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Mamarce Oinochoe
The Mamarce Oinochoe is an Etruscan vessel of art historical significance which is dated to around 640/20 BC. Today the oinochoe is kept in Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg, where it has the inventory number ''H 5724''. Description and style Not including the handle, it has a height of 20.5 centimetres and a maximum diameter of 11.6 centimetres. The spout of the vessel widens slightly from the concave neck. Features such as its trefoil mouth, truncated column neck, pear-shaped body, low disk-shaped foot and strap handle indicate a fairly advanced stage of development, on which account it should be dated to the second or third quarter of the seventh century, probably between 640 and 620. In many respects, the Oinochoe of the Mamarce potter combines several cultural traditions together. Firstly, the vessel is a work in the impasto style which was typical of the Villanova culture. As was the norm, very fine-grained clay was used and it was turned on a potter's wheel, not j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number (grammar)
In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). English and other languages present number categories of singular or plural, both of which are cited by using the hash sign (#) or by the numero signs "No." and "Nos." respectively. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements. The count distinctions typically, but not always, correspond to the actual count of the referents of the marked noun or pronoun. The word "number" is also used in linguistics to describe the distinction between certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that use of the term, see "Grammatical aspect". Overview Most languages of the world have formal means to express differences of number. One widespread distinction, found in English and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Vollkommer
Rainer Vollkommer (born 20 July 1959 in Munich) is a German-Swiss classical archaeologist and art historian. Biography Rainer Vollkommer studied classical archaeology, prehistory, history of art, egyptology and Near and Middle Eastern archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, between 1978 and 1979. He graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (Licence en art et archéologie) at the university of Paris IV-Sorbonne where he completed also the master's degree (Maîtrise en art et archéologie) one year later. From 1981 to 1984, he pursued his doctorate degree at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. The supervisor of the doctorate thesis was Sir John Boardman. From 1984 to 1994, Vollkommer worked as a scientific editor at the ''Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae'' (LIMC) in Basle, a NGO (non-governmental organization) of the UNESCO. In addition he taught as a lecturer at the universities of Freiburg in Breisgau in Germany (1985-1994) and of Fribourg i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Sinn
Ulrich Sinn (* 4 October 1945 in Bevensen) is a German classical archaeologist. Ulrich Sinn graduated from the humanist gymnasium Johanneum in Lüneburg. After completing military service, he first studied education in Karlsruhe from 1967 to 1968, then classical archaeology, ancient history and particularly art history at the University of Freiburg. During this time he took part in excavations in Southern Italy and Greece and participated in field trips to Athens and Olympia. Sinn received his doctorate in 1975 with a thesis about ''Die ‚Homerischen’ Becher. Hellenistische Reliefkeramik aus Makedonien'' (The "Homeric" Cup. Hellenistic Ceramic Reliefs of Macedonia), supervised by Walter-Herwig Schuchhardt. In 1974/5 he held a one-year volontariat at the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Kassel. In 1975/6 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute. From 1976 to 1979 Sinn was Referent at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, where he participat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ("corpus of ancient vases"; abbreviated CVA) is an international research project for documentation of ancient ceramics. Its original ideal target content: any ceramic from any ancient location during any archaeological period, proved impossible of realization and was soon restricted to specific times and periods. As the project expanded from an original six nations: England, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. to include the current 28, the topic specializations of each country were left up to the commission for that country. The French commission (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), serves in an advisory position. The terminology of any commission regarding the target content of any documentation activity must not be confused with archaeological terms. For example, the CVA Online concerns itself with ancient Greek pottery, excluding the pottery of the Bronze Age. Such a decision does not imply that the pottery of the Bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Wehgartner
