Tagungen Death is certainly not only the biological end of one»s life, but moreover the very starting signal for a whole sequence of ritual practices connected to [...] example the spread of Christianity). Beyond this, tombs can function as an important sign underlining one»s and his family»s social and even ethnic identity (the tomb of Eurysaces the baker in Rome or the conscious

concerning the acceptance of foreign gods in Rome are clearly stated by Festus: «Foreign cults are the ones called, who either have been transferred after an evocation of the deities during the siege of cities [...] lost his or her prerogatives of tutelary deity, just like it had happened to all the other evoked ones, who received a cult and were welcome in the Roman pantheon. Otherwise the deity lost this function [...] [76] . Concerning the first point, the custom of comparing the foreign deities with the Roman ones on the occasion of every evocatio became most likely a pontifical tradition, fading and gradually

the group of Thracians is most numerous. [8] Most of these were of slave status; yet, the ones I could track were working as household slave, wed nurses or teachers: not the lowest class of slaves [...] will speak tomorrow, is working. Not having the right to use polis property to build a sanctuary for one’s deities meant being an outsider to the community, which, of course, the Thracians were. By granting [...] organized worshippers who served a public cult –not only the citizen orgeones but also the foreign ones. Ronda Simms already suggested that the Thracians were perhaps granted this privileged name because

of the island and that they played a leading role in its governance, it follows that they were the ones with the greatest interest in keeping it in Athenian hands. The institution of the cults of Eurysakes [...] whole. Finally, I would like to dwell briefly on Heracles, whose cult is the second of the ones mentioned in the settlement decree as having been administered by the Salaminioi. His cult is not

Niobids, shall be introduced. They belong to sarcophagi contemporary with the 2 nd century Roman ones but which originate in the Bosporan kingdom, a region outside the Imperium Romanum . It shall be [...] the first two centuries different types of sarcophagi were in use in Pantikapaian tombs, among them ones without columns. [29] Our knowledge about the decorative scheme of the sarcophagi is even

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 social and cultural [...] inscriptions also have their “typical” elements to set them apart from each other and from Jewish ones. Kraemer sees these criteria as problematic for a number of reasons. She points out the fact that

Roman triumph, even if one has not actually achieved the victory oneself. The tradition of enhancing one’s accomplishments through association with Dionysos makes him a likely vehicle for identifying oneself