2014 Sayı 7

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East meets West: The perspective in Roman mosaics
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Kremer, Maria de Jesus Duran
The introduction of “perspective” or “third dimension” in the realization of Roman mosaic floors was, from the beginning, subject to a different interpretation in different regions of the Roman Empire. As part of the RoGeMoPorTur project (East meets West. Investigating the reciprocal influence of east and west in the roman geometric mosaics of Portugal and Turkey. A comparative study), which focuses on the process of designing and building geometric mosaics from its inception to the final product allowing the identification of discrete stylistics influencies between the eastern and western shores of the Mediterranean, the rendering of “perspective” plays an important role. With a few chosen examples the eastern stylistic influencies can be clearly identified in some mosaics found in the current territory of Portugal and their connection with the socio-cultural level of the commissioning owner.
The mosaics with geometric patterns from the West and the East of the Roman Empire: The hourglass pattern and the significance of the “Le décor géométrique de la Mosaïque Romaine I-II ”
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Abraços, Maria de Fátima
The structures of a domus with two mosaics were discovered, and due to its features, it was decided to keep it integrated in the crypt of the Museum building in Bracara Augusta (Portugal). One of the mosaic floors consists on a chessboard pattern, with contrasting colours and the other is furnished with hourglass gridlines. A study of the hourglass motif integrated into different compositions will be presented here, helping to the international standardization of the description of the Roman Mosaic and trying to confront the same pattern from the West (Portugal) to the East (Turkey) of the Roman World.
The mosaics with irregular tesserae in Albania (3rd - 1st century BC)
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Omari, Elda
This research is a small part of my PhD project, a comprehensive study focused on the cataloguing and the analysis of all the mosaics and floor decorations found in modern Albania. To date, 43 sites with 265 prestige pavements (tessellatum, irregular tesserae, opus sectile, caementicium etc.) have been found in Albanin territory. From five of these sites come our examples: 10 floor decorations were made with the irregular tesserae technique and are likely to date back to the period between the 3rd and the 1st century BC. The goal of this research is to carry out a critical analysis of the motive decorations of the mosaics with irregular tesserae in Albania from 3rd to 1st century BC.
Queen Esther Mosaics: The hidden and the revealed
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Broca, Lilian
As our world becomes more and more fractured in the 21st century, the archetypal story of individualism can be compared to fragmented elements (tesserae) being made whole again; we can’t heal the world until we heal ourselves. My work is a reconstruction of an ancient story using ancient and contemporary materials, i.e. I cut glass (deconstruction) and then assemble those pieces to form new shapes which thus acquire a new life. The Esther Mosaics reveal a personal interpretation of the story of Queen Esther which brings forth ideas about women’s role in our society, which also extend to more universal statements about the human condition.
Some geometrical patterns and decorative motifs occurring in Roman Portuguese mosaics: A comparative approach with Eastern and Western mosaics
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Wrench, Licínia Nunes Correia
Comparing some geometrical patterns and decorative motifs occurring in Roman mosaics from the West and the East, namely from Portugal and from Turkey, we aim to understand the reasons for the similarities and the divergences between them, attending also to the chronologies. In the first place we will focus on the “compass drawing” composition, its geographical expansion and some achievements of this schema on mosaics from the Western and Eastern Roman Provinces such as Dalmatia, Macedonia and Pontus. From Lusitania, we will focus particularly on mosaics proceeding from some villae located in the Portuguese territory comparing them with a mosaic proceeding from Pontus, attending their chronologies and their decoration. Secondly, we will do a first approach to the analysis of a mosaic, unpublished, and reported by Abraços 2005, proceeding from the Roman city of Bracara Augusta, nowadays Braga, in the NW of Portugal. On this interesting mosaic, we can see some decorative motifs that are quite common on the Eastern and North African realisations, though restricted to a group of Portuguese mosaics belonging to Conuentus Scalabitanus: from «Casa de Cantaber» at Conimbriga and from the Roman villae of Santiago da Guarda and of Rabaçal, both in the area of the Conimbriga ciuitas. The stylistic comparisons of Bracara Auguta’s mosaic and these of Portuguese and also eastern and western realisations point to an achievement from the 3rd/4th c. A.D. This chronology seems coincident with the urban improvement that Bracara Augusta benefited under its promotion to the capital of the Province Gallaecia.
Venationes at Iasos
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Angiolillo, Simonetta; Pilo, Chiara
A corridor pavement of the House of Mosaics in Iasos shows the theme of running animals, which is known in central Italy in the I-II century in the black-and-white version, and which is very common in Western Asia Minor, particularly in Caria (Halikarnassos, Iasos, Orthosia), for a wide period since the second century AD. The aim of this paper is to discuss different problems related to this kind of mosaics: the artistic point of view, the possible identification of workshops, the meaning of such a theme, above all in relation to the Iasian mosaic. In this respect, it is important that the Iasian pavement has been unearthed very recently and that the study of its archaeological context is in progress. To define the chronological range of the Iasian mosaic, the stylistic and iconographic study will be combined with the analysis of the pottery found in the layers underneath the floor and in the layers above it.

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