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TY - JOUR
T1 - An Imperial Image
T2 - The Bath Gorgon in Context
AU - Cousins, Eleri
N1 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/an-imperial-image-the-bath-gorgon-in-context/79B3E87D0BBC715F4C1CBDB215774FC4The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Britannia, 47, pp 99-118 2016, © 2016 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1017/S0068113X16000131
DO - 10.1017/S0068113X16000131
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 99
EP - 118
JO - Britannia
JF - Britannia
SN - 0068-113X
ER -