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Jewels Set in Stone: Hindu Temple Recipes in Medieval Cōḻa Epigraphy
Scholarship abounds on contemporary Hindu food offerings, yet there is scant literature treating the history of food in Hinduism beyond topics of food restrictions, purity, and food as medicine.
Andrea Gutiérrez
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Kala-tau Hill as a Medieval Monument of Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Western Urals
Objective: To provide a description of Starokalmashevo hillfort and the Starokalmashevo gravestone with an Arabic epitaph found in the mid-20th century in close proximity to the site of ancient settlement. They are here described not only as monuments of
Gabdrafikov I.M.
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The photographic documentation conducted by the current research team is the third such documentation to be made on a stone block with a graffito, found by Stancho Stanchev (Vaklinov).
Evgenia Komatarova-Balinova +2 more
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Most surviving runic inscriptions from early medieval England were produced in an ecclesiastical context, and the influence of manuscript writing practices on the runic tradition can clearly be discerned.
Tom Birkett
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NEGOTIATOR ALLECARIUS: NOTES ON A VERY RARE OCCUPATIONAL TITLE
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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Gipuzkoa in antiquity: languages and linguistic areas in the light of onomastics
Some recent studies claim that a pre-Latin Indo-European (Celtic) language was predominant in Gipuzkoa during antiquity. However, the pertinent information available is scant and often questionable.
Luis Mari Zaldua Etxabe
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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions*
Archaeology as “material history” and the study of religions mutually reciprocate through their shared interest in the ability of people to establish memories and create imaginaries. Starting from this presupposition, the article evaluates the approaches used in archaeology to analyse the practices of past peoples.
Anna‐Katharina Rieger
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Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review
Abstract Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. Ostracods are small crustaceans that live in almost all aquatic habitats, both natural and man‐made.
Ella Quante, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
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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Late Antique and Early Medieval sculpture in the Iberian Peninsula does not have a complete corpus, but a large number of dispersed studies that allow us to establish a state of the art.
Gisela Ripoll
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