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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46995| Title: | The Phoenicians and the Maltese prehistoric cultural landscape |
| Other Titles: | Cult in context : reconsidering ritual in archaeology |
| Authors: | Bonanno, Anthony |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- Phoenician and Punic period, 8th century B.C.-218 B.C. Prehistoric peoples -- Malta -- Social life and customs Phoenician antiquities -- Study and teaching -- History Megalithic temples -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Oxbow Books |
| Citation: | Bonanno, A. (2007). The Phoenicians and the Maltese prehistoric cultural landscape. In D. A. Barrowclough, & C. Malone (Eds.), Cult in context : reconsidering ritual in archaeology (pp. 107-111). Oxford: Oxbow Books. |
| Abstract: | Sometime in the fourth century AD the skeletal remains of two individuals were discovered below the floor of a church in northern Italy. The circumstances of the discovery, especially the quantity of 'blood' (presumably red ochre) covering the original bodies, suggest that they were late Palaeolithic burials. StAmbrose, however, bishop ofMilan, inspired by a dream, declared the remains to belong to two early Christian martyrs. Soon the bones proved to be miraculous and their owners were canonised as Saints Protasus and Gervaise (Haldane 1985; Bradley 2002, 112-3). |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46995 |
| ISBN: | 9781842173039 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtCA |
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