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CITY PLANNING IN GRAECO-ROMAN TIMES WITH EMPHASIS ON HEALTH FACILITIES
Akroterion, 2012 In this overview of city planning in Graeco-Roman times, starting with Greek gridiron street planning and functional city zoning in the 9th century BC, emphasis is placed on those aspects related to urban health and recreational activities.
L. Cilliers, F.P. Retief
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Color analysis of ancient Egyptian paintings and its applications in modern digital visualization
Color Research &Application, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 4-24, January/February 2025.Abstract This study aims to identify the color preferences of ancient Egyptian paintings and their cultural and historical reasons through color analysis, and consequently introduce a color collection of ancient Egyptian painting colors for color matching of modern digital images.
Qiaoling Zeng
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Wet Nurse in art in Graeco-Roman Egypt [PDF]
المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2019 The wet nurse is a woman employed to breast-feed another woman's baby other than her own, for certain salary. This profession was very important to most of the ancient families in Egypt, especially in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Manal Mahmoud Abd ElHamid +2 more
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FINGERPRINTS ON FIGURINES FROM THONIS‐HERACLEION
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 399-418, November 2024.Summary This paper studies ancient fingerprints to produce an estimate of the age and sex of the makers of several terracotta figurines found at Thonis‐Heracleion in Egypt, dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is only the second study of its kind to discuss the use of ancient fingerprint impressions from Ancient ...
Leonie Hoff
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Intrattenimenti e spettacoli nell'Egitto ellenistico-romano
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2012 Critical analysis of the studies concerning the world of performances and entertainments in the Graeco-roman Egypt, with particular regard to a recently appeared survey by G. Tedeschi.
Elena Esposito
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
Sign Systems Studies, 2010 In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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Unpublished Statue in the Graeco-Roman Museum [PDF]
مجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرةThis study will focus on the publishment of a limestone statue preserved in the Greco-Roman Museum of unknown provenance of a life-Sizeearring a cloak.The research will address a descriptive study of the statue, followed by an analytical study of all ...
Reham Hassan Abdel Aziz
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Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it★
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 115-132, March 2024.Abstract In this Henry Myers Lecture, I summarize several decades of collaborative research on the role of ritual in group bonding and co‐operation, ranging from psychology experiments in university laboratories to field research among indigenous groups, and from surveys with armed revolutionaries to extended interviews with religious adherents.
Harvey Whitehouse
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Rehabilitating Gallio and His Judgement in Acts 18:14-15
Tyndale Bulletin, 2006 By first-century Graeco-Roman standards, a recent assessment of Gallio – a Roman senator, proconsul and consul of Rome – would have been seen as something of a damnatio that resulted in the dismissal of his achievements and the formal disfiguring of his ...
Bruce Winter
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