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Peopled Scrolls: a Hellenistic Motif in Imperial Art*

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J. M. C. Toynbee  and
J. B. Ward Perkins
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The peopling of floral scrolls with living creatures is a decorative device which enjoyed unrivalled popularity throughout the whole history of Imperial art and in almost every country of the Empire. Its full cultivation and flowering were achieved in the Roman age; but its roots, like those of nearly every Roman art-motif, are in the late classical Greek and Hellenistic worlds. These roots were varied and complex. The primitive notion of spirits indwelling in trees and plants, and at a later stage personified in visible shape, may have played a part; some of the constituent elements can certainly be traced back to religious symbolism; and more immediate was the influence of the naturalistic trend of fourth-century art, which favoured the idea of rendering birds, insects, and small beasts in their native setting. In Hellenistic and Imperial times, as these elements mingled and the motif became more widespread, fancy came gradually to outweigh fact; and a delight in incongruity for its own sake found ready expression in the peopling of vine- and acanthus-rinceaux with mythological and genre scenes and figures, framed in the foliage or poised on slender stems, or with human figures and such solid quadrupeds as dogs, bulls, horses, bears, panthers, and lions, careering through the leafy whorls or springing from the hearts of flowers.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 18 , November 1950 , pp. 1 - 43
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1 The writers are indebted to Dr. Berta Segall for much valuable help and advice in the preparation of this summary of the pre-Roman development of the peopled scroll, and in particular for information regarding Hellenistic metal-work.

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23 Pergamon, vii, 2, pp. 328–30, no. 412 (fig.). In every essential this arrangement already anticipates the topmost feature of one of the pilasters of the Severan basilica at Lepcis Magna (p. 38).

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27 E. Pernice, Die hellenistische Kunst in Pompeji: Pavimente und figürliche Mosaiken, 1938, 150, pls. lii, liii.

28 Ibid. 150, pl. xliii, 2.

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33 Capitolium, viii, 4, April 1923, 167–171, figs. 15–19. The suggestion that they may come from die forum of Caesar must be rejected. They are altogether more delicate and widely spaced than the Domitianic scrolls from that site (v. infra, p. 12). The deeply-drilled border-moulding, however, suggests a date little, if at all, before the middle of the first century.

34 De Architectura, vii, 5, 3–5, published after the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. and before the assumption of the title Augustus in 27 B.C.

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73 Bartoli, op. cit. 183–4, figs. 3 and 4.

74 See Castagnoli, F., Bull. Com. lxix, 1941, 59–69Google Scholar, a convincing interpretation of the much-discussed topographical panel as representing a series of Flavian monuments, in the construction of which the deceased had taken part.

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81 W. Altmann, Die römischen Grabaltäre der Kaiserzat, 1905, p. 40, no. 4, fig. 26; pp. 42–3, no. 9, fig. 30. Inv. nos. 78165, 78166.

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92 Ibid., pl. xxxix. 1.

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96 (a) Ibid., pl. xxxii, 89, from the Aula Regia, now in Naples Museum; (b) ibid., pl. xxxiii, 91, in situ; (c) ibid., pl. xxxiv, 92, in situ; also two smaller fragments in the Villa Mills.

97 In situ.

98 (a) Ibid., pl. xxxv, 95; cf. the stylistically similar fragments in the Vatican Museums (Museo Chiaramonti), with putti standing between the whorls and animalprotomai emerging from the terminal flowers, Amelung, W., Die Sculpturen des vaticanischen Museums, i, 4, 1903, p. 629Google Scholar, nos. 487a and c, pl. lxvi; (b) Gusman, iii, pl. clxxvi, 2; Strong, ii, 309, fig. 187; photo, Moscioni, Roma 2992; (c) unpublished.

99 (d) Unpublished; (e) Benndorf and Schöne, p. 198, nos. 314–6; (f) photo, ex-German Arch. Inst. 31. 1678; (g) A. Munoz, Il restauro della chiesa e del chiostro del SS. Quattro Coronati, 1914, 127–30, figs. 169 and 170.

100 von Blanckenhagen, pl. xxxii, 88.

101 von Blanckenhagen, pl. xxxv, 95.

102 For a general view of these entablatures see photo, Alinari, Roma 5862.

103 Benndorf and Schöne, pp. 199–200, nos. 320, 320a; Gusman, iii, pl. cxxi; Squarciapino, pl. L b. Photo: Anderson, Roma 24122.

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105 Gusman, i, pl. xli; Strong, i, 120, fig. 75; von Blanckenhagen, pl. xxxvi, 97.

106 Contrast Strong, ii, 305: ‘sarebbe tuttavia difficile suggerire una data esatta per questo lavoro. La tecnica sembra infatti accennare al terzo secolo, mentre lo stile e la composizione ci richiamano a fasi più antiche e presentano elementi familiari già all'arte flavia e traianea’. For the plastic treatment of the figures cf. the Hercules capital in the Baths of Caracalla (Gusman, i, pl. xliii, Strong, ii, 307, fig. 185).

107 Gusman, i, pl. xl.

108 Brought to our notice by dott. E. Paribeni.

109 Calza, G., Ostia: nuovi scavi (Itinerari dei Musei e Monumenti d'Italia, no. 1a), Rome, 1947, p. 31Google Scholar; Calza, G., Ostia, Ed. 2 (Itinerari dei Musei e Monumenti d'Italia, no. 1), Rome, 1949, p. 83Google Scholar.

110 M.G.H.: Chron. min. i, 148: Porticus thermarum Antoniniarum arserunt et fabricatum est.

111 Kähler, H., ‘Zum Sonnentempel Aurelians’, Röm. Mitt., lii, 1937, 94–105Google Scholar. The ultimate derivation of these fragments, through-Severan intermediaries, from Flavian prototypes is confirmed by the use of such distinctive elements as the pair of rings between the dentils of the cornice (v. supra, p. 13, n. 67).

