FEATURES OF PALEOCHRISTIAN BASORELIEF IN THE PROVINCES DACIA TRAJAN AND SCYTHIA MINOR
FEATURES OF PALEOCHRISTIAN BASORELIEF IN THE PROVINCES DACIA TRAJAN AND SCYTHIA MINOR

Summary/Abstract: On the territory of the two Roman provinces situated in the north of Danube, Dacia Trajan and Scythia Minor, after the Roman conquest, there will be changes both regarding the encountered topics and the artistic style of basreliefs. Once Antiquity ends, PaleoChristianity will add a religious component, with transformations regarding iconography, but also stylistic ones, this field represents one of the proofs of pervasion and spread of the new religion also in these border provinces of the Roman Empire. And this happens at the level of the two types of relief which exist even nowadays, as they did since Antiquity: funeral relief which ornaments monuments and also architectural relief which decorates the new types of buildings, the PaleoChristian basilicas.

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