Antiquity Studies

Opitergium Necropolis

Proceedings of the Study Day Around the Exhibition L’anima delle cose (Oderzo, Tuesday 25 May 2021)

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  • Marta Mascardi - Fondazione Oderzo Cultura onlus, Italia - email
  • Margherita Tirelli - già Funzionario per la zona di Oderzo della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Veneto - email
  • Maria Cristina Vallicelli - Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l'Area Metropolitana di Venezia e le Province di Belluno, Padova e Treviso - email

Abstract
The book collects eight contributions presented during the conference organised on 25 May 2021 at the Archaeological Museum of Oderzo, Fondazione Oderzo Cultura, towards the end of the exhibition L’anima delle cose. Riti e corredi dalla necropoli romana di ‘Opitergium’. The proceedings expand the research framework regarding the Opitergium necropolis of Roman and late antiquity ages, addressing specifically funerary monumentality, epigraphic documentation and funerary rituals. Some peculiar finds discovered within burial equipment are examined too (pairs of miniature ollas, writing tools, a bucket made with reused foils), also in relation to the wider context of the Veneto region and northern Italy.

Keywords Sepulchral inscriptions • Gender epigraphy • Funerary rites • Archaeology of gesture • Opitergium • Food and liquid offerings • Organic residue analysis • Writing practice • Burial enclosures • Roman graves • Spolia • Necropolis • Metal crafts • Oderzo • Museum visitors • Altar • Roman period • Public epigraphy • Iconography • Byzantines • Prisons • Exhibition • Situla art • Northern Italy • Iron age • Iron Age • Maenads • Miniaturized vessels • Early Medieval Age • Ex-voto • Stele • Roman funerary rites • Roman Imperial Age • Writing implements • Emotional epigraphy • Burials • X Regio • Social network analysis

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-714-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-714-2 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-715-9 | Published May 30, 2023 | Language it

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