Pilgrimage Made Portable

and symbolic qualities through fragmentation and deposition, referring to the fragility and beauty of life, as well as to an aspiration of the a erworld, combined with the personality of the deceased.As a matter of fact, her relatives were the ones who created these layers of meaning by making the object -as well as the actions of breakage and deposition -form part of the funerary rituals.In this way, social practice and the funerary rites construct meaning by connecting innate material culture, through actions, to remembrance of the value of the deceased's life, deeds and persona.Not only fragmentation can be meaningful in these terms; in the same tomb a pair of golden earrings was found, which were not made to be used in daily life, as the jewellery could not be opened, but speci cally as burial gi s.F . .e partially excavated Roman imperial burial compound.e co n tomb of the adult female, to whom the broken mirror was donated, is located in the lower right corner.e compound was in use between c.AD and the fourth century (c) Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project.Marcus Brittain and Oliver Harris 3 have recently warned us against too quick interpretational xes in the eld of fragmentation, and, to be sure, the fragmented mirror was never intended to "bring Glück" in the same way as the .Brittain and Harris .' we shared the conviction that there was enough critical mass and at the same time scholarly need to create an international platform to present and discuss issues related to the study of Roman material culture.Copy was available for the issues of and , so there was no intellectual need to stop with "FACTA".But the members of the scienti c committee as well as the editors had for a while been receiving thoughtful notices that the subscription fees for "FACTA" were becoming prohibitively expensive in comparison with other journals in the elds of archaeology and classical studies.ere was no premeditation in the minds of the librarians and the members of the scienti c committee, with whom we as editors consulted, as also other publishing houses and journals featured in those communiquès, but the opinions were shared and general and it soon became clear that something had to happen 5 .But our best e orts to induce Fabrizio Serra and his publishing house to reconsider the rates of subscription fees or alleviate the matter in other ways

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