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La scoperta, sistemazione e conservazione della grande Iscrizione di Gortina, nell'isola di Creta (1884-1921): la protezione delle testimonianze e le…

2013

La scoperta e la conservazione della Grande Iscrizione di Gortina a Creta, da parte degli studiosi italiani, fra la fine del XIX sec. e i primi decenni del XX sec., rappresentò un grande riconoscimento scientifico-culturale per la giovane nazione italiana. Nel passato, l’isola di Creta era stata legata alla Repubblica di Venezia e anche questo rapporto favorì l’invio a Creta del giovane epigrafista F. Halbherr, il quale fra notevoli peripezie rinvenne, assieme all’epigrafista tedesco E. Fabricius, la famosa l’iscrizione nell’antica città di Gortina. L’iscrizione, fra le più antiche e complete finora conosciute in tutta Europa, conteneva le norme sulla famiglia, l’eredità e in generale i dir…

The discovery and preservation of the Great Inscription of Gortyna in Crete by Italian researchers in the late nineteenth century. and the first decades of the twentieth century. was an important cultural and scientific recognition for the young Italian nation. In the past the island of Crete had been tied to the Republic of Venice and this report also favored sending in Crete the young epigraphist F. Halbherr who among considerable vicissitudes came to together to the epigraphist german E. Fabricius the inclusion of the famous ancient city of Gortyna. The inscription among the oldest and most comprehensive so far known throughout Europe the rules contained on the family's legacy in general and the rights and duties of some of the people of the Minoan civilization (480-450 BC). The inscription was carved on blocks organic limestone a restored ancient building which later in Roman times was turned into odeon. The Laws of Gortyn were engraved on the remains of the wall forming the passageway in front of the steps of the odeon. The essay traces the events that led to the discovery and subsequent storage made by Halbherr especially with the help of archaeologist L. Pernier and finally with the help of architect E. Stefani who designed a modern cover on the top of the ambulatory of the segments containing the inscription. This coverage was made to perform during the First World War on the basis of the Italian project from the Greek Government in order to protect the membership from possible war damage but especially from vandalism. The roof brick clay of the Laws of Gortyna still serves its function and ensures the use of the monument bearing witness to the preservation of Italian culture in Greece and more generally in the world. But in Sicily in the remains of the Villa del Casale in Piazza Armerina (Enna) its elegant protection (built in 1957) is representative of a whole period of culture of the Italian restoration is removed and replaced because it has not been able to make a ongoing maintenance is due. A bad example of conservation and management of a UNESCO monument from which arise after the work for the construction of new roofs an equally insulting to the archaeological heritage and scenic Italian and world.Settore ICAR/19 - Restauro
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Les " mausolées " de Salone et de Split

2012

Although abbot Martin is supposed to have collected and brought it all to Rome, as pope John IV had asked him to, the relics of salonitan martyrs are venerated since the Early Middle Ages in Split cathedral, settled in the octagon of Diocletian’s Palace, in the ager of Salona, former capital of Roman Dalmatia. Both main martyrs of the ancient city, first bishop Domnio and Anastasius fullonicus, are the medieval patrons of the cathedral beside Virgin Mary. Anastasius had previously been buried in a private mausoleum on the necropolis of Marusinac - mausoleum which gave birth to a pilgrimage ecclesial complex including a basilica gemina. Having first looked for graves ad sanctos at Manastirin…

HistoryMoyen Âge[SHS.ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryVisual Arts and Performing ArtsAncient citybiology[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistorymedia_common.quotation_subjectGeminaArtPilgrimageAncient historybiology.organism_classificationSalona; antiquite tardive; mausolee; palais de Diocletien; cathedraleCapital (architecture)Archéologie[ SHS.ARCHEO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryMiddle AgesBishopsmedia_common
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The sunset of Gortyn: amphorae in 7th –8th centuries AD

