RomanSarcophagi in theirOriginalContext, Rome and Vicinity von Dr. Katharina Meinecke veröffentlicht am 16.10.2008 [1] Previous [...] This paper is based on preliminary results from my doctoral thesis on "RomanSarcophagi in theirOriginalContext" still in progress at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. ↩ G. Ghini [...] research on sarcophagi has focussed primarily on the stylistic and iconographical evaluation of their figured decoration, treating them as autonomous works of art and separating them from theiroriginal context

order to put the Bosporan appliqués and their mythological implications in a wider context we can compare them with the few roughly contemporary Romansarcophagi which take the myth of the Niobids as a [...] Bosporan sarcophagi and the marble sarcophagi from Rome share death and flight as a central idea. However, the Romansarcophagi tell a narrative of death with clear indications of a mythological scene [...] be introduced. They belong to sarcophagi contemporary with the 2 nd century Roman ones but which originate in the Bosporan kingdom, a region outside the Imperium Romanum . It shall be argued that the

how the imagery on sarcophagi should be read, one commonly acknowledged goal in interpreting Greek myths on Romansarcophagi is to identify the way Romans understood the myths in their own society, so that [...] understand their use of these myths in the context of death.  The group of Romansarcophagi depicting the triumphal return of Dionysos from India is particularly useful for this purpose, because the Roman version [...] have reflected the different theories on how the imagery on Romansarcophagi should be read. In their publication of the group of sarcophagi found in the Licinian tomb, Lehmann- Hartleben and Olsen were

information about the roman occupation of the territory can be understood only in contexts belonging to roman monumental tombs with their inscriptions, their architectural feature, their funerary furnishings [...] cities, on sarcophagi decorated with mythological imagery and often only considering the epigraphical remains excluding an analysis of the funerary structures. Recently a lot of new studies on roman imperial [...] various aspects of funerary contexts outside the common mentioned areas and is derived from the experience of participation in field surveys over three years. The research [1] , that started in 2003

state and leave their loca , templa , and sacra ; arouse in the enemy metus , formido and oblivio ; prefer the Roman templa , loca and city; be favourable to the Roman people and army [...] constant and omnipresent in Roman religious practice: to avoid inaccuracies and unintentional errors, Romans developed some formulas intended to dodge gods’ possible hostility. The Roman always pays great attention [...] city of Volsinii appears for the first time in Roman history in 396 BC, when its army invaded the Roman territory to bring help to Veii. In 265 BC the Romans, called by the local aristocratics, captured and

the edified Roman general Camillus was the first to add, not just land, as had been done before, but the complete city-state of Veii to the Roman dominion, thus effectively founding the Roman Empire. While [...] that they were received by the Athenians because of their shared enmity of the Megarians, and that, as a result, they were allowed to set up their own genos and administer a number of cults in Attica [...] themselves as the descendants of the original sixth century settlers of the island who seem to be implicated in the Salamis decree. In Lambert’s view, which I follow, the original settlers played a leading role

Similitudo IX, 6,1, GCS 48,1, pp. 80-81; F. OEHLER (ed.), EPIPHANIUS 1,1, Panarion , 30,3, CH 2,1, pp. 244-247. ↩ IO.CAR.TH. OTTO (ed.), JUSTIN, Dialogue , 72,4, CAC 2, 1,2, Iena 18773 [...] Anima , 55, CSEL 20,1, pp. 387-389; 1Pt 3,19; 4,6. ↩ IO.CAR.TH. OTTO (ed.), JUSTIN, Apologia I, 55,60, CAC 1, 1,1, Iena 18763, pp. 150-163; Dialogue , 90-91, CAC 2, 1,2, Iena 18773, pp [...] which they draw upon [24] . The 1 st Peter is aimed to ἐκλεκτοῖς παρεπιδήμοις διασπορᾶς Πόντου, Γαλατίας, Καππαδοκίας, ̉Ασίας καὶ Βιθυνίας (1 Pt. 1,1) that is, every country in Asia Minor except

Isiacology is a young discipline: basically born in the mid XIX century (with Reichel’s De Isidis apud Romanos cultu , 1849), it is now just over 150 years of age. Despite its relative youth, it has been very [...] Republican Rome only for the modern mentality. In reality, even the most conservative elements of Roman society criticized sometimes only the extreme aspects of the so-called “Eastern Religions” (for instance [...] faciendo , in 105 B.C. A contemporary structure is that of the Iseum in Pompeii , whose original chronology has recently been questioned and a date in the Augustan Period proposed, although the