Roman And Christian Sculpture The Sarcophagus Of Claudia Antonia Sabina And The Asiatic Sarcophagi PDF Download

Excerpt from Sardis, Vol. 5: Publications of the American Society for the Excavation of Sardis; Roman and Christiam Sculpture; The Sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina and the Asiatic Sarcophagi The present volume is meant to give adequate publication to the sarcophagus of Claudia Antonia Sabina, the most interesting and important work of the Roman period which was found at Sardis by Howard Crosby Butler. Its author found, however, that this could not be done without a comprehensive treatment of the whole group of Asiatic sarcophagi to which the sarcophagus of Claudia belongs, and on which it sheds unexpected light. The second and larger portion of this volume is therefore devoted to the Asiatic sarcophagi in general, and thus answers in some degree the wish expressed nearly twenty years ago by Josef Strzygowski (Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 1906, p. 419), that someone would treat this subject in a monograph. I am much indebted to Strzygowski for the loan of photographs of the Vienna examples in the series, and of course for numerous illustrations borrowed from his publications, - everyone who writes on late antique or early mediaeval art must of necessity be in some way his debtor. Edmund Weigand of Würzburg has helped me with the description and tracing of a fragment from Smyrna, and I have to thank also the authorities of the British Museum and the Louvre, and Mr. Harold Ingholt, for others of my photographs. My obligation to other foreign scholars and to European and American periodicals and publications is acknowledged in the list of illustrations. In America, Professors Chase of Harvard and Murray of Columbia have given me valuable suggestions, and I am particularly obliged to Mr. J. Donald Young of Columbia for several descriptions and a number of photographs, as well as for help on points of archaeology. Dr. John Shapley of Brown University has contributed some items of keen and far-reaching criticism for which I hope due credit has been given him in the text. My own colleagues at Princeton have given me the greatest assistance, especially Mr. Stohlman, Professors Elderkin, Smith, and Allan Marquand, and Dr. Shear. To all of these gentlemen on both sides of the water I wish to express here my very great appreciation of their kindness. I must not fail also here to acknowledge the generous support of the publication on the part of the members of the Society for the Excavation of Sardis whose subscriptions made this volume possible. The scholar to whom I am most grateful for help at every stage of its preparation, Howard Crosby Butler, is dead; this monograph, like all the volumes of the Sardis series, must be in some sense a tribute to his memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.