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The Great Aksumite Decorated Stelae: Architectural Characteristics, Functions, and Meanings
Aethiopica, 2021 The article presents a review of the architectural and iconographic features of the big decorated Aksumite stelae in the May Ḥǝǧǧa stelae field at Aksum.
Andrea Manzo
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Pierres dressées chez les Hadiya du sud de l’Éthiopie
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2009 In South Ethiopia, thousands of stone stelae stand in more or less important groups. While the oldest are one thousand years old, others are recent. The former have been studied over the past few years, whereas the latter have often been forgotten.
Roger Joussaume
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Ériger des pierres pour certains défunts en pays gewada (Éthiopie)
Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2020 Among the Gewada of southern Ethiopia, the deceased pogolho (customary chief), who was also a hasale (hero), is buried in the middle of a thornwood, in a shaft-like grave.
Jean-Paul Cros +4 more
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Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2008 The megalithic culture in Ethiopia consists of stelae, dolmens, and tumuli which are extensively distributed throughout the country. Compared to the extent of the distribution, however, the initial tasks of methodical survey and locating them have been ...
Worku Derara
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Testigos de piedra: estelas armadas entre el Tajo internacional y el Duero, Península Ibérica [PDF]
, 2019 Pocos territorios en Europa reúnen la concentración de estelas en piedra que se documentan entre el Tajo y el Duero. La arqueología asegura amplias posibilidades extractivas, con un claro centro neurálgico en el actual distrito de Castelo Branco ...
Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo de +3 more
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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THREE LATE PERIOD STELAE IN THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM [PDF]
Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2022 ثلاث لوحات من العصر المتأخر محفوظة بالمتحف المصرى الكبير [Ar] تعرض هذه الورقة البحثية ثلاث لوحات مستديرة القمة من أبيدوس.
Marwa Ewais, Hanan Rabia
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2020 The monument relocation phenomenon during Prehispanic times in the Maya area, which includes engraved and plain elements, has been documented by various researchers since the realization of the very first archaeological excavations, such as those made ...
Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín +1 more
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Gesture politics and the art of ambiguity: the Iron Age statue from Hirschlanden [PDF]
, 2008 NoThe discovery of the extraordinary Hirschlanden figure was reported in this journal in 1964. Since then the statue has featured in numerous discussions of Iron Age art and society, to the extent that it has become one of the iconic images of the ...
Armit, Ian, Grant, P.
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After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
, 2013 The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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