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Mushaf, 2022 A talisman is anything that is believed to have power and is also believed to be an heirloom with magical powers that can help solve various life problems. In its classification, amulets are divided into syar’i and non-syar’i amulets.
Muhammad Syahrul Akbar
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Anthropomorphic amulets from Viminacium [PDF]
Starinar, 2020 The paper focuses on a group of five anthropomorphic pendants, deposited in graves of sub-adult and female individuals, discovered in cemeteries of ancient Viminacium (Serbia).
Milovanović Bebina D. +1 more
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Journal of Religion in Africa, 1987 The Berti live in the Province of North Darfur in the Sudan. They are sedentary people whose main livelihood is based on rain cultivation and animal husbandry (for more details on the Berti see Holy 1974). For several centuries the Berti have spoken their own dialect of the Arabic language.
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Byzantine Healing Amulets from Southwestern Crimea
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. The article presents two unique items from the Southwestern Crimea – a bronze finger ring with an image of a lion-headed serpent Chnoubis, originating from a female burial of the first quarter of the 7 th century of the Gothic-Alanian ...
Elzara A. Khairedinova
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Foot-amulets: a possible amuletic value
Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 2012 A number of foot-shaped objects have been found in Bronze Age graves in the region of Messará, Crete. Previous scholars have suggested they may be amulets or talismans. One hypothesis advanced in the late 1960s proposed that they gave protection from poisonous snakes bites and were connected to the Minoan Snake Goddess cult. This paper reports on a new
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‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee +2 more
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Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.Homo‐ and heterodinuclear group 4 metallocene complexes of the type [(Cp2M)2(μ‐Me)(μ‐C2R)] (M = Ti, Zr) are active catalysts for the polymerization of ethylene in the presence of aluminium‐free activators. The catalytically active species are proposed to have dinuclear character and depending on the type of activator, unique reactivity was observed ...
Hanan Al Hamwi +8 more
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Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2016 The article provides some basic facts and updates on the gold foil figures and also questions certain aspects of Baastrups interpretation. Attention is drawn to the importance of the complex iconographic content of the gold foils.
Margrethe Watt
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The Knot in Examples of Religious Texts [PDF]
Shedet, 2019 The knot was one of the most important symbols in ancient Egyptian texts, including the Pyramid texts, coffin texts or the Book of the Dead. This paper looks closely at the knot in Ancient Egyptian texts.
Rania Abdel Aziz MAHMOUD
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Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2022 The South Scandinavian chair pendants of the late Viking Age form a famous and much debated find category. They have been associated with the cult of Odin as well as female seeresses. However, their find contexts clearly link the amulets intimately to a
Mads Dengsø Jessen +1 more
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