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Assessing the Stone Reliquaries at Mor Yuhannon Tayyoyo Monastery in Nusaybin District’s Village of Dibek

open access: yesSanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2023
The cult of saints and martyrs, has become an important means of representation in the Christian faith and has occured at the forefront of the elements that shape the church liturgy in addition to the principles of belief and worship.
Ufuk Elyiğit
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Reflection of Zoroastrianism in the Temples of Central Asia of the Bronze Age

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей, 2023
The acceleration of migration processes in Central Asia in the Bronze Age created an environment of multiculturalism. Cultural links, social and economic progress ensured the further development of the spiritual thinking of society and led to the ...
Guljahon Sh. Shaydullaeva   +1 more
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Mazars as memorial monuments of Karakalpakstan of the 18th – early 20th centuries

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2022
The article studies the monuments of grave architecture of the Karakalpaks of the 18th – early 20th centuries: uishik, sagana, fence and gumbez. The most common form of such buildings is a fence of adobe walls, which does not have coatings. In fact, they
Makset A. Karlibaev
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The imperial cult : a Cretan perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Forty years after the publication of Sanders’ Roman Crete, a broader range of evidence for the imperial cult on Crete is available-temples and other structures, monumental architectural members, imperial altars, portraiture and statuary, coinage, statue ...
Baldwin Bowsky, Martha W.   +1 more
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Creeping decay: cult soundtracks, residual media, and digital technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the recent resurgence in the collecting of cult film soundtracks, in particular films stemming from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and often linked to horror and other modes of exploitation cinema.
Sexton, Jamie
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Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
St Cuthbert's literary cult was conceived in the late seventh and early eighth century with the production of three vitae, most importantly Bede's prose Vita sancti Cuthberti.
Crumplin, Sally
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Urartian Cult of the Stelae and New Discoveries at Aznavurtepe and Yesilalic (Ashotakert)

open access: yes, 2022
The Urartian Kingdom is recognized for its idiosyncratic religious architecture and ritual practices. Tower-temples (susi) at the peak of citadels, dedicated to the "national" god Haldi constitute the most essential element of religious architecture ...
Konyar, Erkan   +5 more
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The niches of the Vestibule of the Royal Mortuary Cult Complexof the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
The article is about damages to the architecture and wall decoration of niches in theVestibule of Hatshepsut in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex. Traces of ancient repairs may bediscerned in the distorted layers of limestone blocks and deformed relief ...
Mariusz Caban
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On the Sweet Fragrance of Healing in the Cult of Relics: Scented Oil Lamps, Holy myron and Myroblytes Saints

open access: yesArt-Sanat, 2023
The fragrance, which emerged as an important element of the cult of saints, takes its place in religious rites in the Byzantine healing practices of sacred centers, funeral traditions and adventus ceremonies such as the consecration of an altar in the ...
Lale Doğer, Ceylan Borstlap
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The Sphere: Reading a gender Metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity [PDF]

open access: yesArt History, 1997
This article investigates the spherical form and its derivatives (ribbed dome, tumulus, grotto) in modern public architecture in terms of the interrelationship of gendered metaphors and the representation of political identities. Starting with Boullée's Temple of Nature/Reason of 1793, it follows the use of these architectural bodies as metaphors ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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