{"title":"Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Mortuary Rituals – a Synthesis","authors":"C. Crețu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropology and archaeology have a long tradition in shaping a discourse on the phenomenon of death. From the very beginning of the archeological discipline there is to be noticed a special interest regarding the funerary contexts – the funerary inventory, the body of the deceased and the treatment applied to it. This paper is an attempt to review a vast literature concerned with the significance of funerary rituals, from both disciplines – cultural anthropology and archaeology – while seeking to capture the emergence of some research paradigms that marked the history of archaeological thought from the beginning of the 20th century till today. In an attempt to determine what funerary archaeology means for the researcher of the 20th and 21th century, I bring into discussion the two major current of archaeological thought known as processual and post-processual paradigms. What information may be obtained from the analysis of mortuary rituals and what methodologies have been formulated within such research? Which were the purposes of funerary rituals? What is the relevance of funerary archaeology in shaping of a discourse about past societies? These are just some of the questions whose answers I am seeking for.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"82 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":"126830005","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":"Marble in the Roman World (II BC - AD II)","authors":"Adriana-Geanina Butiseacă","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2018.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2018.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"Rocks and minerals always fascinated people who used them as jewelleries, make-up, construction material, to build roads, aqueducts, but above all-they used them to express themselves, to express art. My study is focused both on the economic and the artistic sides and for this paper I chose as a subject the marble due to the extraordinary attention that was given to it inside the Roman Empire during the antiquity. The romans started to excavate and use rocks first at local scale – from and within the Italian Peninsula. The appetite grew with the expansion of the roman dominance and it got more and more diverse while the empire was engulfing new territories. We are speaking here about every possible stone that you can imagine. Everything that could cost something was brought to Rome. It is the case of marble too which had a sort of VIP status due to her physical properties. The goal of this paper is to make the connection between geology, archaeology and art and present history through another perspective, through perspective of marble.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"18 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":"125726491","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":"Sacred Space in Torah","authors":"Ionuț Constantin","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2018.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2018.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"Sacredness is the fundamental characteristic characterizing the Old Testament. Its foundations are found in the Old Testament, especially in the book of Leviticus. The people and anything else encountering YHWH had to be sanctified, otherwise it would bear the consequences.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"52 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":"131749037","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":"Secondary glass kilns and local glass production in Tomis during the Roman times","authors":"Laurențiu Cliante, Alexandra Țârlea","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.8","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present a series of finds from Tomis (Constanţa County, Romania) indicating the existence of secondary glass production in this city during the Roman period, most probably covering a chronological framework between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE. Using as a starting point the yet unpublished find of the remains of a secondary glass kiln on Ecaterina Varga Street, the article reviews all the similar instances known so far from Tomis, both published and unpublished. This situation is discussed in connection to another category of archaeological finds susceptible of bringing new information on the glass production in Tomis, several vessels belonging to Bucovală type XXV with undetached moils, feature which could serve as an argument in favour of their local production.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"69 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":"125441977","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 Theft of Water from the Aqueducts of the City of Rome in Frontinus’ Time","authors":"Adrian-Marius Vladu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2017.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the 1st century A.D. Rome’s water supply network was formed by a number of nine aqueducts which transported the water throughout the entire city. Iulius Sextus Frontinus was curator aquarum from 97 till his death in 103/104 A.D. In his work about the aqueducts of Rome, De aquis, which he said it was written to be a guide for him and for his successors in office as well, Frontinus shows a lot of interest in fighting the corruption around the construction, delivery and administration of the aqueducts of Rome.","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":"131074678","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 Securitate on the Track of Archaeologist Dinu Adameșteanu: Details from the Intelligence Files of CNSAS Archive","authors":"Oana Stănciulescu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.2","url":null,"abstract":"Having as its central subject the relationship between the well-known archaeologist Dinu Adameșteanu and the political police of the communist regime in Romania, the present approach examines the political pressures exerted by the Securitate on the evolution of Romanian archeology in the post-war period. They are brought to attention unpublished funds, which specialists from various scientific fields of research can further integrate into wider studies.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"17 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":"126943800","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":"Quelques observations sur l’historiographie roumaine du christianisme ponto-danubien dans les IVe-VIe siècles","authors":"Nelu Zugravu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2022.8.1","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with some issues addressed by the very recent Romanian historiography of Christianity in the ancient space of Romania. The innovative interpretive aspects brought by some researchers and the exceptional role of archaeological research in the study of the history of Pontic-Danubian Christianity in the first millenni-um are highlighted. At the same time, there are some debatable approaches and interpretations, even exagger-ated or erroneous, based only on archaeological discoveries interpreted without any literary and doctrinal sup-port (the antiquity of Christianity in certain areas of ancient Romanian space, the Christian character of some objects, the relationship between Gnosticism and Christianity, etc.), but also some outstanding issues (the rela-tionship between Christianity and ethnogenesis) or still not properly addressed (Christian prosopography, a serious, scientific synthesis of the history of Christianity in the Pontic-Danubian space in the first millennium).","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":"125637356","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":"Burn the Witch, the Enemy and the Evildoer! Punishment by fire in Ancient Mesopotamia","authors":"Elena Popa","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2020.6.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article intends to summarize the instances when fire is used as a tool for inflicting punishment in Mesopotamia in both ritual and legal contexts. When dealing with this kind of sanction, we should first try to understand what the inhabitants of this region thought about death, and why is immolation considered such an atrocious retribution. Fire is perceived as both judge and executioner in ritual context, and as a way of punishing capital crimes such as incest, sacrilege or treason.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"7 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":"133488511","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":"Naaman and the Jordan. The Symbolic and Expiatory Role of the Water in the Old Testament Texts","authors":"Vlad-Emanuel Pătrășescu","doi":"10.31178/cicsa.2019.5.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2019.5.3","url":null,"abstract":"This approach explores Naaman’s story through the Old Testament texts, aiming to highlight the expiatory role of the water, especially of the Jordan River.","PeriodicalId":244215,"journal":{"name":"Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă","volume":"28 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":"130248619","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}