Antiquity Studies

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The series, directed by Lucio Milano, is devoted to the studies of the ancient and late-ancient world. It is intended for hosting both publications arising from the research activities of Ca’ Foscari and publications of Italian and foreign scholars and institutions that help to highlight the academic network of national and international collaborations in the field of Classical. It is divided into four sections: History and Epigraphy; Archeology; Oriental Studies; Philology and Literature.

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  • Il corpo spezzato
  • Costruire e decostruire la figura umana nella tradizione funeraria egiziana
  • Francesca Iannarilli
  • June 24, 2024
  • This book is focused on the anthropologically and historically complex subject of the body in ancient Egypt, with particular emphasis on the so-called ‘funerary literature’ and, more specifically, on the corpus of the Pyramid Texts and its ‘mutilated’ anthropomorphic determinatives. In this perspective, it was necessary to establish a framework for the perception and formal elaboration of the social, political, living, and dead body in iconographic and textual sources, in order to provide an emic basis to start from. Particular attention was paid to the ‘broken body’, understood not only as the physical body but also as its iconographical or material representation, sometimes mutilated, decapitated, treated and manipulated in different ways and contexts. Thus, a deductive process has been carried out, starting from the general and arriving at the particular, to propose some suggestions for a long-debated but still unsolved phenomenon. We thus arrive at the practice of mutilation, or partialisation of the body, which is still scarce in archaeological contexts, but more abundant in iconography and hieroglyphics, as a deliberate, reasoned and motivated work of construction and deconstruction of the human body and its representation. The work will have served its purpose if it succeeds in stimulating new reflections and more in-depth studies of the subject, or at least in throwing a glimmer of light on the shadows that Egyptian thought still ‘casts on the walls of the cave’.

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  • Opitergium Necropolis
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli, Maria Cristina Vallicelli
  • May 30, 2023

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  • Libertatis dulcedo
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Franco Luciani, Antonio Pistellato, Francesca Rohr Vio, Alessandra Valentini
  • Feb. 4, 2022

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  • Roswitha Del Fabbro, Frederick Mario Fales, Hannes D. Galter
  • Aug. 30, 2021

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  • Stolen Heritage
  • Arianna Traviglia, Lucio Milano, Cristina Tonghini, Riccardo Giovanelli
  • March 31, 2021

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  • Altera pars laboris
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Alfredo Buonopane
  • Dec. 11, 2019

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  • The Gift of Altino
  • Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Giovanna Gambacurta, Anna Marinetti
  • Dec. 16, 2019

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  • The Soul of Things
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli
  • Nov. 23, 2019

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  • Elites and Culture
  • Filippo Maria Carinci, Edoardo Cavalli
  • July 6, 2019

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  • Before the Excavation
  • Luigi Sperti, Margherita Tirelli, Silvia Cipriano
  • Nov. 20, 2018





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