Destinations in MindPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0005
Kimberly Cassibry
{"title":"By the Sea","authors":"Kimberly Cassibry","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The Bay of Naples boasted not only a leading Mediterranean port, Puteoli (Pozzuoli), but also the imperial court’s favorite spa, Baiae (Baia). About a dozen glass bottles bear labeled images of these two waterfront cities. These cityscapes are unprecedented in the empire’s portable arts. As documents, they have proven useful to archaeologists parsing terrain disrupted by ongoing seismic activity and continuous occupation. This chapter connects their innovative designs to the empire’s broader visual culture, and then tracks their circulation beyond the bay to documented findspots in Ostia, Populonia, Emerita (Mérida), Asturica (Astorga), and Colonia Ara Claudia Aggripinensium (Cologne). The bottles’ complex communication facilitated urban comparisons: they are one way that people in one place might come to know another. They therefore gave viewers abroad a new sense of their own place in Rome’s globalized empire.","PeriodicalId":252722,"journal":{"name":"Destinations in Mind","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Destinations in MindPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0004
Kimberly Cassibry
{"title":"Along the Border","authors":"Kimberly Cassibry","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"A series of colorfully enameled metal vessels name forts along Hadrian’s Wall in Britain. They preserve creative responses to one of the empire’s most ambitious construction projects, a complex fortification system that was never represented in official art. Three well-preserved vessels have been recorded in England and northern France, and more fragmentary examples continue to be registered with England’s Portable Antiquities Scheme. The designs of this expanding corpus draw on six key elements: a vessel shape popular throughout the empire; enameling technology associated with the Celtic peoples of the empire’s northern lands; letters of the Latin alphabet; place names in the Celtic language; a fortified wall motif with precedents in Hellenistic court mosaics; and a triskel motif common in Celtic metalwork. These intricate portrayals conjure a place that was far more than a wall, while illustrating the entangled aesthetics of an evolving borderland.","PeriodicalId":252722,"journal":{"name":"Destinations in Mind","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129495818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Destinations in MindPub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0002
Kimberly Cassibry
{"title":"On the Road","authors":"Kimberly Cassibry","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190921897.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Otherwise known as the Vicarello Cups, these four vessels have been studied for their engraved itineraries, rather than for their materiality and design. At a time when pictorial maps existed but were rarely used for travel, such itineraries instrumentalized mobility through formulaic lists of destinations and distances. The place names evoke the journey’s multilingual soundscape, while also offering a framework for comparing sites connected by the Roman road system and its milestones (which the cups resemble). The Vicarello itineraries begin in Gades (Cádiz, Spain) and end in Rome, after passing through such famous sites as Tarragona, Nîmes, Arles, and Rimini. The chapter argues that the sumptuous silver cups, rather than being travel tools themselves, commemorate aspirational mobility. The cups’ owners are unknown, but the trajectories of the texts can be connected to a long history of provincial influence on Rome.","PeriodicalId":252722,"journal":{"name":"Destinations in Mind","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127522715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}