Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus
Original language description
What was the thinking behind Wolfgang Fritz Volbach's attribution of a small group of Early Christian ivory pyxides to carvers active in the Caucasus? And does his hypothesis still hold up in the context of recent scholarship? By revisiting Volbach's attribution and its framing into the more general discussions about the localization of the production of late antique ivories that emerged since the second half of the nineteenth century, the present contribution wishes to re-address the question of the potential presence of sites of ivory carving in the Caucasus during Late Antiquity. Without definitive evidence supporting Volbach's proposal, the study of portable objects such as pyxides remains fundamental to de-marginalizing the role of Armenia and the Caucasus in the late antique Mediterranean interactions. Indeed, the finding of pyxides, ampullae, and censers in this area attests at least to their circulation and use, showing that they were not marginal spaces on the periphery of the eastern Roman world but, on the contrary, were actively engaged in its exchanges.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GF21-01706L" target="_blank" >GF21-01706L: Cultural Interactions in the Medieval Subcaucasian Region: Historiographical and Art-Historical Perspectives</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage
ISBN
9788028003067
Number of pages of the result
16
Pages from-to
152-167
Number of pages of the book
191
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
UT code for WoS chapter
001004775500009

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