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The Making of the Vindolanda Wooden Writing Tablets: A Noninvasive Multianalytical Protocol for the Characterisation of Black Roman Inks. [PDF]
J Anal Methods ChemWithin the ‘Making History’ project, the British Museum investigated the materiality of the Vindolanda ink writing tablets for the first time, with a particular focus on the possible differentiation of the ink sources employed. Thanks to the application of complementary scientific techniques, it was possible to develop an analytical protocol for the ...
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, 2023 An Encyclopedia entry on "Arabia" in Pliny the Elder's _Natural History_ for the Thematic Dictionary of Ancient Arabia.
Hamish Cameron (8513103)
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Roman Gold Washing as Described by Pliny the Elder
EXARC Journal, 2021 As part of a four-year interdisciplinary research project of a Roman gold mine in the landscape known as the "Karth" to the south of Vienna, Austria, a reconstruction of gold washing took place as described by Pliny the Elder in book 33 of his Natural ...
Brigitte Cech, Heimo Urban
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Soil Lead Risks Associated With Urbanization Histories in Springfield MA and Hartford CT, USA. [PDF]
GeohealthAbstract Due to legacy leaded products, soil Pb is generally higher in older urban centers triggering substantial implications for environmental equity. By integrating a gridded soil Pb analysis of about 150 samples each in two historically industrial cities (Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA) with block‐level census data, we tested the hypotheses that (
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The sandals of Pliny the Elder
, 2018 In this article, I aim to introduce some features that compose a brief biography of Pliny the Elder. Supported by the testimonies of Pliny the Younger, I build two images that are sustained only when comprehended together: Pliny with sandals and Pliny without sandals. In the first case, there is the sharp explorer, the citzen that acts.
Stadler, Thiago David
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Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2014 Spalaeos Плиния Старшего. Автор показывает, что они не связаны друг с другом, так как Spalaeos – это всего лишь греческое «кабинетное» определение, данное сатархам («пещерники»).
Жих М.И. / Zhih M.I.
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Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History
Umanistica Digitale, 2022 Pliny’s Natural History, a large-scale encyclopedia containing more than 1.1 million words from the first century CE, provides a snapshot of scientific knowledge in the Roman Empire with sections devoted to topics such as geography, geology, zoology ...
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
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Open Journal of Humanities, 2021 The article proposes a linguistic analysis of the two epistles of Pliny the Younger, addressed to the historian Tacitus, in which the author recalls and describes the catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
Edoardo Scarpanti
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History of Controlled Environment Horticulture: Ancient Origins
HortScience, 2022 In the first century CE, two Roman agricultural writers, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), referred to proto-greenhouses (specularia) constructed for the Emperor Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE) presumably adjacent to
Jules Janick, Harry Paris
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