The ancient visual environment was packed with instances where
words and images appeared side by side: statues with dedicatory
inscriptions, labels on paintings or mosaics, or complex
juxtapositions of images and engraved texts on funerary monuments.
In the past these elements have often been divorced from one
another and studied in isolation. In this volume art historians and
epigraphers have come together to look at the complex ways in which
images and words interacted with one another, illustrating,
explaining or reinterpreting each other or, conversely, making
competing demands upon the viewer. Their essays range widely in
their focus from archaic Greek pottery through Hellenistic
honorific statues and Pompeian wall-paintings to Late Roman
mosaics. The insights that emerge contribute to our wider picture
of the relationships between art and text in the ancient world, as
well as illuminating the complexity and variety in ancient material
culture.
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