2014

Gortyn (A. Di Vita [ed.] 2000-01), some new contexts, more delimited and reliable, allow us to define better circulation, developments, and local use of amphorae in the last periods of urban life of the Cretan city. Two contexts of the mid-late 7th and late 7th-8th centuries are briefly analysed, coming from different quarters of the town (the Old Agora and the Early Byzantine houses near the “Praetorium”), and resulting from different formative processes, which could represent the circulation trends just before, and in the re-occupation phase after the earthquake that dismembered the Late Roman urban layout at the end of the 7th/early 8th century. They display a variety of imports from tra…

GORTYN TRANSFORMATION OF THE ANCIENT CITY INTO THE EARLY MEDIEVAL CITY AMPHORA PRODUCTIONS AND TRADE TYPOLOGY CHRONOLOGY FOOD SUPPLY CRETAN WORKSHOPS AND TYPES “IMITATIVE” AND DERIVATIVE TYPES CONTEXTUAL ANALYSISSettore L-ANT/07 - Archeologia Classica
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New results in ancient Maya rituals researches: The study of human painted bones fragments from Calakmul archaeological site (Mexico)

2020

Abstract The funeral chambers of the ancient city of Calakmul (Mexico) and the individuals who were buried in them have brought in recent decades new knowledge about the beliefs and funeral customs of the pre-Hispanic Maya. Tombs and bodies were prepared as part of the rituals that should favor the return of ch'ulel to the Underworld, known as Xibalba by the ancient Maya. The ch'ulel is one of the two anemic entities that inhabit the individual, equivalent to our concept of the soul. Bodies preparation included coloured scented body ointments application, with a deep symbolic connotation and probably also a conservative purpose. The aim of this research was to characterize pigments and bind…

010506 paleontologyArcheologyAncient citymedia_common.quotation_subjectCalakmulMortuary ceremoniesTransmitted lightClassic periodHuman bone01 natural sciencesNatural gumSEM-EDXMaya0601 history and archaeologyGC–MSSettore CHIM/12 - Chimica dell'Ambiente e dei Beni Culturali0105 earth and related environmental sciencesmedia_commonPainted dead bodies060102 archaeologyHevea Brasilliensis06 humanities and the artsArtArchaeologyPy-GC-MSOrganic fractionCinnabarMayaOrganic componentMaya Calakmul Classic period Painted dead bodies Mortuary ceremonies SEM-EDX GC–MS Py-GC-MS Natural gum Hevea BrasilliensisAncient maya
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The Roman circus and southwestern city quarter of Carthage: first results of a new international research project

2018

AbstractThe paper presents first results of a joint German–Tunisian research project in Carthage, Tunisia. Archaeological fieldwork has been undertaken (preceded by a geophysical survey) in the southwestern quarter of the ancient city to study the architecture, chronology and urban context of the circus. The area has, unlike the rest of Carthage, not been targeted by excavations of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries and, also unlike the rest of Carthage, is mostly not overbuilt, although under pressure from neighbouring communities. The area is the last one allowing a large-scale diachronic urban study in which the circus and its impact on the quarter is in the centre. From our f…

Cultural StudiesInternational researchHistory060101 anthropologyHistory060102 archaeologyAncient cityContext (language use)Excavation06 humanities and the artsAncient historyQuarter (United States coin)0601 history and archaeologyArchitectureChronologyLibyan Studies
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Insights into the Maya Blue technology: greenish pellets from the ancient city of La Blanca.

2011

Financial support is gratefully acknowledged from the MEC Projects CTQ2011-28079-CO3-01 and 02 which are also supported with ERDF funds. Research was conducted within the "Grupo de anlisis cientifico de bienes culturales y patrimoniales y estudios de ciencia de la conservacion" Microcluster of the University of Valencia Excellence Campus. The authors would like to thank Dr. Isabel Solana (SCSIE, UV), Dr. Jose Luis Moya Lopez, and Manuel Planes Insausti (Microscopy Service UPV) for their technical support.

PalygorskitesIndolesAncient citymedia_common.quotation_subjectSilicon CompoundsMagnesium CompoundsGeneral MedicineGeneral ChemistryArtGuatemalaIndigo CarmineCatalysisIndigoferaNanostructuresÍndigoArchaeologyPINTURAOrganic-inorganic hybrid compositesMayaDyes/pigmentsColoring AgentsHumanitiesHistory Ancientmedia_commonAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
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