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Fragments of an Early Islamic Arabic Papyrus from Khirbat Hamra Ifdan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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 ...
Abbott   +91 more
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 12-29, December 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Derbent in the history of Zoroastrianism in the Caucasus

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
Introduction. For many centuries, the Caucasus has acted as a bridge, through which there was an intensive exchange not only of economic achievements, but also of the ideology of the highly developed regions of the Mediterranean, Minor and Central Asia. 
A. А. Kudryavtsev
doaj   +1 more source

‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa   +1 more
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La escritura prehumanística en la Murcia bajomedieval: un estudio epigráfico de la explanatio clypei del escudo de Chacón en la capilla de los Vélez

open access: yesHistoria. Instituciones. Documentos, 2018
This paper presents the epigraphic study of the inscription in the Chacon’s coat of arms, located in the outside of the chapel of velez (murcia’s Cathedral).
Rodrigo José Fernández Martínez
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The Standardisation of ‘Classical Latin’: The Case of Terence's Text

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 479-487, November 2024.
Abstract This short piece aims to provide further evidence supporting two of Adams's main claims: (1) the situation of late Republican Latin cannot be isolated from other diachronic varieties, and (for the purpose of my analysis) earlier Latin in particular, as regards both the absence of systematic standardisation and the presence of sporadic and ...
Giuseppe Pezzini
wiley   +1 more source

Artefacts and Errors: Acknowledging Issues of Representation in the Digital: Imaging of Ancient Texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It is assumed, in palaeography, papyrology and epigraphy, that a certain amount of uncertainty is inherent in the reading of damaged and abraded texts.
Terras, Melissa M.
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Transmitting Literature, Preserving Language. Case Studies of Classical Latin from Literary Manuscripts from the Roman East (I bc–II ad)1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
wiley   +1 more source

Epigraphic Programs in Almoravid Constructions: The Commemoration of The Emirs’ Supremacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Despite the ideas transmitted in the traditional historiography, during the Almoravid period, the arts –especially the architecture- had a prominent place within the issues of the Empire.
Marcos Cobaleda, María
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