J M C Toynbee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M C Toynbee |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M C |
| FAMILY NAME | Toynbee |
| SIGNATURE | TOYNBEE J M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together
Journal Article Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together Get access Kay Dickinson, Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 247 pp. Jason Toynbee Jason Toynbee [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 50, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 471–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjp041 Published: 01 December 2009
A Romano-British Sculpture from Swalcliffe, Oxfordshire
(1987). A Romano-British Sculpture from Swalcliffe, Oxfordshire. Journal of the British Archaeological Association: Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 191-194
II. Silver Picture Plates of Late Antiquity: A.D. 300 to 700
One of the first questions likely to be asked by someone confronted for the first time by the great Oceanus plate ( missorium ) from Mildenhall (I, pl. VII a )** is, What was it used for? The answer is that neither it nor any of its fellow flat, decorated plates of silver, whether round or rectangular, to be surveyed in this paper, was ever used for practical, domestic purposes to serve as table-ware. It is hard to imagine the highly sophisticate…
Roman Historical Portraits
Excavations at Gloucester: Third Interim Report: Kingsholm 1966–75
The results of excavations carried out in 1972 and 1974 and the records of builders' and service trenches over nine years, combined with reports of past discoveries, make up a body of evidence for Kingsholm's use first as a pre-Flavian military site (or sites) of more than one phase covering c. 50 acres, then as a late or sub-Roman cemetery and later as the site of the late Saxon and later aula regis. The archaeological evidence for the palace is…
Animals in Roman life and art
Two Ancient Marbles at Shrewsbury
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Some Problems of Romano-Parthian Sculpture at Hatra
In 1964 there was found in Temple C at Hatra a life-size marble head with cleanshaven face (PI. V, 1 and 2), now in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. It was lying on the podium behind the altar at the south end of the temple, and would seem to have fallen there from the place in which it had been set. The head, of which the face is extremely well preserved, appears to have been deliberately cut from the body across the neck, just below the ch…
A Bibliography
Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee reached her 75th birthday on 3 March 1972. Scholar of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1916–20; Classical Tutor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1921–24; Classical Lecturer at Reading University from 1924–27; Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham from 1927–51; Classical Lecturer in the University of Cambridge from 1931–51; Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge from 195…
Death and Burial in the Roman World
Death and burial in the Roman world
Romano-British Figurine from Baginton
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The Art of the Romans
A New Roman Mosaic Pavement Found in Dorset
The Roman polychrome mosaic, which forms the subject of this paper, came to light on 12th September, 1963, at the village of Hinton St. Mary in northern Dorset, 11⁄2 miles north of Sturminster Newton. The field in which the pavement lies is the property of Mr. W. J. White, general engineer, blacksmith, and welder, who recognized as Roman the tesserae revealed by the postholes that were being dug for the foundations of a building near his forge. M…
Art in Roman Britain
The ‘Ara Pacis Augustae’
Dr. Stefan Weinstock's article ‘Pax and the “Ara Pacis”’, contributed to Volume L, 1960, of this Journal (pp. 44–58), has performed two signal services to archaeology. In Part I of his paper the writer has given us a full and very valuable account of the cult of Peace in the Greek and Roman worlds from the fourth century B.C. to the Flavian age; and throughout the study as a whole he most properly insists that we possess no explicit evidence, suc…
A Bust of an Antonine Boy
In 1944 Father Joseph Jarzebowski, M.I.C., now headmaster of a school for Polish boys at Fawley Court, near Henley, acquired, at an antique-dealer's (Galeria Ordáz) in Mexico City, a draped marble bust of an Antonine boy, which is now displayed in the hall of the Court. It is by Father Jarzebowski's kind permission that I am able to publish the portrait here (pls. 1, 1, 2, 11, 1, 2). The piece is certainly antique, cleaned, but not reworked, and …
Four Roman portraits in the Piraeus Museum
Among the local finds displayed in the Museum of Antiquities at the Piraeus are six Roman portraits, all of Pentelic marble and all unrestored. Two of them, a colossal head of Trajan (no. 270) and a colossal statue of Balbinus (no. 278), have already been fully edited. But according to the Director of the Piraeus Museum, Dr. Threpsiades, and to the best of the present writer's knowledge, of the other portraits two are still unpublished, two descr…
