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BABESCH 86 (2011), 209-233. doi: 10.2143/BAB.86.0.2128100.

Reviews MICHAEL DONDERER, Die Mosaizisten der Antike II. Epigraphische Quellen – Neufunde und Nachträge. Erlangen: Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2008. 172 pp., 32 pls; 24,5 cm (Erlanger Forschungen, Reihe A. Geisteswissenschaften, Band 116). – ISBN 978-3-930357-88-8/ISSN 0423-3433. Michael Donderer’s (henceforth M.D.) first monograph on ancient mosaicists and their ‘signatures’, Die Mosaizisten der Antike und ihre Wirtschaftliche und soziale Stellung: eine Quellenstudie, was published in 1989. Since then, new inscribed mosaics have been found within the whole Mediterranean world; others have been restored or made available for closer inspection; in a few cases, recent studies have seriously questioned the current reading and interpretation. This new book has been conceived essentially as a supplement to the former, dealing with material then unknown and updating the old catalogue. Under these premises, M.D. embarked on a praiseworthy enterprise, aimed at stimulating debate on the widest number of ‘signed’ mosaics. Both books, of course, share the same perspectives and method, as well as the choice of problems according to which the material is presented. A short introduction deals with the main theoretical issues at stake: the professional and social standing of the persons named by the inscriptions (pp. 15-17). Firstly, we have to distinguish between the artisan who actually made the mosaic, those who drew its preliminary sketch or wrote the text, the owner of the workshop (who did not need to be a craftsman himself), and the purchaser/donor. Sometimes, a single person could have played more than one role, i.e. the workshop could have been owned by the very same artisan who conceived the pattern and/or arranged the tesserae. The question is if each role may be defined by precise word choices, and up to which point does our knowledge of ancient workshop practices allow us to search for coherent categories. The first obstacle is the wide chronological, geographical (and consequently lexical) variety of the inscriptions. Then, a major difficulty arises from their contexts: the relationship between place, customer and mosaicist, of course, changes considerably between a private dwelling and a public building. Similarly to what he has done with his former book, M.D. introduces the catalogue with a short discussion of the terms defining the relationship between persons and mosaics (pp. 19-30). Being most new texts in Greek, the summary on Latin terminology is little improved (the listed words are: componere, facere, ex officina, opus, tessellare). On the other hand, the analysis on Greek vocabulary has been sensibly broadened and several new terms or expression added to the list (δι% τινος‚ ` κ%ματος‚ κ%μνειν‚ ` κεντητς‚ μουσο

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