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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Roman Period"”.
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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
… in material culture and urban society in the Roman provinces, focusing on the understudied region of Lycia et Pamphylia. More specifically, it takes a multi-scalar approach to exploring how local, regional, and global architectural traditions were blended into uniquely Lycian urban forms, …
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Intestinal parasites in the Roman Empire, their regional distribution and ecosocial determinants
… examples from many different continents and time periods. Studies have been done in the Roman period however, this evidence does not cover all regions of the Roman empire. At its greatest extent the empire covered much of Europe, North Africa, and parts of the Middle East and different regions had …
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Identity and Social Change in North-Western Europe (BCE 250/100 - 200 CE): new narratives through funerary evidence
… in North-Western Europe in the PRIA and early Roman period were more altered by the experience of empire than has previously been understood in archaeology. The work offers insights into local and regional attempts at organising coherent funerary traditions in the areas of south-eastern England …
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The differential use of constructed sacred space in southern Britain, from the late Iron Age to the 4th century AD
… cult loci from the late Iron Age to the late Roman period in southern Britain, focusing on the differential use of internal space. Following an initial review of the interpretative parameters used in the archaeological identification of constructed cult sites, the evidence for such loci within …
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Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world
… AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many questions about how the iconographical, literary sources and archaeological material reflect actual dining practices …
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MAPPING TRADE BY SHIPWRECKS: AN ANALYSIS OF AMPHORA ASSEMBLAGES FROM FOURNOI ARCHIPELAGO (AEGEAN)
… of the east-central Aegean, dating to the Late Roman period (fourth to seventh centuries CE). Both the macroscopic observations and typological study of the raised amphorae indicate a variety of provenances. While some of the artifacts are in good condition, others are less well preserved. The …
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Nike-Apsara Imagery in First and Second-Century Gandharan Art and the Theoretical Framework of the Roman Image-Language
Scholarship has examined the Greco-Roman deities used as prototypes for Buddhist figures in Gandhara, such as Apollo-Buddha, Tyche-Hariti, and Atlas. Minimal research has explored the surmised correlation between Nike and Apsaras. Therefore, this thesis investigates the thematic roles, iconography, …
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The Villa and Agricultural Economy of Late Roman Sicily: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… villas as centers for production during the Late Roman period (400-476 CE). The heart of the investigation requires a multivariate approach that compares findings from Gerace with aspects of written and archaeological record and provides in-depth analysis of the production and economic features of …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… of parodying-travestying literature ofthe Graeco-Roman period. In contrast to the classical genres of the mainstream, epic, love-poetry and tragedy, Bakhtin rates Menippean texts as being essentially dialogic, engaged in exploring ideas of life and death from the perspective of a carnivalistic …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
… how the practices of the self operate in Greco-Roman antiquity, in the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its freedom. The aim of the research is to analyse how the subjected subject is able to carry out …
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Morienti cuncta supersunt. Archeologia funeraria e modelli di interazione culturale nella Sardegna meridionale tra età punica ed età romana: il caso della necropoli di Mitza de Siddi di Ortacesus (SU)
… the transitional phase from the Punic to the Roman period in southern Sardinia. Specifically, since this topic has been largely neglected in previous scholarship and lacks a standardized framework that would allow for comparison between different case studies, the project seeks to establish a …
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Language in Roman Caesarea Maritima
… of many identities – Christian, Greek, Jewish, Roman, Samaritan – and many languages – Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. Using the methodology of modern sociolinguistics, I examine how all these different identities and languages interacted. I take a comprehensive approach to our sources for …
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To What Extent are Nornour's Roman Votive Finds Indicative of Roman Religious Activity on the Isles of Scilly?
… a major shipping channel in historic times. Roman activity in the seaways around Scilly will be illustrated, drawing on classical writings referring to Phoenician tin trading and Roman archaeology from Scilly and Cornwall. The potential for Roman shipping frequenting Scilly and landing near …
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Chickens in the archaeological material culture of Roman Britain, France, and Belgium.
… Europe in the Iron Age, but it was during the Roman period that they became a prominent part of life. Previous research on the domestication and spread of chickens has focused on the birds themselves, with little discussion of their impact on the beliefs and symbolism of the affected cultures. …
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Exploring the possibility of low temperature glazing in faience from the Djoser Step Pyramid through compositional analysis
… Egypt in a time range pre-dating the Predynastic Period (5500 - 3100 BCE) and extending well beyond the Roman Period (30 BCE - 641 CE). One of the most monumental feats of faience production and one of the first examples of mass production in human history is the collection of approximately 36,000 …
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The final masquerade: a molecular-based approach to the identification of resinous plant exudates in Roman mortuary contexts in Britain and evaluation of their significance
… resinous plant exudates in mortuary contexts in Roman Britain. Analysis of amorphous masses, adhering residues and grave deposits using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has revealed terpenoid biomarkers in sixteen inhumation and two cremation burials. The natural products characterized …
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Recepción de las instituciones romanas en la biografía de Alonso Antonio de San Martín, hijo de Felipe IV
… jurídicas que procedentes del Derecho romano que están vigentes en su biografía: la filiación ilegítima; dispensa de la irregularidad por nacimiento y la restitutio natalium romana, la jurisdicción episcopal basada en la episcopalis audientia del período posclásico romano, y algunos …
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