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This paper aims to contribute to an on-going discussion concerning meals in the graeco-roman world. As the modern research tends to regard meals as a window into social and religious life in the Graeco-Roman antiquity, with this essay we... more

This paper aims to contribute to an on-going discussion concerning meals in the graeco-roman world. As the modern research tends to regard meals as a window into social and religious life in the Graeco-Roman antiquity, with this essay we will try to demonstrate how the banquet form and ideology contributed to the formation of the social identity in the Graeco-Roman world. The banquet is an institution whose influence can be detected in many areas of ancient Greek and Roman life, from politics and warfare, to painted pottery, painting, sculpture, literature and poetry, to sexual attitudes and conceptions of pleasure. Furthermore, the act of dining together creates a bond between the diners.
Archaeological evidence, written sources, literary descriptions, provide us with numerous details concerning the dining rooms, the banquet protocol as well as the dishes served during the meals. In this paper we shall focus on a well known category of marble funerary relief monuments depicting banquet scenes. The basic banquet scene iconography consists of a male figure reclining on a couch, accompanied by a female figure seated on a chair.The scene is usually supplemented by small scaled figures, probably servants, and various culinary equipments, such large wine vessels. The observation of these “banquet reliefs” will help us form an idea not only of the people taking part in these meals, but also of the food and the drink that they enjoy. Banquet reliefs are important because they are an illustration of both the domestic settings and the traditions of the ritual funerary meal of the Graeco-Roman world.

• • by Georgia Aristodemou
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  • Gender Studies, Conviviality, Roman family, Murals

In the warehouses of the Regional Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" Syracuse is preserved a male head, very fragmentary, of white marble probably Pentelic, showing clear signs of rework. In the primary stage the head belonged to a... more

In the warehouses of the Regional Archaeological Museum "Paolo Orsi" Syracuse is preserved a male head, very fragmentary, of white marble probably Pentelic, showing clear signs of rework. In the primary stage the head belonged to a gravestone of attic type in pseudo-architectural structure, datable to the middle decades of the fourth century B.C. The transformation from a funerary relief to a portrait-head occurred reworking parts and adding specific attributes (royal insignia): two small bull horns, the mitra on his forehead and a radiate diadem. The accumulation of the three attributes refers to the iconographic context of the Ptolemaic dynasty, in particular recalls the portraits of Ptolemy III Euergetes, suggesting a chronology of reuse at maximum intensity of relations between Syracuse and Egypt: in the middle decades of the reign of Hiero II.

• • by Annarena Ambrogi
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  • Classical Attic Funerary Reliefs, Reuse of Ancient Sculptures, Ptolemaic Portraiture
• • by Elena Vlachogianni
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  • Classical Archaeology, Sculpture, Persian Culture, Persian

Editio princeps of an inscriptions from the depository of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University. Although the provenance of the inscription is unknown, on the basis of letter forms and the style of the relief, it is... more

Editio princeps of an inscriptions from the depository of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, Charles University. Although the provenance of the inscription is unknown, on the basis of letter forms and the style of the relief, it is possible that it came from a local workshop in Attica, showing similarities with the so-called workshop of Acharnes with production dated from the 360’s to 330’s. The monument had been made for the occasion of granting the Athenian citizenship to Ourios in the form of membership to a further unspecified phyle. The origin of Ourios himself remains unsolved still: the term Heliopolitanus can be connected with the Egyptian Helioupolis, the Lebanese Baalbek or with the Attic fortress on the western slopes of the Hymettus. None of these options can be ruled out based on the available data.

• • by Petra Heřmánková
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  • Greek Epigraphy, Inscriptions, Heliopolis, Classical Attic Funerary Reliefs
• • by Juliane Israel
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  • Classical Archaeology, Classical Attic Funerary Reliefs