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The paper looks into the turbulent history of the ancient town of Akrai/Acrae in a mountainous part of southeastern Sicily, encapsulated in the assemblage of finds from a domestic cistern, which was remodeled and adapted in the course of its use. The cistern is considered as an architectural feature against the background of the ancient town, and the assemblage recovered from it is exmined thoroughly category by category, giving insight into the life of the ancient inhabitants of this island in the Mediterranean.

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Abstractdespite the huge quantity of ancient lamps preserved in museums of the former USSR, this category of finds has been very little studied. The State Historical Museum owns a corpus of more than a thousand lamps, almost all unpublished. The authors announce here the next publication of the first volume of this corpus, dedicated to the collection of lamps from Chersonesos, and explain briefly the history and the importance of these materials.

Essay on the life achievement of Marielle Martiniani-Reber, tribute on her 65th anniversary.