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Recenti testimonianze iconografiche sulla kausia in Macedonia e la datazione del fregio della caccia della II tomba reale di Vergina

1991; University of Franche-Comté; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/dha.1991.1914

1955-270X

Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo,

Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies

Literary and iconographical evidence concerning "kausia", even those more recently acquired, date back prior to the last quarter of the IV century B.C. Both porphyry and "kausia" ("diadematophoros" and "halourges") seem to have become institutional elements of royal and aristocratic dress in Macedonia only since the times of Alexander the Great. Consequently the presence of "kausiai halourgeis" in the dress of the hunters portrayed in the frieze on the second tomb at Vergina suggest moving the date of the painting forward by twenty years (to about 316 B.C.). A semiotic analysis of the frieze, according to which the various elements of dress - including headwear - serve as "iconic markers", attempts to interpret the hunters as representatives not of a single but of several institutional ierarchies ("basilikoi paides", "philoi", "somatophylakes").