RECENSIONES

Author(s): Dénes Gabler,Imre Holl,Péter Kovács / Language(s): English,German Issue: 1/2012

Review of: 1. E. Tóth: Lapidarium Savariense. Savaria római feliratos kőemlékei [Römische Steindenkmäler mit Inschriften von Savaria]. Savaria. Bulletin of Museums of County Vas 34/2. Szombathely 2011. 283 Seiten, 215 Abbildungen. by: Gabler Dénes 2. G. Buzás–K. Orosz (Hrsg.): Der königliche Palast von Visegrád. Mátyás Király Museum, Visegrád 2011. 424 Seiten, mehrere hundert Farbfotos. by: Imre Holl 3. G. Alföldy (ed.): Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Editio altera voluminis secundi pars XIV, fasciculus secundus: Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco. Berolini–Novi Eboraci 2011, 472 pp. by: Kovács Péter

Mijloace de iluminat medievale păstrate în colecţiile Complexului Muzeal Bucovina din Suceava

Author(s): Paraschiva-Victoria Batariuc / Language(s): Romanian,French Issue: 1/2008

Auprès de la céramique monumentale et d’usage domestique, simple ou émaillée, des pièces de parure et des accessoires vestimentaires, des textiles, la collection d’archéologie médiévale comprend un important et varié lot d’outils artisanaux, mais aussi des objets utilisés dans les travaux domestiques. De la dernière catégorie d’objets mentionnés, on remarque un groupe pas très nombreux, mais diversifié : il s’agit de celui des moyens d’illuminer: des lumignons et deschandeliers en céramique, en pierre ou en métal, des objets portant des significations qui dépassent leur valeur intrinsèque ou utilitaire, ayant des connotations qui tiennent de la sphère des préoccupations quotidiennes, des mentalitésou du statut social.

Halál Qumránban

Author(s): Nóra Dávid / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2009

The question of death and burial at Qumran has been a subject of debates already since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Normally, we could study this practice based on the archaeological data and on the written sources. In this paper we can see, that in the case of Qumran it is not so easy. The cemetery found next to the site of Khirbet Qumran has been excavated only in a very small part, and even this is not properly documented. On the one hand, the known scrolls hardly speak about everyday practices, such as birth or death, but on the other they have strict rules about purity – rules relating the corpse, as the highest source of impurity. Furthermore, we can study possible parallels of burial practices at Qumran, both in the field of archaeology and written sources. Within the framework of this paper my aim is not to solve the problem of “Death at Qumran”, but rather to give an insight into the problem and the method of investigation.

IV. Antiochos és a keleti szentélyek

Author(s): Dolores Hegyi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2010

Die hellenistischen historischen Quellen haben Antiochos IV. manchmal als einen Tempelräuber dargestellt. Die neu endeckten hellenistisch-griechischen Inschriften und die Ereignisse der Forschungen der hellenistischen babylonischen Dokumente haben zur Erklärung dieser Tradition, und zur Beleuchtung der Ursachen der Spannungen, die schon vor Antiochos’ Thronbesteigung begonnen hatten, sehr viel beigetragen. Die Ernennung der Archiereis in Kleinasien und in “Koile-Syria und Phoinike”, die auch die wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit von mehreren Heiligtümern kontrollierten, die Erhöhung der Abgaben, die Beschränkung der politischen Macht der Hohepriester in Jerusalem nach 197 v.Chr, die Rivalität der Hohepriester, die religiösen und gesellschaftlichen Probleme, die die politischen Wandlungen und der “Hellenismos” vorgerufen hatten, führten zum Wiederstand und Verweigerung des Abgabepflichtes. Unter solchen Umständen war der König manchmal gezwungen die Abgaben mit Kraft einzutreiben.

