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Brevi note di coroplastica siracusana: due esemplari di statuette con bambino
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2016 Two mold-made, terracotta figurines representing a woman holding a child are rare within the coroplastic typology of Syracuse. Although they were brought to light during earlier excavations in Syracuse they have never been the object of study.
Angela Maria Manenti
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Fragile Women in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Marina Carr’s The Mai
Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences, 2020 Both Tennessee Williams and Marina Carr are interested in female issues. Throughout his literary career, Williams expresses his feelings towards his mother and sister through the female characters that inhabit his plays. Mostly, they are fragile women in
Fathia Saleh Al-Ghoreibi
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2017 Six figurines and seven miniature tupus from ritual sacrifices and offerings, made from silver alloys and gold alloys exist in the collection of the Museo Inka in Cusco (Peru).
Julio César Sierra Palomino +1 more
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari +6 more
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Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 The archaeological area encompassing the hills to the west of the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Hill of the Muses (Philopappos Hill), the Pnyx, and the Hill of the Nymphs, (Asteroskopeion Hill), comprises a rocky formation of some 700 acres.
Maria Dourou, Vassiliki D. Georgaka
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Arkhaia Anatolika, 2023 The finds constituting the scope of the present article are two terracotta plaques related to the iconography of Astarte which are currently kept in the depot of the Muğla Museum.
Nihal DURNAGÖLÜ
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo +2 more
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