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In the Spanish town of Merida, two types of Roman grave monuments with life-sized portraits were prominent: architectural reliefs designed for tomb façades and portraits in altars resembling aediculae. The production of these monuments spanned from approximately A.D. 150 to 250, peaking in the first half of the 3rd century. The portraits typically feature standard Roman busts or half-length figures, often adorned with attributes such as book scrolls, and are stylistically aligned with urban Roman models, particularly in hair design, allowing for dating. Decorative elements also enable indirect dating of other portraitless funeral types in Emerita, which similarly adhered to Roman styles. The patrons of these monuments were primarily affluent freedmen, akin to those in Rome. An appendix discusses the evolution of small Emeritensian grave altars with two distinct types of crowning from the city’s founding in 25 B.C. to the 3rd century A.D. The craftsmanship of the sculptures and inscriptions is notably high, with no significant temporal variations observed.
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Grabsteine mit Porträt in Augusta Emerita (Lusitania), Ursula Vedder
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- 2001
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