People Abroad

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The aim of these conference proceedings is the application of recent scientific discussions on mobility and migration to stone monuments from Roman provinces. The contributions exemplify whether and how movement of people affected the design of funerary and votive monuments or architecture and what statements were intended thereby. The book starts with an introduction by the editor and integrates the 33 essays into the overarching thematic fields of “dying abroad” [16 papers], “cults abroad” [7] and “objects, knowledge and craftsmanship abroad” [10]. Topics are the funeral representation of equestrian-senatorial groups, evidence for strangers in towns and provinces, grave monuments of the Cohors II Cyrrhestarum sagittaria, a commercial network in Cisalpine Gaul, and funeral monuments of Celtic tribes. The second chapter deals with Jupiter Dolichenus and cults in Thessaly, the Balkans, Thessaloniki, and Burgundy. Finally, there are papers on foreign artisans, the provincial reception of imperial monuments, Sicilian sarcophagi, sculpture from Novae, a Viergötterstein, a relief from Lebanon, the Corinthian order in Thrace, and a female head of Greek marble found in Spain.