The systematic analysis of nearly 200 grave contexts from the necropolis of Tarentum provides a new foundation for studies of Hellenistic terracottas. The central point of this study, which was also innovative in its methodology, is made up of questions of chronology and of the function of the clay figures within the whole system of the Tarentine grave culture of the 4th to 1st Centuries B.C. Numerous coloured illustrations convey an excellent view of the stylistic appearance of the individual figures and of their interrelation in the grave.



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Neue Zürcher Zeitung

1997. 320 pp., 416 figs.
ISBN 3-930609-13-4
EUR 98,-