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Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
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The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins.

This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not
Dahmen, Karsten.
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Denarius - Sydenham 829 - Crawford 419/1a

, 2016
Sydenham tentatively identifies the obverse head as Roma; Crawford tentatively identifies obverse head as Venus; the reverse image is generally supposed to portray an equestrian statue of Lepidus, commemorating his bravery during the Second Punic War ...

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Using Generative AI for Reconstructing Cultural Artifacts: Examples Using Roman Coins

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Generative AI, propelled by innovations like ChatGPT, has gained widespread recognition. In the realm of archeology, there exists significant potential for generative AI, particularly in reconstructing the appearance of cultural artifacts through the ...
Mark Altaweel, Adel Khelifi, Mohammad Hashir Zafar   +2 more
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Genome Aging in Women: Hematopoietic Loss of X Chromosome as An Exemplar

Aging Cell, Volume 25, Issue 11, November 2026.
As studies at the intersection of genetics and aging are rapidly advancing, genome aging provides a novel mechanism by which aging phenotypes occur. In this Review, the authors examine the rise, expansion, and the consequences of X chromosome loss in female blood cells.
Xihan Guo, Xueqin Dai
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FROM SCANDINAVIA TO THE LEVANT: THE LATE BRONZE AGE METAL TRADE AND NURAGIC SARDINIA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 448-465, November 2026.
Summary A growing body of evidence suggests that Nuragic Sardinia played a role, as yet poorly understood, in the metal trade between Scandinavia, Atlantic Europe, and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. Provenance studies based on lead isotope and chemical analyses of copper‐based – and to a minor extent lead – artefacts from both continental ...
Serena Sabatini
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Denarius Serratus - Sydenham 567a or 744 - Crawford 308/1b or 378/1a - Mule

Mule coins, such as this one, are examples of manufacturing errors. The obverse and reverse of mule coins do not match. Therefore, this coin has two sets of Sydenham and Crawford classifications.PIETASPietas to right, wearing diadem; border of ...

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The Epistemology and Semantics of Ignorance

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 618-628, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with ignorance. It develops a novel, full account of the nature and epistemic normativity of objectual and factual ignorance, degrees of ignorance, comparative ignorance, and the semantics of permissible outright attributions of ignorance of facts and phenomena.
Mona Simion, Christoph Kelp, Lilith Mace
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 838-852, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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The Coins from Shiqmona (pp. 163–171) [PDF]

The Shiqmona excavations yielded 122 bronze coins, 76 of them were identified. The coins range in date between the Roman and the Ayyubid periods, the majority dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine ...
Amitai-Preiss, Nitzan
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