Roman Sarcophagus News (blog)

review of Janet Huskinson's Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi

11/21/2017

Janet Huskinson's important new monograph on Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi: Art and Social History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) has been reviewed (by the author of this blog) in the most recent volume of Classical Review.

The full reference:
Allen, Mont. "A Comprehensive Survey of Strigillated Sarcophagi." Review of Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi: Art and Social History, by Janet Huskinson. Classical Review 67, no. 2 (October 2017): 526-528.

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chapter by Michael Koortbojian: Roman Sarcophagi

12/9/2016

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Barbara Borg's major new edited volume — A Companion to Roman Art (one of the heftiest in Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World lineup) — contains a chapter by Michael Koortbojian. Titled simply "Roman Sarcophagi", it strives (as befits a piece in a Companion) to provide a general introduction to this class of objects.

In this it succeeds admirably. Concise and accessible, it stands, to my mind, as the single best short introduction to Roman sarcophagi available in English. I predict it will see widespread use in the classroom.

The full citation:
Koortbojian, Michael. "Roman Sarcophagi." In A Companion to Roman Art, edited by Barbara E. Borg, 286-300. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Barbara Borg (ed.), A Companion to Roman Art (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

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article by Esen Öğüş: Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias

11/26/2014

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A new article by Esen Öğüş — one of only a handful to address Asian sarcophagi — recently appeared in the AJA. It presents, in accessible form, some of the most important conclusions of her doctoral thesis.

The full reference:
Esen Öğüş, "Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias: Elite Emulation in the Greek East", American Journal of Archaeology 118, no. 1 (January 2014): 113-36.

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