Votive im römischen Griechenland.

Another review, related to the first century CE world of Philo, is on votive offerings in the province of Achaia (southern and central Greece, Akarnania, Aetolia, Thessaly and parts of southern Epirus) from the middle of the IInd century B.C. up to the IVth century A.D.Günther Schörner,
Votive im römischen Griechenland. Untersuchungen
zur späthellenistischen und Kaiserzeitlichen Kunst- und
Religionsgeschichte.
Altertumswissenschafliches Kolloquium, 7.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 638; pls. 100. ISBN
3-515-07688-3. EUR 90.00.

Reviewed by Mary-Anne Zagdoun, CNRS, ParisIntroduction:
"In 638 pages and 100 plates, the author gives us a monumental, fine and scholarly study of a little-known and rather neglected chapter in Greek sculpture. In fact, in the 1970s, while literature on Greek sculpture flourished, it was thought very brave to venture into Hellenistic times, let alone the Imperial Age. Greek Imperial sculpture in Greece was very neglected, and votive reliefs were thought to have practically disappeared in Roman times. Günther Schörner's fine book proves the contrary and provides us with two catalogues to meditate upon: a catalogue comprising 1240 documents of inscribed votive offerings of various kinds (statues of gods, portrait statues, reliefs, but also architectural fragments, marble ware...) (pp. 225-548), and a second catalogue of 100 votive reliefs, some of which have already been classified in catalogue I (pp. 549-578): votive reliefs, even uninscribed, are the only votive offerings that can immediately be recognized as such."
The rest of the review can be read here.