304 research outputs found

    Lokális kulturális elemek diffúziója a Római Birodalomban - Isis kultuszhelye Savariában

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    A tanulmány a globalizáció és a helyi kultúrák viszonyának egy kultúrtörténeti példáját mutatja be, az egyiptomi vallási jelenségek elterjedését a Római Birodalomban, a pannoniai Savariában. Az európai kultúrának máig meghatározó alapja az ókori római kultúra, amelynek számos kulturális öröksége között az „interpretatio Romana” jelensége a konferenciakötet témája szempontjából kimondottan tanulságos. Ezt a kultúr- és vallástörténeti jelenséget megvizsgálva arra keresem a választ, hogy az ókori Mediterráneum népeit birodalmi egységbe vonó/kényszerítő Róma valláspolitikájának toleráns vonatkozásai hogyan eredményezték a lokális kulturális elemek birodalmi, „globalizált” változatainak létrejöttét, a különböző népcsoportok helyi kulturális hagyományainak elterjedését. Milyen vonásokkal rendelkezett az egyiptomi eredetű kultusz a mai Szombathely területén, a római Savaria Iseumában? Diffusion of local cultural elements in the Roman Empire – the cult of Isis in Savaria This paper analyze a cultural-historical example of the relationship between globalization and local cultures, the spread of Egyptian religious phenomena in the Roman Empire, in the Savaria of Pannonia. Ancient Roman culture is still the defining basis of European culture, and the phenomenon of the 'interpretatio Romana', one of its many cultural heritages, is particularly instructive for the subject of this conference book. In examining this cultural and religious phenomenon, I seek to answer the question of how the tolerant aspects of Rome's religious policy, which brought together/coerced the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean into an imperial unit, led to the creation of imperial, 'globalised' versions of local cultural elements and the spread of local cultural traditions of different ethnic groups. What were the features of the Egyptian cult in the area of today's Szombathely, in the Iseum of the Roman Savaria

    Stone Pipe and Metal Container: Design Semiotic Analysis of Sacral Objects

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    Design or the designer’s activity is not only designing an object, but also a complex mode of socialcultural relations and environmental situations. This paper focuses on the semiotic analysis of two historical examples where László Moholy-Nagy’s views ([1946] 1971)—which I interpret as “form adjusting itself to society”—are perfectly applicable. One object included in the design semiotic analysis is a Lakota ceremonial pipe, and the other is a sacral object of European Medieval culture, the Sainte-Foy reliquary of Conques. In both cases, the analysis is centred around formal and functional elements and materials that are impregnated with meaning. I intend to explain how, as sign vehicles (signifiers), the shape, ornamental elements, and materials of sacral objects, represent meanings and content. How is the form of these objects related to their function

    U‒Pb ages and Hf isotopic composition of zircons in Austrian last glacial loess: constraints on heavy mineral sources and sediment transport pathways

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    Loess sediments in Austria deposited ca. 30‒20 ka ago yield different zircon age signatures for samples collected around Krems (SE Bohemian Massif; samples K23 and S1) and Wels (half-way between the Bohemian Massif and the Eastern Alps; sample A16). CL imaging reveals both old, multi-stage zircons with complex growth histories and inherited cores, and young, first cycle magmatic zircons. Paleoproterozoic ages between 2200 and 1800 Ma (K23 and S1), an age gap of 1800- 1000 Ma for S1 and abundant Cadomian grains indicate NW African/North Gondwanan derivation of these zircons. Also A16 yields ages between 630-600 Ma that can be attributed to 'Pan-African' orogenic processes. Significant differences are seen for the <500 Ma part of the age spectra with major age peaks at 493-494 Ma and 344-335 Ma (K23 and S1), and 477 and 287 Ma (A16). All three samples show negative initial ɛHf signatures (‒25 to ‒10, except one grain with +9.4) implying zircon crystallization from magmas derived by recycling of older continental crust. Hf isotopic compositions of 330-320 Ma old zircons from S1 and K23 preclude a derivation from Bavarian Forest granites and intermediate granitoids. Rather all the data suggest strong contributions of eroded local rocks (South Bohemian pluton, Gföhl unit) to loess material at the SE edge of the Bohemian Massif (K23 and S1), and sourcing of zircons from sediment donor regions in the Eastern Alps for loess at Wels (A16). We tentatively infer primary fluvial transport and secondary aeolian reworking and re-deposition of detritus from western/southwestern directions. Finally, our data highlight that loess zircon ages are fundamentally influenced by fluvial transport, its directions, the interplay of sediment donor regions through the mixing of detritus and zircon fertility of rocks, rather than paleo-wind directions
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