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This essay examines the erratic limestone slab that today is part of the altar frontal in the Chu... more This essay examines the erratic limestone slab that today is part of the altar frontal in the Church of St John the Baptist in Monteodorisio, a small town situated in the South of Abruzzo. It represents the Women at the tomb, together with an inscription containing the Quem queritis trope, an Easter chant composed in the 10th century, held as the earliest known piece to demand dramatic performance. The epigraphic study points out connections with South Italian monastic culture in the period between the mid 11th and the beginning of the following century. Such a chronology, which figurative analysis confirms, allows us to recognise in the slab the earliest example of narrative sculpture in Abruzzo, as well as of the communicative mode ? destined to be strongly developed in the couple of centuries to follow ? involving the simultaneous use of written texts and images. Whether the choice of such an innovative initiative should be assigned to a monastic or feudal patronage remains to be determined.
This essay examines the erratic limestone slab that today is part of the altar frontal in the Chu... more This essay examines the erratic limestone slab that today is part of the altar frontal in the Church of St John the Baptist in Monteodorisio, a small town situated in the South of Abruzzo. It represents the Women at the tomb, together with an inscription containing the Quem queritis trope, an Easter chant composed in the 10th century, held as the earliest known piece to demand dramatic performance. The epigraphic study points out connections with South Italian monastic culture in the period between the mid 11th and the beginning of the following century. Such a chronology, which figurative analysis confirms, allows us to recognise in the slab the earliest example of narrative sculpture in Abruzzo, as well as of the communicative mode ? destined to be strongly developed in the couple of centuries to follow ? involving the simultaneous use of written texts and images. Whether the choice of such an innovative initiative should be assigned to a monastic or feudal patronage remains to be determined.