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The grave offerings and the traces of ritual actions should prove a valuable source for speculation about views on death in antiquity. In the Classical necropolis of Medma the main features of grave’s goods reflect socio-religious believes about death and after death not completely explained yet. In this research suggestions could derive from the analysis of the vegetal charred offers discovered in some burials; they’re figs, olive stones, grapes, almond and, pheraphs, nuts laid inside the tombs, in most cases primary cremations, or in isolated cases above them. Their presence also in religious contexts like sanctuaries suggests ritual and votive actions more than luxury demonstrating, conclusion drawn from the analysis of the terracotta offers too. In Greek tradition the fruits considered are related to the meanings of civilisation, prosperity, wealth and nature renovation and for this holy to nether deities associated to burial rituals.
Memoria. Vom gefeierten zum ausgelöschten und entehrenden Erinnern an den Imperator Maximinus Thrax
(2023)
The paper proposes a comprehensive analysis of the paragraph which Biton, in his work known under the title Construction of Machines of War and Catapults, dedicates to the explanation of the so called σαμβύκη, a kind of scaling ladder on wheels designed by Damios of Kolophon. On the basis of both mechanical and textual considerations the κοχλίας, whose revolving movement produces the oscillation of the ladder, should be interpreted as a cylindrical horizontal roller (like Marsden suggests) and not as a vertical screw (like Lendle thinks). Accordingly, the supporting structure of the machine should be understood much less massive than what has been thought by scholars after Marsden.