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Un gruppo atipico di antefisse arcaiche con gorgoneion da Capua

Author: V. Parisi
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This paper offers a detailed analysis of a group of archaic antefixes with gorgoneia from Capua, which have so far received only limited scholarly attention. They differ in form and style from the more common gorgoneion-mask types surrounded by a tongue frame, typical of the Campanian decorative system. Comparative analysis suggests that the “atypical” Capuan gorgoneia share notable affinities with the iconographic repertoire from Greece and Magna Graecia, particularly that of Taranto – affinities that carry important implications for their dating. Nevertheless, these artifacts ultimately emerge as entirely original creations, characterized by a distinctly Campanian-Capuan identity.

Anagni: i templi dell’arx e le terrecotte architettoniche

Author: A. Averna

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The paper presents a rereading of the corpus of architectural terracottas from the excavations of the acropolis of Anagni in the early 2000s. The significant discoveries made during those investigations contributed to tracing, in the heavy transformations of the medieval and Renaissance times, fragments of the urban arrangement of this sector of the ancient city and shreds of the architecture of the sacred buildings which, renewed several times from the Archaic period until the late Republican, they lived in the sanctuary located on the arx. The study conducted on the fragments already published by Sandra Gatti and on others still unpublished has allowed us to reconsider the roofing systems and put forward reconstructive hypotheses on the different architectural phases.