The votive plaques in the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures: what they tell about the cults [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2023 This paper proposes a comparison between the votive plaques which were part of the Oxus and Mir Zakah treasures, both dating for the main to the Achaemenid period. In a first section the questions of provenance and authenticity are discussed.
Frantz Grenet
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Ritual Process and Symbolic Transformation in Cultural Landscapes of Proto-Urban Bactria
Asian Studies, 2021 The focus of this discussion is a recent book on the Bronze Age Proto-Bactrian culture of Southern Uzbekistan. I dare say that there are some books that inspire us to study monuments, and there are some monuments that inspire us to write books.
Vladimir I. Ionesov
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The Role of Osteoimmunology in Periodontal Disease
BioMed Research International, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Periodontal disease is a pathological condition that involves inflammation of the tooth supporting structures. It occurs in response to the presence of bacterial plaque on the tooth structure. The host defense system, including innate and adaptive immunity, is responsible for combating the pathologic bacteria invading the periodontal tissue. Failure to
Rayyan A. Kayal, Shigeru Kotake
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In the footsteps of Euthydemus. Preliminary report for archaeological survey in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2018 [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2019 The extensive archaeological surface survey conducted by the Czech -Uzbek team in the Baysun Mountains (south Uzbekistan) that started in spring 2017 continued a year later, in April and May 2018.
Ladislav Stančo +6 more
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Iskandar Tepa. Preliminary report for archaeological excavation in season 2018 (south Uzbekistan) [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 Following up on the previous extensive surface surveys in the valleys and steppe of the Kugitang Mountains Piedmont in 2016 and 2017, the Czech Uzbek archaeological expedition conducted small scale trial exca vations at the site of Iskandar Tepa, which ...
Ladislav Stančo +6 more
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Iconography of Power: the Bearded King on the Coinage of Seleucus II Callinicus [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2020 Seleucus II Callinicus was the first Seleucid king (from 246 to 225 BC) who portrayed himself on coins bearded andwearing a diadem. This seems to be due to the wars that were waged in the Seleucid Empire during the reign of thisking, including the ...
Robert Sebastian Wojcikowski
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Historia.scribere, 2012 The following paper examines processes of exchange and transfer of cultural patterns, forms of representation and religious concepts via commerce and monetary systems.
Matthias Hoernes
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Alexander the Undertaker: Persians, Bactrians, and ataphoi [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2023 Alexander’s famous ban of the exposure of the corpses in Bactra has been long studied. Mostly the discussion has focused on the veracity of the account and his compliance with the Zoroastrian rites.
Marc Mendoza
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The Iron Gate and its environs in the Hellenistic period. Preliminary report for archaeological research in the Baysun District (South Uzbekistan), Season 2019 [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2022 is report summarizes the starting points, methods and results of the archaeological research of the Czech-Uzbek team investigating the Hellenistic selements in the vicinity of Darband, in the upper reaches of the Sherabad Darya, in the Baysun District ...
Ladislav Stančo +8 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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