I this paper, the author underlines that epigraphic material and monuments mentioning ancient cults as patrons of seafaring and seafarers in Istria – which would correspond to numerous coastal settlements and ports, villas and landing places – are scarce. It is assumed that the supreme Roman sea deity Neptune was worshipped in the temple on the capitolium in Poreč, and in the residential mariti...

the traversing of categories from figures to plastered features to wall paintings. In this way I hope to build up more of a life-world for the Neolithic community, taking into account the inherent visuality and materiality of a figured corpus. It is not enough to say that these figurines are representations or visual proxies, they are things in themselves with their own spheres of interaction. ...

Mandra, on the uninhabited islet of Despotiko in middle Aegean Sea, is well known to archaeological community, owing discovery there 2001 an extensive sanctuary Apollo. Twenty-two edifices have come light so far, and systematic excavation continues elucidate long history site. The Early Iron Age marked earliest activity there, traces which offer fertile grounds for reconsidering life Cyclades a...