Art and inscriptions in the ancient world
By: edited by Zahra Newby and Ruth Leader-Newby
Contributors: Newby, Zahra; Leader-Newby, Ruth E., 1970-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780521868518
Subjects: Writing and art; Art, Classical; Inscriptions, Greek; Inscriptions -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index

ArtArch copy purchased with monies from the Mary Covington-Williams Fund
Table of contents: title: The problems with honouring Samos : an Athenian document relief and its interpretation / Alastair Blanshard; title: Idem ego sum discumbens, ut me videtis : inscription and image on Roman ash chests / Glenys Davies; title: A painted garland : weaving words and images in the House of the Epigrams at Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann; title: The motto in the grotto : inscribing illustration and illustrating inscription at Sperlonga / Michael Squire; title: Writing on archaic Greek pottery / Robin Osborne and Alexandra Pappas; title: Reading the allegory of the Archesilaos relief / Zahra Newby; title: Inscribed mosaics in the Late Roman Empire : perspectives from East and West / Ruth Leader-Newby; title: Hellenistic honorific statues and their inscriptions / John Ma; title: Reusing statues, rewriting inscriptions and bestowing honours in Roman Athens / Julia L. Shear; title: 'Honour takes wing' : unstable images and anxious orators in the Greek tradition / Verity Platt