diverse as family interrelations, sanitary and alimentary habits, economic and social status, and demography. As regards the intense interconnection between death and religion, burial practices are an undisputable [...] for understanding local communities and their social structures and this demonstrates how deeply connected to materiality death actually is. The so-called history and archaeology of death can offer invaluable [...] underlining one»s and his family»s social and even ethnic identity (the tomb of Eurysaces the baker in Rome or the conscious use of funeral cippi by Phoenicians in Late Geometric and Archaic Greece), but

built by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius , between 71 and 64 B.C., and restored firstly in the Augustan Period and then in the Flavian one. Significantly regio III , which the building must have belonged [...] destruction of Corinth indisputably the most important market of goods and slaves in the Mediterranean) reached Italy and the Campania, and especially Pozzuoli (the most important italic port until the II century [...] of a new temple dedicated to Isis and Serapis. The triumviral role wielded by Anthony, Lepidus and Octavian demonstrates the official character of the deliberation, and their involvement in the Caesarian

just at the foot of it. Between 2003 and 2005, during three summer-expeditions, 25 sites were discovered and mapped through total stations, Geo-positioning System, and the documentation of small finds lying [...] The location was in fact a crucial and integral aspect of tomb’s message and meaning. On the other hand free-standing tombs can be considered as property markers and permit us to relate possible near [...] architecture and contemporary religious architecture existed. Free-standing columns, elaborate decorated entablatures, and pediments are practically synonymous with temple architecture and numerous tombs

as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them [...] of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones [...] open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it

Weinschenk and Fisher PC. On behalf of the Museum we would like to thank the court for the opportunity to express the Museum's gratitude for the safe and orderly return of this valuable Tablet and for a happy [...] collected from the borders of their kingdom and that give us today important clues about the ideas that Assyrians had about God and cosmology. The use of different metals and materials tell us much about Assyrian [...] someday show the courage of Mr. Israel Flamenbaum and reach out to the Museum to help its staff in accomplishing its scholarly and cultural mission. We, and the scholars of the world, will welcome you with

However, as we have already seen and will see, there were many more ways for the Athenians to shape and control a cult and its participants. After the mention of the fee and a fragmentary allusion to a [...] the same priestess and priest. There seems to have been a careful division of privileges and responsibilities and the question of how the priesthood should be organized and who should fill the priesthoods [...] the priesthood and the possibility of a Thracian priestess, and in the final most formulaic part of the decree the hieropoioi , the prytaneis and the kolakretai are mentioned and were each to

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death and with the tomb like place of cult and imagination. The relationship between the stone, the tomb and the death among the Greeks is well illustrated, for example, by the idea of sema and that [...] image, and of its function and symbolic values with regard to the death. 2. Stone, tomb and death With regard to the complex question of the close relationships between stone and tomb, Jean [...] the stone is still more rich and complex, and the associations and connections could obviously go further on, through different sources, establishing much more analogy and contiguity links. For example

route; others, the larger portion, arrived freely and set up lives in the city, and perhaps bought, sold, and owned slaves themselves. The evidence from Philo and Josephus about the number of Jews brought to [...] as the river Euphrates and Egypt, to Scaurus, with two Roman legions, and then went away to Cilicia, and made haste to Rome. He also carried bound along with him Aristobulus and his children; for he had [...] Like other ancient religions and cultures, the study of Græco-Roman Judaism is wrapped up in a negotiation of presupposition and evidence. The textual and archaeological evidence from the ancient

cults of Pandrosos and Aglauros and of Ge Kourotrophos, as well as a priest for Heracles and one for the hero Eurysakes. In the interest of time, it will have to suffice to say that I dismiss the [...] Megarians, and that, as a result, they were allowed to set up their own genos and administer a number of cults in Attica. This view seems to be based largely on assumptions about the name Salaminioi and is not [...] as inhabitants of Salamis and, paradoxically, as Athenian citizens . These cults were first and foremost those of Eurysakes, who was the son of the Salaminian hero Ajax and of Athena Skiras in Phaleron