Divinités ou personnifications ?
Our understanding of ancient imagery is not immediate, so identifying certain scenes or figures is sometimes problematic, especially in the absence of unambiguous iconographic codes or inscriptions. This article focuses on the reliefs above two Athenian treaties from...
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| description | Our understanding of ancient imagery is not immediate, so identifying certain scenes or figures is sometimes problematic, especially in the absence of unambiguous iconographic codes or inscriptions. This article focuses on the reliefs above two Athenian treaties from the first half of the 4th century B.C., one stipulates an alliance between Athens and Korkyra, and the other between Athens and four cities and territories in the Peloponnese. The composition of both bas-reliefs is similar, but the identification of two figures differs: on the one hand, they could be Zeus and Hera, on the other, a personification of the city of Korkyra or of the Peloponnese, and of the Demos. These two examples illustrate the complex relationships between this kind of iconography and the inscription by examining the criteria for representing and identifying figures of deities or personifications. A close focus on the veil-gesture of the central female figure, whose identity is unsure, allows us to give a truly ideological reading to these documents, as if the reliefs represent a kind of “diplomatic marriage” between the two cities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33819e96ee794c0d9ea5679e10db22972022-12-21T18:59:41ZfraPresses universitaires de CaenKentron0765-05902264-14592017-12-0133375410.4000/kentron.997Divinités ou personnifications ?Élise PampanayOur understanding of ancient imagery is not immediate, so identifying certain scenes or figures is sometimes problematic, especially in the absence of unambiguous iconographic codes or inscriptions. This article focuses on the reliefs above two Athenian treaties from the first half of the 4th century B.C., one stipulates an alliance between Athens and Korkyra, and the other between Athens and four cities and territories in the Peloponnese. The composition of both bas-reliefs is similar, but the identification of two figures differs: on the one hand, they could be Zeus and Hera, on the other, a personification of the city of Korkyra or of the Peloponnese, and of the Demos. These two examples illustrate the complex relationships between this kind of iconography and the inscription by examining the criteria for representing and identifying figures of deities or personifications. A close focus on the veil-gesture of the central female figure, whose identity is unsure, allows us to give a truly ideological reading to these documents, as if the reliefs represent a kind of “diplomatic marriage” between the two cities.http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/997reliefrepresentationdocument reliefalliance treatydeitypersonification |
| spellingShingle | Élise Pampanay Divinités ou personnifications ? Kentron relief representation document relief alliance treaty deity personification |
| title | Divinités ou personnifications ? |
| title_full | Divinités ou personnifications ? |
| title_fullStr | Divinités ou personnifications ? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Divinités ou personnifications ? |
| title_short | Divinités ou personnifications ? |
| title_sort | divinites ou personnifications |
| topic | relief representation document relief alliance treaty deity personification |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/997 |
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