I. Iliescu, Radu-Octavian Stănescu, Valentin Bottez
{"title":"New Data Regarding the Chronology of the Roman Rural Settlement from the Beidaud Archaeological Microzone","authors":"I. Iliescu, Radu-Octavian Stănescu, Valentin Bottez","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.5","url":null,"abstract":"The Beidaud Archaeological Microzone, located west of the commune of Beidaud (Tulcea County), groups a series of archaeological sites dating from various periods: a Neolithic site, a fortified settlement dated from the First and Second Iron Age/Archaic period until the Late Roman period, a Roman rural settlement, and an Early Roman tumular necropolis. In this paper we will present the results of the surface survey carried out during the 2020 campaign, focusing on the area of the Roman settlement, where a significant quantity of archaeological materials, exclusively pottery, was discovered. After presenting the main ceramic categories, we will discuss these finds’ major importance in determining more clearly the settlement’s habitation period. Moreover, this material represents good evidence for a first picture of the everyday life of the inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"602 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123213091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hdt. 3.11 – Punishment, Human Sacrifice, Oath, Symposion? Ritual and Group Cohesion","authors":"L. Iancu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of the third book of the Histories, while presenting the way Kambyses conquered Egypt, Herodotos makes a short digression on the way the Greek and Karian mercenaries serving the Egyptian king killed the children of a former comrade who defected to the Persians and conspicuously drank their blood, mixed with water and wine. Although the fragment is one of the few sources regarding the practices and rituals conducted by Greek mercenaries in the archaic period, the fact narrated by Herodotos remains obscure as there is no consensus whether it should be linked with Greek punishment customs, symposia or the blood rituals used when taking oaths. The interpretation proposed in this paper is that of an oath taken in order to dispel any suspicions regarding the commitment of some mercenaries to their former comrade’s cause.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124769779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stamped material from the Sărătură sector in Istros/Histria (Romania)","authors":"Alexandra Lițu, A. Bivolaru, Valentin Bottez","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.7","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper analyzes three Greek stamps on ceramic objects (a roof tile and two amphora handles) from Istros/Histria, discovered in the Sărătură Sector and dated mainly to the 4th c. BC. A short context of the discovery is also provided.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123723137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gladiators on Film: Spectacle and History","authors":"Iosif Trif","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The intriguing world of the Roman gladiators has been represented in many different ways along the brief history of the seventh art. From realistic portrayals to romanticized visions, film directors have offered a wide spectrum of visual spectacles that catered to the visual culture of the audiences they were targeting. In this analysis, we take an incursion into the minds of various movie directors and comment on the ways in which various cinematic stories were created.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122427460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looting in Military Thought - Traditions in Roman Army","authors":"Andrei Voncu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the information that Polybios offers about the warfare in the Roman army, our paper attempts to identify the changes in attitudes that the Roman army had due to the military reform of the Late Republic.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121256325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Human Body within Funerary Archaeology Research: from the Bearer of Material Culture to la Raison d'Être of the Funerary Complex","authors":"C. Crețu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2016.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2016.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"The interest for graves, cemeteries, and other funerary structures was a constant in archaeologicalresearch since the pioneering period of this discipline in the 19th century. With regard to the actual human body (buried or treated in other various ways), archaeologists and anthropologists took different approaches which can be best understood only by taking into account the wider context in which they conducted their research. In this paper I will try to observe the evolution of the way in which the human body was regarded in the framework offunerary archaeology. I begin my analysis from the 19th century, when scholars operated a selection andretention mainly of skulls from the excavation in order to be able to classify individuals into ”races” and with astrong emphasis on the study of the associated artefacts, and conclude at the end of the 20th century, when the human body is at the heart of a complex research (it becomes the reason of being of the whole funerary ensemble) comprising the natural (field anthropology) and the social sciences and humanities.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126368506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LOI OU MORALE ? DEUX INTERPRÉTATIONS DE LA CORRUPTION POLITIQUE À L’ÉPOQUE PRÉ-IMPÉRIALE DE LA CHINE","authors":"D. Zaharia","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2021.7.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2021.7.1","url":null,"abstract":"By the middle of the third century BC, the Chinese world was on the verge of a radical change: the existence of traditional kingdoms was about to end and unification within an empire had become inevitable. Two political and social visions, Confucianism and Legalism, compete for preferential access to the proverbial ‘prince's ear’, and the values and their practices seem to be diametrically opposed. We discuss these two visions around several passages from Han Feizi, Lunyu, Lüshi Chunqiu and Shi ji in which the conviction of criminal acts is correlated with the efficiency and success of the state. By proposing the primacy of universal law or, on the contrary, that of family loyalty, the two schools of thought support opposite models of political action and define two distinct typologies of political relations. In the last part of the commentary, we assess the impact of legal or moral norms on political practice, especially in the context of a series of events that led to the formation of the Empire under the leadership of Qin Shi Huangdi","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128405645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape Archaeology and the Use of Territory at Danube’s shore in Verbicioara Culture","authors":"Andreia Șerbănescu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.4","url":null,"abstract":"This research is centred around understanding a less known culture, Verbicioara, by looking at its landscape. Using the site level archaeological data available from the excavations to date, this study builds an aggregated data model that might explain how people have used the land and how they have adapted to their environment. Statistics, landscape analyses based on topographic maps and flood simulations have been used to get an image of how Verbicioara communities have chosen their environment and what can mean the scarcity of the artefacts that we find today in the danubian territory of the culture.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"25 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114039265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bureaucracy as a Necessary Evil: Representations of the Corrupt Bureaucrat in the Caricatures Published in the Romanian Press in the Late 1940s and 50s","authors":"C. Barbu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"The Romanian communist regime used the press and the new centralized and controlled media system as the main propaganda tool, both to manipulate information, and to shape the beliefs, mentalities and behaviours. In this complex and mix of ideological instruments, an interesting place is occupied by the caricature. The drawing was used as an easier form to manipulate and which, through its artistic appearance, touch the emotional sphere, so it was considered as being more effective by having a stronger effect than the written texts. One of the subjects of the caricatures in the 50's, the bureaucrat, occupies a distinct place, being seen as a necessary evil, which must be controlled. Although it is placed next to the other enemies of the regime and considered corrupt, the bureaucrat is acknowledged as part of the administration and there is a constant struggle to control and to adapt it to the requirements of the regime, by constant criticism. The study is centred on a qualitative analysis of caricatures published in the late 1940s and during the 50s in the ”Urzica” magazine and in the newspapers (”România Liberă” and ”Informația Bucureștiului”) used for propaganda.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124060036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abuse or Reuse? Attitude of „Private Owners” Towards Public Space in Late Antiquity","authors":"Ilie Marian Tufaru","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"The Late Antique roman-byzantine society is a constantly changing world. A new political and military background also calls for economic, social and cultural changes. In such an instable world the abuse was inevitable. The existing historical research focused mainly on the abuses of public authorities and even on imperial abuses. This paper is a research on the abuse of private owners against the public property. Using archaeological and historical evidences there had been identified two kinds of abuses: invasion of the public property and the use of spolia. This paper is divided in two parts, analysing those two kinds of abuses. The main primary sources which the author used in this paper were the laws combined in the Theodosian Code and also in the Iustinian Code which showed us the perspective of state regarding the abuse of private owners who affected the integrity of the public domain. Studying them we came to the conclusion that the state failed to stop those abuses and ended up by accepting these behaviours. This new kind of attitude of individuals toward urban landscape may show us a new perspective of how the „city” is understood. The consequence of this new behaviour is dramatic for the image of urban landscape in Late Antiquity.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116992860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}