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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…
Rappresentazioni del sacro femminile. I busti femminili "di tipo agrigentino" in contesto
2021
Il contributo esamina la categoria dei busti fittili femminili in ottica contestuale, concentrando l'attenzione su due casi tra i più significativi a oggi noti: il Santuario rupestre di Agrigento e il Santuario del cd. altare di Demetra a Lipari. L'esame comparato consente di evidenziare sia le ricorrenze sia le specifiche connotazioni che la formula assume nella pratica rituale di ciascun santuario. The contribution examines the category of female fictile busts from a contextual point of view, focusing attention on two of the most significant cases known to date: the rupestrian sanctuary of Agrigento and the sanctuary of the cd. altar of Demeter in Lipari. The comparative examination allow…