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Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) from Motya and its deepest oriental roots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Pomegranate remains and representations found in the Phoenician site of Motya in Western Sicily give the cue for a summary study of this plant and its fortune in the Near East and the Mediterranean.
Nigro, Lorenzo, Spagnoli, Federica
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Kinematic Evolution of the Cephalonia‐Lefkada Transform Fault Zone: Strain Partitioning in Response to Subduction Margin Dynamics

open access: yesTectonics, Volume 44, Issue 10, October 2025.
Abstract The eastern Adriatic margin is composed by an Ocean‐Continent Transition lithosphere (OCT), resulting in the southwards along‐strike variation from collision to subduction. The Cephalonia‐Lefkada Transform Fault zone (CTF) is a right‐lateral strike‐slip fault system located above the OCT and associated to this kinematic transition.
Silvia Crosetto   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tell es-Sultan 2015. A pilot project for archaeology in Palestine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The eleventh season (April–June 2015) of the archaeological investigation and site protection as well as valorization of the site of Tell es-Sultan was carried out by the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (under the direction of the present writer) and ...
Nigro, Lorenzo
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Archaeometric provenance study of marbles from Porphyreon and Chhim (Lebanon) and early Byzantine production specialisation

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1129-1156, October 2025.
Abstract Early Byzantine marble objects from Porphyreon and Chhim (Lebanon) were studied to assess the source of raw materials. In all, 66 artefacts, including elements of liturgical furnishings, architectural elements and daily use objects, were examined using optical, cathodoluminescence and scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, and δ13C ...
Mariusz Gwiazda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramic balsamaria-bottles: The example of Viminacium [PDF]

open access: yesStarinar, 2006
The earliest balsamaria to appear in the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods are ceramic and seldom over 10 cm in height. On the Southern Necropolis of Viminacium (sites Više grobalja and Pećine) 21 vessels of this type have been found. The features they
Nikolić Snežana, Raičković Angelina
doaj   +1 more source

Khalet al-Jam’a. A Middle Bronze and Iron Age necropolis near Bethlehem (Palestine) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
During Spring 2013, the MOTA-DACH Office of Bethlehem was informed of the retrieval of a tomb during the construction of an industrial area roughly 2.2 Km south-east of the Basilica of the Nativity on the Hindaza hill slope called Khalet al-Jam’a ...
Ghayyada, Mohammed   +3 more
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Chemical characterization of glass beads from the necropolis of DrenDelyan (6th–4th century BC), Southwest Bulgaria

open access: yesGeologica Balcanica, 2019
The glass beads from the Dren-Delyan necropolis are found in burial complexes dated as from the end of the 6th century BC until the first half of the 4th century BC. The purpose of this study is to obtain data on the chemical composition of the glass and
N. Tzankova, Philip Mihaylov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characterisation of Jewellery with glass and garnet inlays from the Bohemian region and Great Migration Period

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1177-1194, October 2025.
Abstract The research focuses on jewellery finds uncovered in the region of today's Czech Republic dated to the Great Migration Period. The metals and garnet inlays detected were examined with μ‐EDXRF, whereas, for glass samples, LA‐ICP‐MS was used. The paper presented is supplemented with data concerning the technological processing of the jewellery ...
Zuzana Zlámalová Cílová   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bethlehem in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the light of recent discoveries by the Palestinian MOTA-DACH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The discovery of the necropolis of Khalet al-Jam’a, around 2.2 Km south-east of Bethlehem (Nigro et al. in this volume), provides new data on the Bronze and Iron Age town which controlled the main route connecting Jerusalem to Hebron, and the access to ...
Nigro, Lorenzo
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The Flooding of Lagash (Iraq): Evidence for Urban Destruction Under Lugalzagesi, the King of Uruk and Umma

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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