Les mille visages de l'honneur Actes des IIIes rencontres autour de la sculpture romaine

Maintaining the spirit of the Rencontres, the twenty-five communications published in this volume contribute to the knowledge of ancient sculpture between the late Hellenistic and the Imperial period with a broad geographical scope – from Asia Minor to Spain and from North Africa to Gaul. The first sixteen contributions explore various aspects of honorific statuary, a genre closely linked to the political functioning of the Empire and its communities. The authors analyse in turn the political and social functions of these portraits, their distribution in the public space and the workshops in charge of their creation. Contextual approaches shed light on little-known aspects of the honorific system, while large-scale studies provide new insights into its historical significance. In the second part of the volume, nine papers highlight recently-discovered pieces of sculpture or offer a new interpretation of already-known material. There, the reader will find studies on North Africa’s funerary reliefs, a mask belonging to a funerary monument in southern Gaul, and northern Gaul’s divine ideal sculptures and architectural reliefs. An analysis of an early Christian sarcophagus broadens the perspective on the mediaeval reception of ancient sculpture. Finally, a presentation of the new online database “SculptuRo” opens up new possibilities for the process of collecting and disseminating information on ancient Roman sculpture.