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dc.identifier	ECF_article_415
dc.title	Reuse of Roman Steles in the Jewish Cemetery of the Lido of Venice
dc.contributor.author	Fabbiani Licia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/venezia-arti/2016/1/reimpiego-di-stele-romane-al-cimitero-ebraico-del/
dc.description.abstract	Six stelae situated in the new Jewish Cemetery on the Lido (Venice), but actually belonging to the Old Cemetery, make up a peculiar group of gravestones of their own kind. They are of parallelepiped shape, with an upper polished section carved with Hebrew inscriptions, which date back to the end of the Fifteenth century, and a lower rough section which shows a hole of about 7,08-8,66 inches in diameter, since this part was meant to be buried. The holed tombstones echo the funerary Roman stelae of the post-Roman Republic era, which were used as territorial markers to bound burial areas (loci sepulturae). We suggest two possible explanations thereof: (a) adaptive reuse of Roman ruins, which was a regular and well-documented practice in Venice since the early Middle Ages, or (b) imitation of antiquity.
dc.relation.ispartof	Venezia Arti
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 25 \| December 2016
dc.issued	2016-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2016-08-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-07-11
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-2720
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-2720/VA-25-16-13
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Jewish cemetery
dc.subject	Jewish cemetery
dc.subject	Venice’s Lido
dc.subject	Venice’s Lido

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Reuse of Roman Steles in the Jewish Cemetery of the Lido of Venice

Licia Fabbiani Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Six stelae situated in the new Jewish Cemetery on the Lido (Venice), but actually belonging to the Old Cemetery, make up a peculiar group of gravestones of their own kind. They are of parallelepiped shape, with an upper polished section carved with Hebrew inscriptions, which date back to the end of the Fifteenth century, and a lower rough section which shows a hole of about 7,08-8,66 inches in diameter, since this part was meant to be buried. The holed tombstones echo the funerary Roman stelae of the post-Roman Republic era, which were used as territorial markers to bound burial areas (loci sepulturae). We suggest two possible explanations thereof: (a) adaptive reuse of Roman ruins, which was a regular and well-documented practice in Venice since the early Middle Ages, or (b) imitation of antiquity.

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Dec. 20, 2016

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Aug. 24, 2016

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July 11, 2016

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Keywords: Jewish cemetery • Venice’s Lido

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