Ancient Literacies

All this may be compared to the evidence for private uses of writing. The period in whichinstrumentum domesticumwas produced in ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This chapter is much improved by the comments of other participants at the Semple symposium. My thanks to them a ...

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4 Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos Barbara Burrell This chapter takes the title of the conference at which it was presen ...

harbor and crossroads for trade; there was an organization of resident Romans at Ephesos by the first centuryB.C.E.^4 Augustus h ...

Figure 4.1 Ephesos, plaza south of the Hellenistic agora: schematic plan. 71 ...

initial builders would be received by a wide audience of varied elites, who furthered and modified that reception with their own ...

Figure 4.2 Reconstruction of plaza at start of first century C.E ., showing Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates and Round Monument; ...

even produced by different teams of sculptors.^15 Augustus’s titulature dates the monument precisely to 4/3B.C.E., though at tha ...

What messages would have been received from this gate? Its ‘‘reading communities’’ would have been varied. For those from Italy ...

Figure 4.3 Reconstruction of plaza late in first century C.E ., with addition of Neronian Hall; view from east. 76 ...

Her brother Tiberius Claudius Phesinus from Teos, likely her original home as well, became chief priest of the provincial temple ...

additions of the Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates and then the Neronian Hall led to a complete change in the area’s function. For ...

Figure 4.4 Reconstruction of plaza at mid-second century C.E ., with addition of Library of Celsus and Propylon; view from south ...

the library and his heirs finished it.^32 The building was in fact a heroon, enclosing Celsus’s sarcophagus in a crypt directly ...

format traditional to each language is used correctly and with some ease; for example, Celsus’s name is in the dative in the Lat ...

The front of the Library is built in a style that might be called ‘‘New Asian Roman.’’ It features tall Composite columns, an or ...

columns that again echo the Library of Celsus, was that seen from the plaza. Though named a propylon, it is not ‘‘before’’ anyth ...