2017/01/01 by Chiara Ballestrazzi · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Renaissance Literature and Culture
paper · doi:10.1484/j.rfic.5.123424
openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Possibly a Late Antique ekphrastic exercise, the nineteen stylopinakia representing mythological scenes from the temple of the Attalid queen Apollonis of Cyzicus that are transmitted by AP. 3 make any attempt at interpretation difficult, since they lack any literary or archaeological parallel. A review of the evidence and the terminology contained in the lemmata accompanying the epigrams accommodates a reconstruction of the stylopinakia - perhaps located on the column bases, metopes arranged in a frieze, or ephemeral elements - as forming a Π inside the cella, possibly alternating with other kinds of decoration.