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Supernatural, Folksong and Human Sacrifice

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis
Supernatural, Folksong and Human Sacrifice This article analyses the fantastic elements in the demotic song “Bridge in Arta”. This ballad is a frequent object of research, but mainly genetic and structural, in Balkan contexts.
Przemysław Kordos
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative study of the performances of greek adolescents in dictée

open access: yesDEDiCA, 2012
Music dictation (dictée) constitutes one of the most difficult challenges in the teaching of music and a source of disappointment for the students. Their errors, during this lesson, may be fundamental to our research. The goal of this paper is to observe,
Paraskevi Micha
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‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 183-206, June 2024.
Abstract This article examines the oral and physical disruption of ‘public’ meetings in England in the spring of 1886, when such activity formed part of broader contests over the legitimacy of extra‐parliamentary responses to the Liberal government's Irish Home Rule Bill.
Naomi Lloyd‐Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Deciphering Demotic Digitally

open access: yes, 2016
In starting the Demotic Palaeographical Database Project, we intend to build up an online database which pays special attention to the actual appearance of Demotic papyri and texts down to the level of the individual sign.
Wespi, Fabian   +2 more
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A ‘verlan’ scribe in Deir el-Bersha: some Demotic inscriptions on quarry ceilings

open access: yes, 2008
Three fourth century bc Demotic inscriptions on the ceiling of underground limestone quarries in Deir el-Bersha turn out to be written from left to right with reversed signs.
Mark Depauw
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The role of rumors in the emergence and diffusion of pogroms

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 235-252, Spring 2024.
Abstract In studies on single pogroms, but especially in analyses of waves of pogroms, the central role of rumor communication in the run‐up to, but also in the spread of pogroms has been emphasized time and again. In the following, the functions and types of rumor communication will be examined in more detail in order to understand their role in the ...
Werner Bergmann
wiley   +1 more source

Gods on small things: Egyptian monumental iconography on late antique magical gems and the Greek and Demotic magical papyri

open access: yesPallas, 2011
Ancient Egyptian religious imagery—ranging from Horus and Seth contending for the throne of the kingdom to Anubis in the act of embalming the deceased—is well known from Egyptian temples, tomb walls, and ubiquitous cippi.
Nick West
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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 97-114, March 2024.
Abstract This article provides an ethnographic account of understandings of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It attempts to use said material to challenge the terms of debate within the current concern with ‘essentialism’ in social theory.
Joe Ellis
wiley   +1 more source

Anubis, Archer Figures, and Demotic Magic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the recent exhibition catalog Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt by Terry Wilfong, there appeared as number thirty-two a papyrus inscribed with a Demotic text accompanied by a rather interesting illustration.
Scalf, Foy, Ritner, Robert
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined ...
Maxim Kupreyev
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