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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…
NEW RESTORED DENARIUS OF TRAJAN FROM CARCABOSO, CÁCERES (CONVENTUS EMERITENSIS, LUSITANIA)
2019
A recent and new Republican denarius restored by Trajan is studied and discussed. The issue is extremely rare as no image of it is known so far. It was found in Carcaboso, Cáceres (Conventus Emeritensis, Lusitania), very near of the road known as Vía de la Plata, very surely in a Roman mansio.
Il Belice prima e dopo il 1968 attraverso le iconografie
2014
Il saggio presenta come l' intero territorio della valle del Belice abbia cambiato identità dopo il terremoto del 1968. Attraverso le iconografie (fotografie, disegni) di architetture esistite e poi distrutte. The 1968 earthquake in western Sicily is a break point in the history of a territory rich and layered. The journalism has mainly dealt with the case Gibellina, but in reality is the entire geographical area to have changed relationships and vocations. The iconography and photographs can witness the difference that occurred within a few years. In fact, the contemporary architecture linked to the reconstruction is only one of the parameters suitable to interpret mutations identity of pl…
Iconografia votiva e performances rituali: qualche esempio dalla Sicilia greca
2020
The paper aims at underlining the relationships between the iconography of terracotta figurines and the ritual practices. As case study the pinakes depicting a group of standing/playing and dancing maidens are treated, and the whole "votive system" to which they belong is analyzed.
Representations of the Life-giving Spring feast in Romanian iconography
2021
This article explores the development of the theme of the Life-giving Spring in Byzantine iconography. The path towards its establishment was initiated at the moment when a representation rule, an original convention was set. Thereafter, because of its diffusion in time and space, the theme became enriched by particular mentalities and sensibilities of the epochs and the communities that adopted it as a form of devotion for the Virgin Theotokos. As a result, the representations we have known so far are extremely varied. Contribution: The final purpose of this approach, as well as its contribution, is to highlight the diverse unity of the iconographic tradition and illustrate both the evolut…
Porc et sanglier en Gaule septentrionale, entre archéozoologie et imaginaire collectif
2006
In France, when we speak about the animal associated to celtic people, everybody thinks and mentions wildboar. This topic meanly emerged from XIXe historiography, but Archaeozoology shows that this animal is very rare in every kinds of sites (settelments, shrines or cemeteries). In other hand, the excavations of these sites give a great amount of pig bones, this animal is in fact one of the more important in celtic husbandry and meat production. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the difference between historiographic and archaeological evidences.