Book contents
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ancient Relief
- 2 Thinking through Marble
- 3 The Body in Relief in Archaic Funerary Sculpture
- 4 Relief in Athenian Vase Painting
- 5 Sculpture, Relief, and the Surrounding Space
- 6 Seeing the Past
- 7 Remedial Relief
- 8 Foregrounding the Background in Roman Relief Sculpture
- 9 Encrusted in Ancestors
- 10 Relief on and for the Body in Late Antique Numismatic Jewelry
- Index
- References
10 - Relief on and for the Body in Late Antique Numismatic Jewelry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2025
Book contents
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Ancient Relief
- 2 Thinking through Marble
- 3 The Body in Relief in Archaic Funerary Sculpture
- 4 Relief in Athenian Vase Painting
- 5 Sculpture, Relief, and the Surrounding Space
- 6 Seeing the Past
- 7 Remedial Relief
- 8 Foregrounding the Background in Roman Relief Sculpture
- 9 Encrusted in Ancestors
- 10 Relief on and for the Body in Late Antique Numismatic Jewelry
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the relief effects, multiply understood, of late antique numismatic and nummiform gold jewelry. It discusses coins and coin-like objects decorated in relief and embedded within frameworks such as necklaces, bracteates, and rings meant to be worn on the body. These objects, the chapter argues, not only employ relief to adorn the body; they also offer aid and protection to the wearer through a set of typological associations connected to notions of authority. Such typologies could be literal, both as official coins and medallions, which were made into relief objects through the process of striking precious metals in carved dies in the imperial mint, and as unofficial, imitative, coin-like objects, which were produced from molds or direct impression from these original issues. But metaphorical typologies were equally important, as the source of authority for both the coins and their amuletic power moved between the imperial and the Christian.
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- Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art , pp. 321 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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