Papers by Kate Minniti
Miraggi d’eternità: le mummie dal tempo dei papiri ad oggi, 2024
The Database of Religious History, 2024
The Iron Age settlement of Monte Polizzo (713 m asl) sits upon an interconnected group of ridges ... more The Iron Age settlement of Monte Polizzo (713 m asl) sits upon an interconnected group of ridges in western Sicily. The settlement was plausibly founded by Elymian people at the end of the eighth century BCE and reached its peak of population after a century and a half when it underwent a massive reorganization with the creation of terraces and the building of new structures. The site is approximately 11.8 ha in size, and consists of a ceremonial acropolis surrounded by clusters of houses and other structures. The acropolis housed sacred buildings: a large circular temple (turned into a rectangular one roughly twenty-five years after its construction) dedicated to a local goddess, and other smaller sacella.
The Database of Religious History, 2023
Temple R is one of the earliest Greek stone temples in the Western Mediterranean, located in the ... more Temple R is one of the earliest Greek stone temples in the Western Mediterranean, located in the southern sector of Selinunte’s main urban sanctuary on the acropolis of the city. The building is nonperipteral, has an oikos plan (5.31 × 17.83m), and it consists, in its present state, of three rooms: a deep naos with two pilasters (not part of the original structure) along the main axis, a relatively deep adyton, and a rear room entered from the south and without communication with the other two chambers. Fronting the building and attached to its main front is a rectangular platform delimited by large ashlar blocks. Temple R was built around 570 BCE, heavily restored around 500 BCE after a fire, damaged and set on fire again during the Carthaginian sack of the city in 409 BCE, restored a second time, and plausibly lost its function as a temple around the middle of the 4th century BCE. Lastly, around 300 BCE this building and the surrounding ones were submerged by a thick fill that served as the base for a massive renovation of the whole area.
Second Annual Archaeogaming Conference, 2021
ASOR annual meeting, 2022
Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition. From the Renaissance to the Present, 2022
The Database of Religious History, 2021
The Sanctuary of Malophoros ('fruit-bearer') is an extraurban sanctuary dedicated to a fe... more The Sanctuary of Malophoros ('fruit-bearer') is an extraurban sanctuary dedicated to a fertility goddess usually identified with Demeter. It is situated on the Gaggera Hill, west of the Greek city of Selinunte in Sicily, and separated from the urban center by the Modione River. The sanctuary consisted of a large temenos whose access was a propylon flanked by a precinct dedicated to Hecate and a portico. Inside the sacred enclosure were a large altar, a stone channel with water flowing from a nearby spring, and the main temple of the goddess. The northern part of the temenos consisted of a field of stelae, an altar, a portico, and a temple dedicated to Zeus Meilichios, a chthonic form of the god.
Journal of The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 44, 2018
Between the eight and the sixth century BCE, the western Mediterranean was fervent with activitie... more Between the eight and the sixth century BCE, the western Mediterranean was fervent with activities, as traders coming from the eastern part of the sea started sailing those waters. Trading routes and cities were then frequented by people of different ethnicities that came into contact with one another. These relationships were quite heterogeneous: different groups could cooperate
Current research in Egyptology 2014, 2015
Tanagra figurines found in Naukratis show peculiar mixed features and can consequently be regarde... more Tanagra figurines found in Naukratis show peculiar mixed features and can consequently be regarded as cross-cultural artefacts. However, this fact can raise issues of identity and ethnicity through the analysis of material culture in cross-cultural contexts. Therefore, a comparison with another multiethnic production centre on the opposite side of the Mediterranean, Tarentum, might be useful in order to analyse how Tanagra figurines were embedded in different cross-cultural contexts, and to try to find explanations for stylistic variability. To answer the research question, techniques, finding contexts and consumption of Tanagras in each settlement have been compared, in order to find main differences and common patterns. This process has pointed out stylistic and technical disparities, but also similar uses of the artefacts. Consequently, the discussion of the archaeological evidence, along with the use of some of the most recent theories dealing with the relationship between material culture and identity, has led to the formulation of the hypothesis that hybridised Tanagra figurines in Naukratis expressed a mixed Greek-Egyptian Naukratite identity.
La presente tesi si propone di esaminare gli aspetti riguardanti la politica edilizia promossa ad... more La presente tesi si propone di esaminare gli aspetti riguardanti la politica edilizia promossa ad Atene da Pisistrato e dai suoi figli e successori, Ippia e Ipparco, durante i cinquant 'anni circa (561/60 -511/10 a.C.) in cui detennero il potere.
Conference Presentations by Kate Minniti
Hitpoints & History. An Archaeogaming Conference, 2024
Egypopcult: Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture, 2024
Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, 2023
The Gods of Antiquity in Contemporary Popular Culture, 2023
Fifth annual Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (GSANES), Harvard University, 2023
Fifth annual Graduate Symposium in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (GSANES), Harvard University, 2023
Hitpoints & History. An Archaeogaming Conference, 2023
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Papers by Kate Minniti
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In questo intervento ci proponiamo di esaminare il ruolo di Siracusa come centro principale per la distribuzione e importazione degli Orientalia nella Sicilia Orientale. Una notevole quantità di oggetti prodotti nel Mediterraneo Orientale sono stati rinvenuti nel territorio di Siracusa e negli insediamenti confinanti. Dall’analisi di questi oggetti, della loro datazione, contesto, e provenienza, stabiliremo il ruolo avuto da Siracusa nella loro importazione e distribuzione. Suggeriamo infine che i mercanti Siracusani si inserirono nella rete di rotte commerciali che già dall’VIII secolo a.C. portavano Orientalia in Sicilia, e probabilmente ne assunsero il monopolio.
Questo intervento è il primo passo verso un approccio differente allo studio dei contatti tra la Sicilia arcaica e il Mediterraneo Orientale attraverso l’analisi delle attività commerciali dei mercanti Siracusani, nonché un contributo alla discussione riguardante la complessa rete di connessioni e scambi commerciali e culturali nel Mediterraneo arcaico.