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

Stromata 2,9,43-44, GCS 15,2, pp. 135-136; 6,6,45-46, GCS 15,2, pp. 454-455; Adumbrationes in I Petri 3,19 e 4,6, GCS 17,3, p. 205; Adumbrationes in I Jn 2,2, GCS 17,3, p. 211; A. REIFFERSCHEID [...] 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 [...] E. Schwartz – Th. Mommsen (hrsg.), Eusebio, Historia Ecclesiastica VI,12, GCS 6,2 (Neue Folge), pp. 544.546. ↩ Exempli gratia: the sentence of Jesus given by Herod (EvPt 1,2; 2,5); the

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

dall’Esquilino”, in D. Vitali (ed.), L’immagine  tra  mondo  celtico  e  mondo  etrusco-italico.    Aspetti  della  cultura figurativa nell’antichità, Florence. Nock, A.D. 1946 A.D. Nock, “Sarcophagi [...] 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 [...] Coarelli plate IV, fig 2 ↩ Coarelli, plate III, fig. 2 ↩ Coarelli, plate IV, fig. 1 ↩ Coarelli, plate A, fig. 2 (in color) and plate V, fig. 2. ↩ For images

cfr. Basanoff 1947, 26; Brelich 1949, 9-10; G. Ferri, Valerio Sorano e il nome segreto di Roma, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 74 (n. s. XXXI, 2), 2007, pp. 271-303. ↩ Brelich [...] Gatti, Diss . d . Accad . Pontif .1896, 349, who asserts that Aracoeli < ARA CAELESTIS . ↩ Tert. Hec . prol . alt . 2; Salv. Gub . D . 3, 9. Cfr. Basanoff 1947 [...] 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. ↩

/Paufler, P./Levin, A.A./Kochmann, W./Pätzke,N./Meyer, D.C.: Carbon nanotubes in an ancient Damascus sabre. In: Nature, Vol. 444, 16. November 2006, 286. – siehe auch.: Levin, A./Meyer, D.C./ Reibold, M./Kochmann [...] raffinierte Stähle zu Schwertklingen verarbeitet worden sind (s. Abb. 2a,b). [13] Abb. 2a: Eine spätrömische Reiterspatha aus dem 3./4. Jh. n. Chr.. Die Klinge [...] exercise his strength, he saw a steel mace held by one of the attendants, the handle being of the same metal, and about an inch and a half in diameter. This he placed on a block of wood. The anxiety

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

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