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The Fourth-Century AD Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum* [PDF]
, 2015 The Graeco-Roman town of Karanis, founded during the Ptolemaic Period in the north-eastern Fayum in the third century bc and long thought to have been abandoned in the third century ad actually saw a substantial expansion during the fourth century AD ...
Barnard, Hans +4 more
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Mandrake in ancient Graeco-Roman and early Byzantine medicine [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2023 Belonging to Mandragora genus and to the Solanaceae family, mandrake (Mandragora officinarum L.) is a plant native to the Mediterranean area. According to modern science, due to the presence of alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, belladonnine and ...
Krzysztof Jagusiak +2 more
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Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 We present a previously-unknown sarcophagus of the Roman period with a fragmentary and hard-to-decipher inscription in Greek, today exhibited in the grounds of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Elazığ in eastern Turkey.
Lafli, Ergün, Liddle, Peter
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Accuser, Judge and Paraclete - On conscience in Philo of Alexandria
Verbum et Ecclesia, 1999 Of all known ancient authors writing in Greek, Philo of Alexandria is the one and related terms and concepts (the apostle Paul comes next, more or less). Something similar may only be found in Latin authors speaking of conscientia, like Cicero.
H-J Klauck
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Van Opstall, E.M. (2019). Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020 VAN OPSTALL, EMILIE M. (ed.) (2018). Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 185. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 376 pp., 252,00€ [ISBN 978- 9-0043-6859-0] [Book review]
Beatrice Caseau
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Infant Baptism in the First-Century Presupposition Pool
Tyndale Bulletin, 2015 The debate over infant baptism in the apostolic church was classically captured in the exchanges between Joachim Jeremias and Kurt Aland. Most debates have focussed on ‘reading between the lines’ of first-century Christian texts, and have yielded little ...
Steven A. Nicoletti
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Examples of conceptualisation of morality in emerging Christianity
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 Against the background of current interdisciplinary discussions in philosophical and theological ethics and discourses on morality, this interdisciplinary essay explored the conceptualisation of morality in emerging Christianity.
Cilliers Breytenbach
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Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2023 (The Bible as a research source on trade between the Graeco-Roman World and South and East Asia): The Bible mentions several luxury goods (sapphire, emerald, carnelian, topaz, silk, ivory, spikenard, cinnamon, amomum) that were imported by the Roman ...
Szymon Modzelewski
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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2017 The ‘Lormier bronze’, named after its earliest known owner, is an exceptional statuette made of copper alloy. It is remarkable, both by its subject and its style, of very fine quality; but also by its state of conservation, namely its gilding, which ...
Alexis Bonnefoy, Michel Feugère
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Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, 2023 The landscape of education under the early Roman principate was very diverse, but the teaching of literacy was dominated by scribal training or Graeco-Roman enkyklios paideia, “literate education”.
Teresa Morgan
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