funeral processions and tombs, we have seen that it is nothing newfor Romans to celebrate the triumph in death. In Drusus’ case, what seems to be new is the attribution of triumphal honors to someone who had [...] the lictors wear the red sagum , which, according to Cicero, was worn only for military campaigns or, inside the city, for the triumph; and in a funeral, we might expect the lictors to carry the fasces [...] [8] . It has been disputed whether these processions should be taken as evidence for an Etruscan prototype for the triumph, or whether they indicate a different kind of procession originating in Etruria
Merkmal, das ein Bindeglied zu heute lebenden Menschenaffen herstellt«, fügt Ellen Miller von der Wake Forest University hinzu. Alesis Schädel ist etwa so groß wie eine Zitrone, und mit seiner besonders [...] man denken, es handelt sich um einen ausgestorbenen Gibbon«, sagt Chris Gilbert vom Hunter College, New York. »Allerdings zeigen unsere Analysen, dass dieses Erscheinungsbild nicht ausschließlich bei Gibbons [...] Feibel, C., Fox, D., Feinberg, J., Pugh, K.D., Berruyer, C., Mana, S., Engle, Z. and Spoor, F. New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution. Nature; 10 August, 2017 DOI:
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Zentrum. Publikation Gresky et al. Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult Science Advances 3, e1700564 (2017), published 28 June 2017 DOI:
Obviously, these sarcophagi had been removed from the vestibulum to make room fornew coffins, possibly when a new proprietor took over the tomb. At this point, only the anteroom seems to have been [...] were equipped with an oven and a well for preparing these banquets. Tomb 86 of the Isola Sacra necropolis, for example, presents a well, an oven, and masonry benches for the participants to sit on, installations [...] originally intended for sarcophagi. One example is the late-Hadrianic tomb 11 of the Isola Sacra necropolis near Portus Romae that contained three arcosolia with trench graves for inhumations (fig. 1)
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she had granted it until then in order to give it to them. The fundamental reasons for this practice were: the search for the support of the city’s deity, without whose agreement conquering the city would [...] . The beginning of the end for the Etruscan city is Furius Camillus’ election to the dictatorship [31] . After he had accomplished all the required preparations for war, he made a vow according [...] . Just after Veii’s capture Falerii had been besieged for the help given to the Etruscan city. In 241 BC the city revolted, and for that reason was captured, plundered and its citizens tranferred