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Roman sculpture from the North West Midlands / by Martin Henig ; with contributions by Graham Webster and Thomas Blagg.
Penn Museum Library NB118.G7 H46 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henig, Martin.
- Series:
- Corpus signorum imperii Romani. Great Britain ; vol. I, fasc. 9.
- Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. Great Britain ; vol. I, fasc. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sculpture, Roman--England--Midlands--Catalogs.
- Sculpture, Roman.
- England--Midlands.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (xxv-66 pages- 52 pages de plates) : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Publ. for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, impr. 2004.
- Summary:
- This is the first comprehensive catalogue of the sculpture from this region of Roman Britain. The sculptures were carved locally, and provide an index of Romanisation in the far north-west of the Roman Empire--in particular at Devra (Chester), Viroconium (Wroxeter), and at Letcetum (Wall, Staffs). The works range in quality from highly accomplished and decorative altars and tombstones, to rather ham-fisted efforts which hint that it was not always possible to attract sculptors to these relatively remote places. Such factors are discussed in an extended introduction.
- Notes:
- Index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0197262902
- 9780197262900
- OCLC:
- 493367235
- Online:
- Publisher description
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