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