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Medicine for the Material World
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Ägyptische Papyri und das Neue Testament. Zur Frage der Vergleichbarkeit von Texten
Während Funde dokumentarischer Papyri lange Zeit auf Ägypten geschränkt waren, sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten zahlreiche außerägyptische Fundorte dazugekommen. Einzelne Dokumente aus Ägypten stammten ursprünglich aus Kleinasien oder Italien.
Peter Arzt
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Protected by Lex Laetoria: Two Papyri of Roman Egypt and their Effect on Roman Law
Lex Laetoria was a Roman Act from about the turn of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, granting additional protection to adults under the age of 25. Amongst its primary sources the Tabula Heracleensis, a.k.a. lex Iulia municipalis (cf.
János Erdődy
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Ti6Al4V‐Bioglass‐Copper Composites for Load‐Bearing Implants
We have designed and manufactured a novel Ti64‐based composite by adding 45S5 bioglass (BG) and copper (Cu). Adding BG on titanium improves wear resistance and biocompatibility, whereas Cu addition improves mechanical strength while providing inherent lifelong bacterial resistance.
Lochan Upadhayay +3 more
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In this paper we present the first results of stylometric analysis of literary papyri. Specifically we perform a range of tests for unsupervised clustering of authors. We scrutinise both the best classic distance-based methods as well as the state-of-the-art network community detection techniqes.
Jeremi K. Ochab, Holger Essler
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Zenon’s flour: grains of truth from Tel Kedesh [PDF]
According to one of the Zenon papyri, In 259 BCE the Ptolemaic courier Zenon stopped at the site of Kedesh, located today in northern Israel, to pick up some flour.
Berlin, Andrea
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This critical review presents a comprehensive roadmap for the precision 3D printing of cellulose. Quantitative correlations link ink formulation and rheological properties to print fidelity and final material performance. This framework guides the development of advanced functional materials, from biomedical scaffolds to electromagnetic shielding ...
Majed Amini +3 more
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This article presents a social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Unmerciful Servant. The parables of Jesus are realistic stories about everyday events in 1st-century Palestine that evoke specific social realia and practices known to ...
Ernest van Eck
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Reconstructing phonologies of dead languages: the case of Late Greek
This article compares prescriptive texts of the Indian and of the Greek scholarly tradition (Prati®akhya and Atticist lexica), with a focus on a specific problem of Late Greek phonology, the pronunciation of ‹Ë›.
Vessella, C.
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