Friday, July 10, 2026

Tarquinia. Scavi sistematici nell'abitato. Il pozzo del 'complesso monumentale' e la sua sigillatura

Marzullo, Matilde (editor) 
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The volume documents the obliteration of a well over 21 metres deep, discovered within the sacred area of the ‘monumental complex’ of Tarquinia. It is the fifth in the main Tarchna series and stands in continuity with the previous volumes presenting the results of the University of Milan’s excavations at Tarquinia. The first section is devoted to the excavation and closure of the well, reconstructing the stratigraphic palimpsest and the underlying motivations for the intervention. The second section identifies the diagnostic criteria for interpreting the finds, while the third is dedicated to the complete publication of the materials recovered, through contributions from thirty authors. The well contained votive furnishings belonging to a sacred building not yet identified, in use at least from the late fourth century BC. Analysis of the finds suggests a cult associated with the principal female divinity of the ‘monumental complex’. with evidence reaching back to even earlier periods. The body of evidence indicates that these were furnishings once in use within the sacred area, ritually preserved over time and deposited in the well at the moment of its closure, which took place in the second century BC in the context of a solemn ceremony. This obliteration reflects practices shared across the Etrusco-Italic region, involving ritual gestures intended to preserve the memory of earlier cults. Sacred buildings and objects were taken out of use by institutions still politically and religiously autonomous, determined to maintain their memory intact at the dawn of the process that would draw the whole of Etruria into the centralising orbit of Rome.
 
l volume documenta l’obliterazione di un pozzo profondo oltre 21 metri, ritrovato nell’area sacra del ‘complesso monumentale’ di Tarquinia. È il quinto della serie principale della Collana Tarchna e si pone in continuità con i precedenti dedicati ai risultati degli scavi dell'Università di Milano a Tarquinia. La prima parte è dedicata allo scavo e alla chiusura del pozzo, ricostruendo il palinsesto stratigrafico e le motivazioni dell’intervento. La seconda parte individua i capisaldi diagnostici per interpretare i reperti, mentre la terza è volta alla pubblicazione integrale materiali mobili rinvenuti, attraverso i contributi di trenta autori. Il pozzo conteneva suppellettili votive di un edificio sacro non ancora identificato, utilizzato almeno dalla fine del IV secolo a.C. L’analisi dei reperti suggerisce un culto legato alla principale divinità femminile del ‘complesso’, con testimonianze che risalgono anche a epoche precedenti. L'insieme delle attestazioni indica che si trattasse di suppellettili un tempo in uso nell'area sacra, conservate ritualmente nel tempo e gettate nel pozzo al momento della sua chiusura, avvenuta nel II secolo a.C. con una cerimonia solenne. Questa obliterazione riflette pratiche condivise nell’area etrusco-italica, con gesti volti a preservare la memoria di culti pregressi. Edifici e oggetti sacri vengono dismessi da istituzioni ancora autonome a livello politico e religioso, che intendono continuare a mantenerne saldamente la memoria, all'alba di quel processo che porterà tutta l’Etruria ad essere assorbita dall’orbita accentratrice di Roma.
ISBN
979-12-5510-322-6, 979-12-5510-324-0, 979-12-5510-348-6
Publisher website
https://milanoup.unimi.it/
Publication date and place
Milano, 2026-04-23
Imprint
Milano University Press
Series
Tarchna,
Classification
Landscape archaeology
Pages
Vol. 1: 698 - Vol. 2: 746
 

The Return of the Golden Age from Antiquity to the 21st Century: Receptions of a Classical Motif

Susanna de Beer, Ruben Poelstra (eds.) 
book: The Return of the Golden Age from Antiquity to the 21st Century

This book represents the first reception history of the classical myth of the “Golden Age” from Antiquity up until the present. The introduction proposes “Golden Age thinking” as a set of connected ideas about the flexible organization of time, morality and divine interventions. The case-studies reveal the different ways this has been and still is being used to promote a particular vision of the future by connecting it to an idealized vision of a lost past. Together they offer a toolkit for understanding this motif’s enduring power, and reconstruct the trajectory during which Greco-Roman antiquity, from being the origin of the Golden Age myth, was transformed into a kind of Golden Age itself. 

 
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eBook ISBN:
9789004762848
Front matter:
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Main content:
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Pourquoi lire en traduction ? La Bible, un cas d'école

Éditeur : Presses de l’Inalco

Lieu d’édition : Paris

Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 8 juillet 2026

ISBN numérique : 978-2-85831-483-6

DOI : 10.4000/16j0v

Collection : TransAireS

Année d’édition : 2026

ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-85831-482-9

Nombre de pages : 500

 


 

The Iconography of ‘Otherness’ in Pre-Modern Visual Art: A Cross-Cultural Approach

 
book: The Iconography of ‘Otherness’ in Pre-Modern Visual Art 
The concept of ‘otherness’ or ‘othering’ has been a prominent topic in sociology and anthropolo-gy in the last decades. It has also recently been examined in historical disciplines, particularly with regard to pre-modern times, and taken from philological, historical, and visual studies perspec-tives. In the past, however, most of these studies on ‘otherness’ and similar phenomena, such as (social) inequality, dependency, and inclusion/exclusion, focused on specific regions, cultures, and periods. In contrast, the methodological approach used in this volume, is based on transcul-tural and diachronic comparisons. This allows us to look at a broad range of images of ‘others’ stemming from different pre-modern societies (prior to 1800 CE) around the globe and to com-pare the role of ‘otherness’ and the use of ‘othering’ as a pictorial strategy in various historical contexts. The volume includes case studies from Bronze and Iron Age Near East and Egypt, Late Bronze Age and Archaic-Classical Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Europe as well as pre-modern South Asia. 
eBook published on:
July 6, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9783112251010
Hardcover published on:
July 6, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9783112251003
Front matter:
6
Main content:
290
Illustrations:
86
Tables:
1

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    Thursday, July 9, 2026

    Open Access Journal: Annals of the Náprstek Museum

    [First posted in AWOL 13 June 2018, updated 9 July 2026]
     
    ISSN: 0231-844X (print)
    ISSN: 2533-5685 (online) 

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    Annals of the Náprstek Museum, a National Museum journal, publishes the results of scientific research which have not been published yet, and which deals with material and spiritual culture and social relations in non-European cultures. Since its foundation in 1962 it was published once a year, since 2013 two issues per year are published. Each issue is structured into four sections: Papers, Research reports, Materialia, Revies of the literature dealing with non-European cultures
    . Since 2008 the journal has been included to EBSCO database with full-text searching, in a group "Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS)", and in ERIH PLUS.