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The relief depicting John the Evangelist which was once embedded in the Church of St. Jerome on Marjan is a palimpsest of a Roman funerary monument. Since the removal, it has been visible from all sides, and this paper first presents their description ...
Dražen Maršić
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This article contains the first publication of a newly discovered inscription from Gordion which is written in Phrygian and probably dates to early reign of Antiochus I. The inscribed slab appears to have formed part of a funerary
Rostyslav Oreshko, Umut Alagöz
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Roman citizenship of Italian *Augustales : evidence, problems, competitive advantages [PDF]
The title * augustalis was used during the first three centuries A. D., to refer to an honorary position in local society. It was mostly bestowed on wealthy freedmen who, because of their servile birth, could not partake in the official cursus honorum ...
Vandevoorde, Lindsey
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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Ptolemaic Cavalrymen on Painted Alexandrian Funerary Monuments [PDF]
The multiethnic environment of Ptolemaic Alexandria resulted in cross-cultural transmission of funerary practices and associated material culture that introduced many traditions to Egypt from the Mediterranean world. Along with an influx of mercenaries serving in the Ptolemaic army came cultural and artistic knowledge from their places of origin, which
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Historic doubts, conjectures, and the wanderings of a principal curiosity: Henry VII in the fabric of Strawberry Hill [PDF]
This article explores the inscriptions and material metamorphoses of Henry VII in Horace Walpole’s ‘paper fabric’, a reversible world of writing, collecting, and book making.
Calè, Luisa
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the characteristics of courtyards as communal spaces within the courtyard‐style settlements of Patan City, Nepal, through an examination of ownership and usage. A block with three interconnected Buddhist monastery courtyards—Ilānanī, Sasunanī, and Kwābahā—was selected.
Lata Shakya +2 more
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The preventive excavation conducted in 2006 on the site of Pellières, in Saint-Herblain (Loire-Atlantique), showed that the summit of the Loire’s north bank was repeatedly occupied from Prehistory to the present time.
Frédéric Mercier
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ABSTRACT This paper tackles one key limitation in the analysis of Iron Age communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the limited exploration of areas beyond the fortified settlements known as castros (hillforts). The vast majority of archaeological studies have focused exclusively on the areas inside the walls of these settlements, which are ...
César Parcero‐Oubiña +7 more
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Funerary monument (sepulchre) of Giacomo Bongiovanni
The tomb of Giacomo Bongiovanni is one of the few early sixteenth-century monuments preserved in the Basilica of Saint Nicholas in Bari. Most of the church walls are bare, owing to various conservation campaigns, most dramatically those between 1925 and 1934, when a desire to recover medieval “authenticity” stripped the church of centuries of history ...
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