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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Spatial Technologies to Compose the Map of the Southeast Iberia Megalithic Phenomenon. The Case Study of Fonelas (Granada, Spain)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 257-273, January/March 2026.
ABSTRACT Megalithic landscapes in Southeast Iberia remain unevenly and insufficiently documented, particularly in rugged areas where traditional survey methods are limited. This paper addresses this gap by applying a multiscalar approach to the megalithic necropolises of the Fardes River (Granada, Spain), with the objective of detecting, documenting ...
Carolina Cabrero González   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Four Coptic-Greek Funerary Stelae in the British Museum

open access: yesThe Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 2022
Four funerary stelae of the eighth century AD now in the British Museum have previously been assigned to Abydos on the basis that they are all connected to the monastery of the local saint, Apa Moses. This article questions this assumption. A text edition and study of the common features of the stelae suggest that, although they probably do come from ...
openaire   +1 more source

From Quarries to Urban Construction Sites: Middle‐Late Mesozoic Limestones in the Public Architecture of Roman Verona, Italy

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Numerous buildings, monuments, and infrastructural works in Verona were constructed during the Roman period using stone, a material abundantly available from quarrying areas located relatively close to the city. Petrographic investigations conducted by Transmitted Polarized Light Optical Microscopy (TPL‐OM) and complemented by colorimetric ...
Eliana Bridi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Stelae Production Throughout the Bronze Age: Provenance, Material Properties and Rock Selection at Zebros (Idanha‐a‐Nova, Portugal)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT At Monte dos Zebros (Idanha‐a‐Nova, Central Portugal), the discovery of three stelae—two Iberian Late Bronze Age stelae and one fragment of an Early/Middle Bronze Age anthropomorphic stela—represents a rare case of rock art monuments from different chronologies coexisting in the same place within a broader archaeological landscape, which ...
Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Funerary Stelae and Inscriptions from the Territory of Idyma

open access: yesGephyra, 2012
Bu makalede Muğla Müzesi deposunda bulunan ve Muğla İli, Ula ilçesinebağlı Akyaka Beldesinin İnişdibi mevkiinde ele geçmiş fakat orijinal konumlarıtespit edilemeyen 4 adet mezar steli ele alınmaktadır. Söz konusu stellerin 3tanesi üzerinde Yunanca mezar yazıtı bulunmaktadır.
ÜNVER, Güray, YAMAN, Asil
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Human–Bird Interactions Across Time and Space in a Bronze Age City: The Case of Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Amuq Valley, Turkey)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 597-611, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Birds have played both subsistence and symbolic roles in past human societies, with their significance evolving alongside sedentary lifestyles and agriculture. Although Neolithic settlements in Western Asia primarily relied on domesticated mammals, birds remained a marginal resource, their importance varying by region.
Marcel van Tuinen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Anthropomorphic Stelae Connected With a Platform‐Like Structure in the Area of Ḥimā (Saudi Arabia): New Data From Southwestern Arabia

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 39-51, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Since 2020, the Saudi‐French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān (MAFSN) has been conducting additional archaeological surveys and small‐scale excavations in the Ḥimā area, providing a wealth of data from different historical periods.
Silvia Lischi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
wiley   +1 more source

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