The Gift of Altino
Archeology Writings in Honour of Margherita Tirelli
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abstract
In this volume, colleagues and friends pay tribute to Margherita Tirelli, archaeologist, curious and lively interpreter of an archaeological method that has marked a particularly flourishing season of excavations, discoveries, studies and non-superficial initiatives of valorisation. To Altino, as the progenitor of Venice, Margherita Tirelli has dedicated and continues to dedicate her uninterrupted attention, from the excavations to the delicate transition to the new prestigious museum site. In this perspective, the scholar has developed a fruitful collaboration with the Department of Humanistic Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, concretised in a convention of studies and research and in six conferences of Altino studies, aimed at investigating various themes: from the funerary to the social and the sacred. The diachronic spectrum of its archaeological, historical and epigraphic interests is reflected in the articulation of the contributions dedicated to it here: from the culture of the ancient Veneti to the themes of Romanity, up to a specific focus on glass production. The volume closes with a work on glass from the ‘historical’ age, a subject that still sees her as a reference figure in the Venetian context, and one dedicated to the choices of museum layout, a subject of communication in which she has been able to combine elegance and effectiveness with her collaborators.
LT D1 • Maternity • Crystal Glass • Museologist • Roman Veneto • Adriatic sea • Flat-bottomed Amphorae • Etymology • Preroman Veneto • Women’s Clothing • Seascape • Archaeological Park • Ships • Restoration • Dialogue with the passerby • Language change • Museum Display • Celtic Grave • Mime • Giovanni Da Udine • Necropolis • Pietro Aretino • Dancer • Museum • Pater patronus • Francesco Zen • Roman Age • Sanctuary • Patavium • Shield • Altinum • Torcello • Ritual • Murano • Celtic Warriors • Pantomime • Management • Roman-byzantine Craftmanship • Situla Art • Early Middle Ages • Meza Stampaura • Murrina • Roads • Glass • Late Antiquity • Altino • Roman Necropolis • Toponomy • Late Roman Lead Seals • Mosaic Glass • Fresco • Venetic • Roman and Preroman Antiquity • Libation • Rosetta • Cremation • Archaeological Museum • Preroman Worship • Bronze Belt • Cenomani • Late Roman coins • Iconography • Archaeology of Cult • Glass Typology • Harbour • Verona Plain • Este • Three-hoops Earrings • Remounting Handles • Roman Oderzo • Clause of ‘affective prose’ • Arcadius • Funeral Ideology • Coin finds • Trade • Wine • Miniaturist • Pottery Production • Representativeness of coin finds • Funerary Monument • Adige river • Veneto • Lineage • Epigraphic situation • Aquileia • Opistography • Votive Bronzesheet • Honorius and Theodosius II • Mould Cast • Enhancement • Angelo Barovier • Numismatics • Spinning • Iron Age • Aedicule • Museum Communication • Roman Verona • Serena