Output details
31 - Classics
Open University
Article title
Der Grabstein der Severina Nutrix aus Köln: eine neue Deutung
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Germania
Article number
N/A
Volume number
89
Issue number
N/A
First page of article
191
ISSN of journal
0016-8874
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Since its discovery, the Severina gravestone from Cologne has received much scholarly attention but has yet evaded satisfactory interpretation. The portrait figure has been seen as a young male and the side panel images as a nurse who commissioned the stone for a deceased nursling. This left major questions unanswered, such as why the nurse should feature so prominently on the stone and how she could afford such a monument. Based on dress and comparison with similar images, this paper argues that the portrait figure is actually female and that the monument was commissioned for, not by, the nurse Severina.