Sculptures from a Romano-British Well in Gloucestershire
In the autumn of 1957 a well, from which three altars and five pieces of sculptures were recovered, was excavated by the writer in the Farnworth Gravel Pit, Great Chessells, Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. The well is the fifth to be found in the gravel pit, where remains of circular hut-floors, ovens, a corn-drying oven, and other domestic sites, accompanied by many potsherds, coins, and other objects of Romano-British date have come to light …
A Roman bronze from Stratfield Saye, Berks
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The shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican excavations
The Temple of Sulis-Minerva at Bath
The Roman remains at Bath, dominated by the stately thermal establishment, have always been associated in geography and in archaeology with the goddess Sulis-Minerva. The famous pediment of her temple, found when the eighteenth-century Pump Room was built, has long been accounted one of the most remarkable manifestations of Romano-British art; its richly carved reliefs have always invited restoration; and they at once received it, somewhat sketch…
Roman Wall Paintings from Boscoreale in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christianity in Roman Britain
Notes1 This paper represents the text of a lecture delivered before the British Archaeological Association on May 8th, 1953
The Shrine of St. Peter and its Setting
This brief and summary survey of a large and complicated problem falls into three main parts: (I) Prolegomena, or general considerations; (2) remarks on the topography and history of the Vatican zone in ancient times; (3) an account of the pre-Constantinian shrine of St. Peter beneath the high altar of the Vatican Basilica
Animals in Roman life and art
Roma and Constantinopolis in Late-Antique Art From 312 to 365
Little more than a decade after Constantine's conversion to Christianity the ancient gods and goddesses of the Graeco-Roman pantheon ceased to appear upon the official coinage and public monuments of the Empire. The personifications—Victoria, Virtus, Pax, Libertas, Securitas, etc., and the ‘geographical’ figures of Res Publica, Roma, Tellus, cities, countries, and tribes—remained. Yet some of these had, up to that very time, received, like the Ol…
Peopled Scrolls: A Hellenistic Motif in Imperial Art
The peopling of floral scrolls with living creatures is a decorative device which enjoyed unrivalled popularity throughout the whole history of Imperial art and in almost every country of the Empire. Its full cultivation and flowering were achieved in the Roman age; but its roots, like those of nearly every Roman art-motif, are in the late classical Greek and Hellenistic worlds. These roots were varied and complex. The primitive notion of spirits…
Excavations at Gloucester: Third Interim Report: Kingsholm 1966–75
The results of excavations carried out in 1972 and 1974 and the records of builders' and service trenches over nine years, combined with reports of past discoveries, make up a body of evidence for Kingsholm's use first as a pre-Flavian military site (or sites) of more than one phase covering c. 50 acres, then as a late or sub-Roman cemetery and later as the site of the late Saxon and later aula regis. The archaeological evidence for the palace is…
Roman Historical Portraits
The Villa Item and a Bride's Ordeal
The paintings in the triclinium of the Villa Item, a dwelling-house excavated in 1909 outside the Porta Ercolanese at Pompeii, have not only often been published and discussed by foreign scholars, but they have also formed the subject of an important paper in this Journal . The artistic qualities of the paintings have been ably set forth: it has been established beyond all doubt that the subject they depict is some form of Dionysiac initiation: a…
Some Problems of Romano-Parthian Sculpture at Hatra
In 1964 there was found in Temple C at Hatra a life-size marble head with cleanshaven face (PI. V, 1 and 2), now in the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. It was lying on the podium behind the altar at the south end of the temple, and would seem to have fallen there from the place in which it had been set. The head, of which the face is extremely well preserved, appears to have been deliberately cut from the body across the neck, just below the ch…
The Shrine of St. Peter and its Setting
This brief and summary survey of a large and complicated problem falls into three main parts: (I) Prolegomena, or general considerations; (2) remarks on the topography and history of the Vatican zone in ancient times; (3) an account of the pre-Constantinian shrine of St. Peter beneath the high altar of the Vatican Basilica
A Roman Decorated Helmet and other Objects from Norfolk
