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THE EVOLUTION OF SEAL AND EMBLEM SYSTEM IN ISLAMIC ADMINSTRATIONS [PDF]

تاریخ اسلام, 2005
Instruments and necessary methods for correspondence and the use of special emblems to confirm and ratify the authenticity of documents issued by rulers has been a major element of administrative procedures in various periods of history.
Seyyed Mahdi Javadi
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L’emblema dell’Università di Torino. Storia di un sigillo e delle sue diverse realizzazioni e interpretazioni - The Emblem of Turin University. The History of a Seal, of its Various Realizations and Symbolic Elements

Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2018
The University of Turin embossed emblem even now in use had been rediscovered in 1925. Its origin dates back to 1615 in a wax seal kept in the State Archive of Turin.
Luisa Gentile, Paola Novaria, Paola Rizzi, Francesca Turco   +3 more
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A SEVENTH-CENTURY BCE CYLINDER SEAL FROM JERUSALEM DEPICTING WORSHIP OF THE MOON GOD’S CULT EMBLEM

, 2023
Extensive discussion of a 7th-century cylinder seal found in the Garden Tomb compound, part of Jerusalem's northern necropolis during the Iron Age, focusing on the archaeological context, the seal's iconography related to the Moon god of Harran, and its relevance for the history of religion in the southern Levant during the time of king Manasseh of ...
Uehlinger, Christoph, Winderbaum, Ariel, Zelinger, Yehiel   +2 more
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Cărţi din biblioteca familiei Cantacuzino în fondurile muzeului tulcean [PDF]

Peuce, 2014
The aim of this article is to introduce in the scientific circuit two volumes of rare foreign books, printed in the 17th and 18th centuries, identified in the collections of ”Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea, which belonged to the ...
Lăcrămioara MANEA
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Internal Structure, Kinematics, and Prehistory of Frozen Debris Lobe‐A (FDL‐A), Brooks Range, Alaska

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Frozen Debris Lobe‐A (FDL‐A)—one of hundreds of FDLs in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska—is a slow‐moving landslide in permafrost that has been the subject of research since 2008 due to its close proximity to the Dalton Highway. Here, we synthesize more than a decade's worth of climate and surface measurements of monitored FDLs, and the ...
Margaret M. Darrow, Esther L. Babcock, Ben A. Leshchinsky   +2 more
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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The Susa wreath group Alexanders: The first step in the transformation of an anchor seal to a dynastic emblem

KOINON: The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies, 2019
A tetradrachm die study of the Susa wreath group (Susa Group 5) of Alexanders (Price 3853-60) attributed to the satrapy of Aspeisas in the period 316/5-312/1 BC, indicates that the coinage should be downdated to the period 311/0-309/8 BC, the earliest coinage of Seleukos from the mint.
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