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.
Late Antiquity • Shield • Maternity • Management • Representativeness of coin finds • Honorius and Theodosius II • Votive Bronzesheet • Crystal Glass • Cenomani • Murano • Archaeology of Cult • Archaeological Museum • Mosaic Glass • Adige river • Coin finds • Roman Oderzo • Dialogue with the passerby • Women’s Clothing • Seascape • Celtic Grave • Epigraphic situation • Roman and Preroman Antiquity • Roman Verona • Altino • Pottery Production • Late Roman Lead Seals • Murrina • Three-hoops Earrings • Museologist • Iconography • Mime • Bronze Belt • Clause of ‘affective prose’ • Restoration • Venetic • Enhancement • Glass • Remounting Handles • Toponomy • Museum • Preroman Veneto • Torcello • Mould Cast • Roman Age • Sanctuary • LT D1 • Glass Typology • Rosetta • Necropolis • Language change • Funeral Ideology • Harbour • Opistography • Numismatics • Museum Communication • Pietro Aretino • Preroman Worship • Celtic Warriors • Lineage • Etymology • Roman-byzantine Craftmanship • Este • Wine • Libation • Trade • Ships • Archaeological Park • Ritual • Fresco • Adriatic sea • Flat-bottomed Amphorae • Meza Stampaura • Spinning • Situla Art • Early Middle Ages • Roman Veneto • Museum Display • Francesco Zen • Roman Necropolis • Pantomime • Patavium • Iron Age • Serena • Cremation • Veneto • Dancer • Miniaturist • Aquileia • Giovanni Da Udine • Verona Plain • Arcadius • Funerary Monument • Roads • Altinum • Aedicule • Angelo Barovier • Late Roman coins • Pater patronus