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Reading Visual Cues
on the So-called Archive Wall at Aphrodisias:
A Cognitive Approach
to Monumental Documents
By Abigail Schley Graham
The experience of reading a monumental document is fundamentally
different from reading a document as a text. Interdisciplinary studies on
cognitive perception in neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology, together
with recent projects on emotions in the field of classics, emphasize the
importance of situating an experience in sensory contexts. This study will
apply cognitive scholarship on the process of reading to assessments of how we
perceive and read monumental documents. The so-called Archive Wall at
Aphrodisias, more accurately described as an epigraphic dossier, perhaps even a
monument of self-promotion, provides an ideal case study in terms of
preservation and publication of documents in a monumental context. Building on
a tradition of scholarship, I examine practical points in the experience of
reading an inscribed document as a monument: the role of context, formulae, and
visual cues. Assessing these aspects of monumental documents, I consider how
monumental documents may have been read and why these documents attracted
attention. The methodology approaches the process of reading by examining the
physical context and visual cues on this epigraphic dossier and exploring how a
general audience of passing viewers may have perceived and read this monument.
ΠΗΓΗ-SOURCE: Abigail Schley Graham
«Reading Visual Cues on the So-called Archive Wall at Aphrodisias: A Cognitive Approach to Monumental Documents», στο American
Journal of Archaeology / AJA, Vol. 125, No. 4 (October 2021), sel. 571–601, DOI:
10.3764/aja.125.4.0571, Archaeological Institute of America, 2021. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 13.9.2021.
Τοιχος Τειχος Αρχεια Αφροδισιαδος Αφροδισιαδα, Αφροδισιας Καριας Καρια Archive Wall Aphrodisias, Monumental Documents Graham
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