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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Tombstones"”.
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Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Archaic and Classical Athens
… “Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Classical Athens,” seeks to rescue the history of these foreigner residents by studying how they represented themselves on grave markers and how they integrated themselves into the city and its cemeteries. By analyzing the findspots of …
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
… ways in which daughters were described on their tombstones based on their age and the Roman virtues valued at the time. It primarily focuses on descriptors, superlatives used, the dedicators who commissioned the work, girls who died before their wedding, and ages of girls which have excesses in …
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Dying to be seen : an interpretive study of porcelain portraits on grave markers
… study indicates that the role of photo-tombstones is negotiated through a hybridization process involving religious syncretism, cultural convergence, or familial expectations. The role of photography as material culture is also examined, both as a metonymic replacement for the deceased …
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… haunts her ability to heal in adulthood. As for tombstones, these stories are obsessed with death, finality, and endings, which reveal more about a person's true self than where they began. When asked "what is a story?", Diane Williams replied, "Can a story be a dream come true?" The stories …
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Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Roman Art with particular reference to that of Roman Britain
… with patronage and presentation of figural tombstones and inscriptions. Both chapters observe these issues with preference towards the demonstration of gender allocation and any undertones implicated.
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Britannia's Bodies: Corporeal Representation in the Art of Roman Britain
… powerful and divine images. Finally, we get to tombstones, and the bodies represented in the funerary reliefs of the province. This takes the body in funerary art as a special category, one that straddles an uncomfortable duality of absence and presence, given the represented body’s relationship …
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A Portrait of the Leadership of Women in Early Christianity: an Archaeological Study in Light of the Historical and Socio-Cultural Contexts
… leadership positions in a basilica burial, on tombstones and in the early Christian frescoes in the catacombs. The mosaics analyzed in the fourth chapter are of a different nature from the funerary remains. Mosaics of the fifth century onwards tended to portray biblical passages and therefore …