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

played by the stone as a real medium of communication with the afterworld. In such a communication, the stone plays indeed a very important role, both on the side of ritual practices and on the side of [...] 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

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 [...] ‘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 [...] 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

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 [...] Review 84.2 (1991): 142. ↩ A branch associated with the festival of Sukkoth. ↩ A citrus fruit perhaps like a lemon that is associated with Sukkoth. ↩ A ram’s horn [...] 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

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. It was the fact that they were [...] Hera, which was given a new home in a newly consecrated precinct on the Aventine hill. How should this act be interpreted? Was it just a brutal act of humiliation at the expense of a poor, conquered nation [...] behind this network of cults and to be able to gain a glimpse of the concomitant ideology of a common past. Thus, we find the Salaminioi to be a part of a complex religious network, clustered around the

ittita, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (in press in 2008). ↩ Hall 1972, 568-571. ↩ Cf. for example CIL I 22, 741; Ov. Fasti I 593; Str. XII 6, 2. ↩ [...] rite [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 [...] 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