... and sanctuary at Philae onomastics Sarapis machimoi Roman Egypt differences from Ptolemaic Egyptian religion temples intermarriage bilingualism epigraphy This chapter originates in an impulse from the general assembly of the International Council for Philosophy and the Humanities (ICPH), ¹...

... cippus Messapic Sicily Greek documents boustrophedon Italian documents boustrophedon legal documents language and structure of Nora stela Sardinia signature Roman Law Italic languages Epigraphy Etruscan Language contact Where does Roman law come from? There are several possible answers...

...Pausanias's account of the Chest of Kypselos takes up some 170 lines in the best-known text. The remarkable correspondences between Pausanias's account of the iconography and epigraphy of the chest and the iconography and inscriptions on surviving Corinthian vase scenes are enough to prove beyond...

...Inscriptions appear on the walls throughout the Alhambra, including verses from the Qurʾān, formulaic phrases and poetry, yet there has been little effort to understand the epigraphy in relation to the architecture and the decorative programs. This chapter argues on both historical and theoretical...

... (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...

... Thrace titles Christianity cities conversion earthquakes hoards trade Arabs cemetery ethnicity Slavs archaeology sigillography epigraphy numismatics Few are the periods in the history of Greece for which continuity is a more sensitive issue than the early Middle Ages. For none is ethnic...

... of annona customs duties agency use in trade Fish fishing and fish salting marble networks social ties oil tituli picti on Roman amphorae rivers as mediums for transport and connectivity customary practice grain storage lex Long-Distance Trade Trust Social Networks Epigraphy In about 152...

... administrative machinery. Thus, the study of Dressel 20's epigraphy reveals economic phenomena taking place in particular moments of the Empire and help us understand the management of their distribution and the logic of the operations lying behind their inscriptions. annona marble oil Arles registers...

... architectural scholarship Kaʿba in Gell Alfred Grabar Oleg Islamic architecture Kaʿba Qarmatians Quraysh tribe Decolonising knowledge Revisionism Believers Epigraphy Canon This book has investigated the Kaʿba by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects, six actions that comprise but do...