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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Ptolemaic"”.
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The Central Hall in the Egyptian Temples of the Ptolemaic Period
… the Central Halls in the Egyptian temples of the Ptolemaic period. According to the texts of that period, the Central Hall has different designations used to refer to it. Whenever it exists, the location of this Central Hall is always between the Sanctuary and the Hall of Offerings on the main …
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Becoming Kleopatra: Ptolemaic Royal Marriage, Incest, and the Path to Female Rule
This dissertation provides the first overarching and comparative study of Hellenistic Egyptian queens, from the origins of the dynasty to the final ruler, Kleopatra VII. It explores the ways in which the Ptolemies developed a practice of royal incest, which was supplemented by the institution of a …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
<p>Images of the Ptolemaic cosmos were produced in all three major early medieval successors to the Roman Empire (the Carolingian, the Byzantine, and the Umayyad states). Early medieval cosmological images remained formally and iconographically close to their late antique models. They thus provide …
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Women in the Demotic Legal Landscape of Ptolemaic Egypt (332–30 BC): Participation, Property Rights and Change as Reflected in Documents for Money from Upper Egypt
… women’s role in the demotic legal landscape of Ptolemaic Upper Egypt, and, in doing so, it aims to understand better their overall position in society. Social, cultural and economic contexts have shaped women’s lives throughout history. With its longevity and wealth of preserved records, ancient …
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At the Sea's Edge: Revisiting the Origins of Native Seamanship in Southern Arabia
… the birth of Muhammad, that before the rise of Ptolemaic Egypt and that of the Mesopotamian City-States, when southern Arabia was peripheral to the earliest organized civilizations. It is concluded that although maritime resources were always utilized to some extent, there was insufficient …
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A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
… during the Hellenistic period across Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Antigonid, Attalid and Roman contexts? The aims of this dissertation are threefold, firstly, to analyse the different border models in operation during the Hellenistic period; secondly, to assess whether it is possible to give an account …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… the broader linguistic and cultural world of Ptolemaic Egypt.
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Chere
… hybrid forms, quilts. This project analyses Ptolemaic concepts in regards of pre-Columbian and African map conventions, and African syllabaries in order to visualize aspects of the African diaspora such as colonization, evangelization, displacement, instability, inequality, marginalization, …
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A Comparative Study of Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī's Texts and Models on the Configuration of the Heavens
… by scientists of the Islamic world to rid Ptolemaic astronomy from what they considered its many non-physical characteristics was the driving force of the particularly productive genre of hay'a or the science of the configuration of the universe. All three of Shīrāzī's works that are …
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Ancient Egyptian Cubits – Origin and Evolution
This thesis suggests that prior to Ptolemaic and Roman times, ancient Egypt had two distinct and parallel linear systems: the royal system limited to official architectural projects and land measurements, and a great (aA) system used for everyday measurements. A key 1/3 ratio explains ancient …
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The development of the notion of libraries in the ancient world with special reference to the Middle East, the Roman Republic and the Royal Alexandrian Library
… both the Mouseion and the RAL. Conversely, the "Ptolemaic thesis", while acknowledging the Greek origins of the Mouseion, argues that the RAL (as an independent institution distinguishable from the Mouseion proper) is derived from Middle Eastern institutions. This study traces the origins of the …
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Engendering Power: Dynastic Women And Visual Culture In The Hellenistic World (fourth-First Centuries Bce)
… in Asia Minor, Argead and Antigonid Makedon, Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleukid Asia, and Attalid Pergamon. The art-historical corpus of dynastic women includes a variety of media and genres: coins, gems, mosaic and painting, large-scale monuments, written decrees, architecture (remains and …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… the late first century BCE, an anonymous Jew of Ptolemaic Alexandria authored a fictional letter, containing a remarkable story of Jewish-Greek cooperation. Told through its fictional, Gentile narrator, Aristeas, the letter, known as The Letter of Aristeas, recounts the story of the Hebrew …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… the late first century BCE, an anonymous Jew of Ptolemaic Alexandria authored a fictional letter, containing a remarkable story of Jewish-Greek cooperation. Told through its fictional, Gentile narrator, Aristeas, the letter, known as The Letter of Aristeas, recounts the story of the Hebrew …
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How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate
… analogues can be found in classical Athens, Ptolemaic Egypt, Republican Rome, and Early Modern France.
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Contract Norms and Contract Enforcement in Graeco-Roman Egypt
… ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenistic tradition (i.e., non-Roman law contracts) have …
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