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#ReliefWednesday - After yesterday's jaunt into the 'Tabulae Iliacae', here's perhaps the best-known example: the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina, covered with an encyclopaedia of scenes from the Trojan War: ca. 1st Century AD. #Myth #Art (1/3)
Image: Musei Capitolini (inv. MC0316)
Image: Musei Capitolini (inv. MC0316)
The sheer detail in a tablet that's only 25 x 28 cm is staggering! It draws scenes from several texts, including: the 'Iliad'; the 'Iliupersis'; 'Aethiopis'; and 'Little Iliad'. (2/3)
Image: Drawing of the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina (by Feodor Ivanovich in the early 19th Century)
Image: Drawing of the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina (by Feodor Ivanovich in the early 19th Century)
For anyone who missed yesterday's link to a great article on the tablets, see:
SQUIRE, MICHAEL. “TEXTS ON THE TABLES: THE ‘TABULAE ILIACAE’ IN THEIR HELLENISTIC LITERARY CONTEXT.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 130 (2010): 67–96.
jstor.org/stable/41722532
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SQUIRE, MICHAEL. “TEXTS ON THE TABLES: THE ‘TABULAE ILIACAE’ IN THEIR HELLENISTIC LITERARY CONTEXT.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 130 (2010): 67–96.
jstor.org/stable/41722532
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#ReliefWednesday - after a morning of talking about Flavian building programmes, it had to be this (in)famous panel from the Arch of Titus, showing the parading of the spoils taken from the Temple in Jerusalem in the Flavian Triumph of AD 71. (1/4)
The Triumph was a set-piece of Flavian propaganda, with Josephus - the historian who combined a Jewish heritage with his role at the Flavian court - stating that it was "impossible to do justice to the number of shows" that accompanied the Triumph (Jewish War 7.132). (2/4)
The Judaean Triumph succeeded in its purpose of bestowing popular enthusiasm and respect upon the nascent dynasty, but necessarily the event and its commemoration on the Arch of Titus is not one that sits easily outside of the contemporary Roman perspective. (3/4)
