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Eastern Encounters: Ilia Repin's Orientalist Aesthetics Abroad and at Home
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
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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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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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
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)
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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The Stone Crypt of Oguz Barrow: Search for Analogies
This article is devoted to searching for analogies of the unique stone crypt of Oguz Scythian royal barrow, which is located in the South of the Black Sea Steppe in the Dnepr-Molochnaya interfluve.
Sergey G. Koltukhov
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We introduce Sixty-Six Specimens of Mirrors and Their Fragments from the Mass — the Third Series of Borysthenes Type Mirrors into Scientific Circulation.
Zuev V.Yu.
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Transition from Childhood to Adulthood and the Meaning of Marriage in the Northeast of the Roman Province of Moesia Inferior (Scythia Minor) In the Roman classical time, as well as during the Christian period, the very young age of marriageable girls ...
Dan Aparaschivei
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Ceramica de masă de la Ibida–Baza 3 [PDF]
In 2003-2004, at Slava Rusă, a small-scale archaeological excavation took place, near one of the archaeological bases. The excavation brought to light a level dated in the first half of the sixth century, marked by a building and a street.
Marian MOCANU
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