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Three hundred years of death : the Egyptian funerary industry in the Ptolemaic period /
"In Three Thousand Years of Death, The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the ...
Cannata, Maria,author.
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Virtual Archaeology ReviewThe research tackles the study, publication, and hypothetical three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a mudbrick construction from the Ptolemaic period, situated within a Hellenistic sanctuary at Hermopolis Magna in Middle Egypt.
Ahmed M. Bassioni
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Evidence of glass bead‐making in the early Islamic Iberian Peninsula
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 364-379, April 2025.Abstract Glass beads from two Islamic archaeological sites in the Tagus valley in central Spain were selected and analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS), and a subset of samples (n = 6) was analysed for Pb isotopes by multicollector thermal ionization mass spectrometry (MC‐TIMS).
Cristina Boschetti +4 more
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Beyond “moral progress”: A dual‐character conception of moral change
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 194-208, April 2025.Abstract Philosophers who study moral progress often hold a largely unacknowledged conception of moral history, which one may call the problem‐solving conception of moral progress. This conception pictures humans as problem solvers, who make progress by advancing morally significant values in society. This conception, however, overlooks the conflict of
Heng Ying
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Early Ptolemaic Halikarnassos (ca. 280-260 BC) and its Network of Interactions
, 2021 As part of the ongoing work on the corpus of inscriptions from Halikarnassos, this paper represents an attempt to establish a more precise understanding of the Early Ptolemaic period at Halikarnassos. Using this discussion of chronology and politics as a
Carbon, Jan-Mathieu +1 more
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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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FINGERPRINTS ON FIGURINES FROM THONIS‐HERACLEION
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 399-418, November 2024.Summary This paper studies ancient fingerprints to produce an estimate of the age and sex of the makers of several terracotta figurines found at Thonis‐Heracleion in Egypt, dated to the Late and Ptolemaic periods (seventh–second centuries BC). This is only the second study of its kind to discuss the use of ancient fingerprint impressions from Ancient ...
Leonie Hoff
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Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2016 The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of magic-religious formulas, whose aim was to aid the deceased on his way to a happy life in the hereafter. Beginning mainly in the New Empire, this funerary composition is attested to on the shrouds,
Silvia Einaudi
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Nature in Seclusion. The Monastic Republic of Letters in Southern Germany**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 215-241, September 2024.Abstract Monasteries were famous for their extensive libraries and richly decorated churches. Less well known are their observatories and their mathematical‐physical collections with telescopes, air pumps, and friction machines. But how did the way of life in the monastery and scientific practices influence each other?
Julia Bloemer
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Ptolemaic Egypt : Egyptian Religion
, 2022 This entry consists of data that refers to what we today call Egyptian religion, dating to the "Ptolemaic Period". It is a stage of the Egyptian cults that immediately followed the previous epochs and used the conventional Egyptian motifs, practices and ...
Pfeiffer, Stefan
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