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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.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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The laws in the decline of the Empire: Augustine about Roman Law
Revista Opinião Filosófica, 2017 The following article aims to investigate the role played by Roman law in the decline of the Roman Empire, in the vision of Augustine of Hippo. At first, we will make brief remarks about the causes of the decay of the Roman world.
Philippe Oliveira de Almeida
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The Dark Age Church Period of Barbarian Invasions [PDF]
, 2009 With the endorsement of the Emperor and obligatory church membership for all Roman citizens across the empire, Roman Christianity continued to change the nature of the Church, in stead of visa versa.
Fanning, Don
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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THE EVOLUTION OF ROMAN FRONTIER CONCEPT AND POLICY
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2015 The Roman power is, ideologically, infinite in time and space. Nevertheless, the Roman state had experienced a wide variety of territorial limits, evolving in time and space, more or less throughout a millennium.
George Cupcea
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Administración imperial y el poder adquisitivo en la Antigüedad Tardía : los agentes del poder desde la perspectiva de Sinésio [PDF]
, 2014 Based on the comparative analysis between the Theodosian Code, specifically the laws promulgated in the fourth century, and the discourses De Regno and De Providentia of Synesius of Cyrene, produced on the occasion of his embassy to Constantinople, we
Farias Junior, José Petrúcio de
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg +3 more
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Bioarchaeological analyses reveal long-lasting continuity at the periphery of the Late Antique Roman Empire. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Depaermentier MLC +7 more
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A brigetiói üveggyártó műhely néhány jellemző üvegleletének műszeres analitikai vizsgálata [PDF]
, 2012 The glass was produced by the same recipe all over the Roman Empire and its chemical composition varied in a narrow range. There is no consensus whether the base glass was produced in few centres and then distributed for further processing, or base ...
Dévai, Kata +4 more
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Bilateral Supracondylar Process in a Subadult in the Late Antique Age: A Case Report
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the excavation procedures for the railway trait Napoli‐Cancello, in the city of Afragola (Naples), several burials dating back to the Late Antique Age were found. One of them was an amphora burial (enchytrismòs) and contained the skeletal remains of a subadult individual affected by bilateral supracondylar process. Supracondylar process
Barbara Albanese +3 more
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