- Docente: Anna Chiara Fariselli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History, Preservation and Enhancement of Artistic and Archaeological Heritage and Landscape (cod. 8836)
Learning outcomes
The course regards the detailed analysis of the historical, archaeological and epigraphic data relating to all aspects of the cult, the documentation relating to the sanctuaries and to the elements of the funeral ritual in use in the Syro-Palestinian coast, in Cyprus and in the Western Mediterranean from early Iron Age to the Romanization. After completing the course the student knows the specialized bibliography on religious history and is able to contextualize the artifacts related to Phoenician and Punic religion. The student reaches a sufficient level of knowledge of ritual practices through the study of inscriptions.
Course contents
Gods of Phoenician and Punic pantheon: religion and iconography
Readings/Bibliography
1. Lectures notes.
2. A.C. Fariselli, Note di iconografia punica in Sardegna. Il triangolo apicato, in C. Del Vais (ed.), Epi oinopa ponton. Studi sul Mediterraneo antico in ricordo di Giovanni Tore, Oristano 2012, pp. 539-49.
3. A.C. Fariselli, Problematiche iconografiche e iconologiche delle rappresentazioni di divinita' guerriere nel mondo punico, in G. Pisano (ed.),Varia iconographica ab Oriente ad Occidentem, Studia Punica 14, 2006, pp. 75-102.
4. R. Secci, Da Nimrud a Cartagine. Rilettura iconografica di un rasoio punico al Museo del Bardo, in Riti sacrificali, simbologia funeraria ed emblemi politici da Cartagine a Lixus, Byrsa, arte cultura e archeologia del Mediterraneo punico, 19-20, 2011 [2013], pp. 129-52.
5. 2 articles in: L'archeologia punica e gli dei degli altri, Byrsa, arte cultura e archeologia del Mediterraneo punico, 21-22, 2012-2013 [2015].
Non-attending students are expected to contact the Professor to complement bibliographic material.
Teaching methods
Lessons.
Assessment methods
The examination will take place through individual interviews.
Students must know the fundamentals of the Phoenician and Punic civilization. They must also be able to place within the historical framework archaeological and epigraphic materials examined during the lessons. Particurarly with reference to sacred things in the Phoenician and Punic civilization. The assessment will also involve a detailed interrogation of all the texts listed in the bibliographic program.
Teaching tools
Power point.
Office hours
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