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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 119-127, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2023., 2023 This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 283-304, August 2021., 2021 Relations between southern Britain and the Merovingian kingdoms in the sixth and early seventh centuries have largely been understood in terms of a Frankish hegemony extending across the Channel. However, a re‐examination of the small group of written sources on which this idea is based shows that they do not necessarily imply such overlordship.
Irene Bavuso
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Reassessing Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics and Earthquake Hazard From the 365 CE Earthquake
AGU Advances, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2021., 2021 Abstract The hallmark of great earthquakes in the Mediterranean is the 21 July 365 CE earthquake and tsunami that destroyed cities and killed thousands of people throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. This event is intriguing because most Mediterranean subduction forearcs exhibit pervasive crustal extension and minimal definitive evidence exists for ...
Richard F. Ott +6 more
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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La imagen de Barbación en las "Res Gestae" de Amiano Marcelino1 [PDF]
, 2016 This article analyzes the depiction of magister peditum Barbatio in Res Gestae (RG) by Ammianus Marcellinus. The historian offers an image of Barbatio as an shameful figure: sentenced to death for his betrayal of the Caesar Gallus; coward and arrogant ...
Garcia Ruiz, Mª del Pilar
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The Hersfeldensis and the Fuldensis of Ammianus Marcellinus:A reconsideration [PDF]
, 2016 The only two authoritative manuscripts of Ammianus Marcellinus to survive to the present day were produced in Germany in the first half of the ninth century: Vaticanus Latinus 1873 from Fulda (V), and a fragmentary manuscript from Hersfeld now preserved ...
Kelly, Gavin, Stover, Justin
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Autorzy pogańscy o chrześcijaństwie (Galen, Ammianus Marcellinus)
Vox Patrum, 1986 ...
Andrzej Bober
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The Migration History of the Savirs
Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2023 The history of the Chuvash people during ancient times and the early Middle Ages is still not well-known or thoroughly understood. The Bulgars were most often named as the historical ancestors of the Chuvash in research from the 18th to the 20th ...
Anton K. Salmin
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Ammianus and some Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c. A.D. 353-364 [PDF]
, 2010 The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus is a major source of our knowledge of the late Roman army. However, although himself a former army officer, it was not the intention of Ammianus to explain the institutions and organization of the late Roman army to
Woods, David
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