Orfeo Báquico: la cruz desaparecida
- Autores: Francesco Carotta
- Localización: Isidorianum, ISSN-e 2660-7743, ISSN 1131-7027, Vol. 18, Nº. 35, 2009, págs. 179-218
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
“Orpheos Bakkikos: The missing cross”. The tiny 'Orpheos Bakkikos' stone, engraved with the representation of a crucifixion, has been lost since World War II. At the beginning of the last century the stone was still regarded as an original, but during the 1920s doubts arose concerning its authenticity due to its classification as early Christian, and the dispute continues to this day. Previous arguments for and against the artefact’s authenticity are examined, and it is concluded in this study that the aporia can be solved not by regarding the stone unilaterally as either Orphic or Christian, but by placing it back into its original historical context. The supporting argumentation leads from the Roman imperial cult via the Athenian 'Iobakchoi' of the second century A.D. as well as the Roman poets and 'Cultores Liberi' of the Augustan era back to the funeral of Julius Caesar, where a wax effigy of the slain, which closely resembles the ‘crucified figure’ in the Orpheos 'Bakkikos engraving', was affixed to a cruciform tropaeum and shown to the people. On these grounds hypotheses are established that explain both the application of the 'Orpheos Bakkikos' stone as a 'crucifixum signum' on the apex of the 'flamen Divi Iulii', which has been preserved on the headdresses of the Pope and the Patriarchs, as well as the origin of the articulated crucifixes, which have been handed down from Antiquity and are utilized during the Holy Week to this day.
