[3] ; the need to avoid a sacrilege; the effect of motivating the army, giving it the certainty of the success [4] ; the appropriation of the essential nucleus of the enemy city, the one by which [...] transfer of the divine being; in other words, whereas in Rome the god’s assent was confirmed by the auspices or by the positive result of the transfer, in the evocatio it proved itself from the success [...] . The goddess at issue is Tanit , in the interpretatio Romana Iuno Caelestis [52] . Little before the last assault the Romans beg the goddess, regarded as the tutelary deity of the Carthaginian

Jewish text recounting the successful rebellion of the Maccabees against the Seleucids and the institution of an independent Jewish state for the first time in four hundred years. The tone of this text is [...] indeed, the hellenising process reached such a pitch that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke [...] stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; setting no store by the honours of their fatherland, they esteemed Hellenic glories best of all

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 the preparatory aspects of the burial, the burial itself and [...] Their inherent fixation towards the past is perhaps one of the reasons for the burial practices being so astonishingly neutral to major religious changes (for example the spread of Christianity). Beyond [...] imaginary, artificial picture of the deceased (Cestius' pyramid in Rome). The 9 th International Spring School will focus on the Ancient Mediterranean. Based on the literary, archaeological, and epigraphic

attraction for the members of a specific social stratum. Aim of the 8th International Spring School at the Department for Religious Studies of the University of Erfurt was not so much the plain description [...] description of the phenomenon as such (e.g. the step by step reconstruction of the arrival of Asklepios at Athens or Rome), but moreover the understanding of the religious, social, and political mechanisms [...] light on cases that are definitely not locally bounded, like the cult of the so called Egyptian deities, the appearance of Mithras, or the state-controlled introduction of deified human beings (Hellenistic

As a first step, the Working Group will carry out a Pilot Study of selected areas of Europe. The aim of the Pilot Study is to work out the Database system, the collection of data, and the database structure [...] held at the next EAA meeting in Lyon (8-11 September. 2004), www.eaa-lyon-2004.org The aim of the proposed round-table - The creation of collaboration strategy of the project. - Working out the final [...] Ceramic Production Centres. The Working Group is promoted by the international Medieval Pottery Research Group; www.medievalceramic.org.uk/newsletter The major aim of the Working Group Creation of a

mapping data, to position the historic local grid within the world view. • If no automated georeferencing is possible flag the site for review • Make datasets available in the most appropriate way • [...] in Bradford for in excess of 40 years. GSB Prospection (Part of the SUMO Group) combined with the School of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford have an archive of reports both analogue [...] available in the public domain. The project is built primarily on open source software and database systems and wherever possible will be made available to those seeking to replicate the work we are doing

"Managing the Archaeological Record and the Cultural Heritage", "Archaeology and the Modern World: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives" und "Archaeology and Material Culture: Interpreting the Arch

Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, the Ethnological Museum, and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). The conference brings together archaeologists, art historians, and [...] pleased to announce that the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA) will be held in Berlin in 2010, organized jointly by the Institute of Ancient [...] participate in the conference should submit the title of their paper and an abstract of about 150 words by 1 July 2009. Participants and visitors can register online. We encourage the presentation of

provides a fascinating glimpse of the dynamics of communication from prehistory to pre-colonial times. Participants of the EurASEAA13 conference are encouraged to reflect on the transfer of knowledge, language [...] Southeast Asian archaeology, in particular to the main conference theme “Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology”. This subject has been chosen to reflect the conference’s interdisciplinary approach [...] Asian themes. Colleagues who wish to participate in the conference can register online . Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. We encourage the presentation of posters.

Can you dig it? The unearthed history of Manchester club the Reno (The Guardian, 13.12.2017)