{"title":"Le terrecotte votive del santuario settentrionale di Pontecagnano (SA)","authors":"Geltrude Bizzarro","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.760","url":null,"abstract":"Il santuario suburbano settentrionale di Pontecagnano, oggi in localita Pastini, era situato in posizione peripalustre, su un leggero altopiano ricco di acque sorgive, digradante in direzione del fiume Picentino. L’acqua connotava fortemente il paesaggio nel quale era inserita l’area sacra, costeggiata ad ovest e ad est da due paleoalvei, e attraversata al centro da un altro corso d’acqua intorno al quale si svolgevano complessi rituali, dei quali resta traccia nei reiterari scarichi di votiv...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123514926","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 Terracotta ‘Enthroned Goddess’ of Sicily","authors":"G. V. Rooijen","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.751","url":null,"abstract":"Terracotta statuettes were a popular ex-voto in Greek antiquity, varying in size and design. The use of a mold for terracotta figurines was introduced by Greek colonists in the 7th century B.C. to the indigenous people of Sicily. From that moment onwards there was an ongoing interaction between the cultic expressions of these different peoples, which reflected the changed social structures and the production and economic values of votive terracottas. This reciprocal interaction is visible in ...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121157537","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 employment of pXRF analysis for the qualitative study of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas from the House of Orpheus in Nea Paphos","authors":"M. Eliadou, G. Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.779","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) has become one of the most commonly used analytical tools for determining, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the chemical composition of a variety of materials of archaeological and historical significance. The term “qualitative” refers to the characterisation of materials based on some quality or characteristic, rather than on some quantity or measured value, as in the case of a “quantitative” research, which relates to values of measu...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125859790","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":"Virtual and Actual Corporealities in Bronze-Age Cyprus: Exploring Humanity through the Study of Anthropomorphic Figurines and Material Culture","authors":"Maria Mina","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.749","url":null,"abstract":"My current research constitutes an extension of my earlier studies of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) anthropomorphic figurines of the Aegean. One of the aspects that I was particularly concerned with was the deconstruction of decorative syntheses displayed on figurines in an attempt to gain insights into the manipulation of external appearance for the construction of social identity and relationships. The representation of human form holds valuable information on what it meant to be hu...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114456092","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":"In the Forger’s Workshop: Hellenistic Terracottas and the Mold-Made Fakes of Centuripe","authors":"Giacomo Biondi","doi":"10.4000/ACOST.756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ACOST.756","url":null,"abstract":"A small group of Hellenistic figurines in the Libertini Collection of the Catania University Archaeological Museum is the focus of an ongoing authenticity study. These are all unpublished and comprise both genuine and fake figurines, as well as others that appear suspicions. Ancient Greek figurines of the Hellenistic period used as prototypes and mold-made replicas of these same figurines have been identified in other museum collections and in vintage photographs that belonged to Mr. Antonino...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124639141","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":"A Study of the Votive Terracotta Figurines from the Athana Lindia Sanctuary","authors":"Sanne Hoffmann","doi":"10.4000/acost.452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/acost.452","url":null,"abstract":"The votive terracotta figurines from the Athana Lindia sanctuary in Lindos, Rhodes, has been the subject of my MA thesis from Copenhagen University in 2011—in Danish : Mellem Guddom og Giver—En analyse af kulten i Athana Lindia—helligdommen med udgangspunkt i terrakottafiguriner” (Between Deity and Donor—an analysis of the cult in the Athana Lindia Sanctuary based on terracotta figurines). Photo : Courtesy of the National Museum of Denmark The main purpose of this thesis was to clarify wheth...","PeriodicalId":318317,"journal":{"name":"Les Carnets de l’ACoSt","volume":"25 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":"130965256","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}