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Epitaph

open access: goldEducation as Change, 2013
Karen Press
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Epitaphs in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives [PDF]

open access: greenJournal of Art Historiography, 2011
Many of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives conclude with epitaphs. Some are tomb inscriptions. Others were collected from literary contexts or commissioned by the author.
Maia Wellington Gahtan
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A Note on Meiros in Phrygia

open access: yesGephyra, 2021
The last word of a sixth-century epitaph from Başara in Phrygia (MAMA I 403) was misread as Βλέπε in the first publication by W. M. Calder, leading to misplaced commentary on this term by Louis Robert. The correct reading is [π]όλεος. The epitaph marks a
Stephen Mitchell
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The Body of Christ and the Embodied Viewer in Rubens’s Rockox Epitaph

open access: yesArts, 2023
On behalf of the Catholic Church, the Council of Trent (1545–1563) confirmed the usefulness of religious images and multisensory worship practices for engaging the bodies and the minds of congregants, and for moving pious devotees to empathize with ...
Kendra Grimmett
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Exsequiis at Virgil Aeneid 7.5 and the Epitaph of Caieta (7.1-4)

open access: yesDictynna, 2021
This paper argues that, contrary to what has recently been proposed, exsequiis is at home in Aeneid 7.5 as an elegiac and Gallan term which footnotes the elegiac ethos and Gallan language of Caieta’s preceding epitaph (1-4). The paper also suggests that,
Francis Cairns
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Chthonic Cosmology in the Epitaph of George Acropolitan on the Death of Emperor Johannes III Ducas Vatatzes

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023
Introduction. The article critically examines the epitaph of George Akropolites on the death of Emperor Johannes III Ducas Vatatzes. The Epitaph of George Akropolites is a remarkable example of Byzantine rhetoric.
Evgeny Stelnik
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The Death Taboo: Euphemism and Metaphor in Epitaphs from the English Cemetery of Malaga, Spain

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human ...
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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Sarcophagous tombstone with Kufic inscription of the Derbent muslim necropolis of the 11th — 12th cc. [PDF]

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022
In 2020 during secure and rescue archaeological observations in Derbent, the Muslim burial ground, representing once vast separate section of medieval urban necropolis of Derbent outside the architecturally allocated shahristan, was identified. This site
Gadjiev, M.S., Gasanov, M.A.
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Exit Bishop Tamer – the Sequel. A New Edition of the Epitaph of Papsine alias Doulista (DBMNT 78)

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2019
Re-edition of a twelfth-century epitaph in Greek (Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 7142), formerly attributed to a bishop of Faras in Nubia. In addition to presenting a new text, based on autopsy, the article discusses the ownership of the monument and ...
Jacques van der Vliet
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