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Item Exemples du decor vegetal en quelques mosaiques romaines: Du Portugal a L’autre extreme de la mediterranee(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2012) Wrench, Licínia Nunes CorreiaWe will present some examples of vegetal decoration (acanthus leaves; hederae leaves, rosettes…) represented in some of the Roman Portuguese mosaics. The aim is to analyze this decoration comparing the representations in the Portuguese mosaics with the mosaics from some of the disseminating centers of North-Africa and the Middle-East. For this analysis it is important to consider the paths these ornaments took reaching the southwest of Hispania through different ways of contacts: the Continental, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.Item Looking at two patterns ınspired in coffered ceilings: Some examples in the Portuguese Roman mosaics(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2015) Wrench, Licínia Nunes CorreiaFor the present study, we selected a set of Portuguese Roman mosaics in which the orthogonal grid compositions and adjacent octagons forming squares are present, supposedly inspired by the coffered ceilings. Therefore, in this study we try to ascertain: 1. Their degree of proximity to the pattern of the ceilings that have originated them; 2. Their relationship with other patterns and decorative motifs, occurring in the same mosaic pavement; 3. Their relationship with the functionality of the architectural space in which they are integrated. In the interweaving of this data and given the timelines of the different mosaics, we will try to elaborate conclusions on the application of these patterns to certain architectural spaces; the frequency of their use, either alone or in conjunction with other patterns in the same mosaic; the possible link of the mosaics in which these patterns occur with local or regional workshops, or even schools.Item Some geometrical patterns and decorative motifs occurring in Roman Portuguese mosaics: A comparative approach with Eastern and Western mosaics(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2014) Wrench, Licínia Nunes CorreiaComparing some geometrical patterns and decorative motifs occurring in Roman mosaics from the West and the East, namely from Portugal and from Turkey, we aim to understand the reasons for the similarities and the divergences between them, attending also to the chronologies. In the first place we will focus on the “compass drawing” composition, its geographical expansion and some achievements of this schema on mosaics from the Western and Eastern Roman Provinces such as Dalmatia, Macedonia and Pontus. From Lusitania, we will focus particularly on mosaics proceeding from some villae located in the Portuguese territory comparing them with a mosaic proceeding from Pontus, attending their chronologies and their decoration. Secondly, we will do a first approach to the analysis of a mosaic, unpublished, and reported by Abraços 2005, proceeding from the Roman city of Bracara Augusta, nowadays Braga, in the NW of Portugal. On this interesting mosaic, we can see some decorative motifs that are quite common on the Eastern and North African realisations, though restricted to a group of Portuguese mosaics belonging to Conuentus Scalabitanus: from «Casa de Cantaber» at Conimbriga and from the Roman villae of Santiago da Guarda and of Rabaçal, both in the area of the Conimbriga ciuitas. The stylistic comparisons of Bracara Auguta’s mosaic and these of Portuguese and also eastern and western realisations point to an achievement from the 3rd/4th c. A.D. This chronology seems coincident with the urban improvement that Bracara Augusta benefited under its promotion to the capital of the Province Gallaecia.