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Ontogenetic Changes in Endocranial Anatomy in Gorgosaurus libratus (Theropoda: Tyrannosauridae) Provide Insight Into the Evolution of the Tyrannosauroid Endocranium. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Comp Neurol
Changes through growth (ontogenetic) in the braincase of the eutyrannosaurian tyrannosauroid Gorgosaurus libratus are discussed. Most notably, brain cavity endocasts of immature Gorgosaurus are found to more clearly show details of the brain morphology than more mature individuals, a finding that has implications for improving dinosaur paleoneurology ...
Voris JT   +4 more
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Physiology of nitrogen: A life or death matter. [PDF]

open access: yesExp Physiol
Abstract With each breath, four out of every five molecules we inspire are nitrogen (N2), since this gas constitutes ∼80% of the atmospheric air that surrounds us. Despite its abundance and unlike molecular oxygen, N2 has traditionally held less appeal among physiologists given its lack of reactivity and corresponding inability to support combustion or
Bailey DM, Macefield VG, Poole DC.
europepmc   +2 more sources

L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule

open access: yesLes Cahiers de l'École du Louvre, 2021
In early Christian art, the image of the cross only began appearing on sarcophagi or in the monumental decoration of Roman churches in the mid-fourth century.
Anne Flammin
doaj   +1 more source

The Iconography of the Sarcophagus in S. Ambrogio. Hope for Salvation through the Word of Christ

open access: yesActa ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia, 2001
The sarcophagus in the church of S. Ambrogio in Milan is dated to about 390. The lid of the sarcophagus shows scenes and symbols connected to the New Testament. On the front and rear sides, we find Christ represented among the Apostles.
Olaf Steen
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An inscribed Roman sarcophagus from Elazığ (eastern Turkey) with an appendix on a Latin military inscription

open access: yesCercetări Arheologice, 2021
We present a previously-unknown sarcophagus of the Roman period with a fragmentary and hard-to-decipher inscription in Greek, today exhibited in the grounds of the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum of Elazığ in eastern Turkey.
Lafli, Ergün, Liddle, Peter
doaj   +1 more source

A New Inscribed Assos Sarcophagus from Alexandreia Troas and The Collegium of Shipwrights

open access: yesGephyra, 2019
This paper presents a new inscribed Assos-type sarcophagus found recently in a village close to the ancient city of Alexandreia Troas. A characteristic feature of the general decoration of Assos-type sarcophagi is the attention-grabbing shape of the ...
Tolga Özhan, Hüseyin Yaman
doaj   +1 more source

Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
core   +1 more source

Les sarcophages de Quarré-les-Tombes (Yonne) : étude typologique et pétrographique

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2009
The study of 114 stone sarcophagi found around the church of Saint-Georges de Quarré-les-Tombes underlines the typological uniformity (especially the Bourguignon-Champenois types) that is moreover reinforced by a petrographic coherence.
Stéphane Büttner, Fabrice Henrion
doaj   +1 more source

The late Roman necropolis Beljnjača in Šid anthropological analysis [PDF]

open access: yesStarinar, 2008
The aim of this study was the anthropological analysis of seven individuals from Late Roman period which were excavated in necropolis in Šid. Skeletal remains were incomplete, fragmentary and decomposed, so we couldn't manage to determinate sex and age ...
Miladinović-Radmilović Nataša
doaj   +1 more source

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