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The German-Tunisian research project at Chemtou / Simitthus began in the 1960s and was largely initiated by Friedrich Rakob, Josef Röder, and Theodor Kraus. The starting point was the interest in the Numidian sanctuary on the Djebel Chemtou as well as in the important ancient marble quarries of the famous “giallo antico” (marmor Numidicum). Since the first joint excavation campaign of the Tunisian INAA and the German Archaeological Institute in 1968, the project developed into a long-term research program focusing on the Numidian predecessor settlement, the Roman colonia of Simitthus, and the organization of ancient marble extraction.
The research concentrated on three main themes: the investigation of the Numidian period and the sanctuary on the temple hill, the study of the marble quarries and their unique Roman workers’ and administrative camp, and questions concerning the history and status of the Roman city. Significant discoveries were made, including a Numidian necropolis beneath the later Roman forum, rock-cut reliefs on the temple hill, new epigraphic evidence, and indications of the presence of Roman military units and veterans in Simitthus. The excavations also demonstrated that the Numidian sanctuary was not an isolated monument but part of a larger settlement structure.
This volume is primarily devoted to the history, organization, and technology of the Roman marble quarries of Chemtou. It publishes studies on quarry and block inscriptions by Theodor Kraus, the documentation of the Saturn rock reliefs on the temple hill, and contributions by Mustapha Khanoussi concerning the military presence and newly discovered inscriptions. In addition, the volume includes studies of technical constructions at the Oued Medjerda, especially Trajan’s bridge and an exceptional ancient turbine mill, both investigated by Josef and Gertrud Röder.
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Die Steinbrüche und die antike Stadt
Der Tempelberg und das römische Lager
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The German-Tunisian excavations at Chemtou/Simitthus began in 1968 with investigations of a Roman camp that had previously been identified through aerial photography. Surveys had already been carried out since 1965 in the ancient marble quarries and at the sanctuary on the Temple Mountain. The aim of the project was to study the important Roman marble extraction site and its religious and military installations. During the excavations, later military structures were removed, ancient foundations were uncovered, and parts of the sanctuary were conserved. Instead of reconstructing the sanctuary, a low marble pedestal was erected on the Temple Mountain as a visible landmark.
In the following decades, research focused on the unique labor and administrative camp of the imperial quarries. Of particular importance was the excavation of the so-called Ergastulum-Fabrica, which had initially been interpreted as a workshop but was later identified as a workers’ barracks. Further investigations concerned temple complexes, cult precincts, necropoleis, a Byzantine basilica, and urban structures such as baths, aqueducts, and bridges. Numerous German and Tunisian archaeologists, restorers, and specialists collaborated in the excavation, restoration, and analysis of the finds.
This volume primarily publishes new results concerning the history and function of the Roman camp, especially the military presence in the quarry area from the 1st century AD onward. A particular focus lies on the Temple Mountain and the investigation and identification of its sanctuaries from the early Numidian to the Byzantine period. The volume also highlights new findings on the Ergastulum-Fabrica as well as on water management and the camp’s bath complex. In addition, it includes an analysis of the pottery discovered within the camp. The publication further contains reconstructions, architectural surveys, and detailed drawings documenting the archaeological remains.
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Open Access Journal: Methodos: Savoirs et Textes
Methodos: Savoirs et Textes
ISSN électronique: 1769-7379
La revue à caractère scientifique Methodos. Savoirs et textes est une revue annuelle dont le premier numéro est paru en janvier 2001. La perspective adoptée est résolument interdisciplinaire. Issue de la rencontre d’historiens des sciences, de philosophes et de philologues réunis dans l’Unité Mixte de Recherche “Savoirs, textes, langage” (UMR 8163, STL) dépendant du CNRS et de l’Université de Lille, Methodos est ouverte à différentes disciplines représentées dans ce laboratoire de recherche (philologie classique, histoire des sciences et philosophie) à condition que les études proposées partent d’un travail sur les textes.