Garić-grad u historiografiji

Author(s): Željko Karaula / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4/2011

The paper offers a survey and a brief description of basic writings directly or indirectly tackling the topic of the mediaeval Garić-grad, or rather the period of its establishing, existence and tragic ending. In order to finally shed some light onto Garić-grad, which got buried by the Ottoman conquest, comprehensive archaeological explorations had to be carried out; this was realised in the second half of the 20th century (in most part up to 1971). These explorations and their finds led to concrete conclusions regarding the life in Garić-grad, i.e. the role it had played in the history of mediaeval Croatia and Slavonia. This paper endeavours to present these explorations in a summarised fashion.

Златовръх като природен код на Космическата планина

Author(s): Vasil Markov / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 24/2019

The paper is dedicated to one of the largest megalithic sanctuaries in the Balkans. The Rocky Peak of Mount Zlatovrh near Prilep in the Republic of Northern Macedonia is sacred. Archaeological monuments testify to millennial cult continuity: the megalithic sanctuary dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age is inherited from the architectural temple of Apollo. Later, an early Christian basilica was built here, and in the Middle Ages it was inherited from the Treskavec Monastery. Intangible cultural heritage also testifies to a particularly important cult site with millennial history.

Xerxes’ Canal at Mount Athos and the Achaemenid Administrative and Economic System

Author(s): Miroslav Izdimirski / Language(s): English Issue: 24/2019

The paper analyses the evidence of Herodotus on the digging of a canal across Mount Athos through which the Persian fleet passed on its way to Macedonia and Attica. The written Greek evidence is compared with the archaeological explorations of the region, as well as with Persian sources shedding light on the legal status of the workers in such activities. It becomes clear from the analysis of the available Greek source data, compared to the Persian sources on the economic and administrative system of Achaemenid Iran, that the persons involved in the digging of the canal across Mount Athos were both soldiers in the Persian army and recruited indigenous Balkan population: Thracians and Greeks. They had the legal status of dependent workers: kurtaš. They were paid for and fed with rations out of the Persian treasury, securing for them products from the royal warehouses located along the Thracian Aegean coast, which in turn were supplied from Persian warehouses “all over Asia.” The same people, most probably military men engaged in construction, were ordered to build bridges over the Strymon river as well.

ERKEN HRİSTİYANLIK DÖNEMİ’NE AİT BİR LAHİT

Author(s): Esra Keskin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2018

In the 4th century, after Christianity was regarded as an official religion in the Roman Empire, it began to influence art in a form of its own symbolic expression. At the beginning of the Early Christian Era, the first art examples of this period, which have just begun to be shaped and whose rules have not yet become clear, have not yet broken their past. For this reason, it is seen that the items of paganism and Christianity are used together in the artwork. The repertoire of motifs used in the ornaments of this period is the same, but the composition is different by the influence of regional and periodical enjoyment. The style of the work varies depending on the workshop. In this article, a sarcophagus at the Amasya Museum belonging to the Early Christian Period was examined in terms of its artistic and stylistic characteristics and its place in the history of art was revealed under the light of existing data.

THREE EARLY NEOLITHIC STONE VESSELS FROM THE MARDIN MUSEUM

Author(s): Melahat DAĞLI,Can Yümni GÜNDEM / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Three Neolithic stone vessels from the Mardin Museum in southeast Turkey are presented in this study. Unfortunately, there is no information about the find location and context, but comparanda indicates that the vessels may have been found in graves located in the region of Diyarbakır, Batman/Siirt, and Mardin. The stone vessels are decorated with incised geometric and figurative motifs. Comparison of the museum vessels with excavated material from Körtik Tepe, Hallan Çemi, and Hasankeyf Höyük indicate that the vessels should be dated to the Pre-pottery Neolithic period.

