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A New Funerary Inscription from the Kırşehir Museum
Journal of Philia, 2021The article publishes a new funerary inscription of the Roman Imperial period now located in the Kırşehir Museum (Cappadocia). The stele was erected by a couple for their eight-year-old daughter, who seems to bear the distinctive name Λαζουρη. There follows an epigram in her memory which combines a series of fairly common formulae, though a few ...
Cemil Koyuncu, Jan-Mathieu CARBON
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A Funerary Inscription from Etruria
Phoenix, 1986SOME YEARS AGO, Joyce Reynolds published a rather puzzling funerary inscription from Filissano in southern Etruria.1 The stone raises several significant problems regarding the persons mentioned, their statuses, and their respective administrative posts.
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A New Nabataean Funerary Inscription from Humayma
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2010This inscription was found in the summer of 2007 at the site of Humayma (ancient Hawara) in southern Jordan and has three lines of Nabataean in a recessed frame (tabula ansata). The text seems not to be associated with a grave site, but with a funerary stele (nefesh) erected by two sons for their deceased father.
G. A. Bevan, M. B. Reeves
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A funerary verse inscription from Porolissum (Roman Dacia)
Journal of epigraphic studiesThe paper presents a new interpretation regarding a funerary monument, namely a profiled funerary stela, discovered at Porolissum, Roman Dacia. Helped by the Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging (H-RTI) method, improvements on previous editions of this text are advanced.
Cenati, Chiara, Deac, Dan
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Popular Rhetoric: the Language of Funerary Inscriptions
1985The English of FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS has varied from a noble reticence to garrulousness; it is interesting in charting the development of a popular dignified utterance, stratified of course according to society but available to all. Its poor relics are the In Memoriam notices in newspapers — ‘The pearly gates opened/And in walked Mum’, or ‘Just gone to
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