The embodied object: Recensions of the dead on Roman sarcophagi
The Roman sarcophagus uses the visual forms of consolatory celebration to frame the actual body of the deceased. Its rhetorics of eulogy are not merely performative but are directly existential, since its form and function are entirely dependent on the act of containing a corpse. In sarcophagi, the...
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Wiley
2018
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