Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World

Zahra Newby is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She has published articles on ecphrasis, art and identity, and mythological imagery and has recently published Greek Athletics in the Roman World (2005). Ruth Leader-Newby studied at Cambridge, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Harvard and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at King's College London. She is the author of Silver and Society in Late Antiquity (2004).

'This volume is a very timely contribution to the dialogue between archaeologists and epigraphists.' The Anglo-Hellenic Review

• Introduction Zahra Newby; Part I. Inscribing Images, Illustrating Texts: Juxtapositions of Text and Image: 1. The problems with honouring Samos: an Athenian document relief and its interpretation Alastair Blanshard; 2. Idem ego sum discumbens, ut me videtis: inscription and image on Roman ash chests Glenys Davies; 3. A painted garland: weaving words and images in the House of the Epigrams at Pompeii Bettina Bergmann; 4. The motto in the grotto: inscribing illustration and illustrating inscription at Sperlonga Michael Squire; Part II. Images and their Labels: 5. Writing on archaic Greek pottery Robin Osborne and Alexandra Pappas; 6. Reading the allegory of the Archesilaos relief Zahra Newby; 7. Inscribed mosaics in the Late Roman Empire: perspectives from East and West Ruth Leader-Newby; Part III. Inscriptions and their Statues: 8. Hellenistic honorific statues and their inscriptions John Ma; 9. Reusing statues, rewriting inscriptions and bestowing honours in Roman Athens Julia L. Shear; 10. 'Honour takes wing': unstable images and anxious orators in the Greek tradition Verity Platt.