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An imperial image : the Bath Gorgon in context

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Date
2016
Author
Cousins, Eleri Hopkins
Keywords
Bath
Gorgon
Sulis Minerva
Temple
Forum of Augustus
Clipeus
DA Great Britain
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Abstract
This paper attempts to put the Gorgon from the pediment of the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath into a wider provincial context, by arguing for links between the Gorgon and first- and early second-century imitations in Gaul and Spain of the iconography of the Forum of Augustus in Rome. These imitations, part of what might be called a ‘visual language of empire’, served to connect the urban spaces of the provinces to Rome; by linking the Gorgon to this trend and setting aside interpretations of the Gorgon which have focused on his perceived status as a ‘Romano-Celtic’ masterpiece, we can justify more satisfactorily his position as the centrepiece of a pediment dominated by imperial imagery.
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Cousins , E H 2016 , ' An imperial image : the Bath Gorgon in context ' , Britannia , vol. 47 , pp. 99-118 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131
Publication
Britannia
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131
ISSN
0068-113X
Type
Journal article
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© The Author 2016. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9527

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