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Jewels Set in Stone: Hindu Temple Recipes in Medieval Cōḻa Epigraphy [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2018
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
doaj   +4 more sources

Kala-tau Hill as a Medieval Monument of Archaeology and Epigraphy in the Western Urals [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2017
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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EDV – Italian Medieval Epigraphy in the Vernacular. Some Editorial Problems Discussed, [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
EDV (Epigraphic Database Vernacular) is a database collecting the vernacular inscriptions produced in Italy from the late Medieval to the Early Modern Age, and is a part of the EAGLE and IDEA projects. The present contribution illustrates the criteria used for the description and indexing of all inscriptions that record public script in language(s ...
Cannata, Nadia
openaire   +4 more sources

Medieval epigraphy of diocesan museum Regina Coeli (Santillana del Mar, Cantabria)

open access: yesDocumenta & Instrumenta, 2012
Between the funds that integrate the different collections of the Diocesan Museum “Regina Coeli”, they find several medieval inscriptions on stony supports, principally estelas and fragments of funeral tablets proceeding from necropolis or reforms ...
Alberto Peña Fernández
doaj   +3 more sources

The “khan” and his “kumihrs”

open access: yesПриноси към българската археология, 2022
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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The page as monument: epigraphical transposition in the runica manuscripta tradition of early Medieval England

open access: yesManuscript and Text Cultures, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

NEGOTIATOR ALLECARIUS: NOTES ON A VERY RARE OCCUPATIONAL TITLE

open access: yesJournal 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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Do Ut Des – the Relation of Material History and Archaeology of Religion to the Study of Religions*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 726-758, December 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 711-732, September/October 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

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