- Title Information
- Title
- Material Witnesses: The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium and the Memory of Sacrifice
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Personal
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- Moser, Claudia H
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- Copyright Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
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- xxxi, 581 p.
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- born digital
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2014)
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Personal
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- Alcock, Susan
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- Director
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Personal
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- Bodel, John
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- Director
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Personal
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- Smith, Christopher
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Stowers, Stanley
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- Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World
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- theses
- Abstract
- This dissertation presents the first comprehensive study of the archaeological record of sacrifice and the site-specific character of the ritual in Republican Rome and Latium. The research focuses on the multiple altars at five sanctuaries, with dates spanning the Republican era – S.Omobono in Rome (6th-3rd century B.C.E.), the Thirteen Altars at Lavinium (6th-4th century), Area A at Fosso dell'Incastro at Ardea (4th-2nd century), the Sacred Area of the Republican Temples at Ostia (3rd-1st century), and Largo Argentina in Rome (3rd-1st century). The chief distinguishing characteristics at each of the five sites provide the organizational framework for five thematic chapters. Each chapter is informed by a different theoretical approach to the assembled data: memory (Lavinium); orientation (Ardea); negotiation of sacred space (Ostia); and economy of ritual (subdivided into two parts – votive deposits [Largo Argentina, with a particular focus on terracotta miniature altar votives] and faunal remains [S. Omobono]). In three main ways, the research presented in this dissertation reorients the study of sacrificial practice: by establishing the primacy of the sacred landscape in determining religious authority rather than assigning agency exclusively to individual action; by viewing religious activities as haptic manifestations of human behavior and as structured experiences in the material world, rather than as expressions of a doctrinal, belief-based mentality; and by considering Roman sacrifice as a local, site-specific ritual rather than a universal, unvarying practice.
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- Roman Religion
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- Republican
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- Rome
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- Latium
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- Sacrifice
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- Romans--Religion
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- Topic
- Altars
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- Topic
- Ritual
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- Topic
- Memory
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- Geographic
- Rome (Empire)
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- RPB
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- 20141006
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
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- 10.7301/Z0HX1B2F
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- dissertations