Pausanias when discussing the sanctuary of Isis near Titorea in Focis). The massive involvement of slaves in the Isiac cult at the end ofthe Republican and the beginning ofthe Imperial Period can easily [...] on the contrary opted for the destruction of their altars ( arae ). Five years later, in 53 B.C., the Senatus ordered the destruction ofthetemples ( naoi ) ofthe Egyptian Gods (whose the private [...] survived. The chronology ofthe inscription mentioning a Volusius Caesario , priest of Isis Capitolina , oscillates between the half ofthe I century B.C. and the beginning ofthe Augustan Age. The priest

[3] ; the need to avoid a sacrilege; the effect of motivating the army, giving it the certainty ofthe success [4] ; the appropriation ofthe essential nucleus ofthe enemy city, the one by which [...] tutelary deity of Carthago is evoked, the city devoted to the infernal gods and destroyed. The only difficulty is the lack of evidence on the statue’s removal and on the dedication of a temple to the goddess [...] official religion, outside the cult of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus and that ofthe emperor: the true religion ofthe state remains linked to the city of Rome. The careful evaluation of foreign gods and cults

some of these activities even outside the big urbanized cities. The analyzed tombs imitate sometimes the architecture of houses to underline the function of an eternal place for the dead, some temple-tombs [...] socle at the façade ofthe tomb, revealing a desire to arrest the attention ofthe living. They can also appear on door lintels, where the message generally establishes ownership ofthe tomb and lays down [...] reflects the complex hierarchy of roman society. The study of funerary evidences has the potential to supply important information about aspects ofthe inherent society. But the relation between the group

important way to the perception ofthe Court of Appeals and to the public ofthe importance ofthe Tablet's return. The Museum's mission, by law, is to 'ensure access to [...] cultural heritage in the public interest [...] and houses the world-famous Ishtar Gate of Babylon. The Near East Asian Museum is found inside the Pergamon Museum. The public will soon be invited to view the Tablet in the context ofthe objects with [...] crucial information and for permitting the Museum to reclaim an important piece ofthe world's heritage. The museums ofthe world are thankful for the selfless efforts of those, like Mr. Flamenbaum, who assist

unified form of proto-Rabbinic Judaism; the form and beliefs of a later manifestation ofthe religion were read back into the older, less uniform traditions ofthe Græco-Roman period. Much ofthe information [...] pitch that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but scorning theTemple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke ofthe gong, to take part in the distribution [...] time because of its contradictions. This is a Jewish text recounting the successful rebellion ofthe Maccabees against the Seleucids and the institution of an independent Jewish state for the first time in

  Publikation Raz Kletter, Irit Ziffer, Wolfgang Zwickel (Hrsg.) Yavneh I: The Excavation ofthe 'Temple Hill' Repository Pit. Fire Pans, Kernos, Naos, Painted Stands, ‘Plain’ Pottery, Cypriot

Publikation Raz Kletter, Irit Ziffer, Wolfgang Zwickel Yavneh I The Excavation ofthe 'Temple Hill' Repository Pit and the Cult Stands With Contributions by David Ben-Shlomo, Amir Gorzalczany

moving to the left. With his right hand he touches his beard, a gesture which is reminiscent ofthe famous statue ofthe seer displayed in the Eastern pediment ofthetempleof Zeus in Olympia. The most unusual [...] depicting the arrows, the gods (on the lid or at the sides ofthe main panel), the nurse, the paidagogos and the parents. Among the Niobids, which can be identified by context, several ways of dying are [...] final closing ofthe tomb. A “long-term viewing” ofthe images, as in the case ofthe marble sarcophagi from Rome, obviously was not intended. The Niobid appliqués ofthe Bosporan sarcophagi are a local

Athens to the sea, like the procession of initiates who were expected to bath in the sea on the second day ofthe Great Mysteries or the procession ofthe Plynteria to bath the cult statue of Athena in [...] obligations ofthe polis was a defining aspect of being a member of Athenian society, we have looked at the organization ofthe cult of Bendis to see how the Athenians shaped the membership ofthe Thracian [...] subdivisions. The presence ofthe ten phylai at the Bendideia stressed the unity ofthe polis community of which the Thracians had now become members. In turn, the separate Thracian contingent in the procession

↩ Giorgia Foderà Serio, Michael Hoskin, Frank Ventura, The Orientations oftheTemplesof Malta, Journal for the History of Astronomy 23, 1992, 107-19. ↩ Der Vollständigkeit halber [...] Daniel Cilia, Hagar Qim & Mnajdra Prehistoric Temples (Sta. Venera, Malta 2010) 38. ↩ Hrsg. Authority, Annual Report on the Working ofthe Museum Department (MAR) During 1927-28 (Malta 1928) [...] rung der Sternformationen auf der Kalkplatte. Sharon Sultana, The National Museum of Archaeology Valletta. The Neolithic Period (Sta. Venera, Malta 2010) 31. ↩ Die vom Autor