Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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The Ancient Routes and New Lycian Inscriptions around Fethiye
Gephyra, 2020 The first part of this contribution contains the results of the field surveys made in recent years for the ancient road network around Fethiye, including the routes between Pinara, Telmessos, Kalynda, Kadyanda, Araxa and Tlos. According to these results,
Fatih ONUR, Ş. Recai TEKOĞLU
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Greek Gymnasia for Non-Greek People. Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence in Pre-Roman Italy [PDF]
, 2018 Literarische, epigraphische und archäologische Quellen bezeugen die Existenz griechischer Gymnasia im vorrömischen Italien. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die politischen und kulturellen Gründe, die zur Übernahme griechischen Lebensstils, allen voran der ...
Avagliano, Alessandra +1 more
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Heroic themes of the Trojan cycle in Roman funerary art example of a relief from Pincum [PDF]
Balcanica, 2006 The fragment of a marble relief from Roman Pincum (modern-day Veliko Gradište, Serbia) showing Achilles and Hector inspires to explore the symbolic meaning of this mythological composition and to examine other relief's depicting heroic themes of the ...
Pilipović Sanja
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At the crossroads of different traditions. Social and cultural dynamics in Roman Thrace through the epigraphic practice [PDF]
, 2019 Il presente articolo studia i processi di integrazione della Tracia nel mondo romano attraverso l'analisi di tre fenomeni tra loro correlati: diffusione della lingua latina; diffusione della cittadinanza romana; diffusione dei nomi romani. Per illustrare
Francesco Camia
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Mantias – An Eye Doctor of the Emperor Tiberius
Gephyra, 2018 A hitherto unkown Roman funerary inscription is presented here. The deceased was Mantias, eye doctor of the Emperor Tiberius. He is the second eye doctor known from the familia Caesaris during the reign of Tiberius.
Peter Rothenhöfer
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‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy [PDF]
, 2018 Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]
, 2019 Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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What is 'Jewish' about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome [PDF]
, 2017 A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late ...
Sean Burrus
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A New Metrical Funerary Curse from Miletoupolis
GephyraAn inscribed funerary stele probably from Miletoupolis has been recently published by E. Laflı and M.E. Uyar (Laflı – Uyar 2021, 77-79 no. 2).
Jan-mathieu Carbon
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