Tombs as Places of Cult and Imagination 9th International Spring School (9th - 13th March 2008) Tagungen Death is certainly not only the biological end of one»s [...] use of funeral cippi by Phoenicians in Late Geometric and Archaic Greece), but they can also create an imaginary, artificial picture of the deceased (Cestius' pyramid in Rome). The 9 th International [...] involved in burial practices and rituals at the tomb. This will constitute a point of departure in order to investigate the mythical, philosophical, and theological conceptualisation of the life to death

not only by notions like sema and mnema , but also by different means. I would like to analyse one of these various means using the idea of Polyvalence des images , shaped by the founder [...] attitudes and social forms which are reflected by them. In this sense, the Greek myth, or rather "the Greek legend", can be read - once more in the words of L. Gernet - "as a document of archaic Greece's social [...] briefly dwell upon the image of somebody throwing a stone, not only in order to illustrate another value of the stone, but also - above all - to clearly demonstrate an aspect of the method of analysis described

important moment in the life of Jesus in order to seal the unity between the Father and the Son. He also does this in order to emphasise that the life of the Son is marked by a complete and definitive acceptance [...] as chosen by Kraus and Nicklas (TH. J. KRAUS - T. NICKLAS, Das Petrusevangelium und die Petrusapokalypse. Die griechischen Fragmente mit deutscher und englischer Übersetzung , Berlin - New York 2004 [...] of Chapter X, following the vision of Christ coming out from the sepulchre sustained by two angels and followed by a cross, verses 41-42 illustrate the preaching and leadership of the Κύριος even to the

approximately 30 km north of ancient Anazarbos, founded by the emperor Augustus in 19 B.C. Trento University, with a research team directed by Prof. Mariette de Vos, had to investigate the surrounding [...] image of reality. Aspects of the social and cultural belonging were reorganized by the community with a new symbolic order and expressed through the filters of ideology (ideas, beliefs and meanings). In [...] sphere, gardens are created around the tombs to receive visitors, inscriptions are placed where passers-by will definitely see them to transmit important qualities of the owner, and often the choice of an

things belonging to the gods and the things relating to a good order among men as sanctioned by the gods’, as discussed most importantly by Connor. [3] There are many references to sharing or [...] several court cases on citizenship; it is also shown by the fact that all important transitions in an Athenian’s life were marked by religious acts by which the community could publicly accept or reject [...] official polis cult of Bendis in Attika. I will show by which means the Athenian demos could control the integration of a social group, namely the Thracians, by regulating its worshipping activities. Although

[2] by which, shortly before the last attack on the besieged city, the Romans asked its tutelary deity to take her favour away from those whom she had granted it until then in order to give it to [...] carmen evocationis quoted by Macrobius. It is certain that the addressee was the tutelary god of the city, but how should we understand the periphrasis’ indeterminateness by which this deity is invoked [...] transfer of the divine being; in other words, whereas in Rome the god’s assent was confirmed by the auspices or by the positive result of the transfer, in the evocatio it proved itself from the success

been provoked by the mortal Niobe, the mother of many children, who boasts about the number of her offspring in comparison to the divine Leto. Niobe’s hybris is punished severely by Apollo and Artemis [...] Moreover, the fact that this figure plays an important role is emphasized by his unusual gesture and, most importantly, by his large wings. In the realm of death wings distinguish their bearers from [...] post-burial activities inside the tombs. This is again supported by the fact that in two cases the relevant burials had been covered by a secondary burial. Unfortunately, we have no reliable information

Grabungsarbeiten sollten nicht durch Besucher gestört werden, die dann - vor allem am Wochenende - sich eigenmächtig als Archäologen betätigen und wertvolle Funde mitnehmen könnten. Dann zeigte sich, dass [...] Durchmesser und 1,5 Meter Tiefe. Trotzdem entdeckte er hier über 7000 Kultgegenstände aus dem 9. und 8. Jh. v.Chr. - so viel war in über 100 Jahren Forschungsgeschichte noch nie in Israel gefunden worden. Anfangs [...] Band der Grabungspublikation erscheint in diesen Tagen. Im Herbst 2002 führte der israelische Archäologe Dr. Raz Kletter, damals in Diensten der israelischen Antikenverwaltung, eine räumlich äußerst begrenzte

eum im Archäologischen Park Xanten und das LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn das historische Datum zum Anlass für eine gemeinsame Ausstellung. In deren Mittelpunkt steht das einzige sichere archäologische Zeugnis [...] Warum waren die antiken Grabsteine bunt bemalt? Wie sah die Heimatstadt des Marcus Caelius - das heutige Bologna - zur Zeit des Kaisers Augustus aus? Und welche Rolle spielten die beiden Freigelassenen, die [...] neu gezeichnet und bildlich wiedergeben wurde. Auch heute noch ist der Grabstein - wie kaum ein anderes römisches Denkmal - als Fotovorlage in unzähligen Büchern und Publikationen zu finden. Ungewiss

66B - Tapestry - 4 (14811267927) , Auschnitt von TJ, CC BY-SA 2.0 ) |2| Das kranzförmige Objekt in Szene 46 ( Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada, France-000689 - Tapestry [...] seiner Mannschaft ( Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada, France-000666B - Tapestry - 4 (14811267927) , Ausschnitt von TJ, CC BY-SA 2.0 ) |4| Eisernes Objekt [...] worden - ohne dass das Gesamtbild wesentlich beeinträchtigt wurde. Der Teppich (wohl eher ein überlanger Wandteppich) wurde vermutlich in der zweiten Hälfte des 11. Jh. in England angefertigt - epigraphische