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Friday, May 29, 2020

Figurines with articulated limbs: Children's toys or adult apotropaic objects?

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Terracotta figurines with articulated limbs are often described as dolls or children’s toys, and are sometimes thought to have been dress...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Ptolemaic Greek funerary traditions in Alexandria, Egypt

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During the Ptolemaic period a distinctive type of subterranean tomb for multiple burials proliferated in the cemeteries around the city of ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Featured Antiquity: Gold Diadem from the Black Sea Region, 2nd century BCE, at the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany

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Produced in around 150 BCE, this headdress from the Crimean Peninsula probably served as a burial object. It is composed of multiple separa...
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