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Publishing a funerary Stela in the Egyptian Museum in Tokyo [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality, 2020
The paper publishes of a funerary stela which is now exhibited in the Shibuya Egyptian Museum at Tokyo and registered with the inv. no. AEM1043. It is made of limestone and measure about H. 28.4 cm W. 18.0 cm H.  Its provenance is the Serapium of Saqqara with unknown dating.  It is a flat top stela and divided into two registers. It shows the Apis bull
openaire   +1 more source

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

À propos des ateliers de sculpture de stèles en Algérie romaine : les régions de Caesarea et de Sitifis

open access: yesFrontière·s
This article presents an examination of the Romano-African stelae workshops in Algeria, with a particular focus on the regions surrounding the cities of Caesarea and Sitifis.
Amel Bouder
doaj   +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

Anthropomorphic image as origins of ancestor´s”Caves”. The stele -menhir of Anta do Telhal, Arraiolos, Évora, Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
It is a fact that in Europe menhirs, stelae and statues and their origin, configuration, and maintenance in funerary megalithic spaces play an important role.
BALBÍN BEHRMANN, Rodrigo   +3 more
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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

New Funerary Stelae and Inscriptions from the Territory of Idyma

open access: yesGephyra, 2013
In this paper, four grave stelae from Muğla Museum are studied. The stelae were found in the year 2010 in the territory of Idyma, an ancient city of south-western Caria.
Güray Ünver, Asil Yaman
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Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Nr. 35 (2006) - Abstracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
s der Artikel zu SAK 35 (2006). Die Autoren sind: Hartwig Altenmüller, Jean-Christophe Antoine, Alexander Brawanski, Salvador Costa, Katherine J. Eaton, Ulrike Fritz, Karl Jansen-Winkeln, Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, Mahmoud El-Khadragy, Aikaterini ...
Kloth, Nicole (Hrsg.)
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
wiley   +1 more source

Les différentes représentations et symboliques du cheval à travers l’iconographie de la région de Cirta du Ier à la fin du IIIe siècle après J.-C.

open access: yesIn Situ, 2015
Representations and symbolisms of the horse in the iconography of the Cirta region, first to third centuries A.D. The region of Cirta corresponds with the present-day area of North-East Algeria. It is a region which has always had the reputation of being
Amandine Cristina, Emmanuelle Lechilli
doaj   +1 more source

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