Sabazius Essay
Artifact study
This artifact research was basic to the object named “the hand of sabazius “and analysis this artifact from several aspects such as background, material, function, evidence of use, manufacture process.
According to a scholar, evidence shows that this artifact called the cult of the god sabazius originated from Phrygia and Thrace, later it became common within the Roman Empire. Greek and Roman religion were influenced by mystery religions from the east of Roman and this mysterious religious in Roman times were always associated with the god of wine (Dionysus). This cult had produced a series of hand images, in which the fingers formed the blessing or familiar with the Christian practice of gestures. Sabazius usually sits in the …show more content…
The body of the object was hammered into shape forming a continuous hollow object, the method of making this bronze object may through the lost wax bronze casting, this technique was one of the oldest and well-known method from ancient Roman time. There is an indirect and direct process in lost wax bronze casting.
The first method was the simplest process in the ancient time first surrounded a model with clay and then heated and removed the hardened clay. Next, poured molten metal into the mold. When the metal cooled, the new bronze object was created. (Richard, S 2007)
In the later of fifteen century of Italia. The indirect lost－wax bronze casting was widely used as this technique was not broken the original model, the processing was followed several steps，first made a sculpture with the original pattern by clay then around the model to replicate its form, the frames consisted of several parts that can take without damage to any weakening of the modeling. After drying, the various parts of the mold are removed, reassembled and joined. Each frame part lined with a thin layer of wax. After this wax cooling, the mold is removed, and the clay molds are heated to a high temperature then remove wax and hardened clay, finally inverted the mold and poured molten metal into it. When the metal is cooled, the new bronze artifact was created. (Richard’s
This artifact research was basic to the object named “the hand of sabazius “and analysis this artifact from several aspects such as background, material, function, evidence of use, manufacture process.
According to a scholar, evidence shows that this artifact called the cult of the god sabazius originated from Phrygia and Thrace, later it became common within the Roman Empire. Greek and Roman religion were influenced by mystery religions from the east of Roman and this mysterious religious in Roman times were always associated with the god of wine (Dionysus). This cult had produced a series of hand images, in which the fingers formed the blessing or familiar with the Christian practice of gestures. Sabazius usually sits in the …show more content…
The body of the object was hammered into shape forming a continuous hollow object, the method of making this bronze object may through the lost wax bronze casting, this technique was one of the oldest and well-known method from ancient Roman time. There is an indirect and direct process in lost wax bronze casting.
The first method was the simplest process in the ancient time first surrounded a model with clay and then heated and removed the hardened clay. Next, poured molten metal into the mold. When the metal cooled, the new bronze object was created. (Richard, S 2007)
In the later of fifteen century of Italia. The indirect lost－wax bronze casting was widely used as this technique was not broken the original model, the processing was followed several steps，first made a sculpture with the original pattern by clay then around the model to replicate its form, the frames consisted of several parts that can take without damage to any weakening of the modeling. After drying, the various parts of the mold are removed, reassembled and joined. Each frame part lined with a thin layer of wax. After this wax cooling, the mold is removed, and the clay molds are heated to a high temperature then remove wax and hardened clay, finally inverted the mold and poured molten metal into it. When the metal is cooled, the new bronze artifact was created. (Richard’s