Dipartimento di Scienze dell'antichità

Da Levante a OcciDente: cOnsiDeraziOni su un cOntestO funerariO pithecusanO abstract -the tomb 545-546 from the necropolis of san Montano in ischia seems to give us information about the reconstruction of the civilization of the island since its early inhabitation. the grave, with the two depositions, attributed to a mother (deposed inside the earthen pit) and her baby (placed inside the jar), gives us an articulate funerary equipment. the variety of imported goods found are a possible key to the reading of the whole funerary context. two important topics have to be considered: on one hand, the presence of egyptian jewels, showing Sekhmet-Nefertum, attests a deep knowledge of the egyptian religious world; on the other hand, the discovery of a little tripod bowl deposed near the imported phoenician ware mushroom lipped-jug, could be linked to the habit of drinking wine enriched with spices. the presence of two vases, deposed together, one near the other, is similar to what can be noted at the necropolis of tyre, where the mushroom lipped jug is usually deposed near a bowl in Samaria ware. through the analysis is possible to open new questions about the original content of the jug, for which much has been written in the specific literature. another point to take into account, is the position of the grave, situated in a peripheral part of the necropolis, among tombs characterized by grave goods with marks of foreign, italic and phoenician extraction. the presence in the tomb 545-546 of a sicilian type of fibula, the only one found in the necropolis, and the possibility that the body of the woman was wrapped in a shroud (similar to what is recognizable in italic realities of the tyrrhenian coast), could suggest that the woman came from the italic peninsula. if so, she would have been totally extraneous to the levantine nature of the funerary ceremony attested by the archaeological evidence.

Porta S.N. & Matthaes P., 2015-Non destructive analyses applied to archaeological potteries and bronzes. Atti Acc. Rov. Agiati, a. 265, 2015, ser. IX, vol. V, B: 117-130. An archaeological object is fi rst of all a combination of information concerning the geological aspects of its origin context. Th e interaction between the archeological artifacts and their environment leads to the formation of mineral encrustations and corrosions that could be considered as authenticity markers. Diff erent types of superfi cial alterations have been analysed by FT-IR and UVF, in order to develope an analytical procedure for studying from scratch objects within private and museum collections.

the tomb 545-546 from the necropolis of san Montano in ischia seems to give us information about the reconstruction of the civilization of the island since its early inhabitation. the grave, with the two depositions, attributed to a mother (deposed inside the earthen pit) and her baby (placed inside the jar), gives us an articulate funerary equipment. the variety of imported goods found are a possible key to the reading of the whole funerary context. two important topics have to be considered: on one hand, the presence of egyptian jewels, showing SekhmetNefertum, attests a deep knowledge of the egyptian religious world; on the other hand, the discovery of a little tripod bowl deposed near the imported phoenician ware mushroom lipped-jug, could be linked to the habit of drinking wine enriched with spices. the presence of two vases, deposed together, one near the other, is similar to what can be noted at the necropolis of tyre, where the mushroom lipped jug is usually deposed near a b...

Archaeological excavations carried out in Early Iron Age Vetulonia (northern Tuscany, Italy) brought to light a funerary urn particularly noteworthy for the presence of an unusual decoration obtained by plastering the vase surface with an organic dark grey substance, on which metal strips were originally fixed. In order to reveal the origin of such organic substance, it was chemically studied by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). Chemical analysis not only revealed that birch bark tar was used as coating/adhesive material for the manufacture of the urn, but also allowed us to discuss the significance of the vessel in terms of eco-technological knowledge and possible cultural connections on a large geographical scale.

Finazzi, R.B., Tornaghi, P. (a cura di), Cinquant'anni di ricerche linguistiche: problemi, risultati e prospettive per il terzo millennio. Atti del IX Convegno Internazionale di Linguisti. Milano, 8-9-10 ottobre 1998, Alessandria 2001, pp. 135-49

1 - Considerazioni sullo studio dei rapporti fra lingue camito-semitiche e lingue indeuropee (1978)
2 - Possibilità e limiti di un'odierna fonematica storico-comparativa camito-semito-indeuropea (1981)

Estratto da:
Studi di Linguistica Camito-Semitica
Milano (Centro Studi Camito-Semitici) 2004
ISBN 88-901537-0-9
Contiene altri 17 studi, una presentazione di Vermondo Brugnatelli e una postfazione dell'Autore