Ocnus

This paper presents an updated compendium of the archaeological and ancient textual data about long-range trade and multicultural interactions involving the nomadic and sedentary communities of the Oman Peninsula, with a specific focus on the Early Bronze Age including the so-called Hafit and Umm an-Nar periods (ca. 3200-2000 BC). Substantial evidence of direct and intermediated interactions is discussed in light of their contribution to the local development of particular socio-technical spheres and how they influenced the cultural and economic setting of the local society in the different phases. In order to properly interpret the long-term significance of this phenomenon, the discontinuous trajectory of mutual inputs with neighbouring regions is considered within a longer time span covering the seven millennia from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age.

Sometimes in his writings Plutarch refers to representations of myths, not to the myths themselves. In this paper the case of Ocnus is analysed, in order to understand the meanings Plutarch gives to this representation; his personal way of appropriating it; how his judgement finds comparisons both in the archaeological evidence and in the thoughts of his contemporaries.

Il contributo presenta lo studio preliminare dei corredi tombali di una necropoli localizzata a Pianetto di Galeata (FC), parzialmente scavata e collegata al vicino municipium di Mevaniola. Si tratta di 18 tombe, sia a incinerazione sia a inumazioine, databili le prime al I-II sec. d.C., le seconde a partire dalla fine del III sec. Allo studio archeologico si affianca quello antropologico.