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Record W2319611451 · doi:10.3764/aja.115.2.0263

Funerary Feasting in Early Byzantine Sicily: New Evidence from Kaukana

2011· article· en· W2319611451 on OpenAlex
Ross Wilson

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Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Archaeology · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAncient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsByzantine architectureAncient historyContext (archaeology)ArchaeologyHearthHistoryGeographyEarly ChristianityYardSettlement (finance)Classics

Abstract

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In the Early Byzantine coastal settlement at Punta Secca (province of Ragusa), traditionally identified with the Kaukana of the ancient sources, excavations in a hitherto unexplored building took place over three seasons from 2008 to 2010. The structure, consisting of four chambers set around a yard (the latter contained a staircase to an upper story), has every appearance of being a domestic dwelling. Seven structural phases were identified, all probably occurring within the first half of the seventh century C.E. The most surprising and unusual discovery was an elite tomb, erected ca. 625/30 C.E. in an area probably open to the sky, in which the bodies of a pregnant woman aged about 25 and of a child aged about four were found. A libation hole in one tomb slab and the presence of a bench and offering table (mensa), as well as hearths and a plentiful array of amphoras, cooking pots, and red slip tableware, indicate that meals were consumed here in honor of the deceased, who were almost certainly Christians. The discovery, unique in Sicily, is discussed in the context of what else is known archaeologically about funerary feasting in a Christian context in the Mediterranean world of late antiquity.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.748
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.079
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.153 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it