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The role of terracotta figures and figurines in Mycenaean cult [PDF]
, 2001 Since the time of Schliemann, Bronze Age scholars, while acknowledging the significance of figurines to Mycenaean cult, have not fully understood their function.
Richardson, Christine Mary
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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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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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Similarities between North Mesopotamian (Late Halaf), Egyptian (Naqada) and Nubian (A-Group) female figurines of the 6-4th millennia BCE [PDF]
, 2020 Late Halaf female figurines of clay/pottery from northeastern Syria (Type LH.1A; 6th millennium BCE) have close parallels in predynastic Egyptian figurines (4th millennium BCE) in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
Lloyd Graham
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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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De-constructing Terracotta Female Figurines: a Chalcolithic Case-study [PDF]
Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica - Natural Sciences in Archaeology, 2015 We report the results of detailed imaging studies of the inner structure of a terracotta female figurine dated to the 6th millennium BC, most probably from the Lakes region of Turkey, now kept at the Nati- onal Museum of Oriental Art “Giuseppe Tucci ...
Andrea Pizzeghello +4 more
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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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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Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the concept of non‐understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it.
Toshio Kawai
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, 2021 The purpose of this dissertation is to better understand the role of female figurines in ancient Egypt. Through the use of several key example types, paddle dolls, faience female figurines (Pinchs Type 1), and ceramic female figurines (Pinchs Type 2 and ...
Shaffery, Amanda Jane
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