Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani
The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (Latin, = Corpus of the sculptures of the Roman world , abbreviated: CSIR ) is an archaeological research project founded in 1963 for the collection and publication of Roman sculptures . The corpus series has been published at irregular intervals since 1964.
The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani was launched in 1963 by the Association Internationale d'Archéologie Classique as a joint project of renowned archaeological institutions at European level. The aim of the project is the scientific recording and publication of Roman statues and reliefs from European museum holdings according to uniform specifications. The model is the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL).
German archaeologists (including Adolf Michaelis and Paul Arndt ) pursued this corpus idea as early as the 19th century following the Comte de Clarac 's 'Musée de sculpture antique et modern' with the plan to systematically incorporate all known Roman statuary monuments in an all-embracing corpus statuarum to be recorded according to uniform guidelines.
The main responsible in the participating countries are:
- in Germany:
- the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
- the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz (RGZM)
- in Austria:
- the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW; a 1966 Academy Commission for the CSIR was dissolved in 1992, its chairmen were Fritz Eichler from 1966, Hedwig Kenner from 1971 and Hermann Vetters from 1991)
- in Switzerland:
- the Roman Museum Augst
- the Office for Museums and Archeology of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
- the canton archeology of Aargau
- in Hungary:
- in Great Britain:
- the British Academy
- in Poland:
- the Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN)
The current president of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani is the French archaeologist François Braemer .
literature
- François Braemer: Le Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani. In: Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archeology Amsterdam 1998 . Amsterdam 1999, pp. 90ff.