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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Stelae"”.
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Late period stelae from Saqqara. A socio-cultural and religious investigation
… 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 content, plus religious …
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Religious Beliefs and Rituals of Lay Believers in Guanzhong Stele Associations during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
… centred around the erection of religious stone stelae. Each of these stone stelae contains a fruitful corpus of epigraphic sources, providing direct access to the religious stele culture of lay believers. Dedicatory prayers capture the religious aspirations and motivations of lay believers, …
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Maritime Iconography at Punic Votive Sites at Carthage and Cirta: An Analysis of Watercraft Imagery from the 4th-1st c. BCE
This thesis compiles and analyzes 72 Punic stelae featuring maritime iconography, dated to the 4th - 1st c. BCE, from the so called 'tophet' sites in Carthage, in modern-day Tunis, Tunisia, as well as in Cirta (or El Hofra, today Constantine), Algeria. The Punic 'tophet' sites (more than 100 of …
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'And the Sun Sits in His Seat': Creating Social Order in Andean Culture
… coastal Ecuador that encompasses stone seats, stelae, and a range of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures. The site of Agua Blanca, Manabi is identified as the principal town among four settlements that once comprised the Manteno Senorio of Salangome. Three distinct but related patterns of …
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Journey & Connections
… important figures in life, sources of wisdom and stelae that connect to the earth.</p>
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Creating 3D models of cultural heritage sites with terrestrial laser scanning and 3D imaging
… castles, palaces, rock art shelters, statues, stelae and even landscapes.
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… advocates the engraved calligraphy on early stelae as the ideal model.My dissertation examines how Yi Bingshou (1754–1815), a key figure in the stele tradition, employed archaic styles of calligraphy to establish new aesthetic standards, commemorate historical figures, and negotiate …
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The Southwest: A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.)
… cliff tombs; and commemorative and ancestral stelae erected for the governors of Shu and Ba commanderies. In its methodology, the dissertation employs Western theories on social and cultural memory and identity. It also bridges two fields of study, cultural and art history, which are often …
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… the visual language of Hellenistic funerary stelae from eastern Greek poleis, thereby challenging the notion of a uniform "eastern Greek" iconography. The thesis focuses on the combination of tradition and innovation in the pictorial language of the monuments, exploring the visual language on …
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The door motif in Roman art: 200 BCE – 320 CE
… decorations, urns, altars, cippi, loculus slabs, stelae, and sarcophagi. Particular attention is paid to the distribution of this extant material, their chronology, context, formal characteristics, and any unusual features related to the door motif’s appearance. In addition, this dissertation …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… a range of sources, including tomb inscriptions, stelae, seals, and graffiti. Alongside this core, evidence from a number of papyri is used to shed light on what particular judicial offices may have entailed, or what locations were used as judicial venues. Finally, a selection of ethnographic …
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The Iron Age II city gates in Palestine: The textual and archaeological evidence
… benches or shelves, basins or vats, monumental stelae, standing stones, stone altars, reliefs, orthostats, sculptures, silos or pits, oil presses, arrowheads, scales or weights, favissae , incense stands, ovens, pottery vessels, clay or bronze figurines, inscriptions, seals, and metal or stone …
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Settlement History and Interaction in the Manialtepec Basin of Oaxaca's Central Coast
As the focus of over 70 years* of archaeological research, Oaxaca, Mexico, is one of Mesoamerica*s best understood regions. Yet, despite the volume of work in Oaxaca, information about one of its key resource areas, the central Pacific coast, remains limited. Specifically, the ambiguous role of …