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Nuova Antologia Militare, 2021 Since the very dawn of the Principate two legions had been sharing the ordinal number Fourth, namely IV Macedonica (then renamed IV Flauia Felix) and IV Scythica. The name Scythica stands out conspicuously from the legions of Caesar Augustus.
Maurizio Colombo
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SOME REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE PHIALE WITH THE IMAGES OF HERACLES AND AUGE FROM THE ROGOZEN TREASURE [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 One of the most important finds from the richest of the Thracian hoards, the Rogozen Treasure, is the so-called Auge Phiale. Its chronological position is crucial for the dating of the Hoard and had already been a point of debates.
Treister, M.
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Gorgon in the religion of Maeotes [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 The immense popularity of the images of the Gorgon Medusa (mainly the gorgoneus) on various artifacts found in the mounds of Scythia and the Bosporus is usually explained by the apotropaic significance of her image, which was due to the influence of ...
Schaub, I.Yu.
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Spartan dependence on Laurion lead
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1044-1058, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article presents contextual evidence for the interpretation of lead isotope analysis (LIA) of artefacts from the Archaic Greek Mediterranean. In particular, I make a response to Wood’s suggestion in Archaeometry (2022, first view, ‘Other ways to examine the finances behind the birth of Classical Greece’) that the end of the production of ...
James Thomas Lloyd
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Eastern Encounters: Ilia Repin's Orientalist Aesthetics Abroad and at Home
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 228-255, April 2023., 2023 This essay examines Ilia Repin's sustained engagement with European Orientalist painting and its impact on his oeuvre. Through close readings of three of his major works, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1880–91), it argues that Repin ...
Maria Taroutina
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Hiding in plain sight: Integrative analyses uncover a cryptic Salvia species in Europe
TAXON, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 78-97, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Salvia is the most species‐rich genus of the family Lamiaceae, currently numbering almost 1000 species. The diagnostic feature of the genus is the unique staminal lever mechanism that allows for specific pollination modes. We encountered an unusual Salvia form in the field, in SE Romania, which resembles S.
Attila Mátis +7 more
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Tectonics, Volume 41, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Orogenic wedges are common at convergent plate margins and deform internally to maintain a self‐similar geometry during growth. New structural mapping and thermochronometry data illustrate that the eastern Greater Caucasus mountain range of western Asia undergoes deformation via distinct mechanisms that correspond with contrasting lithologies ...
A. R. Tye +4 more
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 397-422, November 2022., 2022 Summary Using the organic artefacts from the fourth‐century BC grave at Bulhakovo in southern Ukraine, this article discusses the economics of the perishable material culture of the Scythians of the Pontic Steppe region. Thanks to the survival of organic materials (wood, leather, textiles), the burial provides important information about the complex ...
Marina Daragan +5 more
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Ancient “Nomadology” – Knowledge of the Ancients About the Main Issues of Nomadic Studies
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. Based on the study of the ancient literary tradition, the article analyzes the fundamental beliefs of the ancient Greeks and Romans about early nomads, the Scythians and the Sarmatians: origins of nomadism and nomads, their lifestyle ...
Aleksandr P. Medvedev
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The mortuary treatment of children at Late Roman/Early Byzantine (L)Ibida (4th – 6th Centuries AD)
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2023 This study evaluates the treatment of children in death through an examination of the available archaeological evidence related to mortuary practices from Late Roman and Early Byzantine (L) Ibida (Slava Rusă, Tulcea County, Romania).
Crețu, C.
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