Gastvortrag Prof. Anna Leone (Durham)"Between inscriptions and architecture: The practice of recycling in Late Antique North Africa"
4. April 2018
Foto: Overview of the Forum of Sabratha (Libya)
"Between inscriptions and architecture: The practice of recycling in Late Antique North Africa" (Fr. Prof. Anna Leone) Mittwoch, 04.04.2018, 18 Uhr s.t. - Überseering 35, Raum 01021
Through the analysis of the inscriptions dated to the 4th c. addressing the reuse of statues and the restoration of public spaces, the lecture aims to highlight how the urban settlements were transformed in Late Antiquity. The major point lays in the progressive changing function of public spaces and its decoration. This for instance the case of Thubursicu Numidarum where a new forum is set up in the second half of the 4th c., entirely with reused materials, as clearly stated in the corpus of inscriptions.