Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers. The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean) 1st Edition by Anna M. Sitz 9780197666456 0197666450

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• Author:Anna M. Sitz

Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers
The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Afterlives of Inscriptions
Epigraphic Reincarnation at Megara
Manufactured Violence
Inscribed Sanctuaries
Literacy in Late Antiquity
Chapter Outline
The Fine Print
2. The Use of Real or Imagined Inscriptions in Late Antique Literature
The “Arch of Alexander” and the Ends of the Earth
Writing the Past from Inscriptions
Agathias and the Remarkable Afterlife of Chairemon
Kosmas Indikopleustes: Hellenistic History in Late Antique Ethiopia
Prokopios’ Inscribed Ships
Prophesying from Stone: Invented Oracles
Epigraphic Omens at Chalcedon, Alexandria, and Carthage
The Tübingen Theosophy: Converting Temples
Plagiarizing for the Saints: The Life of Abercius
Conclusion: The Literary Afterlives of Ancient Inscriptions
3. Preservation: Tolerating Temples and Their Texts
Touring Temples
Inscribed Text and Figural Imagery at Unconverted Temples
Ephesos: Embodying Emperors on the Embolos
Museumification at Priene’s Temple of Athena?
Performative Bureaucracy at the Temple of Augustus and Roma at Mylasa
A Fallen God at Magnesia on the Maeander
Congregated Graffiti at Delphi
Secular or Sacred? Imperial Documents on Temples of Uncertain Use
The Res Gestae divi Augusti in Late Antique Ankara
A Tale of Two Temples at Aizanoi: Zeus at Church
Tolerance at Palmyra
Priests, Talking Columns, and Unreadable Texts at Christianized Temples
Diokaisareia-Olba: A Careful Conversion
“Archaeophilia” at Sardis’s Artemision
Lagina: Early Christian Economics
Everyday Hieroglyphs at Medinet Habu
Reading Nonsense at Didyma
Conclusion: Kings of the Past on Display
4. Spoliation: Integrating and Scrambling tions-Inscrip
(T)reading the Past: Epigraphic Spolia Underfoot
Constructing Churches with Inscribed Text
The Korykian Cave: Building with Inscriptions
Scrambling Apollo Klarios at Sagalassos
Gods and Angels in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias
Uncertain Reuse at Baalbek
Klaros: Exporting Spolia
Epigraphic Spolia Elsewhere
Not Only Christians: The Synagogue at Sardis
The Temple of Zeus at Labraunda: Spolia in medias res
Conclusion: Mixed Re-Views of Old Texts in New Buildings
5. Erasure: [[Damnatio Memoriae]] or Conscious Uncoupling?
Unnaming the Gods
Violence against Statues
Heads or Tails?
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Ambiguous Afterlives
Violence against Inscriptions
Damnatio Memoriae
Beyond Damnatio Memoriae
Selective Erasures
Identity Crisis at Aphrodisias
Labraunda: A Rasura Out of Place
A Tale of Two Temples at Aizanoi: Artemis in Absentia
Roll of the Dice at Antioch ad Cragum
Indiscriminate Erasure and Destruction
Reverse Graffiti at the Korykian Cave Clifftop Temple
Breaking the Past at Pisidian Antioch?
Conclusion: Epigraphic Unnamings and a Fresh Start
6. Conclusion: Unepigraphic Readings
Reading at the Temple of Augustus at Ankara Once More
An Archaeology of Reading
Spolia: Breaking the Monolith
Word and Image: Inscriptions and Statues
Land, Men, and Gods
Epigraphy: A New Direction

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