Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing. The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing [PDF]
Catalogue of an exhibition conducted in conjunction with the Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium held at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000.
Palaima, Thomas G. +2 more
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ΦΙΛΙΣΚΟΣ Ο ΜΑΧΙΜΟΣ (to the Interpretation of the Graffito from Myrmekion)
The article publishes an ostracon with a two-line graffito found during the excavations of the Myrmekion settlement, dating from the II-I centuries BCE. The inscription on the shard Φιλίσκος ὁ μάχι|μος, which is most likely a private one (marking?), can ...
Bekhter Anastassia P.
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At the crossroads of different traditions. Social and cultural dynamics in Roman Thrace through the epigraphic practice [PDF]
Il presente articolo studia i processi di integrazione della Tracia nel mondo romano attraverso l'analisi di tre fenomeni tra loro correlati: diffusione della lingua latina; diffusione della cittadinanza romana; diffusione dei nomi romani. Per illustrare
Francesco Camia
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On Roman brick stamps ans the Latin –(a)es genitive
The origin of the first declension genitive singular ending -(a)es for -ae in Latin inscriptions has been often discussed and variously explained. Based on brick stamp data, we confirm the view that the ending represents a Latinisation of the Greek ...
Tommi Alho, Ville Leppänen
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Neue Grabinschriften aus Neoklaudiopolis (Vezirköprü/Samsun İli, Türkei)
Up to now, about 140 funerary inscriptions were known from the territory of Neoklaudiopolis/Vezirköprü. In this contribution, 14 more are presented, one of which, however, may be attributed to Amaseia/Amasya (no. 4).
Vera SAUER, Eckart OLSHAUSEN
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ATHENIAN MERCANTILISM: A NEW APPROACH TO THE ATHENIAN COINAGE DECREE AND THE LAW OF NICOPHON
Two fragmentary specimens of Greek epigraphy, both inscribed within a century of one another (ca. 450 and 375 B.C.)[1] and both, in one manner or another, dealing with regulations of Athenian coinage, have been the source of scholarly debate and ...
Corey J. Ellithorpe
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Aristotele Detective. Tra fascino della storia e fascino delle storie
Thanks to Aristotle Detective, set in fourth century Athens, Margaret Doody realizes her assumption about the Hellenistic beginnings of the Novel.
Alice Bencivenni
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Fragments of an Early Islamic Arabic Papyrus from Khirbat Hamra Ifdan [PDF]
Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have ...
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Gestion d’un patrimoine, gestion d’un sanctuaire : ces femmes dont le nom s’affiche dans la cité
The aim of this study is to analyse the visibility of Athenian women, whose name was displayed in the city in the inscriptions and shows. This analysis will bring to light the way they were identified and why they enjoyed this advertising, especially ...
Marie Augier
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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