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Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction

Massa, Francesco ; Belayche, Nicole

In: Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 2020, vol. 194, p. 1-37

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Athens, Thebes and Plataia and the end of the sixth century BCE

Van Wijk, Roy

In: Journal of Ancient History, 2017, p. 179-204

One of the key events in the relations between the Athenians and Thebans was the Plataian decision to align themselves with the Athenians at the end of the sixth century BCE. This decision shook up the contemporary political landscape and proved to be a source of hostility between the two neighbouring polities throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. The orthodox view holds that the...

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Magic and Medicine : Gems and the Power of Seals

Dasen, Véronique

In: Gems of Heaven. Recent Research on Engraved Gemstones in Late Antiquity, 2011, p. 69-74

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Sulfur isotope analysis of cinnabar from Roman wall paintings by elemental analysis/isotope ratio mass spectrometry – tracking the origin of archaeological red pigments and their authenticity

Spangenberg, Jorge E. ; Lavrič, Jošt V. ; Meisser, Nicolas ; Serneels, Vincent

In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2010, vol. 24, no. 19, p. 2812-2816

The most valuable pigment of the Roman wall paintings was the red color obtained from powdered cinnabar (Minium Cinnabaris pigment), the red mercury sulfide (HgS), which was brought from mercury (Hg) deposits in the Roman Empire. To address the question of whether sulfur isotope signatures can serve as a rapid method to establish the provenance of the red pigment in Roman frescoes, we...

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Blessing or portent? Multiple births in ancient Rome

Dasen, Véronique

In: Hoping for continuity. Childhood, education and death in Antiquity and Middle Ages, 2005, p. 72-83