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Mediaeval Latin MathematicsSous la direction de Laurent Cesalli, Véronique Decaix et Leone GazzieroNotes de la rédaction
Longtemps éclipsée par l’extraordinaire fécondité des traditions mathématiques arabes et par l’essor sans précédent de la logique au sein du Moyen Âge latin, l’étude de la culture mathématique de l’Occident latin demeure entravée par d’importantes lacunes textuelles et par des interrogations historiographiques encore irrésolues.
S’appuyant tant sur l’édition de textes jusqu’ici inédits que sur l’analyse de concepts structurants et de débats doctrinaux déployés au carrefour des diverses disciplines constitutives de la pensée mathématique médiévale, les contributions réunies dans ce volume proposent une série d’essais thématiques qui entendent explorer un domaine riche, quoiqu'encore relativement peu étudié : celui des mathématiques médiévales dans le monde latin, sa vitalité conceptuelle, sa pluralité disciplinaire et son profond ancrage culturel entre les XIIIᵉ et XVe siècles.
Ce numéro se veut également un hommage rendu à l’œuvre de Jean Celeyrette, dont les recherches majeures sur l’histoire des mathématiques médiévales ont, au fil des années, contribué à renouveler l’attention des spécialistes pour un champ dont l’importance historique n’a d’égale que la profondeur conceptuelle. Puissent les études ici rassemblées offrir un tableau plus clair et plus nuancé des rôles que les mathématiques ont joués dans la formation, la transformation et la circulation des savoirs scientifiques au long du Moyen Âge latin.
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Long overshadowed by the extraordinary fertility of Arabic mathematical traditions and the unparalleled development of logic within the Latin Middle Ages, the mathematical culture of the Latin West is still beset by major textual lacunae and unresolved historiographical questions.
Building on newly edited texts and on analyses of key concepts and doctrinal debates across the diverse disciplines of medieval mathematical thought, the contributions gathered in this volume offer a series of case-driven studies that collectively shed light on the rich, yet comparatively understudied, field of Mediaeval Latin Mathematics, its conceptual vitality, disciplinary plurality, and cultural embeddedness between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries.
This issue is intended, in particular, to honour the legacy of Jean Celeyrette, whose major contributions to medieval mathematical scholarship have, over the years, fostered renewed attention to a field whose historical significance matches its conceptual depth. The hoped-for result is a collective homage that provides a clearer and more nuanced picture of the roles mathematics played in the formation, transformation, and circulation of scientific ideas throughout the Latin Middle Ages.
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La philosophie et ses textes
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Il demonico in Platone e la nascita della demonologia platonica
Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 23
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
This book reconstructs the genesis and development of daimonology in the Platonic tradition, analyzing the δαίμων as an intermediate figure between the human and the divine. The inquiry explores the notion of the daimonic in Plato’s dialogues as a complex and polysemic category, situated at the intersection of religion, metaphysics, and anthropology. Through an analysis of the figures of the guardian daimones, the soul-daimon of the Timaeus, the Socratic δαιμόνιον, and Eros as the “great daimon” of the Symposium, this volume examines the internal coherence of Plato’s thought on the daimonic, as well as its reception from the Old Academy to Middle Platonism, where it crystallized into a systematic daimonology that profoundly shaped later philosophy.
Questo libro ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo della demonologia platonica, analizzando il δαίμων come figura intermedia tra umano e divino. L’indagine approfondisce la nozione di demonico nei dialoghi platonici come categoria complessa e polisemica, al crocevia tra religione, metafisica e antropologia. Attraverso le figure dei demoni custodi, del demone-anima del Timeo, del δαιμόνιον socratico e di Eros come “gran demone” del Simposio, il volume ricostruisce la coerenza interna del pensiero platonico sul demonico e ne segue la ricezione dall'Accademia antica al Medioplatonismo, dove si consolida in una demonologia sistematica destinata a influenzare la filosofia tardoantica. See Less
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