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Falisci
(199 words)
[German version] Tribe north-east of Rome between the Monti Cimini and the Tiber, culturally closely connected with the Latins and Etruscans. The capital city was Falerii (Civita Castellana), and there were also towns called Narce (Fescennium?), Capena, Nepi ( Nepete) and Sutri ( Sutrium). From the 8th cent. BC Falerii and Narce flourished under the influence of Etruscan Veii. The fossa burials ( Funerary architecture) contain not just Italian bronze and clay wares but also Oriental imports (n…
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Pins
(3,978 words)
[German version] I. General Pins and needles (βελόνη/
belónē, περόνη/
perónē, ῥαφίς/
rhaphís, Latin
acus) were put to a variety of uses in the ancient household: they were used for hair, garments and sewing. They were also a utensil, for example, in the work of doctors (Surgical instruments), sailmakers etc. Tattoos were also done using special needles. The shape of the pin, long and thin with one sharp end, has not changed since prehistoric times. In sewing needles, the head is generally unadorned and flat; …
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Etrusci, Etruria
(9,491 words)
(Tusci), the Etruscans. I. History [German version] A. Name A people in Italy who, between the 9th and 1st cents. BC, created the highest form of civilization in the Western Mediterranean before Roman civilization prevailed over the same territory. Various popular names were applied to the E.:
Rasna (or Graecized
Rasenna) in Etruscan sources,
Tyrrhenoi or
Tyrsenoi in Greek sources,
Turskus in Umbrian sources and
Etrusci,
Tusci or
Lydii (according to Hdt. 1,94 because of their possible origin in
Lydia) in Lat. sources. Camporeale, Giovannangelo (Florence) [German version] B. History…
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Tumulus
(4,351 words)
(Latin 'hill', 'funerary mound', pl.
tumuli; Greek τύμβος/
týmbos, σῆμα/
sêma; χῶμα/
chôma). I. Definition, distribution, function [German version] A. Definition Tumulusis a general term for a mound, as a rule artificial and usually round or oval in plan, associated with a burial ('burial mounds', as opposed, e.g., to prehistoric settlement mounds). Tumulus burial (‘mound burial’) describes all burials that have been covered by a mound. Tumulus is also used in archaeology as a technical term for burial mounds outsid…
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Funerary architecture
(5,482 words)
[German version] I. Definition Funerary architecture (FA) refers to architectonically designed structures built above the contemporary ground level for the purpose of burial, as opposed to underground hypogea, which have rooms for the cult of the dead and hero cult. Columbaria can combine both types. Hypogea with a ground level cult room influenced the early Christian martyria above the graves. Regarding further aspects of FA, cf. Hypogaeum; Maussolleum; Necropoleis. Kammerer-Grothaus, Helke (Bremen) II. Egypt and the Near East [German version] A. Egypt The Egyptian buria…
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