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Marea: a Byzantine port in northern Egypt [PDF]
, 1982 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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La hyène dans les assiettes : un particularisme égyptien ?
Kentron, 2019 Social markers occur frequently in elite tombs in Ancient Egypt. One of the strangest to our eyes is found only in Old Kingdom tombs of the 4th to 6th dynasties: the representation of hyenas in processions of sacrificial animals and scenes of this animal
Dominique Farout
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HORTICULTURE IN ANTIQUITY, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE GRAECO-ROMAN ERA
Akroterion, 2012 The evolution of horticulture (gardening) in antiquity, as distinct from largescale agriculture and forestry, is traced from its humble origins in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Graeco-Roman era.
L. Cilliers, F.P. Retief
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Egyptian blue and/or atacamite in an ancient egyptian coffin [PDF]
, 2015 This work deals with the composition of the blue and green pigments used in the wooden sarcophagus studied by Abdelaal et al. and published in 2014 in this journal.
Giménez Izquierdo, Francisco Javier
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Gifts for the afterlife: Evidence of mortuary practices on the necropolis at Marina el-Alamein [PDF]
, 2011 The paper considers the evidence for mortuary practices in the form of grave accompaniments and grave offerings recorded during excavations of the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Marina el-Alamein.
Zych, Iwona
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Elements of Gnostic concepts in depictions on magical gems [PDF]
, 2015 Magical gems, also called Gnostic gems, are dated mainly to the 1st-3rd century. The depic-tions, symbols and inscriptions on them often refer to Gnosticism, a religious-philosophical current very popular in that period. The relics discussed were amulets.
Bąkowska-Czerner, Grażyna
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, 2009 Paper questioning scholarly views on Egypt\u27s peculiarity in the Greco-Roman ...
Keenan, James G
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Concerning Barbarians and Romans, and RomanDiscourse on Music and Civilization [PDF]
, 2019 Während der römischen Expansionszeit wurden barbarische Instrumente – Trompete und Trommel – in den Quellen als ,eigenartig‘ oder ,primitiv‘ und ihr Klang als unmusikalisch verstanden.
Vendries, Christophe
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Resurrecting a Graeco-Egyptian Purple: Reverse Engineering an Ancient Pigment of Scientific and Cultural Significance [PDF]
, 2016 In ancient GraecoRoman Egypt, funerary portraits painted in the encaustic style often indicated the deceased individual’s socioeconomic status through depicted adornments and clothing.
Archuleta, Brittany +8 more
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Open ArchaeologyThis article argues that the landscape attributes of a network are an influential factor in the network’s formation and function. By this, we mean that the realities of terrain and environment affect both physical and social networks in ways that can be ...
Hackley Laurel Darcy +2 more
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