a large block of parallelepiped stone and decorated with sculptural reliefs, both figurative and architectural (usually to define aedicules culminating in a tympanum). On the other hand, a series of simple poorly decorated stone slabs, usually with engravings, called a “framed” slab or “anarchietectonic” steles.
Published in Chapter:
Results of the Research in the Comparison and Analysis of Historical Artifacts' Photographic Images Catalogued in Online Databases: The Case of a Roman Stele From Ravenna
Marco Tedaldi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 39
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7010-4.ch017
Abstract
In the field of archaeology, when a discovery is made, the comparison of images is often used to catalogue a find and give it an interpretation. The image on an exhibit is always subject to analysis, comparisons, graphic reconstructions, which can define it, classify it, and most of all, understand it as a whole. The problem arises when the discovered find proposes a completely new and unpublished image. It therefore requires an in-depth study in all its elements. Photographic images, online databases, and archive collections of museums provide some valid help for solutions or interpretations; and the theories that come out of this comparison can then shed light on the meaning of an image present in a find, when there is no direct confirmation.