschungsgeschichte' and present status quaestionis
  • 2.1. The character of the 19th and 20th century research tradition
  • 2.2. The great interest in Isis further examined
  • 2.3. Illustrative points of scholarly discussion
  • 3.. Nilotic landscapes: unused source material
  • 3.1. Definition
  • 3.2. Status quaestionis
  • 4.. Set-up and aim of the research
  • II. Corpus Figurarum Niloticarum
  • 1. Italy
  • 1.1. Latium
  • 1.1.1. Ostia
  • 1.1.2. Palestrina
  • 1.1.3. Priverno
  • 1.1.4. Rome
  • 1.2. Campania
  • 1.2.1. Boscoreale
  • 1.2.2. Herculaneum
  • 1.2.3. Pompeii
  • 1.2.4. Pozzuoli
  • 1.2.5. Stabiae
  • 1.2.6. Unknown
  • 1.3. Other provinces
  • 1.3.1. Samnium (Tivoli)
  • 1.3.2. Picenum (Ancona)
  • 1.3.3. Umbria (Collemancio)
  • 1.3.4. Etruria (Santa Severa)
  • 1.3.5. Venetia et Histria (Brescia)
  • 2. North Africa
  • 2.1. Numidia
  • 2.1.1. Timgad
  • 2.2. Africa Proconsularis
  • 2.2.1. El Alia
  • 2.2.2. El Djem
  • 2.2.3. Sousse
  • 2.3. Africa Tripolitania
  • 2.3.1. Lepcis Magna
  • 2.3.2. Uadi ez Zgaia
  • 2.3.3. Zliten
  • 2.4. Cyrenaica
  • 2.4.1. Cyrene
  • 2.4.2. Qasr-el-Lebia
  • 3. Egypt
  • 3.1. Delta
  • 3.2. Tell Roba
  • 3.3. Unknown
  • 4. European provinces
  • 4.1. Hispania
  • 4.1.1. Merida
  • 4.1.2. Italica
  • 4.1.3. Puente Genil
  • 4.2. Gallia
  • 4.2.1. Lyon
  • 4.2.2. Mercin et Vaux
  • 4.2.3. Roches de Condrieu
  • 4.2.4. Villars
  • 4.2.5. Villelaure
  • 4.3. Pannonia
  • 4.3.1. Egyed
  • 4.3.2. Szekesfehevar
  • 4.4. Illyricum
  • 4.4.1. Perm
  • 4.5. Dalmatia
  • 4.5.1. Salonae
  • 4.6. Graecia
  • 4.6.1. Kenchreai
  • 4.6.2. Corinth
  • 4.6.3. Patras
  • 4.6.4. Thebes
  • 4.6.5. Delos
  • 5. Near Eastern provinces
  • 5.1. Syria
  • 5.1.1. Antiochia
  • 5.1.2. Hama
  • 5.1.3. Qumnir el-Qubli
  • 5.2. Palaestina
  • 5.2.1. Beth Shean
  • 5.2.2. Beit Jibrin
  • 5.2.3. Et-Tabgha
  • 5.2.4. Hadita
  • 5.2.5. Sepphoris
  • 5.2.6. Zay al-Gharby
  • III. Nilotic scenes in the Roman world. Interpretation and contextualisation
  • 1.. Topographical distribution
  • 2.. Chronological distribution
  • 2.1. Latium
  • 2.2. Campania
  • 2.3. Other provinces in Italy
  • 2.4. North Africa
  • 2.5. Egypt
  • 2.6. European provincies
  • 2.7. Near Eastern provinces
  • 2.8. Conclusion
  • 3.. Contextual distribution
  • 3.1. Contextual distribution by topographical area
  • 3.1.1. Latium
  • 3.1.2. Campania
  • 3.1.3. Other provinces in Italy
  • 3.1.4. North Africa
  • 3.1.5. Egypt
  • 3.1.6. European provinces
  • 3.1.7. Near Eastern provinces
  • 3.1.8. Conclusion
  • 3.2. Further examination of the contexts
  • 3.2.1. Nilotic scenes in public buildings
  • 3.2.2. Nilotic scenes in houses and villae
  • 3.2.3. Nilotic scenes in sanctuaries
  • 3.2.4. Nilotic scenes in funerary contexts
  • 4.. An inventory of the elements depicted and their meaning
  • 4.1. The landscape
  • 4.1.1. The flood
  • 4.1.2. Flora
  • 4.1.3. Fauna
  • 4.2. Buildings and means of transport
  • 4.2.1. Sanctuaries
  • 4.2.2. Nilometers
  • 4.2.3. Houses and villae
  • 4.2.4. Tombs
  • 4.2.5. Boats
  • 4.3. The population
  • 4.3.1. Egyptians
  • 4.3.2. Greeks
  • 4.3.3. Dwarves and pygmies
  • 4.3.4. Others
  • 4.4. Activities
  • 4.4.1. Rituals
  • 4.4.1.1. The burial of Osiris
  • 4.4.1.2. Rituals around the Nile flood
  • 4.4.1.3. The hunting of crocodiles and hippopotami
  • 4.4.2. The flood festivities
  • 4.4.3. Sexual scenes and symplegmata
  • 4.4.4. Battles with Nilotic fauna
  • 4.4.5. Daily life
  • 5.. Nilotic scenes in the Roman world: development and occurrence
  • 6.. Nilotic scenes in the Roman world: a reconstruction of the function
  • IV. Roman Aegyptiaca
  • 1.. Other Egyptian and egyptianising monuments and artefacts in the Roman world
  • 1.1. Italy
  • 1.1.1. Aegyptiaca in pre-Roman Italy
  • 1.1.2. Religious contexts
  • 1.1.3. Non-religious contexts
  • 1.1.4. Synthesis
  • 1.2. North Africa
  • 1.3. European provinces
  • 1.4. Near Eastern provinces
  • 1.5. Synthesis and conclusion
  • 2.. An example further investigated: Rome
  • 2.1. Egyptian and egyptianising artefacts in Rome
  • 2.1.1. Introduction
  • 2.1.2. Status quaestionis
  • 2.2. Region II-IV
  • 2.2.1. The Iseum Metellinum on the Caelius
  • 2.2.2. A sanctuary for Isis and Sarapis in region III?
