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8 - The Altar of P. Perelius Hedulus in Carthage and the Social Aspects of Provincial Image-Making
- By Megan Goldman-Petri
Edited by Amy Russell, Brown University, Rhode Island, Monica Hellström, University of Durham
Book:

The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery

Published online:

09 November 2020

Print publication:

12 November 2020, pp 180-214
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This paper examines the Gens Augusta altar from Carthage dedicated by P. Perelius Hedulus, which is often said to replicate an image panel from the Ara Pacis, in order to understand the mechanisms by which imperial images were reproduced across the empire. Where conventional models have focused simply on image correspondence, I trace the movement of artists, architectural materials, religious concepts, and ideological knowledge in order to map out the diverse and distributed networks by which images circulated in the Roman empire. In so doing, the paper upends our traditional models that see Rome as a source of images that are then reproduced on the imperial periphery. Rather than a straightforward example of replication, I argue that the altar had no direct relationship to a particular Roman model, contending instead that the images on this altar were designed in Carthage and reflect the interplay between local social dynamics and imperial ideology.