Paolo Xella
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Xella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Xella |
| SIGNATURE | XELLA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laneri, Nicola & Steadman, Sharon R. (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt. London: Bloomsbury
The volume consists of an Introduction and six Parts, including 29 contributions by scholars who address the main theme from various angles, with different methods and approaches.Focusing on the overall theme "() how archaeological correlates of religious practices and beliefs can be connected", the specific aim is to provide a method for reconstructing what is termed the materialization of religious beliefs, considered to be the quintessence of …
The Levantine Roots of the tophet Sanctuary
Phoenician and Carthaginian infant cremation sanctuaries ( tophet ), attested throughout the central Mediterranean (north Africa, Sardinia and Sicily, and perhaps Malta), up to this point lack convincing archaeological evidence in the Phoenician motherland and the far western Mediterranean. This study collects and re-examines the evidence of its Levantine origin of historical order, (the chronology of the settlements and the almost contemporary i…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This general introduction serves as a preface to each author’s contribution, outlining certain common standards and methods. These include the range of meanings we use for specific terms and the answers to basic yet often contested interrogatives relating to the precinct (the who, what, when, and where) and the history of polemical debates within the discipline (the why and how). By providing this background context here, oft repeated at the begi…
KBL « boiteux », « paralytique », dans les inscriptions des tophets puniques
Punic votive inscriptions from infant cremation sanctuaries, of the type conventionally called a Tophet, are generally both highly formulaic and laconic. Sometimes, however, the dedicants are less hermetic than usual and data of great interest emerge concerning the sacrifices celebrated. This applies to the Punic term KBL, attested at Carthage and El-Hofra (Cirta), which hitherto has remained without an adequate explanation. In the light of the e…
Religion
Phoenician polytheism—its structure and rites—is not completely unknown to us. There were mythological traditions common to the area, as well as a structure common to the pantheons of the Phoenician cities. At the top there is a divine couple consisting of a male god and a goddess, his spouse, and a divine assembly. The same basic structure is detectable in the Punic world, Carthage and elsewhere, although with differences and innovations. In tur…
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture I: Historical Characters
Phoenician Digital Epigraphy: CIP Project, the State of the Art
The corpus of Phoenician-Punic inscriptions comprises about 12,000 documents, spread over a very wide area and span of time (all the countries of the Mediterranean region, from the end of the 2 nd millennium BCE to the first centuries of the 1 st millennium CE). The quantity and nature of the documents have caused considerable difficulties in the knowledge and scientific use of these sources. The project CIP (Corpus Inscriptionum Phoenicarum necn…
Pourquoi tous ces enfants ? Quelques réflexions sur les sanctuaires infantiles à incinération de tradition phénicienne (« tophet)
This study offers some general remarks on the interpretation of the tophet-phenomenon in the light of the current debate. The importance of interpretative models based on a comprehensive knowledge and use of all sources is stressed, together with the need of organic theories, not limited to individual aspects, but seeking to tackle the entire range of issues. In particular, the relationship between urns and stelae is reconsidered, concluding that…
Origini » e « identità »: Riflessioni sul caso dei Fenici
Il presente contributo si propone di riesaminare la questione dell’identità fenicia come si è andata delineando negli studi, in sintetico parallelo con il problema delle « origini » etrusche. Dopo una premessa di carattere metodologico, incentrata sull’approccio che riceve la questione identitaria in campo socio-antropologico, si delinea brevemente la storia degli studi fenici, dalla fondazione a opera di Sabatino Moscati, alla situazione present…
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
Tra Cartagine e Cos (materiali per il lessico fenicio - V)
The present study aims to investigate both the etymology and the signification of the Phoenician-Punic word tʿlyh, attested at Carthage and perhaps also at Guelma, and his possible attestation in a well known bilingual (Greco-Phoenician) inscription from Cos. At Carthage (and Guelma) it deals with a manufactured object, but at Cos another word is used, i.e. tʿl, a harbour building erected by the Sidonian prince ʿAbdalonim / Abdalonymos “for the s…
Aspects Du "Sacerdoce" en Syrie Ancienne: Remarques Methodologiques Et Examen d'UN Cas Particulier
A historico-religious study focusing on "priesthood" and "priest" has to face many difficulties, in terms of terminology and of content. On the one hand, it is methodologically incorrect to link "priesthood" to debated modern concepts such as "religion" or "cult" which, like the former, need to be (even conventionally) defined each time for every particular culture, and not to be assumed as universal keys of historical understanding. On the other…
Baal Hammon: Recherches sur l'identité et l'histoire d'un dieu phénico-punique
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
Religion
Phoenician polytheism—its structure and rites—is not completely unknown to us. There were mythological traditions common to the area, as well as a structure common to the pantheons of the Phoenician cities. At the top there is a divine couple consisting of a male god and a goddess, his spouse, and a divine assembly. The same basic structure is detectable in the Punic world, Carthage and elsewhere, although with differences and innovations. In tur…
