Talks by Antonio Gottarelli
Piacenza, Etruria. Il Fegato di Piacenza, gli Etruschi e gli altri popoli antichi in Emilia occidentale, 2025
Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province di Romagna, 2021
Parole chiave: via Flaminia minore, via Claudia, Bononia, Florentia, Claterna.
New archaeological discoveries between the valleys of the Quaderna and Idice rivers and new considerations on the topography of the Roman city of Claterna allow today to retrace more than 50 years of research of a circumstantial nature on the route of the via Flaminia minor in the eastern Bolognese Apennines, definitively distinguishing it from a second road from the imperial age, called “Claudia”, which connected Bononia with Florentia. The recognition of the road out of Claterna and the discovery of an ancient bridge and imposing remains of paving along the Quaderna valley and between the Idice and the Zena lead to a definitive hypothesis on the branches of its layout in the direction of Bononia.
Keyword: via Flaminia minore, via Claudia, Bononia, Florentia, Claterna.
COVID19. La Norimberga della scienza, 2021
Books by Antonio Gottarelli
Le vie Romane dell'Appennino bolognese. Flaminia minore, Claudia e Cassiola, 2025
Le vie romane dell'Appennino bolognese. Flaminia minore, Claudia Cassiola. Per una storia dei collegamenti stradali tra la VII e la VIII Regio, dall'età romana repubblicana all'alto Medioevo, 2024
"Padānu. Un’ombra tra le mani del tempo. La decifrazione funzionale del fegato etrusco di Piacenza", 2018
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The Sun, the Moon, the constellations, the 16 annual stations of a ritual liturgical calendar and the 6 doors that mark the rising rhythm of the celestial bodies on the solstitial arch: therefore are these the key elements to understand the complex plot of inscriptions present on the Etruscan Liver of Piacenza?
In the previous volume we had come to the conclusion that the little bronze could be a symbolic and stylized model of the same Liver of Tiāmat, "with an instrumental function for the calculation of the cyclical phases of time". From the moment any link with the hepatoscopic practice was dissolved, we wondered what would have happened to the entire castle of conjecture on the 16 regions of the peripheral ribbon if, in other contexts, we had arrived to show that the ideal image of the heavenly Templum had presented a different figure and a different orientation system with respect to what is traditionally hypothesized. The answer was more than obvious: the whole castle would have collapsed and the interpretation of the Liver of Piacenza would have had to be completely re-established on new foundations.
And it is precisely these the point of arrival of the long research that in the previous volume has allowed us to connect the geometry of the solar Templum of the place to the meanings of one of the most guarded mystery doctrines of antiquity: the great secrets of Heaven and Subsoil which were imprinted on the liver of the ancient mother Tiāmat, at the time of the cosmogonic refoundation. And it will be precisely the astronomical mechanism of the solar Templum of the place, as we have found it described in Enoc's "Book of Astronomy", which will now provide us with the interpretative key from which to start again to arrive at its complete deciphering.
Will so be revealed the functions of one of the most extraordinary ritual instruments of antiquity for the calculation of the liturgical dimension of the passage of time, the first handheld object, analogical digital, never found, able to fix its rhythms and geometries.
But the one to which his deciphering will take us is much more than this, because its symbolic and instrumental content will open future new and extraordinary research perspectives on the conceptual foundations of the same "Etruscan discipline" and on the processes that will bring the ambit of the "Tyrrhenian Etruria" to its extreme northern Po Valley border.
The line of the 45th parallel that is crossed by the great river of northern Italy which welcomed the remains of Fetonte, coincides with the ancient axis of equilibrium that was of the cosmic order of origins and corresponds to that "equator gnomonic "which is precisely reflected in the instrumental functions of the model. On the liver, this finding is represented by an engraved sign that is always present on the most ancient hepatoscopic models of the Near East, and whose translation in the akkadian term padānu shows an extraordinary familiarity with the name that will later be attributed to that plain and to his great river.
Cosmogonica. Il fegato di Tiāmat e la soglia misterica del Tempo. Dai miti cosmologici del Vicino Oriente antico ad una nuova interpretazione del fegato etrusco di Piacenza, 2017
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The great Poem of Babylonian Creation, the myth of Enmeduranki, the book of secrets of Enoch, the scrolls of Qumran. For the first time a single research path reveals the connections between a small bronze model of liver found in Ciavernasco of Piacenza, at the dawn of the unification of Italy, and the hidden plot of one of the most guarded mysteric disciplines of antiquity .
