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Merry and Jovial: Reconsidering the Effigies Immortalis and the Commemoration of Roman Boys (Paperback, New)
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Merry and Jovial: Reconsidering the Effigies Immortalis and the Commemoration of Roman Boys (Paperback, New)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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This book undertakes to answer questions relating to the creation
of deity assimilation statues for young boys, a common mode of
commemoration for the Romans. In addition, it demonstrates that
many statues traditionally understood to represent youthful
divinities actually possess portraits, even and especially if the
faces appear joyful. It also proposes that these deity assimilation
statues were commissioned primarily as posthumous commemorations.
As such, the sculptural examples should be recognized as belonging
to and constituting an important class of funerary sculpture; a
class which has been, to this point, overlooked. It is also
suggested that despite the fact that they were posthumous
commemorations, deity assimilation statues of young boys were not
necessarily placed in a sepulchral context, rather, it is
maintained that images of children assimilated to divinities
primarily served a sentimental purpose, and that, in that capacity,
they may have been intended for and regularly kept in a domestic
context, close to the surviving family.
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