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Concordiae Agrigentinorum sacrum res publica Lilybitanorum. Nessi reali e presunti tra Agrigentum e Lilybaeum, a proposito di Iside. Parte I. Agrigen…
2019
The discovery of a temple at Agrigento in the neinties of the last Century and the recent detection of a sacred building at Lilibeo should contribute, according with their discoverers, to fill the lack of evidences concerning the Isis cult between the East and West part of Sicily. In order to re-consider the data that should confirm these two interpretations, the aim of this contribution is to take in exam the first of these two cases, Agrigento, suggesting, with the necessary prudence, a different lecture. Rather than an alternative hypothesis this lecture would offer a contribution to the debate. Some considerations on the sacred building and its location next to the Forum as well as on t…
Parthosque reposcere signa. Augusto e i Parti in una statua da Regium Lepidi
2015
Una statua loricata frammentaria conservata nei Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia (l’antica Regium Lepidi), alla quale in passato non era stata dedicata sufficiente attenzione, potrebbe essere annoverata tra le scarse effigi di Augusto giunte fino a noi dal territorio della regio VIII. La decorazione della corazza, in particolare, sembra celebrare la restituzione delle insegne militari che i Parti avevano in precedenza sottratto ai Romani, come si può ipotizzare sulla base del confronto con le immagini monetali dell’Arco Partico, eretto da Augusto nel Foro di Roma. A fragmentary loricata statue preserved in the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia (the ancient Regium Lepidi), to which in the past had…
«Un uomo di lettere». Ipotesi sul programma figurativo dei rilievi scultorei del pulpitum del Teatro di Sabratha
2020
After some considerations about the chronology of Theatre of Sabratha and on the internal organization of pulpitum reliefs, this paper puts forward the hypothesis of the attribution to Apuleius of the most part of the iconographic programme. In particular, Florida and Metamorphosis are suggested as direct sources of some scenes. The reconsideration of the pulpitum's first scene, starting from the left, previously interpreted as a sort of theatral academy, confrims this hypothesis. The scene represents a group of philosophers, strictly derived from the representation of the seven savants, as depicted on two well known mosaics. The iconography is adapted to the specific context, with the elim…