Jesus and the Paralytics. Memorializing Miracles in the Greco-Roman World of the Gospels by Anthony Giambrone

“…Special attention is given to the ex-votos left at healing shrines and especially the Iamata inscriptions connected with the Asclepius cult.  This corpus of evidence brings into focus a series of dynamics that help illuminate the stories of Jesus’ two healings of a paralytic (John 5:1-15; Mark 2:1-10).  …”
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Reutilizaciones de material romano en edificios de culto cristiano by L. Caballero Zoreda, J. C. Sánchez Santos

“…The re-used elements are materials of construction and inscriptions, especially the aras, steias and boundary marks and milestones. …”
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PCR Aleria: aspetti epigrafici by Grandinetti, Paola

“…The work that I started in June in Corsica is part of this collective research project on the ancient city of Aleria and its territory, with the objective of studying ancient landscapes through the millennia, the systematic recognition of the hinterland and the urban centre, as well as a capillary study of the findings and of the Latin and Greek inscriptions. Only the epigraphic aspects will be presented here. …”
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The Italian Events of 1867 in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Calligraphic Sketches: Based on Newspaper Chronicles by Natalia A. Tarasova

“…The analysis of the semantic context formed by these and other calligraphies (inscriptions with the names of Roman Caesars, King of Italy Victor Emmanuel II, Pope Pius IX, etc.) reveals the influence on these records of newspaper periodicals, which widely covered the events of the Risorgimento at that time and attracted the attention of Dostoevsky, as follows from documentary evidence. …”
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Entre la calle y el calabozo. Coacción estatal, sentidos y prácticas de mujeres detenidas que vendieron sexo en la Provincia de Buenos Aires (1936-1984) by Patricio Simonetto

“…The text has two main arguments, first, that police agents actualize a punitive version of the abolitionism inscripted in the moral violence institutionalized as a parameter of order, second, that the experiences, senses and practices of analyzed women problematized binaries socio-historic categories such as sexual work and slavery to present a heterogeneous scenario of sex sale.…”
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The rock-cut tomb of Penmes at Saqqara by Mostafa Waziri, Mohammad M. Youssef Mohammad El-Seaidy, Mohammad El-Seaidy

“…The article describes the architecture of the tomb, which contained some decorated elements such as a window slab and a false door, as well as finds including wooden statues. In addition, inscriptions provide us with evidence on the tomb owner and the members of his family that can be confronted with the preliminary results of the investigation of human remains found in the tomb.…”
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Le wâdî/Durâ’ : un modèle d’irrigation antique ? by Jean-François Breton, Jean-Claude Roux

“…A great variety of hydraulic systems, a number of inscriptions and thermoluminescence dates taken from lemons, shows that the entire valley was intensively exploited for approximately two millenia. …”
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Steatite icon with the Deposition at the monastery of Iveron on Mount Athos by Liakos Dimitrios

“…The fracture of this twelfth century icon led to its restitution which took place in the fourteenth century (the arched part), as it appears by the stylistic data and the inscriptions. At the same time the icon was embedded in the wooden panel.…”
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Aksara-Aksara Penyimpan Informasi di Banten by Titik Pudjiastuti

“…The various written sources consist of scripts, archives, and inscriptions from various backgrounds, such as history, literature, and religion. …”
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Unique Representation of a Mosaics Craftsman in a Roman Pavement from the Ancient Province Syria by Luz NEIRA

“…Such representation is a hapax, not only in the Roman mosaics of Syria, but also in the corpus of Roman Empire, since, although several mosaic inscriptions in some pavements, which show the name of the mosaic artisans and / or different names for different functions of the trades related to the development of mosaics, and even the reference to the workshop, who were teachers or members of his team of craftsmen, the figured representation of a mosaicist, in the instant to be doing his work, is truly unique.…”
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Water, nymphs and a palm grove: monumental water display at Aphrodisias by Wilson, A

“…The South Agora was certainly not an agora, and it is argued that it is in fact the location of the palm grove mentioned in two inscriptions, and that it was inspired by the formal plantings in the porticos of Rome. …”

Interior design and architecture / by Taylor, Mark, 1955-, editor

Les artisans africains : étude sociale et organisation du travail by Touatia Amraoui

“…The epigraphic inventory of the Latin inscriptions mentioning craftsmen discovered in Algeria allows presenting a first social study of the African artifices. …”
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La clava d’oro di Ercole by Valentina Ramanzini

“…These pendants and earrings were amulets: mainly made of gold, sometimes with engraved helpful and encouraging inscriptions; they have been found either isolated or in graves, or as part of treasures, and their owners were women and children. …”
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Neptunus Africanus: a note by Attilio Mastino

“…The sculptures and inscriptions, on the other hand, bear witness to a different line, the one derived from the Roman interpretatio of a god who had deep Libyan roots, documented by the contact with the Libyan genius of the waters, but also by the Numid and Punic ones: from this derives the connection with the protecting deities of the springs, of the irrigated waters, of the vegetation, able to protect the territories from drought. …”
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Kandinsky’s Composition and Zheng Xie’s Bamboo by Ai 艾 Xin 欣

“…In this article, I argue that Kandinsky’s classification is similar and comparable to the principle of semi-abstract Chinese freehand brushwork summarized by Zheng Xie in the Inscriptions on Painting - Bamboo. In an attempt to clarify the core of Kandinsky’s strategy of abstraction, i.e. the transformation from painting to writing, I then connect it with the evolution of Chinese characters and the aesthetic theory of Chinese calligraphy, which is also in accord with Kandinsky’s idea of internal necessity and the spirit in art. …”
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L’approche sémiotique de Charles Goodwin : langage visuel, énonciation et diagramme by Maria Giulia Dondero

“…Finally, I analyse the concept of diagrammatic reasoning by elaborating on the example of the geologists’ “first inscriptions” studied by Goodwin. The form of diagrammatic reasoning examined here functions as a discovery device that exemplifies the dynamics of sedimentation and novelty. …”
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Rimes de malandrins : du narcocorrido au narco rap by Enrique Flores

“…The former genealogy of popular ballads and of the printed sheets of bandits and smugglers is founded on the culture of the hip-hop –heaps, rhythm, street language, graffiti and urban inscriptions, dance, body in a transe, visceral politics. …”
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Two 'Double' Dedications at Ephesus and the Beginning of Ptolemaic Control of Ionia by Andrew Meadows

“…This paper reconsiders the texts of two inscriptions found in the Austrian excavations at Ephesus in Hanghaus II: IEphesos 199 and SEG 33 942. …”
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Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia by A. César González-García, Marco V. García Quintela, Juan A. Belmonte

“…In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions point to a particular method of time reckoning. …”
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