Borman was a virtuoso, a master but above all an innovator, who influenced many other sculptors.

This volume provides a unique survey of locally produced funerary representations from across regions of ancient Syria, exploring material ranging from reliefs and statues in the round, to busts, mosaics, and paintings in order to offer a new and holistic approach to our understanding of ancient funerary portraiture.

An in-depth sociocultural analysis of Roman senatorial arbitration as a political mediation tool in the second century BC