Marble has long been treated as a key indicator of economic capacity, elite consumption, and long-distance exchange in the Roman world. In contrast, its role in the Early Byzantine period ...
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In this presentation, we will explore Eastern Arabia and the Gulf during the Early Islamic period through the archaeological record. The focus will be on the 7th– 10th centuries, a ...
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Traditional scholarship tended to depict ecclesiastical conflicts of late antiquity as taking place on the grand and public stage of church councils, theological treatises, and imperial decrees with bishops and ...
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In the study of magic in the Ancient World, scholars have had a tendency to focus on the practitioners and clients of magical practices. This paper focuses instead on the ...
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The competition between the Roman and Sasanian empires for control of the frontier has been told many times, but typically from an imperial perspective. This lecture shifts the focus to ...
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Onomastics has been an important part of the Altertumswissenschaften, especially epigraphy and papyrology, since very early on. Yet, unlike in contemporary societies in which names form the basis of, among ...
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