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Iconography for the use of early Christians in N Africa - ANNEWEIS VAN DEN HOEK and JOHN J. HERRMANNJR. , POTTERY, PAVEMENTS, AND PARADISE: ICONOGRAPHIC AND TEXTUAL STUDIES ON LATE ANTIQUITY (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, vol. 122; Brill, Leiden 2013). Pp. xxii + 484, c. 160 black-and-white figs., 96 pp. of colour pls. ISSN 0920-623X; ISBN 978-90-04-25538-8 (hardback), 978-90-04-25693-4 (e-book). EUR 167.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Jeffrey Spier
Jeffrey Spier*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Classics, University of Arizona, Tucson, [email protected]
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 937 - 939
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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2014

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1 Chapters 8 (“Divine twins or saintly twins: the Dioscuri in an Early Christian context”), 9 (“The saga of Peter and Paul: emblems of Catholic identity in Christian literature and art”), and 12 (“Execution as entertainment: the Roman context of martyrdom”) have not been published previously.

2 Salomonson, J. W., Voluptatem spectandi non perdat sed mutet. Observations sur l’iconographie du martyre en Afrique romaine (Amsterdam 1979)Google Scholar.

3 The authors quote the Greek version of the Acts of Paul and Thecla according to the text of Lipsius, R. A., Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden (Leipzig 1891-1903)Google Scholar.

4 Spier, J. in JRA 16 (2003) 350-54Google Scholar.

5 Origen, , Contra Celsum 7.53 Google Scholar.