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THE GRANITE COLUMN IN MODON: HOW TO MAKE A STONE SAY WHAT YOU WANT IT TO SAY!
Author(s) -
FOUTAKIS PATRICE
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2005.00226.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , archaeology , capital (architecture) , column (typography) , geology , history , interpretation (philosophy) , ancient history , engineering , philosophy , telecommunications , linguistics , frame (networking)
Summary. The 3 km long ramparts of the castle of Modon survive remarkably unscathed despite the attacks of Man and Nature over the centuries. The most interesting monument which remains, a column of red granite, crowned with a capital and a stone slab, has escaped the looters of antiquities who often passed by Modon. It has also escaped the scholars who have failed to give a reliable interpretation of the monument. This paper seeks to deal with this question and to set the monument in its proper historical context.