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Excerpt from ARA Reports 8, 2017. 261 Contributions on Topics About Production (Workshops, Antiquity, As Well As of the City’S Foundation Myth 260 of the inscription, while Ael(ius) I[- - -] could have been Matei-Popescu 2013 – Fl. Matei-Popescu, The Roman his fellow soldier, or one of the fellow soldiers, that set Auxiliary Units of Moesia, Il Mar Nero 8, the funerary monument. Since the cohors II Mattiacorum 2010/2011 (2013), pp. 207-230. milliaria equitata was transferred to Thracia sometime Muşeţeanu 1990. – C. Muşeţeanu, Contribuţii la privind before AD 155,22 the funerary monument should be dated topografia Durostorului, SCIVA 41, 1990, during Hadrian’s or at beginning of Antoninus Pius’ reign. 3-4, pp. 293-299. As I already mentioned, the two last papers, closing Sharankov 2015 – N. Sharankov, Novi danni za the volume, deal with ceramic materials: the so-called trakiyskite stratezi, Archeologija Sofia 56, Lower Danubian Kaolin Wares, a type of vessels to 2015, 1-2, pp. 62-78. be found mostly in the military milieu of the Lower Simion et alii 1980 – G. Simion,V. H. Baumann, A. Opaiţ, Moesia province (P. Dyczek, pp. 239-256), and the oil I. Vasiliu, Gh. Mănucu-Adameşteanu, lamps discovered at Sexaginta Prista, kept in the storage E. Oberländer-Târnoveanu, Săpăturile rooms of the Regional Museum of History in Rousse (N. de salvare de la Troesmis – 1977 – Raport Roussev, pp. 257-270). preliminar, Peuce 8, 1980, pp. 153-288. To sum up, the volume provides us with wonderful Vulpe 1953 – R. Vulpe, Canabenses şi Troesmenses. Două new insights on the Lower Danube area during the inscripţii inedite din Troesmis , SCIV 4, 1953, Early Roman period, focusing not only on the important 3-4, pp. 557-582. legionary centres from Troesmis and Novae, but also on different aspects of the Roman presence in the area. The Matei Florian Popescu editor should be praised for organizing the colloquium and for editing and publishing the volume in one year’s time. Thus, it allows us to access the results of several still Arthur Muller, Ergün Laflı (dir.), Stéphanie Huysecom- ongoing successful projects, which bring the scientific Haxhi (coll.), FIGURINES DE TERRE CUITE EN research on Lower Moesia at a new level. MÉDITERRANÉE GRECQUE ET ROMAINE. VOL. 2. ICONOGRAPHIE ET CONTEXTES, Collection Bibliography Archaiologia, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, ISM V – Em. Doruţiu-Boilă, Inscripţiile din Scythia Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2015, 699 p. Minor. Volumul V. Capidava – Troesmis The book is the second volume of the collected – Noviodunum / Inscriptiones Scythiae papers that were presented at the Colloquium on minoris. Volumen V. Capidava – Troesmis - terracotta figurines held at Izmir in 2007, which has Noviodunum, Bucureşti, 1980. gathered more than 150 researchers. It contains 58 from Alexandrescu 2013 – C.-G. Alexandrescu, Napoléon III et les fortifications romaines du Bas-Danube – le cas a total of 90 articles published in two volumes (the first de Troesmis, Caiete ARA 4, 2013, pp. 57-68. volume has been published one year after the second). The Alexandrescu, Nicolae 2013 – C. G. Alexandrescu, C. I. Colloquium has been organised by Ergün Laflı on behalf Nicolae, Destine întrerupte: arheologul Emil of Dokuz Eylül University (coordinator of the series Coliu şi cercetările de la Troesmis, in V. Iliescu, Colloquia Anatolica and Aegaea Antiqua), and by Arthur D. Nedu, A. R. Barboş (eds.), Graecia, Muller and Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi on behalf of Roma, Barbaricum. In memoriam V. Lica, the French School of Athens and of the research centre Galaţi, 2013, pp. 415-426. HALMA UMR of University Lille 3 SHS. Doruţiu-Boilă 1972 – Em. Doruţiu-Boilă, Castra legionis A major progress has been made in the study of V Macedonicae und municipium Troesmense, terracotta in the last three decades, an important role Dacia, N. S. 16, 1972, pp. 133-144. having the works of two organizers of the colloquium, Eck 2016 – W. Eck, Die lex Troesmensium: ein Stadtgesetz Arthur Muller and Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi, both für ein muncipium civium Romanorum, ZPE beginning with the research on terracotta from Thasos. 200, 2016, pp. 565-606. The main goals of the colloquium from Izmir were Falileyev 2007 – Al. Falileyev, Celtic Dacia. Personal to publish the discoveries of recent excavations, and Names, Place-names, and Ethnic Names of to bring forward new approaches on the production, distribution, iconography and functionality of terracotta Celtic Origin in Dacia and Scythia Minor, 23 there are grouped the Aberystwyth, 2007. figurines. In the first volume Matei-Popescu 2010 – Fl. Matei-Popescu, The Roman Army in Moesia Inferior, Bucharest, 2010. 23 Arthur Muller, Ergün Laflı (dir.), Stéphanie Huysecom- Haxhi (coll.), Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée grecque et romaine. Vol. 1. Production, diffusion, étude, BCH Suppl. 54, 22 Matei-Popescu 2010, pp. 222-224, no. 33. École Françaises d’Athènes, Athènes, 2016. Excerpt from ARA Reports 8, 2017. 