The Perception of Egypt in Networks of Being and Becoming: A Thing Theory Approach to Egyptianising Objects in Roman Domestic Contexts

Mol, Eva

doi:10.16995/trac2012_117_131

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“…This representational change may be linked to the observation that in Roman society dwarfs performed as entertainment in the imperial court, wealthy households, and public spectacles (Trentin, 2011; Westermann, 1924). In addition, by the time dwarfs gain popularity on lamps, the connection between the Nilotic scenes and the annexation of Egypt was weakened (Versluys, 2014: 150; Mol, 2015: 206–207). In the Latin provinces, male-female dwarf symplegma disc-reliefs appear to have had little to do with the Nile.…”

Section: Latin Sitesmentioning

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Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art

Vucetic

2022

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This paper explores how replicated erotic art decorating terracotta lamps constructed sexual ideology in Roman provinces. Lamp imagery, through semantic combination of elements, generated sexual discourse in which certain bodies and actions visually articulated boundaries of ideal and non-ideal sexualities and associated practices. Mould-made replication helped sexual disc-reliefs communicate consistent ideas about sexuality, aiding cultural cohesion throughout the globalising empire. Lamp portability helped these ideas reach large audiences across vast geographies. Provincial communities, through selection of these objects, however, redefined Roman sexual discourse locally. The greatest difference is discernible between the Latin and Greek locales. In the Latin sites disc-reliefs generate meaning through idealised and dwarf symplegmata, whereas in the Greek East they do so through portrayals of idealised symplegma, mythological rapes, and bestiality. The paper demonstrates the plurality of provincial sexualities, the regional bases for their formation, and their implication in broader Roman colonial discourses.

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Section: Latin Sitesmentioning

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Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art

Vucetic

2022

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…And it is about the transformative capacities of intercultural encounters. 'Glocalization' is only a word, but the basic questions of the Romanization debate can be very usefully reconceived within this framework -as explained and illustrated, for example, by Witcher (2000), Pitts (2008), Alexandridis (2010) or Mol (2012). Globalization is therefore an excellent tool to make us think local and global, and to get us beyond provincial Roman archaeologies and beyond Roman and Native at last.…”

Section: Local and Global: Beyond Provincial Roman Archaeologiesmentioning

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Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Versluys¹

2014

Arch. Dial.

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This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) material-culture studies as important theoretical directions for the (near) future. The present state and scope of the Romanization debate, however, seem to prevent a fruitful development in that direction. The first part of this paper therefore briefly analyses the Romanization debate and argues that large parts of ‘Anglo-Saxon Roman archaeology’ have never been really post-colonial, but in fact from the mid-1990s onwards developed a theoretical position that should be characterized as anti-colonial. This ideologically motivated development has resulted in several unhealthy divides within the field, as well as in an uncomfortable ending of the Romanization debate. The present consensus within English-speaking Roman archaeology ‘to do away with Romanization’ does not seem to get us at all ‘beyond Romans and Natives’, and, moreover, has effectively halted most of the discussion about how to understand and conceptualize ‘Rome’. The second part of the article presents two propositions outlining how to move forward: globalization theory and material-culture studies. Through this focus we will be able to better understand ‘Rome’ as (indicating) objects in motion and the human–thing entanglements resulting from a remarkable punctuation of connectivity. This focus is important as an alternative perspective to all existing narratives about Romanization because these remain fundamentally historical, in the sense that they reduce objects to expressions (of identity) alone. It is time for our discussions about ‘Rome’ to move ‘beyond representation’ and to become genuinely archaeological at last, by making material culture, with its agency and materiality, central to the analyses.

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“…For these ideas on Egypt in Antiquity (and the consequences of this large and important cultural debate), see most recently Moyer (2011). Concerning the second aspect: in a recent article Eva Mol (2012) has taken this approach even one (radical) step further by deconstructing the notion of 'Aegyptaica' as a useful category of (-emic) perception in a Roman context altogether. 27.…”

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Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Isayev¹

2014

Globalisation and the Roman World

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World history, connectivity and material cultureThis book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas, and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life. Based on these criteria, there is a case for globalisation in the ancient Roman world. Essential for anyone interested in Romanisation, this volume provides the first sustained critical exploration of globalisation theories in Roman archaeology and history. It is written by an international group of scholars who address a broad range of subjects, including Roman imperialism, economics, consumption, urbanism, migration, visual culture and heritage. The contributors explore the implications of understanding material culture in an interconnected Roman world, highlighting several novel directions for future research.Martin Pitts is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Specialising in the quantitative analysis of consumption patterns, his research addresses the origins of mass consumption and the role of artefacts in large-scale historical processes and how such processes impacted on local cultural practices. Although his focus is on the northwestern Roman Empire, he has also published on consumption in the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries. He is co-author, with Dominic Perring, of Alien Cities: Consumption and the Origins of Urbanism in Roman Britain. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the European Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Britannia and the Journal of WorldSystems Research. Miguel John Versluys is Associate Professor of Classical and MediterraneanArchaeology at the University of Leiden. In 2010, he obtained a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to build his own research group, Cultural Innovation in a Globalising Society: Egypt in the Roman World. In 2011, he was a guest professor at Université de Toulouse II -Le Mirail. In 2013, he received the Zenobia Essay Prize. His main research interest is cultural interaction in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. He has published many articles in international journals and is the author of several books, including Egyptian Gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean: Image and Reality Between Local and Global (2012).C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4996549/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749HTL.3D ii [1][2] 7.5.2014 4:14PM C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4996549/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749TTL.3D iii 7.5.2014 4:25PM Globalisation and the Roman WorldWorld history, connectivity and material culture Martin Pitts University of Exeter Miguel John VersluysUniversity of Leiden C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4999207/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749IMP.3D iv [4-4] 8.5.2014 8:28AM 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usaCambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.It furthers the ...

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The Perception of Egypt in Networks of Being and Becoming: A Thing Theory Approach to Egyptianising Objects in Roman Domestic Contexts

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art

Roman provincial sexualities: Constructing the body, sexuality, and gender through erotic lamp art

Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

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