Secular Games by Dunning, S

“…The earliest celebrations included sacrifices and theatrical games (ludi scaenici; see ludi) at an altar by the Tiber in the Campus Martius; this location was called the Tarentum. …”

PLAFOND PAINTING IN THE CHAPEL OF THE CATHERINE PALACE, TSARSKOYE SELO by Korshunova Natalya G.

“…From 2015, work is under way to recreate the painting ensemble of the church, including the plafonds in the altar, central hall, and choirs.…”
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Cnaeus Sentius Felix: la straordinaria ascesa di un mercante forestiero a Ostia tra I e II secolo d.C. (CIL XIV, 409) by Simone Ciambelli

“…All we know about him come from a problematic inscription (CIL XIV, 409), engraved on his funerary altar commissioned by his adopted son. The exegesis of this complex document could explain the important phenomenon of social rise of plebs media in the specific milieu of Ostia. …”
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Un lógos des-autorizado en el escenario de la Atenas democrática (y en Wikipedia) by Ana Iriarte Goñi

“…Este artí­culo contempla la mí­tica figura de Casandra, hija del rey oriental Prí­amo y portavoz desautorizada de Apolo, en el episodio de su biografí­a que la sitúa en el saqueo de Troya, violada por el aqueo Áyax ante el altar de Atenea. Dicho episodio se comenta al mismo tiempo desde la tradición iconográfica y desde la tradición literaria griegas. …”
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Reconsidering the Ancient Algerian Basilica of Chlef and its Mosaics by Robin M. Jensen

“…Among this evidence is a dedicatory inscription referring to the church’s foundation; a shrine to a local bishop, placed in a counter apse; a mosaic indicating the probable placement and design of the church’s altar; and two additional mosaics that may reflect aspects of the church’s situation within certain theological and political conflicts of the fourth through sixth centuries (i.e., between Donatists and Catholics, between Vandal Arians and Africans Nicenes, and between the Mauri (Berbers) and both Vandals and Romans). …”
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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Through Dietrich’s character, Altar, the boss of the Chuck-a-Luck ranch and the criminal world it embodied, Lang critiqued the emerging Cold War ideology of the man as patriarchal figure and bread-winner. …”
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Iconographic interpretation of the temple as a theological symbol in images of the Annunciation of the 14th and 15th centuries by José María SALVADOR-GONZÁLEZ

“… This article seeks to highlight the important symbolic Christian meanings hidden in some textual metaphors of the Old Testament, such as “templum Dei”, “house of Wisdom”, “aula regia”, “Sancta Sanctorum”, “tabernacle”, “altar”, “ark” and other similar expressions related to worship spaces. …”
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Reflexiones sobre <em>El martirio de San Mauricio</em> del Greco: textos y contextos by Fernando Marías

“…Pintado para el rey Felipe II y rechazado como lienzo de altar en el <span>monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial, todavía presenta diferentes elementos que no han recibido una explicación <span>satisfactoria. …”
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Oratorios performed at the holy sepulchre in the Bohemian Lands and Austria in the 18th century (Part II) : on the issue of transferring sepolcri and the possibilities of their sem... by Jana Perutková

“…In any case, both the holy sepulchre and painted prospect, which was often placed in front of an altar, have noteworthy theatrical features. It seems that the staged and semi-staged performances were popular in some monastic communities; however, information about this kind of performing practise is oftentimes ambiguous. …”
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La problemática génesis y tradición epigráfica del epitaphium sepulcrale del corazón de Alfonso X en la Catedral de Murcia (1526-1527) by Rodrigo José Fernández Martínez, José María de Francisco Olmos

“…Además, contextualizamos históricamente la obra para conocer los factores que determinaron su creación y el uso político y simbólico de la misma para transformar un espacio sagrado, el altar mayor de la Catedral de Murcia, en un espacio de poder reservado a la monarquía. …”
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Mpambu Nzila: José Bedia at the Crossroads by Alan West-Durán

“…The article draws on the Kongo term mpambu nzila of crossroads, that equally signifies altar, to discuss the paintings and drawings of Cuban-born artist José Bedia. …”
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Early Religious Zionism and Erudition Concerning the Temple and Sacrifices by Isaac Hershkowitz

“…Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher’s messianic innovations asserted the centrality of a renewal of offerings on the altar to the creation of a linear path to redemption. …”
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Franz Carl Remp zwischen Graz und Wien by Georg Lechner

“…At the same time, he produced altar paintings for churches in Graz, Stainz, and Voitsberg. …”
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La “gente del desierto” en el norte de Sonora by Hernán Javier Salas Quintanal

“…En este artículo se hace referencia a la situación de los pápagos, la “gente del desierto” que habita el desierto de Altar, al norte de Sonora, quienes actualizan sus referentes comunes para identificarse como etnia y como grupo. …”
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A presença na ausência: a performance e a biografia dos objetos como ativadores de memória by Diego Lemos Ribeiro, Mara Rosana Araujo Alessandretti, Ramile da Silva Leandro, Larissa Tavares Martins, Fabiane Rodrigues Moraes

“…The case studies dealt are a dress (museum), a sacred painting of an altar (church) and a fountain (public space). The reasons for this choice - of seemingly disparate artefacts - are related to the aim of highlighting different situations involved in the heritage approach to cultural assets, working from a singular prism: the performance of objects associated with cultural biography. …”
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The Cao Đài Deathscape: Reimagining Death, Funerals, and Salvation in Contemporary Vietnam by Jérémy Jammes, Shao Zhu Shuai

“…After introducing how Cao Đài theology represents both the body and the spiritual components of each individual in the specific millenarian conception of existence that characterizes Cao Đài, we trace the ritual process of funerals from the altar and coffin preparation to the collection of prayers and talismanic rituals conveyed to save souls in a Cao Đài manner. …”
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Marmoris Memoriae. Photographies réalisées à l’atelier des moulages des Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire de Bruxelles by Martin Declève

“…With the development of cultural tourism, and the progress of photography and publishing, copies were abandoned, sacrificed at the altar of the cult of the original. The galleries of plaster-cast reproductions were no longer visited, and soon disappeared, along with the workshops that made the casts. …”
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Some notes on two Greek inscriptions from Montenegro by Nemanja Vujčić, Olga Pelcer-Vujačić

“…from Perast was erected by peripoloi (patrolmen) and must have originated from a Greek speaking town along the southern Adriatic. The altar from Ulcinj, dedicated to Artemis Elaphabolos (the Deer Slayer), was made by an association of stone-cutters, who must have come from a Doric speaking settlement. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of maser and digram methods in retrieving hadith documents / Mohd Yusof Mohd Zain by Mohd Zain, Mohd Yusof

“…Nowadays, Information Technology or IT has enabled information to be captured, transmitted, stored, retrieved, manipulated or displayed (Altar 1996) via a computer that is linked to the Internet. …”
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Exploring Roman ritual behaviours through plant remains from Pannonia Inferior by Reed, K, Lodwick, L, Leleković, T, Vulić, H

“…Samples collected from inhumations, cremations and an altar dedicated to Silvanus Domesticus, dating from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, are presented and show that a range of more ‘common’ plant remains, such as cereals and pulses, were an important part of ritual life. …”