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Study of green‐coloured gems of the Roman period from the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (Greece) and their possible geographic origin

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 55, Issue 12, Page 1341-1354, December 2024.
Nineteen green‐coloured gems in jewellery of the Roman period from the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki were studied with optical microscope, mobile Raman and Vis‐NIR spectroscopy as well as EDXRF. Seventeen out of nineteen gems were identified as natural emeralds with characteristics similar to Egyptian emeralds.
Maria Nikopoulou, Stefanos Karampelas, Evangelia Tsangaraki, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos Katsifas, Ioannis Nazlis, Annareta Touloumtzidou, Vasilios Melfos, Nikolaos Kantiranis   +8 more
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Byzantine Taurica in the Second Half of the 11th Century and New Seal of Leon Aliates from Cherson

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
he discovery of a valuable and important sphragistic source in Cherson – the seal of Strategos and Patrikios Leon Aliates, known by the inscription of 1059, brings us back to the old problems of the development of the administrative system of the Crimean
Nikolay A. Alekseenko
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Character recognition in Byzantine seals with deep neural networks

Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Seals are small coin-shaped artifacts, mostly made of lead, held with strings to seal letters. This work presents the first attempt towards automatic reading of text on Byzantine seal images.Byzantine seals are generally decorated with iconography on the obverse side and Greek text on the reverse side.
Rageau, Théophile, Likforman-Sulem, Laurence, Fiandrotti, Attilio, Eyharabide, Victoria, Caseau, Béatrice, Cheynet, Jean-Claude   +5 more
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The Nabataean monumental rock‐cut tombs of Mughāyir Shuʿayb and al‐Aṣīfir in the oasis of al‐Badʿ (Saudi Arabia): Preliminary architectural study and spatial organisation of the necropolis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 155-204, November 2024.
Abstract The Nabataean monumental rock‐cut tombs in the oasis of al‐Badʿ are the main heritage and tourist attraction of the Madyan peninsula, in the heart of the Neom region in Saudi Arabia. Through an analysis of their architectural and decorative features, this study provides, for the first time, a thorough overview of the 35 tombs in the ...
Louise Bigot‐Démereau, Guillaume Charloux, Waleed Badaiwi, Kévin Guadagnini, François Larché, Laurence Naggiar, Samer A. Sahlah   +6 more
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Persians-Khurramites in the Byzantine Military Service During 833–839/840: Military Rank and Functions of Persian Military Units

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. The scope of this paper is 1) to consider the forms of military service of the Persians within the Byzantine army during the first half of the 9th c., 2) to arrange the chronological order of events related to the involvement of the ...
Evgeniy A. Mekhamadiev
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Seals of the Personages from the Alexiad Found in Veliki Preslav

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The study involves two groups of seals: 1) seals of the individuals who can be identified as the Alexiad personages: Alexios Komnenos as sebastos and megas domestikos (the first group) and emperor (the second one); his brother Adrianos Komnenos as ...
Ivan Jordanov
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Signed, sealed, delivered – digital approaches to Byzantine sigillography

it - Information Technology
Abstract In this paper we present a number of digital approaches in the field of Byzantine sigillography conducted in two projects currently running at the University of Cologne. We describe how technologies and methodologies from the Digital Humanities can help overcome some of the limitations in Byzantine sigillography that result from
Claes Neuefeind, Jan Bigalke, Maria Teresa Catalano, Sviatoslav Drach, Sofia Efthymoglou, Pia Evening, Martina Filosa, Christos Malatras, Marcel Schaeben, Claudia Sode   +9 more
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Three remarkable Byzantine lead seals from a private collection

Byzantina Symmeikta, 2023
This study focuses on the publication of - and commentary on - three Byzantine lead seals that are part of a larger registered private collection. The first two are remarkable because of their owners' names, rarely attested in Late Antiquity and the Middle Byzantine period: Βιάτωρ / Viator (droungarios, date: ca.
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Byzantine Lead Seal of Constantine, Notarios and Abydikos from Bulgaria

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019
Introduction. The paper deals with a byzantine lead seal of Constantine, notarios and abydikos, which originated from the vicinity of the medieval fortress of Rusokastro, southeastern Bulgaria. Methods.
Nikolay Kanev
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Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Jacobson MJ, Pickett J, Gascoigne AL, Fleitmann D, Elton H.   +4 more
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