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Greek Epigraphy and Religion. Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy [PDF]

Kernos, 2023
The significance of epigraphy to the study of Greek religion is so apparent that any volume presenting new insights into the religion of the ancient Greek world would inevitably make substantial use of inscriptions.
Van Hove, Rebecca
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Caucasus in Greek and Latin Epigraphy from the Greco-Roman World

Phasis
Sixteen inscriptions from the Mediterranean world and the Cimmerian Bosporus, dating from the 4th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., are discussed in this article which offers an anthology of mentions relating to the Caucasus in ancient Greek and ...
Preud\u27homme, Nicolas J.
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Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy [PDF]

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019
Ancient History relies on disciplines such as Epigraphy, the study of ancient inscribed texts, for evidence of the recorded past. However, these texts, “inscriptions”, are often damaged over the centuries, and illegible parts of the text must be restored
Prag, Jonathan, Sommerschield, Thea, Assael, Yannis, Assael, Y, Sommerschield, T, Prag, J   +5 more
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The Progress of Greek Epigraphy, 1913–14 [PDF]

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1914
The following summary of the more important books and articles in the field of Greek Epigraphy which have been published during the year ending with the close of June 1914 continues the series of similar reviews which have appeared in the last eight issues of the Year's Work in Classical Studies, in which it has proved impossible, owing to pressure of ...
M. Tod
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Greek Epigraphy in Sicily

Kokalos
This paper offers a survey of newly published and significantly revised Greek inscriptions, and other relevant publications, from the island of Sicily over the five years 2017-2021. The survey focuses on epigraphy on stone and metal. Particular attention is drawn to the development of the digital corpus, I.Sicily, to the expansion of materials in the ...
Prag, Jonathan
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Greek Textual Archaeology and Erotic Epigraphy in Simeon Solomon and Michael Field

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013
This article examines the use of the Greek language as object of desire in works by the painter Simeon Solomon and the poetic duo Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper).
Stefano Evangelista
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The Progress of Greek Epigraphy, 1914–15 [PDF]

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1915
The following summary is intended to cover the period from July, 1914, to June, 1915, inclusive. That it is at all complete I hardly dare to hope: the circumstances of the year have rendered the task of compilation peculiarly difficult, and I can but claim to have done my best to render the account as full and as accurate as I could with the materials ...
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Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 128-132, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Two well‐known texts on altars from Delos (RES 3952; M 349) dating to the period after 167 BC attest to contacts between the Aegean and Ancient Yemen. Reexamining these two important inscriptions, this article argues that both were set up by Minaeans.
Søren Lund Sørensen, Klaus Geus
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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 365-383, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as ...
Alexis Tadié
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“Light from Light”

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 249-262, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the phrase “light from light” in the 4th‐century Nicene and Nicene‐Constantinopolitan creeds. The article begins by presenting the earliest use of light as a metaphor for Christ and his agency, as well as examples of similar language outside “orthodox” Christianity. It goes on to examine the meaning and use of “light from
Maria Munkholt Christensen
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