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