261 contributions on topics about production (workshops, Antiquity, as well as of the city’s foundation myth. techniques and distribution) and production centres, and D. S. Akar Tanriver publishes a series of bull in the second volume the articles on iconography and the statuettes discovered in the filling layer of the Geometric various contexts of discovery (domestic, public, funerary altar of Apollo Clarius (Ionia). These are an exceptional and votive). find not only because of their technique (wheel-made The most consistent part of the second volume is and hollow, hand modelled massive or hollow), but also dedicated to the topic of iconography (19 contributions). for their context, an evidence for the ritual practice. Some of it publishes rare iconographical types – a kouros The following two studies deal with the spreading from Keos (L. Bournias), or a new Heracles type ( J. of several types of vases: the first concerns “the squatting Uhlenbrock) – but most focuses on various categories comasts”, attested in the Demeter sanctuary from Katane, of terracotta types. The hydrophoros type inspired a study namely its origins and adaptations (A. Pautasso). The based on an inventory of the contexts, in which this type second article regards the religious motifs behind the occurs. It led to the conclusion that it was a favourite preference for the Acheloos type, imported from Ionia offering in sanctuaries of female deities, the gesture of in Sicily, Magna Graecia and Etruria (M. R. Ciuccarelli). holding a hydria being suitable both for representing the The discovery of a funerary inventory with several worshippers and the deities ( J. Kozlowski). female protomes at Cheroneia (Boeotia) occasioned a Several statuettes depicting Bendis from Smyrna and review of this category. The pottery ensemble assures a dating Pergamum raised the question of the cultic significance towards the middle of the 5th century BC. Its archaistic of the Thracian goddess in Asia Minor, where she seems style has more of a cultic meaning (matronly deities), which to have been more at home than in Athens, a proof of in funerary contexts switched into an expression of an age- cultural similarities between Thrace and Asia Minor (M. class and its social role (V. Sabetai). The following article Deoudi). The article of E. Dereboylu-Poulain presents a makes a typology of protomes from Lete (Macedonia), series of terracotta reliefs representing the Thracian rider discovered in large number in funerary contexts from the discovered at Neon Teichos in Aeolis. This type is rendered 5th until the 2nd century BC (K. Tzanavari). more often in sculpture. Noteworthy is the existence of Another category of statuettes, which are found in two variants; along the classical type that originated in various contexts, belongs to the realm of music: female Asia Minor, a new type occurred with Macedonian outfit musicians from Fontana Calda in Sicily (A. Bellia), (kausia, mantel and boots) and a profile posture. and veiled dancers (N. Martin). Their function and A particular category, the sirens of Myrina, is significance is hard to perceive due to limited information discussed by N. Mathieux with the purpose of identifying regarding the role of music and dance in the habits that their function and significance. Noteworthy is the re- produced these archaeological contexts, which leaves the evaluation of the notes made at their discovery (first question of their interpretation open for further studies. published in 1887), which on the one hand gives an idea The last two contributions on iconography present of their polychromies, and on the other hand provides several Egyptian and Egyptianizing figurines from information regarding the funerary context to which Delos (C. Barrett) and Asia Minor ( J.-L. Podvin). they belonged. These occur in trading ports and coastal areas with a Examining several male terracotta puppets from multicultural population. Their presence is evidence for Ephesos, C. Lang-Auinger proposes an interesting the understanding of a complex foreign theology. hypothesis. Their grotesque appearance, association with The second part of the volume assembles the other types of statuettes (Aphrodites), and their context contributions that have as main focus the context of of discovery connected with symposium suggest that the discovery: domestic/public, funerary and votive. figurines probably served as souvenirs of certain famous The excavations of Olynthus provided a large Hellenistic mimes. amount of evidence for the study of terracotta in the The following two articles deal with another domestic context. The finds from nine houses are here category of terracotta: the gladiators. The first presents analysed and their inventories are recorded on maps. several old finds from Pompeii that probably belonged to With few exceptions that bear attributes, the major part decorative terracotta groups of combat scenes (V. Iorio), of the terracotta finds are common female figurines. These the second makes a dossier of several findings from are usually associated to spaces destined to domestic Eastern Thrace that were most probably used as puppets. work, which makes plausible the hypothesis that female Notable is the occurrence of female gladiator figurines in deities such as Demeter or Aphrodite were praised by the a tomb of a young girl (I.
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