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Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions
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Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic InscriptionsTexts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

This work gathers all older fufark inscriptions found in Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Bosnia, Rumania, Norway and Sweden. It includes essays on early runic writing, the contexts of runic objects, and a theory on the origin of runic writing.

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Tags: runic, writing, contexts, early, includes, Texts, Inscriptions, Runic, Oldest, Contexts
Death and the Classic Maya Kings
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Death and the Classic Maya KingsDeath and the Classic Maya Kings

Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors.


 
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Tags: world, rulers, ancient, inscriptions, record, Death, Kings
Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome
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Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican RomeDivine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome

This book explores an aspect of how Romans thought about themselves. Its subject is 'divine qualities': qualities like Concord, Faith, Hope, Clemency, Fortune, Freedom, Piety, and Victory, which received public cult in Rome in the Republican period. Anna Clark draws on a wide range of evidence (literature, drama, coins, architecture, inscriptions and graffiti) to show that these qualities were not simply given cult because they were intrinsically important to 'Romans'.
 
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Tags: qualities, Romans, Republican, architecture, inscriptions, Divine, Qualities
Understanding Roman inscriptions
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Understanding Roman inscriptionsUnderstanding Roman inscriptions

In this classic study of the Late Roman Empire, one of this century's most eminent ancient historians surveys social, economic, and administrative developments from the end of the Principate and the accession of Diocletian to the collapse of the empire in the West.
 
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Tags: Roman, accession, Principate, Diocletian, developments, Understanding, inscriptions