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From value to desirability: the allure of worldly things [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, the author takes the approach that value is a judgment that people make about things based on desire, and the potential of the effects those things engender.
Harris, Susanna
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Heritage, 2020 The Lot Sarcophagus is one of the most relevant funerary sculptures of late antiquity (mid-4th century AC). Some of the remarkable aspects are the following (i) it is still preserved in situ; (ii) most of the carved scenes are rarities or unicum; (iii ...
Susanna Bracci +4 more
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A Roman sarcophagus from Tatabánya [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper the authors publish a new sarcophagus from Tatabánya found in 1989. The funerary inscription was erected to a tesserarius who served in the legio I adiutrix in Brigetio and other living members of the family by his half-brother.
Kovács, Péter, Petényi, Sándor
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Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 1129-1156, October 2025.Abstract Early Byzantine marble objects from Porphyreon and Chhim (Lebanon) were studied to assess the source of raw materials. In all, 66 artefacts, including elements of liturgical furnishings, architectural elements and daily use objects, were examined using optical, cathodoluminescence and scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray diffraction, and δ13C ...
Mariusz Gwiazda +3 more
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BLOOD & THUNDER CLASSICS, VOL. 2 [PDF]
, 2009 A MAGAZINE – A game of Chutes and Ladders – a network of pools connected by streams, rivulets, creeks and rivers. Concerns: aluminum, sculpture, film, an endless image or an image-object, cork, shoulders as the center of movement, archery, wicker ...
Taylor, Brian
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Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity [PDF]
, 2007 The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures?
Cuomo, Serafina
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Stone products of the Roman municipium of Neviodunum, Pannonia (modern Drnovo, Slovenia)
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 284-312, April 2025.Abstract The paper presents the lithologies used in the stone products of Neviodunum (modern Drnovo in Slovenia), a Roman municipium in south‐western Pannonia. For this purpose, 95 stone monuments were assessed. Petrographic and biostratigraphic analyses were carried out on 56 archaeological and 57 geological samples.
Katharina Zanier +3 more
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Final proposal to encode the Cuneiform script in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2004 This is a proposal to encode the Phoenician script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.0 in July 2006.
Everson, Michael
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Involvement of microbial mats in early fossilization by decay delay and formation of impressions and replicas of vertebrates and invertebrates [PDF]
, 2016 Microbial mats have been hypothesized to improve the persistence and the preservation of organic remains during fossilization processes. We test this hypothesis with long-term experiments (up to 5.5 years) using invertebrate and vertebrate corpses.Once ...
A Seilacher +54 more
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