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AMULETS OF THE “EGYРTIAN” FAIENCE FROM THE TERRITORY OF ROSTOV REGION IN THE PUBLICATION OF LATE XIX - EARLY XXI C.C

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2017
The article is devoted to the historiographical review of publications dated by late XIX - early XXI centuries and containing information about amulets and talismans of the Egyptian faience, found in the settlements and burial grounds in Rostovskaya ...
S B Burkov, S M-A Gadalrab
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Beads for the nomads of late antiquity: Chemical characterization of glass from the Blemmyan tumuli at Kalabsha, Nubia, of the mid‐fourth century CE

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1255-1271, December 2021., 2021
The mobility of the Blemmyes between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea coast, and their skill in trading, are well attested in the literary sources and in the archaeological record. While they operated mainly in the Eastern Desert, their cemeteries, dated to the mid‐fourth century ce, were located in the strategic region of the Dodekaschoinos of Lower ...
J. Then‐Obłuska, L. Dussubieux
wiley   +1 more source

A Faience Aryballos in the Collection of the University Museum at Wroclaw

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2017
In the collection of the University Museum of Wroclaw is a spherical faience aryballos of unknown provenance. It belongs to a group of vessels which enjoyed widespread popularity over a vast area of the Mediterranean in the 6th century BC.
Agata Kubala
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Once were warriors: Challenging occupation preconceptions in Lebanese weapon‐associated burials (Middle Bronze Age, Sidon)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 1155-1168, November/December 2021., 2021
Abstract Objectives Found throughout the ancient Near East during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), many modern scholars emphasize that weapon‐associated burials are ideological and symbolic associations, not reflections of occupation. However, the term “warrior burial” still carries interpretive value that misinforms popular perception.
Arwa Kharobi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 227-246, April 2021., 2021
Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amulets Depicting the Eye of Horus from Burial Mounds of Early Nomads in the Southern Urals

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Three faience amulets depicting the Eye of Horus (Wedjat) were discovered in the Southern Urals. They all come from burial mounds of early nomads and are dated by local chronologies to the 5th – 4th centuries BC.
Olga V. Anikeeva, [Leonid T. Yablonsky]
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Medicinal Vessels from Tell Atrib (Egypt)

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2017
This article offers publication of seventeen miniature vessels discovered in Hellenistic strata of Athribis (modern Tell Atrib) during excavations carried out by Polish-Egyptian Mission in the 1980s/1990s.
Adam Łajtar, Anna Południkiewicz
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The study of the historical development of glass in ancient times

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
This paper discusses historical development of glass in ancient times, identify the most important characteristics of glass in every era of time, through the study of their properties, chemical composition of the types of glass and production methods ...
Shaimaa Salama
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The hermetic logos : reading the "Corpus Hermeticum" as a reflection of Graeco-Egyptian mentality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This study analyses Hermetic literature and focuses on the seventeen treatises of the so-called Corpus Hermeticum. It takes as its starting point the assumption that what are nowadays known as the Philosophical Hermetica emerged as a product of a Graeco ...
Gurgel Pereira, Ronaldo Guilherme
core   +1 more source

DIVINE WINGS: SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UP-CURVED WINGS MOTIF IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROYAL JEWELRY [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Sīyāḥaẗ wa Al-Fanādiq (Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Mansoura)
This study explores the symbolic significance of up-curved wing motif in ancient Egyptian royal jewelry. Drawing on visual and composition evidence, it examines how this motif associated with deities such as Re, Horus, Scarab Khepri, Isis, Nekhbet, and ...
Azza Mohamed Hassan Abdel-Azim Ibrahim
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