An Echo of Menander’s Glory in the Town of Scupi, Macedonia

Author(s): Dimitar Boyadzhiev / Language(s): English,Latin Issue: 8/1998

AKMONIA YÜZEY ARAŞTIRMALARINDA ELE GEÇEN TERRA SİGİLLATALAR VE GEÇ ROMA KIRMIZI ASTARLI SERAMİKLERİ

Author(s): Münteha DİNÇ,Emre TAŞTEMUR / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

The ancient city of Akmonia is located in a high hilly area in the village of Ahat in the Banaz District of Uşak Province. Located in the center of Phrygia, the city dominates the plain of the large fertile Doiantos Pedion (Banaz Plain), which is irrigated by Kuruçay, one of the branches of Sindros. Acmonia is located in a central position from Sadeis to the east and from the south to the north. This position has led to the direction of trade on the Aegean coast and the Central Western Anatolia and as we have understood from the inscriptions, it has become a rich and prosperous city in this context.

The Sicilian God Adranus and the Canine Cemetery at Ashkelon

Author(s): Daniel E. Gershenson / Language(s): English Issue: 9/1999

Renate Rolle, Vjačeslav Ju. Murzin, Andrej Ju. Alekseev, Konigskurgan Čertomlyk.Ein skythischer Grabhügel des 4. vorchristlichen Jahrhunderts. Teilband I. Textteil. Teilband II und Teilband III.Katalog- und Beilagenteil.Philip von Zabern. Mainz.1997)

Author(s): Valeria Fol,Biliana Todorieva / Language(s): German Issue: 9/1999

Hol feküdt Qode? Néhány ókori keleti helynév azonosításáról

Author(s): Zsolt Simon / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2012

Qode (Qd( j/w), also vocalised as Qadi or Qedi), an Ancient Near Eastern region known from Egyptian sources is commonly identified with the Hittite territory of Kizzuwatna. In this paper I try to reconsider the evidence and the arguments regarding the identification of Qode. The traditional identification of Qode with Kizzuwatna or Cilicia is excluded by the historical, geographical and linguistic data provided by our sources. This statement is increasingly valid for the recent modifications of this theory, involving the identification with Tarḫuntašša or with every Luwian land in South Anatolia. We can identify Qode with a toponym attested in Ugaritic sources and once perhaps in the Hittite–Egyptian correspondence. Its precise localisation is still not possible, but North Syria, more precisely, the territory of Naharina / Mitanni seems certain. Finally, as a by-product of this investigation we could eliminate a Late Bronze Age ghost country (“Qawe”) and an alleged Egyptian reference to a Luwian sovereign and we could identify the Hieroglyphic Luwian toponym Kawa that was long held to be a hapax.

Feltárás az el-Hoha domb déli oldalán a TT 184 számú sír (Nefermenu) körzetében – 2014

Author(s): Zoltán Imre Fábián / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

Report on the 2014 season of the Hungarian Archaeological Mission working in the upper section of the el-Khokha hillock: excavation in the rock cut forecourt of TT 184 (Nefermenu, Dynasty 19), the forecourt of TT 412 (Qen-Amun, Dynasty 18), and the secondary, TIP (?) shaft tomb in TT 185 (Seny-iqer, late Old Kingdom), with the necessary reconstruction and restoring activities of the monuments and epigraphic documentation of the wall decoration.

Сарматское племя как потестарный институт

Author(s): Evgeny V. Vdovchenkov,Viacheslav S. Kuleshov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2019

The article aims to discuss the sociological attributions of Sarmatian cultural groups referred to in written sources as ἔθνος, γένος (in Greek) and natio, gens (in Latin). These terms are the legacy of two potestary structures, namely the tribe and the chiefdom. Archaeological evidence makes it possible to reconstruct local groupings of burial mounds dating back to the Sarmatian period and to describe Sarmatian tribal communities in terms of potestary structures. This article seeks to focus on the concept of the tribe, its meaning and its functions. The tribe is then compared to the chiefdom, with structural and functional differences between the two concepts being viewed as quite substantial. The concept of a ‘Sarmatian tribe’, from the authors’ standpoint, is legitimate and expedient enough to apply to decentralized nomadic communities whose material culture does not reflect the criteria of chiefdoms

Imaginary and Ideology in the Construction of the Montheist Character of Dacic Religion

