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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art: A Decipherment of Numerals Signed by the Rulers of Altar Q1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 350-389, July 2025.
Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of the Orient on the Epigraphic Monuments of Western Roman Lusitania/Reflets de l’Orient sur les Monuments Épigraphiques de la Lusitanie Romaine Occidentale

open access: yesJournal of Mosaic Research, 2017
In the Roman epigraphic monuments of the Occidental Lusitania we can see the oriental influence in the adoption of Greek names by the people there mentioned, but this is a cultural influence not the sign of the existence of oriental people in the ...
José d’ENCARNAÇÃO
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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

open access: yesOxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

I.Sicily as a Tool for the Study of Roman Sicily: An Experiment in Institutional Annotation

open access: yesGerión
Study of Roman Sicily is well established and has a long tradition, with the two most authoritative and well-established epigraphic corpora –CIL X (1883) and IG XIV (1890)– dating to the late 19th century.
Jonathan Prag, Alfredo Tosques
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Transmitting Literature, Preserving Language. Case Studies of Classical Latin from Literary Manuscripts from the Roman East (I bc–II ad)1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
wiley   +1 more source

The epigraphic and archeological work of Nikola Vulić on the territory of Macedonia [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2018
This work is a result of decades long archaeological excavations by Nikola Vulić on the territory of Macedonia. The work also comprises of his compilation of epigraphic monuments.
Ljubomirović Irena V.
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Gestión del suelo público en Pollentia/Mallorca. Las inscripciones con la fórmula LDDD

open access: yesMayurqa, 2019
The epigraphy of Pollentia provides information on one of the functions of the local senate during the Early Roman Empire, the free cession of public land to private promoters for the dedication, at their expense, of statues as tributes to prominent ...
María Luisa Sánchez Leon
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Bioanthropological analysis of human remains from the archaic and classic period discovered in Puyil cave, Mexico

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 2, June 2024.
Geographic distribution of shared mtDNA haplotypes between. This map shows the geographic distribution of shared mtDNA haplotypes between the human remains of Puyil Cave and those reported previously from ancient and contemporary people. Additionally, in the bottom right corner are shown the skulls on the surface of Chamber 4, discovered in this cave ...
María Teresa Navarro‐Romero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Officina di IG XIV2 – Civic Inscriptions from Hellenistic Kephaloidion

open access: yesAxon
This study delves into the only three Hellenistic civic inscriptions of Kephaloidion (modern Cefalù), a secondary harbour in northern Sicily. The inscriptions, despite their fragmentary nature, reveal unique linguistic and historical features that ...
Llamazares Martín, Andoni
doaj   +1 more source

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