112 Inv. no. 80101. F. Toebelmann, Römische Gebälke, 1923, 111, fig. 86; Kähler, op. cit., figs. 4, 7, 8, 11. Photos: Former Germ. Arch. Inst. negs. 30.500, 37.260 and 261.

113 Inv. no. 115751. Kähler, op. cit. fig. 6.

114 Toebelmann, op. cit., 124–5, fig. 97; Kähler, op. cit., fig. 12; H. P. L'Orange and A. von Gerkan, Der spätantik Bildschmuck des Konstantinsbogens, 1939, figs. 50, 51.

114a The over-loading of ornament on the architrave suggests a late third- or early fourth-century date. For work by Maxentius on the Palatine—‘thermas in Palatio fecit’—see M.G.H.: Chron. Min. i, 148.

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116 Peirce and Tyler, i, pl. xi, a and b.

117 Photos: Anderson, Roma 20514, 30516.

117a An early-Imperial example is to be seen on a painted panel of first-century A.D. date in the Louvre (P 71), which shows two vertical vine-branches interlocking, with vintaging putti perched upon them.

118 A. Adriani, Le gobelet en argent des amours vendangeurs du Musée d'Alexandrie, 1939. Contrast such vintage-scenes as that on the glass ‘Blue Vase’ at Naples (ibid., 14, fig. 7), in which the putti are outside the schematized scrolls; or the many classical vintage-scenes, which show real vines, growing naturalistically, instead of spreading in lattice-work scrolls across the entire field.

119 Rodenwaldt, G. (JDAI, xlv, 1930, 116–189, pls. v–viiGoogle Scholar) refutes the suggestion of Taylor, F. H. (Art Bulletin, x, 1927, 47–59CrossRefGoogle Scholar) that the figured panels are a fifteenth century re-working of a classical strigil-sarcophagus.

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121a Lehmann-Hartleben and Olsen, op. cit. fig. 9.

122 See the recent study by K. Lehmann-Hartleben and E. C. Olsen of a group of Dionysiac sarcophagi found near the Port a Pia, now in Baltimore, Dionysiac sarcophagi in Baltimore, 1942.

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124 The easy passage of the theme from the old faith to the new is well illustrated by a late second- or early third-century pagan sarcophagus with a vineyard-scene, converted later to Christian use by the simple addition of a fresh inscription; from the Syrian Tripolis, now at Constantinople (Mendel, iii, pp. 408–412, no. 1169; JDAI xlv, 1930, 177–9, figs. 54–5).

125 Most recently with full bibliography, F. Gerke, Der Sarkophag des Iunius Bassus, 1936, figs. 32 and 35.

126 J. Wilpert, Die römischen Mosaïken und Malereien der kirchlichen Bauten von IV–XIII Jahrhundert, 1917, 50, pl. lxxv.

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131 A colonnette in the museum at Ostia is carved in high relief with putti vintaging among the foliage of a spirally wound vine.

132 Wilpert, op. cit., pl. cxlv, 1.

133 O. M. Dalton, British Museum, Catal. of Early Christian Antiquities, 1901, pp. 64–7, nos. 305–6, pl. xix. See also two other silver vessels in the British Museum, a late third- or early fourth-century mirror from Bulgaria (H. B. Walters, Catal. of Silver Plate, 1921, p. 28, no. 106, pl. xv) and a fourth-century fluted silver bowl in the Mildenhall treasure; and the sixth-century (?) patera of Bishop Paternus at Leningrad (L. Matzulewitsch, Byzantinische Antike, 1929, pls. 26 and 27).

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136a Among late metal-work examples of the peopled vine-scroll are: (1) a hemi-spherical silver bowl in the Berlin Antiquarium, on which Dionysiac figures stand, each within a loosely-formed medallion (Y. I. Smirnoff, Argenterie Orientale, 1909, pl. cxii); (2) a silver flagon from Persia in the British Museum, showing vintaging putti, a hare, birds etc., in a spreading vine (ibid., pl. li).

137 E.g. the lateral lunettes of the so-called tomb of Galla Placidia, and the presbytery vault of S. Vitale.

138 E.g. two fourth-century fragments of silver vessels from the Traprain Law treasure, in Edinburgh Museum (A. O. Curle, The Treasure of Traprain, 1923, 44, fig. 22; pl. 23); a wooden panel in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum (Peirce and Tyler, i, pl. 169); fabrics (ibid., i, pl. 168, b; ii, pl. 75).

139 Espérandieu, i, 206; L. A. Constans, Aries Antique, 1921, 293–4.

140 M. Jules Formigé, Inspecteur Général Honoraire des Monuments Historiques, writes: ‘La frise du rinceau est prise dans le même bloc que les triglyphes et placée au dessus. La construction vue en coupe semble intacte et sans remaniment’.

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145 Ibid., pl. iii. Photo: Giraudon 8641.

146 Ibid., pls. xxxii–xxxiii. Photo: Giraudon 8639.

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158 Prof. J. de C. Serra-Ràfols, who has kindly sent photographs of the two examples here cited from Barcelona, confirms that they are, to his knowledge, unique in Catalonia, and that he knows of no other Spanish examples.

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197 Ibid., pls. xxiii, c and cxlii, b.

198 Ibid., pls. xxxv, b, and cliii, b.

199 Ibid., pls. liv–lvii.

200 Ibid., pl. cxliii, b—e.

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203 Ibid., pl. cxliv, b—c.

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205 Ibid., pls. xci, xcii, b and clxxxi, d.

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