...Speakers of Greek and Latin were in contact for several hundred years. This chapter proposes a typology for distinct language contact features in the light of epigraphy, and discusses Latin-Greek contact in Italy through the language transmitted by Christian and Jewish speech communities from...

... Attalid state Greek epigraphy Hellenistic Period Anatolia This chapter deals with royal correspondence in the Hellenistic period. Investigating this material means participating in an ongoing debate about the nature of kingship in the different Graeco-Macedonian kingdoms as they emerged after...

... Behaviours civic or citizen Competition elite Cyclades Ionia ‘Middling’ men and ideology Performance performative membership andreion commensality citizen Crete epigraphy archaeology cups austerity Citizenship and commensality may seem unlikely bedfellows. In the archaic, Greek-speaking...

...Ceramic texts and imagery have been critically important tools in the study of Maya iconography and epigraphy. However, how these narratives coordinate with those in other media as coherent, media-specific compositions has been little explored. This chapter presents a single case study to address...

.... This chapter describes the creation of ancestors in imagery and changing burial patterns in Preclassic Maya farming villages. Referencing the large corpus of Maya art and epigraphy, the chapter traces how symbols were later used by Classic Maya kings to appropriate ancestral powers and to institutionalize...

...This chapter integrates ceramics, stratigraphy, epigraphy, and careful readings of ethnohistoric sources to propose a historical reconstruction of Chichen Itza, focused particularly on the ninth century. The authors reject the partial and total overlap models for Chichen Itza construction...

... (most famously the Rosetta Stone) are also without close parallel. And the asylum decrees of the late Ptolemaic period concerning temples raise major issues about the relative power of the king and the temples. epigraphy of Egypt decrees Idumaeans decrees of I Prose OGIS II 737 SB I 681 proskynêma...

... to the local population, including coinage. From the time of Augustus onwards, written documentation increases significantly. However, while in Baetica this record reflects Roman customs, in Lusitania linguistic retention and bilingualism are evident, particularly in religious epigraphy. The factors that drove...

... of Asturias Astorga avunculus maternal uncle Barbero Abilio Basques Cantabrians Ermesinda queen León matriarchy Nepotianus Pelayo king Strabo Geography tribes Vigil Marcelo Amaya epigraphy Gijón González María Cruz Morgan Lewis H Santos Juan public and private ad Sebastianum Albeldense...

... Kom Makkedah 1 Maccabees Judah Epigraphy Numismatics Phoenician Byblos Sidon Tyre Galilee kerub marzeaḥ For a long time, the Achaemenid period has been considered a sort of ‘dark age’ after the fall of Jerusalem in 587 and the fall of the Babylonian empire in 539, and before the arrival...

... Montmorency Anne de Savoie Claude de Clermont Tonnerre Louise de Seguin Joseph Renaissance France Bordeaux Bourges Nîmes Narbonne Collecting and Antiquarianism in Renaissance France Renaissance epigraphy Patrimony Southern France is host to some of the best-preserved Roman remains outside...

... Mayapán turtle sculptures Roys Ralph L space time concepts Thirteen Divisions Thirteen Gods turtles uhxlajuun k̓uh uhxlajuun tsuk ochk'in huk tsuk priests ah k̓uhun Seven Divisions Western Seven Divisions Classic Maya epigraphy royal court political history political administration...

... companions Mo…n Buluch Laj tobacco Took̓ Yaas K̓inich tribute tax baah ajaw Peru El slip paint medium Tamarindito K'awiil Chan K'inich k'uhul k'ujul ajaw Byland Bruce Pohl John Classic Maya archaeology epigraphy art history polychrome pottery production feasting political history...

... Spensley E Trapeche Group obsidian Yajawte̓ K̓inich Fat Cacique Central Petén Petén ltza rural complexity in central lowlands Classic Maya Archaeology Epigraphy Site planning Ceramic analysis Political organization Heterarchy The Motul de San José Archaeological Project has tested a number...

..., the language that was commonly used by the Jews throughout the Roman period. It takes a look at sociolinguistics, the differentiations in language choice, and late antique epigraphy. Bibliography Adams, J. N. ( 2002 ). ‘Bilingualism at Delos’, in Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact...

... Publicia Glypte Roman infancy epigraphy status identity textual sources birth The Roman family has become a vibrant and challenging field of study, and the growing interest in children in Roman culture can be seen as a development within this trend ( Rawson 2003a ; Dasen 2004...

...The science of epigraphy has its roots in drawings and paintings made by travelers and those who worked on state-funded expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was primarily archaeologists, associated with universities...

... color digital epigraphy grids technology vectorization Arrhidaeus Philipp typography Ptah at Karnak interpretation sculptors Egyptian Antiquities Organization Ministry of Antiquities photogrammetry Karnak Method epigraphic copies plastic film vectorization of copies epigraphy copy Egypt...

...This chapter recounts the beginnings of William Schenck’s career in Egyptian epigraphy from the mid-1970s, working on various sites in Egypt. It discusses the lack of an agreed system of recording at that time and Schenck’s efforts over several decades to devise his own method of epigraphy. Work...

...This chapter outlines the advantages of digital epigraphy in the context of the original monuments. It analyzes the perception of epigraphic publication of monuments, taking into account new technologies. 3DVR models can be created using architectural drawings and measurements (CAD and 3D modeling...