Author(s): Daniela Luminita Ivanovici / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2019

The present study analyses the way how the communist imaginary and ideology have influenced the development of theories regarding the monotheism of Daces religion and its impact on their state development. For this reason we read the articles from the Orthodox Theological journals "Mitropolia Banatului," "Studii Teologice", "Mitropolia Moldovei şi Sucevei," "Mitropolia Ardealului," and "Biserica Ortodoxă Română" from 1965-2018, dedicated to the Dacs and their faith. We have identified there four recurrent imaginary constructions, namely: golden age's myth, the unity (territorially, cooperation between king and the Great Priest, religious continuity), other myth and saviour's myth. Those elements have been used in order to offer to the people a new template of interpretation the past, that aim was to legitimate the new direction given by Nicolae Ceauşescu to the Romanian communism.

Kršćanstvo na tlu Srbije od prvih početaka do dolaska Slavena

Author(s): Mirija Jarak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2019

The paper presents general data on the early Christian period on the territory of today’s Serbia, from the period of tetrarchy to the end of late antiquity. At the time on the territory of Serbia there were several late antique Roman provinces with wealthy cities that were the centers of Christian life. In the 3rd and 4th century, the most important city was Sirmium, the center of the prefecture of Illyricum, and from the end of the 4th century, the center of the archdiocese. The presentation is based on historical literary sources and archaeological materials. Some particularly interesting aspects of the development of Christianity in the study area were picked from the abundance of data. Some events, like the of persecution of Christians in the beginning of the 4th century, theological debates in the later part of the 4th century, the establishment of the archdiocese in the city of Justiniana Prima in the 6th century, had great significance within the entire area of the Roman Empire, and are especially highlighted in the paper. Some elements of archaeological heritage (painted tombs, the burying in churches) are also highlighted and are viewed in the wider context of early Christian archeology.

Еден железен меч од локалитетот Вардарски рид-Гевгелиjа (Античка Гортиниjа)

Author(s): Emil Slamkov / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 17/2019

The site “Vardarski Rid” near Gevgelija is a space that has been intensively inhabited for about a thousand years, throughout the first millennium before Christ. With this, he is one of the most important sites for the knowledge of prehistory and early antiquity in the Lower Vardar Valley.The ancient settlement of the site represents a historic ancient Macedonian town, due to the possibility, according to the material findings discovered at Vardarski Rid, to connect this settlement with certain writ¬ten historical data, specifically with the famous records of Thucydides in connection with the campaign of the Thracian military leader Sitalces in Macedonia and the attacks on the cities in Povardarie or ancient Amphaxitis (Idomenae, Gordynia, Europos and Atalanta). The excellence of the last research campaign at Vardarski Rid is the discovery of a Mahair-type sword. The sword was found in sector XIV, or etc. sector of the necropolis, where the excavations have uncovered a total of 43 burial structures from the late Bronze Age (XIII–XI century BC).

Ранохристиjанските базилики во Кратовскиот регион

Author(s): Jakim Donevski / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 17/2019

In this paper, I will be presenting the early Christian basilicas in the region of Kratovo. In this region, there are five basilicas, and they are located in the western part of the region of Kratovo. Three of the basili¬cas are located in the village of Konjuh, and the other two in the villages Vakav and Filipovci. The basilicas in the archaeological site Golemo Gradiste at Konjuh village, probably the ancient city of Tranupara noted in IV century, were excavated during the last six decades. These basilicas are: large city basilica (intra muros), Cemetery basilica (extra muros) and martyrium rotunda (circular basilica). These basilicas are dated between the 4th and the 6th century. The researcher A. Keramitciev discovered the rest of the basilicas during the last century. Probably those basilicas are from the same period like the basilicas in the village of Konjuh. In this paper, the accent will be on the other two unknown basilicas, one located in the archaeological site Cukarka at Vakav village and the other at the archaeological site St. Ilija in the Filipovci village.