performed by Theseus is a test that he has to overcome using specific abilities, according to specific instructions and in a specific moment; it is a real 'initiation' that marks the passage from a status [...] Lifting up the stone has therefore a quite clear link with an initiation [11] and with a succession or a power taking. Therefore, the image of a stone is involved in a mythical tale, when somebody [...] as 'image' in such a sense, the image of a stone lifted up, only in the event that a substantive indicating the stone is near a verb signifying the act of lifting up, or that is a clear expression re

during a crucially 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 bya complete [...] closed in by ignorance and sin as if in a prison. This interpretation will be taken up by St. Thomas [44] . In chapter 4 of the 1 st Peter there is a verse that seems to clear 1 Pt. 3, 19: [...] coming out from the sepulchre sustained by two angels and followed bya cross, verses 41-42 illustrate the preaching and leadership of the Κύριος even to the under-world; a voice from the heavens asks if the

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 partaking [...] privilege by 332. This can be explained by the importance attached to the building of sanctuaries for the cohesion and definition of a polis community. [17] Founding a cult and building a sanctuary [...] 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 a new member.It is the main

belonging were reorganized by the community with a new symbolic order and expressed through the filters of ideology (ideas, beliefs and meanings). In fact there is sometimes a transmission of symbols from [...] passers-by will definitely see them to transmit important qualities of the owner, and often the choice of an absolutely dominant position to erect funerary buildings transforms the structure into a territorial [...] Hellenistic fortress discovered just a few years ago on the top of the mount Karasis, near ancient Sis, modern Kozan, and approximately 30 km north of ancient Anazarbos, founded by the emperor Augustus in 19 B

sive deus sive dea ; 2) the addressee is the oppidum ’s tutelary deity; 3) there has been a votum of a temple or of a cult, and this votum has been fulfilled. We can make other important [...] celebrated in the same way by those whom they have been taken from» [6] . The expression peregrina sacra (in its turn a subgroup of the sacra publica ) applies then to a precise category of foreign [...] on Verrius Flaccus, about a rite which takes place on the occasion of sieges, officiated by priests and addressed to the god under whose protection the city stands, god whom a cult is vowed to, more magnificent

word synagogue, a Greek word, illustrates the hybridity in the Jewish diasporic communities; a Jewish institution is called bya Greek name. However, this was not the primary word used by ancient Jews to [...] synagogue; when found on a tomb it is usually taken as a designation of Jewishness. However, we also find examples of inscriptions for a “synagogue” of barbers, which, because it is followed by an inscription to [...] construction of a diaspora identity. For a final word on Judaism, I would end by paraphrasing the epilogue of Second Maccabees, and suggest that perhaps “Just as it is injurious to drink wine by itself, or

Combining a locally inspired costume with large wings as well as a “prophetic” gesture, the Bosporan artisans thus seem to have created a new iconographic type of a death demon rather than that of a paidagogos [...] Excursus: A winged demon One of these types, however, is remarkably different: the figure of a bearded man dressed in a long-sleeved robe, which reaches to his feet, and a cloak ( himation [...] can be either another Niobid (according to iconography) or a different personage: a bearded man dressed in a cloak or a woman with heavy drapery. As in the case of the single appliqués an exact identification

the procession as a funeral procession or a magistrate’s journey to the underworld accompanied by games, though most recent interpretations follow Colini’s interpretation of it as a triumphal procession [...] elements in later triumphal imagery. A watercolor made at the time of the excavation incorporating fragments now missing shows a procession with a quadriga preceded by lictors carrying fasces [2] [...] . One surviving fragment showing a lictor wearing a short, red military tunic with a white stripe carrying fasces [3] , and another that shows three similarly dressed lictors moving in the same

was no product of individual whim, no romantic quest. It was part of the struggle of a civilization to adapt in order to survive. It was the consequence, generally speaking, of the initiative of strong [...] Punthalle des Totentempels der Hatschepsut ( Foto von Hans Bernhard (Schnobby) , CC-BY-SA , Hervorhebung A. Brunn) Das Zielgebiet der Puntfahrten wird in der Literatur zur Geschichte [...] Ägyptische Mannschaft an Bord ihres Schiffes (private Aufnahme, Bearbeitung durch A. Brunn) Der nachfolgende Aufsatz widmet sich der Rezeption der ägyptischen Puntfahrten