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NOTES ON A STATUE FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF UNION FROM ALBA IULIA
2016
This study proposes to re-evaluate a marble statue from the old collections of the National Museum of Union Alba Iulia. It was discovered by A. Cserni during excavations carried out at the Palace of the Governors of Roman Dacia, in 1898. It has been repeatedly published by Á. Hekler and Al. Diaconescu. While the latter author established dating and iconographic prototype of the statue, we believe that further details as discovery place and context, depiction, iconographic attribution and role of this work of art can be offered. Presence of a follower at the feet of the divinity, more precisely the right foot of a character – child, conveys us the idea of depiction of Eros, god of love. Usua…
Immagini ed echi di Augusto in Sicilia: realia e contesti, res incertae vel alienae
2022
The paper gathers and analyzes the data useful for reconstructing the reception and the legacy of Augustus’ image in Sicilian civic contexts. Beside the four portrait heads from Syracuse, Centuripe, Tyndaris, Taormina, several sculptural, epigraphic and numismatic testimonia are considered from the above-quoted cities and other Sicilian sites. Except for few more ancient inscriptions/statues(?) (Syracuse) and coins (Segesta), a key moment in the response by the local civic communities to the imperial model is around Augustus’ visit of 21 B.C. and in the immediate period after his death. Moreover, a series of testimonia, mainly inscriptions and coins, belong to mid(-late) Augustan age, parti…
Analysis of Sagunto Ibero-Roman votive bronze statuettes by portable X-ray fluorescence
2019
Abstract The main objective of this work was the study of chemical composition of an important collection of Ibero-Roman votive bronze statuettes exposed in the Archaeological Museum of Sagunto (Spain). Precision and accuracy of the measurements were obtained developing a proper analytical method, also avoiding any possible damage to the studied objects using a portable energy dispersive X- ray fluorescence system. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to discriminate between groups based on ratios Fe/Cu, Pb/Cu, Sn/Cu, Ag/Cu, Ni/Cu and Impurities/Cu were employed to observe differences between the used smelting, manufacturing processes and raw materials. The characterisation of bronze statuet…
Misura delle vibrazioni sul simulacro argenteo dell'Immacolata processione
2011
Scultura ellenistica e paesaggio urbano: i casi di Tindari e Solunto
2019
The archaeological evidence provides us with significant clues about the role of the sculptural display in the urban space during the Hellenistic period. The paper focuses on two study cases from Tindari and Solunto respectively. Thanks to the investigation of overlooked archival documents and historiography, it has been possible to single out the monumental contexts of the sculptures. It is now quite certain that the two marble Nikai from Tyndaris come from the mid-19th century excavation at the theatre, perhaps from the paraskenia of the huge late Hellenistic scene building. The second part deals with the so-called Zeus of Solunto, its extant pieces and the puzzling remains of the sacred …
Le dossier de M. Helvius Anthus. Ou comment une mauvaise édition initiale entraîne la création d’ un « monstre » social
2021
An inscription discovered in Baetica and wrongly read by the publishers, was understood only late. The first reading, erroneous, gave rise to an impossible social situation of the Roman point of view : a slave would have had his statue on the forum of Lucurgentum ! More recent works allowed to correct this initial error and to restore the text, a testimony of the essay of upward social mobility of an emancipated slave, an evergete offering among others a statue of the god Ianus Pater.
The Valletta Good Friday Processional Statues
2020
The chapter traces the development of the Good Friday tradition in Valletta and the manner in which the powerful Ta’ Ġieżu crucifix might have influenced the iconography of the Valletta processional statuary.
Una statua fittile di divinità seduta da Capodarso: ipotesi di ricostruzione
2012
The subject of the contribution is the analysis of the lower part (feet) of a clay statue and two clay artefacts decorated with a figurative scene, all found in the anellenic site of Monte Capodarso (Enna) and datable between the 6th and the 5th century BC The latter, considered, at the time of their discovery, as parts of a trapeze, are now considered, in the light of the analysis of the clays, of the decoration and on the basis of comparisons, to be the armrests of the throne on which the figure sat, of which only the feet remain, probably a cult agalma.
Un contributo alla conoscenza del foro di Siracusa: i reperti scultorei
2023
Il contributo raccoglie e contestualizza i rinvenimenti scultorei di età romana nell'area del Foro di Siracusa e adiacenze. Ciò dà l'occasione di individuare alcuni momenti chiave e aspetti salienti della trasformazione delle aree pubbliche e sacre presso l'istmo di collegamento tra Acradina e Ortigia e sulla fascia alle spalle del Porto Grande.
Una statua togata di retore (?) da Alesa
2017
Il contributo prende in esame una statua togata rinvenuta nel sito di Halaesa prima dell'avvio delle indagini scientifiche e ne effettua una ricontestualizzazione, sulla base dell'analisi dell'iconografia, dello stile e dei dati antiquari, nell'alveo della ritrattistica medioimperiale. Viene vagliata e ammessa la possibilità del collegamento con la dedica di un'effigie onoraria per un retore, rinvenuta nell'agorà di Halaesa. The paper examines a togated statue found on the site of Halaesa before the start of scientific investigations and carries out a re-contextualization, on the basis of the analysis of iconography, style and antiquarian data, in the bed of middle-imperial portraiture. The…