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Ḥatra
(298 words)
[German version] [1] Trading centre in north Mesopotamia This item can be found on the following maps: …
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Archaeological Methods and Theories
(7,141 words)
Hauser, Stefan R. (Berlin) [German version] A. Concept and Contents (CT) …
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Ctesiphon
(390 words)
(Κτησιφῶν;
Ktésiphôn). [German version] [1] Athenian, supporter of Demosthenes [2], 2nd half of the 4th cent. BC Athenian, son of Leosthenes from Anaphlystus, supporter of Demosthenes [2], whom he had successfully, though technically pre-empting official endorsement ( Euthynae), proposed in 337/6 for a crowning. Aeschines [2] lodged a protest against this that was unambiguously rejected in 330 at the ‘crown trial’ (Aeschin. In Ctes.; Dem. Or. 18; Plut. Mor. 840C and 846A). C. was also one of the emissaries to queen Cleopatra in Epirus (Aeschin. In Ctes. 242). Engels, Johannes (C…
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Orientalism
(5,305 words)
Hauser, Stefan R. (Berlin) [German version] A. Concept (CT) Traditionally the term 'Orientalism' has denoted the study of the languages, cultures or religions of the Orient. Depending on the context, 'Orient' can refer to a concrete or abstract region east of the current geographical location or east of what is generally defined as 'the West' (Occident). The Orient is commonly understood to comprise the countries of Asia as far as Japan; in the narrower sense, however, it refers to t…
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Assur
(477 words)
[German version] [1] City on the Tigris This item can be found on the following maps: Writing | Urarṭu | Ḫattusa | Mesopotamia Aššur (today Qalat Šerqat), on the right bank of the Tigris…
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Funerary architecture
(5,482 words)
[German version] I. Definition Funerary architecture (FA) refers to architectonically designed structures built above the contemporary ground level for the purpose of burial, as opposed to underground hypogea, which have rooms for the cult of the dead and hero cult. Columbaria can combine bo…
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Zabdicena
(223 words)
[German version] (Amm. Marc. 25,7,9; Syriac Beth Zabde). Southern Armenian region where the Tigris emerges from the Taurus mountains. In AD 298, Z. became the most easterly province of the Roman Empire (Petrus Patricius Fr. 14 FHG 4, 189: Ζαβδικηνή/
Zabdikēnḗ) and in 36…
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Burial
(2,525 words)
[German version] A. General After a person's death the treatment and taking of his body to a particular place called grave ( Funerary architecture), mostly connected with death rituals. Burial customs varied depending on the society's religious concepts and particularly the concepts of afterlife and the …
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