The threshold of time, that which is permanently defined by the alternation of state between day and night and which is induced by the continuous motion of rotation of the celestial framework, is the very essence of the principle on which the whole cosmological construction will be based. From this conceptual dimension of the sacred, which will correspond, in different places and traditions, and declined only formally in different times and ways, all the doctrinal theories of the ancient world on the nature of time and its origin. It is in this conceptual construction that the legacy of the religious orders of the Mesopotamian cultures - the one we find in the West still expressed within the Etruscan religion at the time of writing Qumran manuscripts - differs from others in assigning a key cosmogonic role to the functions of the liver, as a mundus of the body and metaphysical "threshold" placed at the origin of life and of the universe itself.
To the extent that the rhythms and rules of the passage of the great stars and the entire celestial framework on the threshold between light and darkness constituted the key to approaching the Great Secrets of the Cosmos, it was logical to imagine that the Great Babylonian Creation Poem had indicated right in the liver of Tiāmat, the germinator center of the ancient Mother on which Marduk recompiled the new celestial order, the vital seat for the "empathic" understanding of those laws.
Like a mirror of the "enimmatic" configurations that the system would have assumed in its future temporal development, the divination based on the inspection of the liver was considered in Mesopotamia, and then again for the Greeks and the Etruscans, the first and most important form of interrogation of the future destinies. And it is to this more extensive cosmological construction, and not to the only and changing outcomes of the judgments derived from it, that it is more correctly traced the interpretation of one of the most enigmatic archaeological finds of antiquity: the Etruscan Liver of Piacenza.
Contemplatio.Templum solare e culti di fondazione. 1998-2013. Sulla regola aritmogeometrica del rito di fondazione della città etrusco-italica tra VI e IV secolo a.C., 2013
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Marzabotto, Banzi, Rome, Este. An unprecedented prospect of research links Italy of Rome to unsuspected and less known places, in search of one of the most guarded secrets of history: the augural rite of foundation of etruscan and latin cities. The starting point is the unveiling of the hidden design of the urban form of the Etruscan city of Marzabotto (Kailua) and its analogy with the cosmological foundation of the three descending cosmic levels: the celestial, the terrestrial and the inferior. To these dimensions, and to the relative transcendent entities, the augury of foundation is directed, whose goal is the reunification of the three temples in one great templum. The sequence of ritual acts is then a sort of inverted cosmogony, where the very act of birth has violently divided back to the primordial unity. The liturgy of the foundation rite would thus continue to express in itself the evocative and dramaturgical power of the sacrifice of the cosmogonic myths of the origins, as a ritual re-enactment of the violent act of death and rebirth which arises at the beginning of time and at the origin of every new spatial order. The perpetuation of this act takes place therefore in the dimension of Time, where it is the expression of a Sacred Space whose essence is inherent in the continuous rotation of the celestial bodies around a center, or axis, which identifies its origin and the beginning. Both dimensions thus reveal their sacred value in the geometry of the eternal movement of the stars, in the numbers and in the relationships that distinguish the rhythms and phases: first of all the one related to the design of the Sun's motions - the Solar Templum - expressed by arithmogeometric figure that describes the main annual stations of rising and sunset on the local horizon of the observer. The geometry of the solar Templum of the place, as a union of the three temples, indicates the figure that identifies the spatial directions and the temporal instants within which the miracle of the "Communion of the Worlds" occurs, a communion whose liturgical action is admirably expressed in the very act of contemplatio.
Papers by Antonio Gottarelli
Kos (Grecia), Rilievo e studio della basilica di san Gabriele
Inaugurazione Area di interesse Archeologico-Naturalistico di Monte Bibele
Intracemetery biodistance analysis and funerary patterns of the Etruscan-Celtic necropolis of Monterenzio Vecchio(Bologna, Italy)
21° CONGRESSO dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, 2015
Assessing biological and cultural admixture in the Etruscan-Celtic population of Monterenzio Vecchio and Monte Bibele (Bologna, Italy)
XXIII Congresso dell'Associazione Antropologica Italiana, 2019
A formalized approach to pottery typology: The case of some typical shapes from the Late Bronze Age in Northern Syria
Museografia E Informatica: La Ricostruzione Virtuale Della Tomba Menfita Del Generale Horemheb
established by: Mauro Cristofani and Riccardo …, 1996
Atti e Memorie della deputazione di Storia Patria per le Provincie di Romagna, 2023
Te.m.p.l.a., 2013
Museografia, multimedialità e archeologia sperimentale. La storia, la struttura e le realizzazioni di Te.m.p.l.a., Tecnologie Multimediali per l'Archeologia
Patrimoni culturali tra storia e futuro, 2009
Progetto e direzione lavori dell'Area d'Interesse Archeologico Naturalistico di Monte Bibele
Progetto e realizzazione finanziato su fondi europei Regione Emilia Romagna POR FESR 2007-2013
Te.m.p.l.a., 2008