Origini » e « identità »: Riflessioni sul caso dei Fenici
Il presente contributo si propone di riesaminare la questione dell’identità fenicia come si è andata delineando negli studi, in sintetico parallelo con il problema delle « origini » etrusche. Dopo una premessa di carattere metodologico, incentrata sull’approccio che riceve la questione identitaria in campo socio-antropologico, si delinea brevemente la storia degli studi fenici, dalla fondazione a opera di Sabatino Moscati, alla situazione present…
Baal Hammon: Recherches sur l'identité et l'histoire d'un dieu phénico-punique
Aspects Du "Sacerdoce" en Syrie Ancienne: Remarques Methodologiques Et Examen d'UN Cas Particulier
A historico-religious study focusing on "priesthood" and "priest" has to face many difficulties, in terms of terminology and of content. On the one hand, it is methodologically incorrect to link "priesthood" to debated modern concepts such as "religion" or "cult" which, like the former, need to be (even conventionally) defined each time for every particular culture, and not to be assumed as universal keys of historical understanding. On the other…
Tra Cartagine e Cos (materiali per il lessico fenicio - V)
The present study aims to investigate both the etymology and the signification of the Phoenician-Punic word tʿlyh, attested at Carthage and perhaps also at Guelma, and his possible attestation in a well known bilingual (Greco-Phoenician) inscription from Cos. At Carthage (and Guelma) it deals with a manufactured object, but at Cos another word is used, i.e. tʿl, a harbour building erected by the Sidonian prince ʿAbdalonim / Abdalonymos “for the s…
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
Origini » e « identità »: Riflessioni sul caso dei Fenici
Il presente contributo si propone di riesaminare la questione dell’identità fenicia come si è andata delineando negli studi, in sintetico parallelo con il problema delle « origini » etrusche. Dopo una premessa di carattere metodologico, incentrata sull’approccio che riceve la questione identitaria in campo socio-antropologico, si delinea brevemente la storia degli studi fenici, dalla fondazione a opera di Sabatino Moscati, alla situazione present…
Pourquoi tous ces enfants ? Quelques réflexions sur les sanctuaires infantiles à incinération de tradition phénicienne (« tophet)
This study offers some general remarks on the interpretation of the tophet-phenomenon in the light of the current debate. The importance of interpretative models based on a comprehensive knowledge and use of all sources is stressed, together with the need of organic theories, not limited to individual aspects, but seeking to tackle the entire range of issues. In particular, the relationship between urns and stelae is reconsidered, concluding that…
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture I: Historical Characters
Phoenician Digital Epigraphy: CIP Project, the State of the Art
The corpus of Phoenician-Punic inscriptions comprises about 12,000 documents, spread over a very wide area and span of time (all the countries of the Mediterranean region, from the end of the 2 nd millennium BCE to the first centuries of the 1 st millennium CE). The quantity and nature of the documents have caused considerable difficulties in the knowledge and scientific use of these sources. The project CIP (Corpus Inscriptionum Phoenicarum necn…
Religion
Phoenician polytheism—its structure and rites—is not completely unknown to us. There were mythological traditions common to the area, as well as a structure common to the pantheons of the Phoenician cities. At the top there is a divine couple consisting of a male god and a goddess, his spouse, and a divine assembly. The same basic structure is detectable in the Punic world, Carthage and elsewhere, although with differences and innovations. In tur…
KBL « boiteux », « paralytique », dans les inscriptions des tophets puniques
Punic votive inscriptions from infant cremation sanctuaries, of the type conventionally called a Tophet, are generally both highly formulaic and laconic. Sometimes, however, the dedicants are less hermetic than usual and data of great interest emerge concerning the sacrifices celebrated. This applies to the Punic term KBL, attested at Carthage and El-Hofra (Cirta), which hitherto has remained without an adequate explanation. In the light of the e…
The Levantine Roots of the tophet Sanctuary
Phoenician and Carthaginian infant cremation sanctuaries ( tophet ), attested throughout the central Mediterranean (north Africa, Sardinia and Sicily, and perhaps Malta), up to this point lack convincing archaeological evidence in the Phoenician motherland and the far western Mediterranean. This study collects and re-examines the evidence of its Levantine origin of historical order, (the chronology of the settlements and the almost contemporary i…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This general introduction serves as a preface to each author’s contribution, outlining certain common standards and methods. These include the range of meanings we use for specific terms and the answers to basic yet often contested interrogatives relating to the precinct (the who, what, when, and where) and the history of polemical debates within the discipline (the why and how). By providing this background context here, oft repeated at the begi…
Laneri, Nicola & Steadman, Sharon R. (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Material Religion in the Ancient Near East and Egypt. London: Bloomsbury
The volume consists of an Introduction and six Parts, including 29 contributions by scholars who address the main theme from various angles, with different methods and approaches.Focusing on the overall theme "() how archaeological correlates of religious practices and beliefs can be connected", the specific aim is to provide a method for reconstructing what is termed the materialization of religious beliefs, considered to be the quintessence of …
Classical Antiquity Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Phoenician (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Art (5 works)