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A New Votive Stele Fragment Dedicated to Arsinoe II Philadelphos from Asar Tepe (Dalaman, Muğla)
GephyraThis article presents a fragmentary inscription found during the rescue excavation at Asar Tepe, Şerefler Mahallesi, Dalaman, Mugla, between December 2022 and May 2024. The site was considered to be in the territory of Kalynda.
Mertcan Öntürk
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Hair today, gone tomorrow: the use of real, false and artificial hair as votive offerings [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Draycott, Jane
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT Numerous buildings, monuments, and infrastructural works in Verona were constructed during the Roman period using stone, a material abundantly available from quarrying areas located relatively close to the city. Petrographic investigations conducted by Transmitted Polarized Light Optical Microscopy (TPL‐OM) and complemented by colorimetric ...
Eliana Bridi +3 more
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Votive Inscription by Aristeis
Axon, 2019 A quadrangular silver plaque from Francavilla Marittima (Sybaris), the inscription is bustrophedic and consists in a private votive offering commissioned by Aristeis, a woman, to an unknown deity. The structure of the text and the graphic peculiarities of the letters bring to a chronology about late 7th-early 6th century.
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The Historicality of the King: An Exercise in Reading Royal Inscriptions from the Ancient Levant [PDF]
, 2014 The problem with using royal inscriptions as historical sources is their inherent bias. The interests of the king drive the narratives of royal inscriptions. Yet this essential feature reveals their underlying concept of history.
Matthew Suriano
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Women and Votive Inscriptions in Etruscan Epigraphy
Etruscan Studies, 2019 AbstractThis paper aims at giving an overview of the quantitative and qualitative dimension of the female element in the field of Etruscan votive inscriptions. It offers a systematic discussion of dedications set by Etruscan women and attested by inscriptions from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 228-247, August 2025.Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
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A recently discovered inscribed statue ‘plinth’ of a female votary from Idalion‑Moutti tou Arvili
Cahiers du Centre d’Études ChypriotesDuring the 2022 field season of the Berlin-Idalion-Project, a fragmented part of a live-size limestone statue was found on the eastern acropolis (Moutti tou Arvili) of ancient Idalion.
Stephan G. Schmid, Daniela Summa
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