Irma Wehgartner is a German Classical archaeologist. Irma Wehgartner studied classical archaeology, prehistory, protohistory and ancient history at Würzburg and Munich. She graduated from Würzburg University in 1980 with the work, ''Attisch weissgrundige Keramik. Maltechniken, Werkstätten, Formen, Verwendung'' (Attic White-ground Ceramics. Painting technique, Workshops, Forms, Use) which remains the fundamental work on this theme, to this day. After this she worked on Volume 51, Würzburg 3 of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland in which the Etruscan pottery of Martin von Wagner Museum was published. From the mid-1980s until 1993, Wehgartner was employed by the Antikensammlung Berlin. At this time she worked on Volume 62, Berlin 8, a further volume of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. In addition, she organised the major exhibition, ''Die Etrusker und Europa'' (The Etruscans and Europe) as well as ''Euphronius, der Maler'' (Euphronius the Painter) and the accompanying conference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mars (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars ( la, Mārs, ) was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He was the son of Jupiter and Juno, and was pre-eminent among the Roman army's military gods. Most of his festivals were held in March, the month named for him ( Latin ''Martius''), and in October, which began the season for military campaigning and ended the season for farming. Under the influence of Greek culture, Mars was identified with the Greek god Ares,''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', The Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. whose myths were reinterpreted in Roman literature and Roman art, art under the name of Mars. The character and dignity of Mars differed in fundamental ways from that of his Greek counterpart, who is often treated with contempt and revulsion in Ancient Greek literature, Greek literature. Mars's altar in the Campus Martius, the area of Rome that took its name from him, was supposed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscan Language
Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy. The language is in the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic branch of the Italic languages. Oscan is therefore a close relative of Umbrian. Oscan was spoken by a number of tribes, including the Samnites, the Aurunci (Ausones), and the Sidicini. The latter two tribes were often grouped under the name " Osci". The Oscan group is part of the Osco-Umbrian or Sabellic family, and includes the Oscan language and three variants ( Hernican, Marrucinian and Paelignian) known only from inscriptions left by the Hernici, Marrucini and Paeligni, minor tribes of eastern central Italy. Adapted from the Etruscan alphabet, the Central Oscan alphabet was used to write Oscan in Campania and surrounding territories from the 5th century BCE until possibly the 1st century CE. Evidence Oscan is known from inscriptions dating as far back as the 5th century BCE. The most important Oscan inscriptions are the Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamercus (praenomen)
Mamercus () is a Latin ''praenomen'', or personal name, which was used in pre-Roman times and throughout the Roman Republic, falling out of usage in imperial times. The feminine form is ''Mamerca''. The patronymic ''gens Mamercia'' was derived from this name, as were the '' cognomina'' ''Mamercus'' and ''Mamercinus''. The name was usually abbreviated Mam. The praenomen Mamercus is best known from ''gens Aemilia'', one of the greatest of the patrician houses at Rome, which claimed descent from Mamercus, said to have been a son of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. Several prominent members of this family bore the name during the Roman Republic. The Pinarii, another patrician family, is also said to have used the praenomen Mamercus, although no examples from this ''gens'' have been preserved. According to one tradition, the Pinarii were descended from another son of Numa Pompilius, although in his history of Rome, Titus Livius records that the ''gens'' was still more ancient, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italic Languages
The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC. The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome, which conquered the other Italic peoples before the common era. The other Italic languages became extinct in the first centuries AD as their speakers were assimilated into the Roman Empire and shifted to some form of Latin. Between the third and eighth centuries AD, Vulgar Latin (perhaps influenced by language shift from the other Italic languages) diversified into the Romance languages, which are the only Italic languages natively spoken today, while Literary Latin also survived. Besides Latin, the known ancient Italic languages are Faliscan (the closest to Latin), Umbrian and Oscan (or Osco-Umbrian), and South Picene. Other Indo-European languages once spoken in the peninsula whose inclusion in the Italic branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locative Case
In grammar, the locative case ( abbreviated ) is a grammatical case which indicates a location. It corresponds vaguely to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". The locative case belongs to the general local cases, together with the lative and separative case. The locative case exists in many language groups. Indo-European languages The Proto-Indo-European language had a locative case expressing "place where", an adverbial function. The endings are reconstructed as follows: In most later Indo-European languages, the locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained it as a distinct case. It is found in: * modern Balto-Slavic languages, except Bulgarian and Macedonian, although it is mostly used with prepositions in the other Slavic languages * some classical Indo-European languages, particularly Sanskrit and Old Latin * (Mostly uncommon, archaic or literary) use in certain modern Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