On 15th August 1947 there came to light, during dredging operations in the River Wensum at Worthing, 15 miles N.W. of Norwich (fig. 2), a Roman decorated helmet, which is possibly the first military object of the Roman period to be found in Norfolk. The site and circumstances of the discovery, and the other finds made nearby, are described below (p. 26). To the fact of its having been sealed in a bed of peat under several feet of shingle we doubt…
Beasts and their Names in the Roman Empire
Personal names of animals, mostly of dogs and horses, are, as everyone is aware, recorded in the literature and archaeological monuments of archaic, classical, and hellenistic Greece. A few examples must suffice here, by way of preface to our present study. The most familiar of Homeric named beasts is, of course, Odysseus' faithful hound Argos (‘Swiftfoot’: Od. 17, 292). Hector's steeds ( Il. 8, 185) were Xanthos, Podargos, Aithon , and Lampos —T…
Britannia on Roman coins of the second century A.D
The history of art in the Roman period is the history of the interplay of two opposite tendencies. On the one hand there is the Roman taste for realism and accurate representation, combining with the Italian love of naturalism; on the other, the fostering of the Greek tradition of idealism in art both by the Greek artists who worked at Rome and by the Greek enthusiasts among their Roman employers. After the culmination of Roman historical art und…
Some ‘Programme’ Coin-Types of Antoninus Pius
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Further notes on Britannia coin-types
(1) In connexion with the two Antonine types of Britannia with the legionary standard, described in my paper on ‘ Britannia on Roman Coins of the Second Century A.D.’ ( J.R.S. xiv, p. 149 and note 2, plate xxiv, 5, 6), it should have been mentioned that there are two other provinces, besides Britannia , which are represented with this attribute instead of the usual vexillum. Both the Dacia of Hadrian (Cohen, Les monnaies de l'empire romain , 2, 1…
A Roman sarcophagus at Pawlowsk and its fellows
In the collection of ancient sculpture at Pawlowsk, near Leningrad, there is a Roman sarcophagus which has never been published (plate I, a-c), though long known to students of ancient sarcophagi. A certain amount of information as to its history is supplied to us from the following sources. Stephani appends to his description of the sarcophagus in Die Antiken-Sammlung zu Pawlowsk , 1872, p. 24, no. 42, a short notice of its previous career. ‘Der…
Note on a Roman Sarcophagus in the Campo Santo, Pisa
In the course of an article, contributed to this Journal , entitled ‘A Roman Sarcophagus at Pawlowsk and its Fellows,’ I mentioned a ‘garland-sarcophagus’ in the Campo Santo at Pisa as being probably still earlier than our first definitely dated ‘garland-monument’ of the second century A.D., namely the Lateran sarcophagus from the Hadrianic tomb near the Porta Viminalis. The garland-style of the Pisan sarcophagus I was not then in a position to d…
The Villa Item and a Bride's Ordeal
The paintings in the triclinium of the Villa Item, a dwelling-house excavated in 1909 outside the Porta Ercolanese at Pompeii, have not only often been published and discussed by foreign scholars, but they have also formed the subject of an important paper in this Journal . The artistic qualities of the paintings have been ably set forth: it has been established beyond all doubt that the subject they depict is some form of Dionysiac initiation: a…
M. Stuart, The Portraiture of Claudius, Preliminary Studies. New York: Columbia University, 1938. Pp. xiv + 93
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Corrigenda
1. Professor Alföldi and the Roman Contorniates. In a letter to the Editor of this Journal Professor Alföldi has pointed out that I misrepresented his remarks apropos of the New Year and Roman medallions on p. 40 of his Die Kontorniaten, when I stated (JRS 1945, 118) that he declares that all the bronze medallions were New Year gifts. This, I now see, certainly was an inaccurate statement, for which I owe Professor Alföldi an apology. For actuall…
Roma and Constantinopolis in Late-Antique Art From 312 to 365
Little more than a decade after Constantine's conversion to Christianity the ancient gods and goddesses of the Graeco-Roman pantheon ceased to appear upon the official coinage and public monuments of the Empire. The personifications—Victoria, Virtus, Pax, Libertas, Securitas, etc., and the ‘geographical’ figures of Res Publica, Roma, Tellus, cities, countries, and tribes—remained. Yet some of these had, up to that very time, received, like the Ol…
A Roman Decorated Helmet and other Objects from Norfolk
On 15th August 1947 there came to light, during dredging operations in the River Wensum at Worthing, 15 miles N.W. of Norwich (fig. 2), a Roman decorated helmet, which is possibly the first military object of the Roman period to be found in Norfolk. The site and circumstances of the discovery, and the other finds made nearby, are described below (p. 26). To the fact of its having been sealed in a bed of peat under several feet of shingle we doubt…
Beasts and their Names in the Roman Empire
