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Investing Aura: Making Value at an Emirati Art Center

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the politics and processes of establishing value for artworks, highlighting the continued belief in Walter Benjamin's idea of aura and describing the value aura generates as “auratic value.” Focusing on an artist residency program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country's arts boom, I analyze contestations ...
Beth Derderian
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The adoption of Roman building techniques in Asia Minor, 30 Years Later

, 2020
Thanks to the recent excavations of the Sanctuary of Apollo in Hierapolis of Phrygia, a new example of brick construction was discovered: the barrel vault of the ›Temple C‹, exceptionally dated to the early Imperial period. This discovery provided the
Sara Bozza
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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Gods and Colonists from Asia Minor in Dacia

Gephyra, 2018
The author is dealing with the divinities and colonists of the province Dacia who originated from Asia Minor, utilizing 66 known epigraphic documents and reinterpreting many of them. The divinities which had penetrated all the layers of the Roman society
Ioan Piso
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A Roman Senator Hunting Steinbock

Gephyra, 2005
A Roman Senator Hunting SteinbockThe  author provides a fresh interpretation of various lines of an epigram dis­covered by Thomas Corsten in the territory of Cibyra, showing that the stylisation of a hunt by the Roman senator Lucius Marcius Celer Marcus ...
Johannes Nollé
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Under the Judgement of the Living God: The Early Christian Funerary Imprecations of Phrygian Eumeneia

Religions
Since the late nineteenth century, the Phrygian funerary imprecation, known as the Eumeneian formula, has been considered one of the clearest indicators of Christian religious identity on inscriptions from Roman Asia Minor.
Bernard Doherty
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Asia Minor. An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey

, 2021
«Asia Minor» è una nuova rivista internazionale sull’archeologia della Turchia. La rivista si propone come spazio di discussione sulle molte archeologie che indagano le sfaccettate culture dell’Anatolia antica ed accoglie contributi sulle culture pre ...
Marco Galli
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Honorary Arches and Gates in Asia Minor up to the Reign of Traian

, 2020
The aim of this paper is to review the honorary arches (or gates) existing in Asia Minor from its annexation to the Roman Empire up to Trajan and to analyze them as an evidence of change in the architecture of Asia Minor.
Marcello Spanu
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