Régine Hunziker-Rodewald, Ulrike Steinert, Zsolt Simon

Elisabeth Marion Günther, Sven Günther, Ergün Laflı and Nancy Serwint

This book is only the second conference proceedings which has been devoted in large part to gems from specific sites in the Graeco-Roman world. The first, held in Aquileia in 2008, was centred on the large quantity of intaglios manufactured in that city at the head of the Adriatic and thus at a key point to trade with the north western provinces and beyond and so the focus was on the western part of the Roman Empire. The only other major international conferences on gems have dealt with their afterlife in Medieval, Renaissance, and Neo-Classical Europe, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 1994; and on Late Roman gems, at the British Museum in 2009. In addition the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden staged a conference on a slightly smaller scale at the culmination of their Engraved Gems project in 2016 with a group of papers on various aspects of glyptics, published in the following year.

 
The extensive range of papers published here is in large part concerned with
Fundgemmen, as was the Aquileia conference but the contributions are in many
respects more comprehensive, dealing with gems from sites all around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, which were the heartland of Greek and Roman power and culture. 

Reihe + Nummer: AOAT 474

ISBN: 978-3-86835-371-6
 

Erscheinungsjahr: 2026

Seitenanzahl: xxv + 663 pp.

Auslieferung April 2026