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Infrastructures for digital research: new opportunities and challenges [PDF]

, 2017
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Hughes, Lorna
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An Unpublished Inscription From the ʾAwām Sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah: New Evidence for a Royal mqtwy and Sabaean Campaigns in the ‘Land of the Abyssinians’

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
wiley   +1 more source

‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

L’habitation maya

Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2012
In this preliminary research, which makes use of archaeological, epigraphic and ethnological information, we present certain arguments showing a linguistic and conceptual continuity in the Mayan dwelling as a delimited space.
Fabienne de Pierrebourg, Marie-Charlotte Arnauld, Helios Figuerola, Jean-Michel Hoppan, Olivier Le Guen, Perla Petrich   +5 more
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Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital: Imaging of Ancient Texts [PDF]

, 2011
It is assumed, in palaeography, papyrology and epigraphy, that a certain amount of uncertainty is inherent in the reading of damaged and abraded texts.
Terras, Melissa M.
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Child Ordination in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay presents scholarship on the lifestyles of Buddhist young people who ordain before reaching the age of 18 or 20—ages that in many nations today signify adulthood. It covers questions about the forms of education provided young nuns and monks, the care and emotional support such children receive.
Liz Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Inscriptions of Sumatra; II. Short Epigraphs in Old Javanese [PDF]

, 2012
This article documents the existence of inscriptions using Old Javanese language on the island of Sumatra, by editing three short epigraphs, the first of which has previously been published but never satisfactorily interpreted, while the remaining two ...
Griffiths, A. (Arlo)
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Il progetto EAGLE. Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy e le sue molteplici sfide [PDF]

, 2017
EAGLE (Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy) è una federazione, nata nel 2003, di 4 banche dati epigrafiche digitali (Epigraphic Database Bari-EDB, Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg-EDH, Epigraphic Database Roma-EDR, e Hispania Epigraphica ...
Orlandi, Silvia
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The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art: A Decipherment of Numerals Signed by the Rulers of Altar Q1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 350-389, July 2025.
Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
wiley   +1 more source

Epigraphy and New Testament Exegesis

Religions
Within the diverse paths of New Testament exegesis, a new approach is presented here, namely, interpretation against the background of epigraphic sources.
Deborah Hill, Markus Oehler
doaj   +1 more source