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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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NEGOTIATOR ALLECARIUS: NOTES ON A VERY RARE OCCUPATIONAL TITLE

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2023
The current investigation focuses on the rare epigraphic attestations of negotiatorii allecarii. Trying to distinguish why this occupational title is attested only in the context of Germania Inferior, we analyze the etymology of the word and its ...
Rada VARGA
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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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Cities, Epigraphies, and Latinization

Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West, 2023
Abstract This chapter studies the role cities on the Iberian Peninsula played in the spatial diffusion of Latin within the peninsula using models from geo-linguistics. By combining the geo-linguistic models of contagious and hierarchical diffusion with the gravity model, the different factors that aided in the uptake and spread of Latin ...
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis

History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy 1 [PDF]

, 2023
The Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy series testifies to an ever-greater focus on inscriptions within Byzantine Studies. The present, inaugural volume includes selected papers from the two panels dedicated to Byzantine Epigraphy held at the XXIII ...

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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE (CEIPoM)

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2022
The 'Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE' (CEIPoM) is a linguistic database which covers the Oscan, Umbrian, Old Sabellic, Messapic and Venetic languages, as well as epigraphic Latin up to 100 BCE.
Reuben J. Pitts
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The memory of Sulla in Ephesus [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice, 2023
In this brief paper, we focus on the monument of C. Memmius and its inscription in Ephesus in western Turkey. C. Memmius was the grandson of Sulla and was mentioned in the inscription of this Ephesian monument as the epigraph of the dedicatee.
Ergün Lafli, Maurizio Buora
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