scholarly journals Novi infundibulum na nekropoli antičkog Jadera

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Fadić
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Pharmaceutical Preparations ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Rare Form ◽  
Aromatic And Medicinal Plants ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Grave Goods

The zone where the Roman cemetery of Iader extended was confirmed in the recent rescue excavations in Ivan Zadranin Street in Zadar. In the excavations 35 Roman burials were discovered. The great majority of the discovered graves consist of cremation graves with extremely rich finds and grave goods. One of them was a cremation grave – grave 34 – containing a glass funnel or infundibulum. Including this new find of a funnel, so far 7 completely preserved glass funnels have been discovered in Zadar. Along with two funnels without a specific context for the finds, all of the others were uncovered in a grave context of cremation burials during archaeological excavations at the Roman cemetery of Iader. Glass funnels are a quite specific and rare form of freeblown glass vessels, which serve for transferring but not storing various liquids. Perhaps the finds of numerous glass funnels in this region, which are presumed to be of eastern Mediterranean production, were a result of activities in processing aromatic and medicinal plants. Such a hypothesis would certainly be supported by the numerous finds of other glass forms, but also the existence of one or more local glass workshops. Thus the need for glass products in general, and hence also for funnels, considering that glass is very neutral in terms of the contents stored in it, would be based in activities producing various pharmaceutical preparations. Judging from the glass funnels, such activities took place in the second half of the 1st century AD.

scholarly journals Novi nalaz reljefne staklene boce oblika ribe

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Fadić
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Glass Bottle ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Made In ◽  
Grave Goods

A fish-shaped relief glass bottle was found in grave 59 (quadrant 3A) during the rescue archaeological excavations at the site of Trgovački Centar (Shopping Mall) Relja in 2005. This find is particularly important since the entire context of the find is defined so that it offers valuable insights about the distribution of this type of the bottle as well as about the the chronological determination of its formation which has been a subject of discussions. These chronological dilemmas were solved by grave goods and typology of the burial at the ancient necropolis of Iader. On the basis of glass finds which belonged to grave goods from grave 59 together with the fish-shaped relief bottle we can state with certainty that this bottle which was blown into a two-part mold was made in the period from the mid-first to the beginning of the second century AD, to be precise in the second half of the first century AD. Out of total number of eight examples of these bottles, place of discovery is known for only four (Romania, Greece and Croatia), two of which were found in the Croatian littoral. Since none of the findspots was located in the western part of the Roman Empire, one cannot help thinking that fish-shaped relief bottles were created in the eastern Mediterranean, most likely in the Syrian glassmaking workshops in the first century AD when small Syrian relief bottles in vegetal and anthropomorphous shapes with relief decoration were very popular.

scholarly journals The Phytochemistry of Cherokee Aromatic Medicinal Plants

Medicines ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Setzer
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Biological Activities ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Black Cohosh ◽  
Cimicifuga Racemosa ◽  
Traditional Uses ◽  
Aromatic And Medicinal Plants ◽  
Phytochemical Investigation ◽  
Phytochemical Constituents

Background: Native Americans have had a rich ethnobotanical heritage for treating diseases, ailments, and injuries. Cherokee traditional medicine has provided numerous aromatic and medicinal plants that not only were used by the Cherokee people, but were also adopted for use by European settlers in North America. Methods: The aim of this review was to examine the Cherokee ethnobotanical literature and the published phytochemical investigations on Cherokee medicinal plants and to correlate phytochemical constituents with traditional uses and biological activities. Results: Several Cherokee medicinal plants are still in use today as herbal medicines, including, for example, yarrow (Achillea millefolium), black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa), American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), and blue skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora). This review presents a summary of the traditional uses, phytochemical constituents, and biological activities of Cherokee aromatic and medicinal plants. Conclusions: The list is not complete, however, as there is still much work needed in phytochemical investigation and pharmacological evaluation of many traditional herbal medicines.

scholarly journals The marble head of a statuette from Mediana (excavations in 2001)

Starinar ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 237-243
Author(s):  
Bojana Plemic
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

During the archaeological excavations in Mediana in 2001, the head of a marble statuette of exceptional beauty and craftsmanship was discovered. It was an isolated discovery, the sculpture probably having been imported from some Greek artistic centre or an eastern Mediterranean workshop, presenting a part of a larger ensemble of sculptures that had adorned an imperial villa with peristyle. Since the head was found in pieces and being just part of a sculptural representation with no reliable attributes, the question of its identification is a difficult task. It was possible to determine, using stylistic traits' analysis that the statuette was made under the influence of Hellenistic cult sculpture, namely that it followed the rules of the school of Praxiteles. On the other hand, the iconographic elements, in particular that of the hairstyle, lead us to the conclusion that this statuette could represent one of two Roman goddesses, either Venus or Diana.

The 373 B.C. Helike (Gulf of Corinth, Greece) Earthquake and Tsunami, Revisited

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stathis C. Stiros
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Total Loss ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Gulf Of Corinth ◽  
Tectonically Active ◽  
City States ◽  
The Town ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Ancient Texts

Abstract Ancient authors report the destruction and drowning in 373 B.C. in the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) of Helike (Helice and Eliki), an important, nearly coastal town, and of Boura (Bura, Buris, Bouris, and Voura), another town in the hinterland, as a punishment by the ancient God Poseidon because of a serious crime committed in his shrine. This narrative has been regarded as a description of a true event, though with some exaggerations, and the 373 B.C. event is included in earthquake and tsunami catalogs. In the first part of this article, it is shown that (1) local natural hazards exclude the possibility (risk) of total loss of the ancient “polis” (town state) of ancient Helike because of its vulnerability due to its geography. (2) Systematic geoarchaeological studies confirm this prediction because they reveal essentially undisturbed archaeological layers predating and postdating 373 B.C., with no signs of a tsunami. (3) Archaeological excavations have recently brought to light, among other findings, remains of the harbor of Boura and of the shrine of Poseidon at Helike, as well as coins issued by Helike several decades after its alleged loss. This evidence permits a reconsideration of ancient texts related to the loss of Helike in a supervised learning-type approach. It was found that genuine ancient Greek texts do not mention any catastrophe of Helike, but rather that the legend of its total loss appeared several centuries later in Roman times, in local legends, rumors, and forged or manipulated ancient texts (e.g., by pseudo-Aristotle). The ancient legend became important because it explained the collapse of the town state of Helike and it fit ancient religious ideas in a tectonically active region because of the rapid burial (“disappearance”) of ancient Greek remains under sediments in a young delta and because of the prominent location of Helike in the seafaring route between Rome and the eastern Mediterranean. For earthquakes before our era, historical and archaeological data have attracted interpretations… attributing to earthquakes… the demise of flourishing city-states. …The reason for the revival of catastrophe hypotheses is perhaps that they are easy to explain. They are too simple, too obvious and too coincidental and chiefly because they have become fashionable in recent years. (Ambraseys, 2006)

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants for Phytoremediation: A Sustainable Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 485-543
Author(s):  
Jitender Kumar ◽  
Nazir Ahmad Malik ◽  
Narender Singh Atri
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Aromatic And Medicinal Plants
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