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The Dioscuri in funerary art : an unusual fragment of a stele from Viminacium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper offers a new iconographic reading of a fragment of a Roman funerary stele. The fragment consists of a pediment with acroteria that was embedded as a piece of spolia in the south wall of the church of the Rukumija monastery. The fragment likely originates from the site of Viminacium, the capital of the province of Upper Moesia.
Pilipović, Sanja, Milanović, Ljubomir
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A New Epigram in the Uşak Museum: The Relief Stele of Maximus

open access: yesGephyra, 2020
This article introduces an unpublished tombstone with an epigram, on display at the Uşak Archaeology Museum. A funerary epigram of nines lines forms three lined accurate distiches. The mentioned tombstone is for a young child who was taken by Hades.
Şenkal Ki̇leci̇
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La présence scripturaire des morts

open access: yesChrétiens et Sociétés, 2007
Among the exposed writings, the epitaph is one of the rare forms allowing a diachronic study, because of the works of systematic recension which it causes with the turning of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries in Lyon.
Anne Béroujon
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A New Metrical Funerary Curse from Miletoupolis

open access: yesGephyra
An 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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Les savoirs et les plaisirs d’un jeune esclave lettré, Pétronius Antigénidès

open access: yesCahiers des Études Anciennes, 2023
Résumé : Cet article se concentre sur une inscription funéraire racontant la vie d’un jeune esclave lettré, Pétronius Antigénidès (CLE 434). Après un éclairage philologique, il réinsère la carrière de Pétronius Antigénidès dans une histoire élargie des ...
Pierre Vesperini
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Le pilier hermaïque, une figure de passeur ?

open access: yesCahiers Mondes Anciens, 2013
This paper analyzes a series of Hellenistic tombstones from Asia Minor and Delos which includes a herm in the scene. The meaning of the herm in such a context is unclear: although Hermes’ traditional role of voyager (particularly to the underworld) is ...
Benjamin Perriello   +2 more
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Une curieuse inscription découverte à Avgvstodvnvm (Autun – Saône-et-Loire)

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2007
During an evaluation carried out in 2005 on the eastern periphery of Autun, funerary vestiges relating to one of the three known late Roman cemeteries were discovered.
Yannick Labaune, Yann Le Bohec
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Making Merit in the Tableau: Early Sixth-Century Chinese Stele [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
To study the religious sculpted-image stelae of China between the 490s and the 550s, I begin by revisiting the previous studies of Chinese stele, covering the scholarship from the Northern Song Dynasty to the twenty-first century, and dedicated the ...
Zhang, Dongshan
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Une nouvelle inscription funéraire de Lyon : remarques sur le formulaire hic adquiescit dans l’Occident romain

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2006
The Musée gallo-romain in Lyon houses in its reserve collection a small funerary inscription, which has remained unpublished since its discovery in the 1900’s.
Nicolas Laubry
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Two New Roman Inscriptions from the Museum of Afyonkarahisar

open access: yesGephyra, 2017
In this article, two new inscribed funerary steles of the Imperial period, which are today exhibited in the garden of the archaeological museum of Afyonkarahisar, are introduced. The steles are of marble and are similar to each other. On stele No.
Mehmet Ertan Yıldız, Ahmet İlaslı
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