Petrova, Svetla and Nacev, Trajce (2019) The Sarcophagus with Amazonomachy from Bargala. Folia Archaeologica Balkanica. ISSN 1857-5307
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Abstract
The broken lower part of the chest of this sarcophagus has been discovered during the regular archaeological excavations in 2010. In the early Christian period it was reused as a trough of a fountain in the inner part of the north-eastern fortress wall. Already during the excavations of 1971 two more fragments have been also found, adding to our knowledge of its decoration. Only the representations on the lower part of the front long side are preserved. The left short side of the sarcophagus was also decorated. The right short side and the other long side were not decorated because they were stuck to the wall of the tomb and were not accessible. Later during the secondary use the representations on the left short side have been deleted, its surface smoothed to a greater extent and the trough turned with its non-decorated sides to the viewer. The Amazonomachy from the Trojan War was represented, very popular in the decoration of the sarcophagi from the 2nd–3rd century. Most probably in the central part of the long side the mythological scene of the battle between Achilles and the queen of the Amazons Penthesilea has been sculpted. Other parts of combating Greek warriors and Amazons were covering all the surface of this long side. At the corners two figures of Nike/Victory with the wreath/garland were represented. The distribution of the separate scenes and the right side without decoration relates the sarcophagus to some extent to the Roman centre of production of Amazonomachy. But some other parallels demonstrate the strong influence of the Attic centre reaching to the north to Thessaloniki and to the south and east even to some eastern cities like Caesarea Maritima. Because of the local marble from quarry Sivec, the sarcophagus from Bargala should be considered as a work of an itinerant Attic master or as a local imitation of the production in Rome and Attica made for a prominent citizen of Bargala. The technical and stylistic features relate the monument from the end of the 2nd to the end of the first quarter of the 3rd century.
Key words: sarcophagus, Amazonomachy, local production, centres of production in Rome and Attica.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Humanities > History and archaeology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Educational Science |
| Depositing User: | Trajce Nacev |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Dec 2019 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Dec 2019 08:58 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/23192 |
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