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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Epigraphy"”.
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Umbilicus Runicus: Runic and Mediterranean Epigraphy
The dissertation examines the past 100 years of runic scholarship to show that previous investigations on the origin of the runes have been hampered by a series of ad hoc postulates, the greatest being that the runes cannot have come into existence before the birth of Christ. If one examines the …
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Language contact in South Oscan epigraphy
… previous scholarship on ancient linguistics, epigraphy and archaeology. It also suggests a series of general principles for dealing with small epigraphic corpora from a sociolinguistic viewpoint. After laying out these frameworks, this work gives an introduction to the sites of the region and …
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Aesthetics of the Qur'anic epigraphy on the Taj Mahal
This thesis examines the Qur'anic epigraphic program of the Taj Mahal. Following the 1989 Begley & Desai book Taj Mahal: on Illustrated Tomb, the flourish of scholarship that would expectedly follow a complete epigraphical catalog never arrived. Despite being well-known and universally cherished as …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… English culture such as codex, oral tradition, epigraphy, printed book, and dramatic performance not only transmit early English poetry but supply symbolic forms that shape it as well. Approaching poetics through the medium allows original insights into several paradigmatic works of the English …
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Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
… through vernacular practices such as folk epigraphy, commemorative assemblages and photography, I trace the popularization and formalization of such practices as contemporary phenomena for making both places and selves. As commemorative places of scale continue to emerge and incorporate …
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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
… documentary and artistic testimonies including epigraphy, sculpture, architecture and funerary monuments testifies both to an uninterrupted artistic production in Rome throughout the Avignon period, and to the role of nuns as key players in the promotion of these commissions.
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Attalid Networks: Seeking Status And Acquiring Authority Beyond State Capacity
… drawing on a wide range of evidentiary sources: epigraphy, archaeology, literature, numismatics, and other material sources. My use of networks is fundamentally descriptive, while my analysis is rooted in modern International Relations theories of status, authority, and hierarchies. The dynasty’s …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… of documentary texts, Greek literature, and epigraphy, this project positions allative (motion toward) and ablative (motion from) arguments in Greek Exodus within the history of Greek. While acknowledging cross-linguistic influence, this project also offers an important corrective to the …
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'The Place of My Fathers' Sepulchres' : the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna
… Through a novel analysis of the sepulchral epigraphy of the thousands of matzevot or grave-memorials contained therein, the development and expression of codes of belonging constructed in the nexus between shifting notions of ‘Jewish’ and ‘Viennese’ culture are illuminated in a longue durée …
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Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
… including art, literature, numismatics and epigraphy. The changing characters are discussed in relation to women’s engagement with her and both external influence and internal developments are shown to have shaped perceptions of the goddess. In the Late Republic the role of Venus as …
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Disgrace and Agency: Pompeiian Gladiators and Infamia in the Julio-Claudian Period
… of the abundance of material culture (graffiti, epigraphy, and physical representations) pertaining to gladiators, but also because of the local connections to the origins of gladiatorial combat. Additionally, the gendered aspects of infamia require attention since gladiators were subject to …
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Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
… statistical and prosopographical approaches to epigraphy to build up a general picture of soldier and veteran participation in local elite life. These case-studies restore agency to soldiers and veterans by contrasting their self-representation with the ways in which they are represented by …
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Classic Maya Political Organization: Epigraphic Evidence Of Hierarchical Organization In The Southern Maya Mountains Region Of Belize
… can then be tested. By combining the methods of epigraphy, archaeology, and a direct historical approach to the hieroglyphic inscriptions of this region, I have not only been able to reconstruct the dynastic history of sites in the region, but I have also been able to reconstruct the political …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… multiple disciplines--art history, literature, epigraphy, and social theory--and from across cultures, the interconnected region of the eastern Indian Ocean and the South China Seas, spanning the Sanskritic, Tamil, Malay, and Sinocentric realms. My dissertation challenges traditional narratives …
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Late period stelae from Saqqara. A socio-cultural and religious investigation
The purpose of this investigation is to analyse a coherent corpus of stelae from the site of Saqqara from the Late Period in order to extract socio-cultural and religious information about the people who dedicated them. This includes information on onomastics, titles and human iconography and …
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Expressions of Diasporic Identity: Transcultural Language in Jewish-Greek Inscriptions
The diasporic Jewish experience is characterized by the dynamics of acculturation and enculturation, a twofold process entailing a degree of integration into the majority culture and at the same time a strong retention of the Jewish identity. The primary purpose of my thesis is to demonstrate how …
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Per un’indagine storico-epigrafica sulle élites siciliane fra Repubblica e Impero: i corpora di Centuripe e del Museo Civico di Catania (aggiornamenti)
Il lavoro di tesi, in sei capitoli, si pone obiettivi vari connessi: presentare un corpus delle iscrizioni di provenienza centuripina per renderle disponibili alla comunità scientifica, anche attraverso l’uso del digitale; confrontare i risultati dell’indagine epigrafica con le testimonianze di …
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The Dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-Speaking Areas
My thesis explores the dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-speaking areas, a corpus not yet analysed in its entirety. The aim of the research is twofold: to fill a gap in the scholarship, through a systematic and comprehensive description of the dialectal features from the …
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