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An unusual terracotta group from Sicily of a satyr running off with a terracotta figurine leads to questions about the meaning of its iconography and its possible relationship to cultural developments in Sicily in the first half of the fifth century.
Jaimee Uhlenbrock
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Biochar-Terracotta Conductive Composites: New Design for Bioelectrochemical Systems
Research in the field of bioelectrochemical systems is addressing the need to improve components and reduce their costs in the perspective of their large-scale application.
Pierangela Cristiani +4 more
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We show that the functional diversity of fishes promotes multifunctionality in seagrass meadows. We found that there was consistency in the seascape context and connectivity variables that structured the rate and distribution of different components of functioning and the functional diversity of fish in seagrass meadows.
Amarina L. James +5 more
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Abstract The Industrial Revolution triggered rural abandonment in Europe and had a profound impact on land configuration and ecosystem dynamics, mainly the growth of forests at the expense of open agricultural habitats. However, rural abandonment has been asynchronous in space and time, depending on regional socio‐economic dynamics.
Joan Bauzà, Miquel Grimalt, Daniel Oro
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L’atelier du coroplathe : un cas particulier dans la production céramique grecque
Though inseparable from ceramics in general, the fabrication of terracotta figurines is both dependant upon and independent from the rest of ceramic art due to the techniques used – casting and overmolding – beginning in the 7th century B.C.E.
Arthur Muller
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ABSTRACT Methylene blue (MB), a toxic, carcinogenic, and persistent dye, has constantly contaminated aquatic systems, posing serious risks to human health and environmental safety. In this study, the potential of natural raw terracotta clay, herein termed (RTC), to effectively sequester cationic MB dye from aqueous solution was evaluated.
Rirhandzu Mhlarhi +2 more
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Levels of reality: portraiture in African art [PDF]
African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Borgatti, Jean
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A Clay Gladius Scabbard from Area 13c in the Ancient Roman Town of Syene
Area 13c, located in the town centre of modern Aswan in Upper Egypt, was excavated in 2005 by the Joint Swiss-Egyptian Mission working at Old Aswan. A sequence of houses from the late Ptolemaic period up to the late Roman period was documented at the ...
Mariola Hepa
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The Collection of Classical Antiquities of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, (hereafter MFAB) holds five terracotta figurines attributed to the Mycenaean culture: a Psi (T.737), a Kourotrophos (T.15), a female figurine sitting on a throne (T.5), a ...
Mirtill Árvai
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Les mystérieuses antiquités de Prosper Biardot (1805–1873)
Somewhere between an antiquarian keen on Neapolitan archaeology and an impostor, Prosper Biardot cut a paradoxical figure in many ways: his collection comprised particularly interesting terracottas from Magna Graecia and, for some of them, one of the ...
Angélique Allaire
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