PATTERNS AND KOINÈ: ALEXANDRIA, HERODS, HADRIAN Preliminary notes on some recent discoveries in the Near East

Authors

  • Sandro Caranzano Centro Studi Archeologici Herakles

Keywords:

Hadrian, Hellenism, Herods the Great, Canopo, Villa Adriana, Teatro Marittimo, basileion, Petra Poll Complex

Abstract

The comparison between the building activity of Herods and Hadrian reveals the wide circulation of plans, models and patterns in the Hellenistic koiné as well as how Herods took advantage from the Asmonean repertoire and from the Roman technology (while Petra tied itself more closely to Alexandria).
The importance of a ‘contextual’ evaluation of every single instance is evident in the «nymphaeum with exedra», conceived in the Ptolemaic period mainly in Nilotic contexts, which became part of the formal heritage of the Roman horti and villas with ornamental purposes and that is re-invoked by Hadrian in Villa Adriana. At the same time, the Teatro
Marittimo could descends from the Hellenistic prototype of the islet set in the middle of an artificial basin attested in the near-eastern basileia.

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References

LOUIS I. KAHN, WILLIAM MACDONALD, JOHN A. PINTO, Villa Adriana: la costruzione e il mito di Adriano, Martellago, 2002, pp. 99-104.

Published

2021-01-19

How to Cite

Caranzano, S. (2021). PATTERNS AND KOINÈ: ALEXANDRIA, HERODS, HADRIAN Preliminary notes on some recent discoveries in the Near East. ROMULA, (18), 7–70. Retrieved from https://upo.es/revistas/index.php/romula/article/view/5877

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