presence in Rome and therefore its own power. This, of course, together with the more specific political purposes. After the city’s capture, the deity usually received a cult and/or a temple in Rome, where [...] spot [7] , or, if carried to Rome, they were sometimes subject matter only of a private cult [8] . The evoked deities instead were usually moved to Rome [9] where they obtained, according [...] yet, to worship the goddess in accordance with the original Greek rites [14] . However, it is sure that the cult lost in Rome, more or less substantially, its former features, and, moreover, the

die Römer aus dem nahen Militärlager die Siedlung in Schutt und Asche gelegt haben, liegt aber noch im Dunkeln. "Hieran forschen wir. Wir versuchen zu klären, ob die Siedlung bestand, als die Römer kamen [...] bedeutet, dass dies der Ort war, wo die Kelten, die hier in einer kleinen Siedlung wohnten, religiöse Riten abhielten und ihren Göttern Opfer darbrachten. "Die Kelten opferten Tiere, Gegenstände, mitunter sogar

original context in urban Rome and vicinity stood in chamber tombs or hypogea . In the 1 st century A.D., i.e. before the beginning of the large scale production of sarcophagi in Rome in around 120 A.D. [...] Roman Sarcophagi in their Original Context, Rome and Vicinity von Dr. Katharina Meinecke veröffentlicht am 16.10.2008 [1] Previous [...] the funerary cult taking place around them. In this paper, I will limit my considerations to urban Rome and its suburbium in the 1 st - 3 rd centuries of the Imperial Age. First I will show how

Isis in the Republican Period outside Regio I , between Rome and Pompeii. This is the historical context. Now, let us analyze the case of Rome. The authorship attributed to Ennius of a passage in Cicero [...] and furthermore does not give any evidence for the presence of Isis in Rome in the III or II century B.C. Isis’ arrival in Rome probably took place in the ’40s or ’30s of the II century B.C., though in [...] the Isiac rites in the city and to banish them outside the latter, consequently strengthening the role of the Iseum Campense , from this moment the most important Egyptian temple of Rome. This is shown

Subterranean Rome . (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), 146. ↩ Rutgers, Subterranean Rome , 149. ↩ Rutgers, Subterranean Rome , 149. ↩ Rutgers, Subterranean Rome , 148. [...] community life is from Rome, but what we know for that area is largely from archaeology and epigraphy, with only a few literary sources. We have evidence for the Jewish community in Rome starting at the [...] city, Rome was becoming quite cosmopolitan, as it was developing into one of the most important cities in the ancient Mediterranean. This, too, would have attracted many groups of people to Rome from all

responsible for carrying out certain religious duties, which included the organization of the religious rites and the apportioning of the sacrificial meat as well as the selection of cult officials. The decree [...] to, here, within the particular environment of this year’s Spring School. When Camillus returned to Rome, he brought with him the Veian cult-statue of Hera, which was given a new home in a newly consecrated [...] concerned with the religious repercussions of their conquest, which at the time meant a near doubling of Rome’s territory. To guarantee that the conquered city’s patron deity was pacified, her cult was carefully

later triumphal imagery is unmistakable. The triumphal quadriga on a relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome, dated 81-90 CE, moves from right to left rather than from left to right, but the stance of the horses [...] Through this imagery, Augustus identifies himself and his successor with the power and victory of Rome. It should be noted that Augustus’ own funeral builds on the similarities between the triumphal [...] signa Romana fixerat, ubi vix ullos esse Romanos notum erat , 3,1). Essentially, Drusus extended Rome’s power, but did so by pushing into previously unknown territories. The idea of the triumph here is

materials. This suggests that the burial itself was an important, carefully performed part of the funeral rites. On the other hand, in most cases the measurements and construction of the tombs would not have allowed [...] which take the myth of the Niobids as a central theme. [31] On the marble sarcophagi from Rome the myth is usually restricted to the carved front side including the lid; the back side of the sarcophagi [...] for the Bosporan sarcophagi. Both the wooden Bosporan sarcophagi and the marble sarcophagi from Rome share death and flight as a central idea. However, the Roman sarcophagi tell a narrative of death