  • 2.2.3. A sacellum in the Castra Misenatium?
  • 2.2.4. Eyptian motifs in wall-paintings in the Domus Aurea
  • 2.3. Region V
  • 2.3.1. Egyptian motifs in opus sectile in the house of Iunius Bassus
  • 2.3.2. A lararium near S. Martino ai Monti
  • 2.3.3. A sanctuary for Isis Patricia?
  • 2.3.4. An egyptianising nymphaeum near S. Eusebio
  • 2.3.5. The obelisk of the Circus Varianus
  • 2.3.6. A statue of Cleopatra?
  • 2.4. Region VI
  • 2.4.1. A Serapeum on the Quirinal
  • 2.4.2. A naophoros in the Castra Praetoria
  • 2.4.3. Egyptianising furnishings in the horti Sallustiani
  • 2.5. Region VII-IX
  • 2.5.1. A temple for Isis Capitolina?
  • 2.5.2. Egyptian motifs as control-marks on Republican coins
  • 2.5.3. Aegyptiaca found near the theatre of Marcellus and the Forum Boarium
  • 2.5.4. The Iseum Campense on the Campus Martius
  • 2.5.5. Delta: another egyptianising context on the Campus Martius?
  • 2.5.6. Egyptianising architectural elements at the mausoleum of Augustus
  • 2.5.7. The sundial on the Campus Martius
  • 2.5.8. The pyramid near Piazza del Popolo
  • 2.6. Region X
  • 2.6.1. Egyptianising paintings in the Aula Isiaca and the Casa di Augusto
  • 2.6.2. Egyptianising relief plates decorating the temple of Apollo
  • 2.6.3. An isiac shrine in the Domus Tiberiana
  • 2.6.4. An isiac shrine in the Domus Flavia
  • 2.6.5. The tomb of Antinous?
  • 2.7. Region XI-XIII
  • 2.7.1. Obelisks in the Circus Maximus
  • 2.7.2. Egyptianising contexts in region XII
  • 2.7.3. An Iseum near S. Sabina?
  • 2.7.4. Aegyptiaca found in sanctuaries for Jupiter Dolichenus and Mithras
  • 2.7.5. The pyramid of Cestius
  • 2.8. Region XIV and other Aegyptiaca
  • 2.8.1. A relief with Egyptian gods from the Via della Conciliazione
  • 2.8.2. Egyptianising paintings in the necropolis under S. Pietro
  • 2.8.3. 'In loco detto Egitto'
  • 2.8.4. A Ptolemaic vase from vigna Bonelli
  • 2.8.5. An 'oriental' sanctuary on the Gianicolo
  • 2.8.6. An obelisk on Tiber island
  • 2.8.7. Aegyptiaca found in the Tiber
  • 2.8.8. Aegyptiaca extra muros
  • 2.8.9. Aegyptiaca from Rome from unknown context
  • 2.9. Conclusion
  • 3.. Aegyptiaca Romana: the meanings of a cultural phenomenon
  • V. The Roman discourse on Egypt reconstructed
  • 1.. Imagining the Other: a theoretical framework
  • 1.1. The European perception of the Americas after 1492
  • 1.2. Europe and the non-European Other
  • 1.3. The European imagination of Egypt from the Middle Ages onwards
  • 1.3.1. Egyptomania
  • 1.3.2. Orientalism
  • 1.4. The French depiction of Africa at the end of the 19th century
  • 1.5. The cultures of colonial projects
  • 1.6. The European colonisation of Egypt
  • 1.7. Persisting myths
  • 1.8. Modern America in European eyes: a look into the future?
  • 1.9. Conclusion
  • 2.. Rome and the Other: general aspects
  • 2.1. Romans and Germans: Tacitus' Germania
  • 2.2. Romans and Greeks
  • 2.3. Romans and Blacks
  • 2.4. Foreigners in Rome
  • 3.. The Roman image of Egypt
  • 3.1. Roman literary sources concerning Egypt, Egyptians and the Egyptian presence in the Roman world
  • 3.1.1. From the third century BC onwards to Catullus
  • 3.1.2. Poets around Octavian
  • 3.1.3. The first centuries AD
  • 3.1.4. Conclusion
  • 3.2. Other Roman sources in relation to the discourse on Egypt and Egyptian culture
  • 4.. Concluding remarks and conclusions
  • Tables
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • List of figures
  • Indices

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