Fornaciari Antonio
Divisione di Paleopatologia, Università di Pisa, I.
Med Secoli. 2013;25(1):205-38.
The ancient concepts of death as duration and the practices of secondary burial,first analysed by Robert Hertz, still survive in many areas of southern Italy. According to these beliefs death was perceived not as a sudden event, but as a long-lasting process, during which the deceased person had to go through a transitory phase, passing from one state of existence to another. Recent archeological research documents the persistence of secondary burial rites in Southern Italy during the Modern Age. A survey conducted in the province of Messina in Eastern Sicily has identified two surviving architectural structures appointed for the treatment of the bodies: the 'sitting colatoio' aimed at favoring the skeletonisation and the 'horizontal colatoio' used to obtain mummification by dehydration. Both these structures controlled the corpse's decay and transformed the body in a stable and durable simulacra of the dead.
死亡作为一个持续过程的古老概念以及二次葬习俗，最早由罗伯特·赫兹进行分析，至今仍在意大利南部的许多地区留存。根据这些观念，死亡并非被视为一个突然的事件，而是一个持久的过程，在此期间，逝者必须经历一个过渡阶段，从一种存在状态转变为另一种存在状态。最近的考古研究记录了现代时期意大利南部二次葬仪式的延续。在西西里岛东部的墨西拿省进行的一项调查，识别出了两座留存下来用于处理尸体的建筑结构：旨在促进骨骼化的“坐式colatoio”和用于通过脱水实现木乃伊化的“卧式colatoio”。这两种结构都控制着尸体的腐烂，并将尸体转化为死者稳定而持久的模拟像。
