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New Interpretation of the Imagines Clypeatae on the Coptic Textiles of the 4th – 7th Centuries

Античная древность и средние века, 2019
Late Antique Egyptian textiles of the 4th – 7th centuries often represent compositions with busts within medallions. The attribution of these images is still undecided and they can be viewed by scholars from different angles, like decorative ...
Olga Osharina
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Rome and Its Inhabitants during the Sack of the City by the Visigoths in 410 AD

Античная древность и средние века
This article uncovers anthropological aspect of the capture of Rome by the troops of Alaric, the culminating event of the crisis of 408–410 AD on the Apennine Peninsula.
Evgeniia Sergeevna Zaitseva
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John of Nikiu and Prokopios of Caesarea on the Wars of Justinian I against the Persians at the South Caucasus: Narrative Structures and Trends of History Writing

Античная древность и средние века
The present article deals with the peculiarities of narrative tools of two historians related to different language and religion traditions: John of Nikiu, Monophysite Coptic bishop from the city of Nikiu at the Nile Delta (second half of the seventh ...
Evgenii Aleksandrovich Mekhamadiev
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Rare Capitals from the Southern Coast of the Crimea

Античная древность и средние века
So far there are known two rare capitals found on the Southern Coast of the Crimea. E. A. Parshina discovered scattered fragments of one capital in 1978–1980 when excavating the so-called Big House in Laspi.
Vladimir Petrovich Kirilko
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Searching the Khazars in Mangup: Some Critical Observations on the Data of Written and Archaeological Sources

Античная древность и средние века
This article examines the available data of written and archaeological sources on the so-called “Khazar” Period in the history of Mangup-Doros, the largest Byzantine castle in the Mountainous Crimea in the Early Middle Ages.
Valerii Evgen’evich Naumenko
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Seals of Kommerkiarioi of the Ros’

Античная древность и средние века
This article addresses the seals of the kommerkiarioi of the Ros’. So far there are known two groups of the seals in question. The first includes five specimens showing the flowering patriarchal cross on two steps on the obverse and the Greek inscription
Elena Vladimirovna Stepanova
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The image of Christian Paradise in the Coptic tradition (on the materials of the late antique textiles from the Hermitage collection)

Античная древность и средние века, 2018
The purpose of this article is to analyze the iconography of the scenes with the depictions of Paradise on late antique textiles from Egypt. The iconographic motifs that will be examined are the images of personifications such as the Earth, rivers, the ...
Olga Osharina
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“Byzantine Myth” in the Historiography of Pre-Mongol Rus’

Античная древность и средние века
This article analyses the scholarly works of historians and art historians written from the mid-twentieth to the early-twenty-first century, discussing the Rus’ian-Byzantine contacts from the eleventh to thirteenth century.
Valerii Pavlovich Stepanenko
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Mirror from the Golden Horde Period Excavated at the Ancient Town atop of the Plateau of Eski-Kermen

Античная древность и средние века
This article analyzes the metal mirror excavated at the plateau of Eski-Kermen, from grave 16/2022 of the fourteenth-century cemetery located in front of the main basilica church.
Anna Vital’evna Antipenko
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