Personal names of animals, mostly of dogs and horses, are, as everyone is aware, recorded in the literature and archaeological monuments of archaic, classical, and hellenistic Greece. A few examples must suffice here, by way of preface to our present study. The most familiar of Homeric named beasts is, of course, Odysseus' faithful hound Argos (‘Swiftfoot’: Od. 17, 292). Hector's steeds ( Il. 8, 185) were Xanthos, Podargos, Aithon , and Lampos —T…
Peopled Scrolls: A Hellenistic Motif in Imperial Art
The peopling of floral scrolls with living creatures is a decorative device which enjoyed unrivalled popularity throughout the whole history of Imperial art and in almost every country of the Empire. Its full cultivation and flowering were achieved in the Roman age; but its roots, like those of nearly every Roman art-motif, are in the late classical Greek and Hellenistic worlds. These roots were varied and complex. The primitive notion of spirits…
A Roman (?) Head at Dumfries
The striking and enigmatic stone head reproduced on plate IX, nos. 2, 3, and fig. 3 (p. 64), was presented to the Dumfries Burgh Museum in September, 1951, along with two Roman altars. These three objects had been preserved at Burnfoot House, Birrens, Annandale, for over a century, and had always been together within the memory of living members of the Irving family, which owned the property until 1950. One of the altars, that of Minerva, was dug…
Christianity in Roman Britain
Notes1 This paper represents the text of a lecture delivered before the British Archaeological Association on May 8th, 1953
The Shrine of St. Peter and its Setting
This brief and summary survey of a large and complicated problem falls into three main parts: (I) Prolegomena, or general considerations; (2) remarks on the topography and history of the Vatican zone in ancient times; (3) an account of the pre-Constantinian shrine of St. Peter beneath the high altar of the Vatican Basilica
Roman Wall Paintings from Boscoreale in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Temple of Sulis-Minerva at Bath
The Roman remains at Bath, dominated by the stately thermal establishment, have always been associated in geography and in archaeology with the goddess Sulis-Minerva. The famous pediment of her temple, found when the eighteenth-century Pump Room was built, has long been accounted one of the most remarkable manifestations of Romano-British art; its richly carved reliefs have always invited restoration; and they at once received it, somewhat sketch…
The shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican excavations
Sculptures from a Romano-British Well in Gloucestershire
In the autumn of 1957 a well, from which three altars and five pieces of sculptures were recovered, was excavated by the writer in the Farnworth Gravel Pit, Great Chessells, Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. The well is the fifth to be found in the gravel pit, where remains of circular hut-floors, ovens, a corn-drying oven, and other domestic sites, accompanied by many potsherds, coins, and other objects of Romano-British date have come to light …
A Roman bronze from Stratfield Saye, Berks
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A Bust of an Antonine Boy
In 1944 Father Joseph Jarzebowski, M.I.C., now headmaster of a school for Polish boys at Fawley Court, near Henley, acquired, at an antique-dealer's (Galeria Ordáz) in Mexico City, a draped marble bust of an Antonine boy, which is now displayed in the hall of the Court. It is by Father Jarzebowski's kind permission that I am able to publish the portrait here (pls. 1, 1, 2, 11, 1, 2). The piece is certainly antique, cleaned, but not reworked, and …
Four Roman portraits in the Piraeus Museum
Among the local finds displayed in the Museum of Antiquities at the Piraeus are six Roman portraits, all of Pentelic marble and all unrestored. Two of them, a colossal head of Trajan (no. 270) and a colossal statue of Balbinus (no. 278), have already been fully edited. But according to the Director of the Piraeus Museum, Dr. Threpsiades, and to the best of the present writer's knowledge, of the other portraits two are still unpublished, two descr…
The ‘Ara Pacis Augustae’
Dr. Stefan Weinstock's article ‘Pax and the “Ara Pacis”’, contributed to Volume L, 1960, of this Journal (pp. 44–58), has performed two signal services to archaeology. In Part I of his paper the writer has given us a full and very valuable account of the cult of Peace in the Greek and Roman worlds from the fourth century B.C. to the Flavian age; and throughout the study as a whole he most properly insists that we possess no explicit evidence, suc…
Art in Roman Britain
A New Roman Mosaic Pavement Found in Dorset
The Roman polychrome mosaic, which forms the subject of this paper, came to light on 12th September, 1963, at the village of Hinton St. Mary in northern Dorset, 11⁄2 miles north of Sturminster Newton. The field in which the pavement lies is the property of Mr. W. J. White, general engineer, blacksmith, and welder, who recognized as Roman the tesserae revealed by the postholes that were being dug for the foundations of a building near his forge. M…
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