te" aus Haus Rath, dem ältesten Profanbau in Krefeld, wertet Dr. Christoph Reichmann, Leiter des Museums Burg Linn, als einen weiteren Hinweis auf die Bedeutung der Herren des Hauses Rath. Die mit einer [...] das "Fenster", eine Schießscharte, lagen bislang im Depot. Die Anlage war in einer Wand des Hauses Rath eingebaut und durch eine Tür von einem anderen Raum getrennt. Das Klo reinige sich "automatisch" bei [...] Verwendung identischer Baumaterialien deutet auf eine außergewöhnliche Stellung der Herren von Haus Rath, die Familie von Rode, hin. Sie scheinen auch in enger Verbindung zu König Friedrich Barbarossa (1122

that same century, rather than to the seventh or eighth. That they had been a part of the Kekrops-Erechtheus mythological cycle for a long time is not necessarily a problem, but rather a solution to it. [...] had not been fully resolved when the deme system was reformed by Kleisthenes in 507/6 BC. Salamis’ rather uneasy position within the Athenian polis is well illustrated by the fact that its inhabitants, who [...] thought to have played an important role in the Athenian acquisition of Salamis. Fortunately, we are rather well informed about the Salaminioi, thanks to a fourth century BC settlement decree, which regulates

of the importance and acceptance of the Thracians, yet it is not my aim here to discuss ‘why’ but rather to show ‘how’ the Thracians and their native goddess were accepted in Athens. The rise of Bendis [...] that, in this period, at least one form of worship of Bendis was performed by Thracians and with a rather exotic nature, at least in Athenian eyes. We also have three vases depicting Bendis. One shows [...] torch-race on horseback was probably their responsibility. In this torch-race the Thracians could –or rather should– demonstrate their ethnic identity at the gaze of the Athenians. In the fourth century

mental 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 [...] collective identity of a social group - familial or connected with the polis in a different way - rather than to have a direct contact with the dead himself. Similarly, proceeding from Vernant's remarks [...] like to focus on is not the symbolic, evocative, nor the remembering function of the gravestone. I'm rather trying to deepen our understanding of the role played by the stone as a real medium of communication

material currently known, others are unique so far. Although this typology appears at first glance to be rather broadly defined, the single types are based on a number of clearly noticeable postures and gestures [...] directly to the Niobids in spatial terms. The statuesque posture of these men and women is reminiscent rather of representations of Greek citizens in Hellenistic times. [17] They can better be regarded [...] gesture, the Bosporan artisans thus seem to have created a new iconographic type of a death demon rather than that of a paidagogos . [22] Finally, the third group include appliqués which

of the large scale production of sarcophagi in Rome in around 120 A.D., most burial chambers were rather spacious and lacked permanent architectural installations such as niches or masonry bases for the [...] meals though. While most tombs from the 1 st century and many from the 2 nd century A.D. were rather spacious and empty, as they often contained only the burials in the original sarcophagi, the burial

follows Colini in interpreting the reconstruction of the tomb imagery as a triumphal procession rather than a funeral procession for the following reasons: the presence of four lictors suggests a triumphing [...] 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 and the position of the toga-wearing general [...] depicting the triumph of Dionysos, dated 170-180 CE, adapts the triumphal imagery, with two tigers rather than four horses pulling the chariot; with reveling maenads and satyrs as attendants; and Dionysos

religions. [21] The earliest Jewish catacombs are not considered proper catacombs, but are rather a series of separate  ὑπόγεια which were only later connected to one another. [22] Later [...] find that the names of those memorialized in this way for the most part carry thoroughly Roman names rather than biblical ones. [23] In terms of language and naming practices, which are two important [...] case. In this instance, the priests of Isis alone were executed, and the cult was merely discouraged rather than expelled. We see similarities to the account of the Jewish expulsion in the fact that both women

will be identified with Mars, etc. Frequently it was more important an even superficial impression rather than the understanding of inner essence of a deity: the soldier believed that the god invoked during [...] contested among Romans [89] and conquests were almost always the result of battles in open field rather than of sieges. When did the last evocatio take place? We could answer in a way, audacious

cushion, applying the edge so dexterously, and with so little apparent effort, that the cushion seemed rather to fall asunder than to be divided by violence. "It is a juggler's trick," said De Vaux, darting