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Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: Materiality and Religious Experience. By Csaba Szabó.
Historical Studies on Central Europe
Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2021
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Sanctuaries of Roman Dacia. A catalogue of sacralised places in shared and secondary spaces. Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 62 · 2015 (2020), 255-340.
Csaba Szabó
Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 62 · 2015 (2020), 2015
Sacral sites, known as sanctuaries in the traditional archaeological discourse, were omnipresent in the Roman Empire. Most of the studies till now have focused exclusively on the architectural features of a sanctuary, neglecting the lived aspects of religious communication in Dacia. This study wants to open new perspectives in studying the sanctuaries of Roman Dacia. As a first step of this attempt, the study will present the first comprehensive catalogue of public and shared sacral sites of Roman Dacia. The first part of this paper presents the sacralised spaces of Roman Dacia in public and secondary (shared) spaces, focusing on the general and local specific aspects of Roman sanctuaries, their architectural features and economic investments. The large number of sanctuaries of Roman Dacia created and maintained between AD 106 and 271 are presented in this work as spaces of religious communication, local religious appropriation and places of embodiment and experience. The second part is the latest and hitherto most comprehensive catalogue of sanctuaries of Roman Dacia, presenting the archaeologically and epigraphically attested as well as presumed sanctuaries in alphabetical order of the settlements. By creating a catalogue of sanctuaries in public and shared spaces, this study is a prologue for a more detailed work, which will focus on the material evidence of lived ancient religion in Dacia and the role of spatial sacralisation in Roman religious communication in this so-called peripheral province of the Roman Empire.
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Rec. Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces: Space Sacralisation and Religious Communication during the Principate (1st–3rd Century AD). By Csaba Szabó.: Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022
Tünde Vágási
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“From Sacred Space to Holy Places. The Christianization of the Roman Cityscape: Some Reflections”, in Orizzonti. Rassegna di archeologia 13/2012: 151-156.
Johann Rasmus Brandt
In Late Antiquity burials, which before always were placed outside, now started to appear inside the city walls. The process behind this change is discussed in relation to ideas about Roman sacred space, pollution (including the role of the Lupercalia), and the Christian view of the dead body, not as a polluter, but as sacred and holy, permanently purified at the moment of baptism.
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Lived religion and its materiality in Roman Dacia
Csaba Szabó
Limes XXIIII. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Serbia 2018, 2023
Dacia was part of the Roman Empire for less than 170 years. In this short period, the various groups arrived in the province produced a significant amount of archaeological material – named in this article as materiality of religion – used in religious communication, between divine and human agents. The paper tries to answer the question, if Roman religious communication, lived religion, religious appropriation and embodiment can be understood through the materiality of religion? Presenting the major sources of archaeology of religion from Dacia, the paper will focus on the notion of lived ancient religion and its limits in the edge of the Roman Empire.
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Sacralised spaces of Mithras in Roman Dacia
Csaba Szabó
Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2021
The Roman cult of Mithras is one of the most well documented cults in Roman Dacia, having almost 300 archaeological finds (epigraphic and figurative sources) produced in less than 170 years during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Although the rich materiality of the cult attracted European attention already in the 18th century, sacralised spaces of Mithras in Dacia – the mithraea of the province – were rarely analysed. This paper presents a systematic overview of the archaeologically and epigraphically attested sanctuaries. Based on the rich material of the cult it will present a new catalogue of sanctuaries of Mithras in Roman Dacia for the first time contextualising them in a new space taxonomy of Roman religious communication.
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Placing the gods. Sanctuaries and sacralised places in the settlements of Apulum
Csaba Szabó
Postgraduate Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 3, 2015
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R. Bianco, M. Galli, M. Ippoliti, Roman praedia as places of ritual practices, BCom CXXI, 2020, pp. 187-205.
rosy bianco, Mattia Ippoliti
BCom, 2020
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Characters of Christianization in the Spaces of Late Antique Rome: new considerations thirty years after Roma Christiana of Charles Pietri. In: Cities and Gods. Religious Space in Transition. BABesch. Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology. vol. 22
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BMCR review of W. S. Hanson, I. P. Haynes, Roman Dacia. The Making of a Provincial Society. JRA Supplementary Series 56. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2004.
Jinyu Liu
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-03-12.html
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