“Pigeons Fly off a Stone Mountain”: From a Cooing Lovebird to a War Pigeon, or Modification of Embroidered Rock Dove’s Symbolics in Today’s Ukrainian Merch by Tetiana Brovarets

“…The article is devoted to the symbolics of doves on epigraphic embroidered towels (mainly known as rushnyks with inscriptions), which were massively produced by Ukrainian girls and women from the end of the nineteenth till the middle of the twentieth century. …”
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The Provincial Imperial Cult in the Levant (Syria, Phoenice, Commagene, Judea, Decapolis, Arabia) by Marco Vitale

“…Important aspects are the Roman territorial framework of administration, the creation of autonomous city-leagues (<em>koiná</em>) and their cultic functions, the rules of membership within these federal organizations and their self-representation in coinages and inscriptions. On the level of political and financial management, we are dealing with federal officials and the festivities organized by them. …”
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The Archaeology of Kṛṣṇa at Tiruveḷḷaṟai, a Site for Tamil Poetry in the 7th–9th Centuries by Charlotte Schmid

“…The site has unique archaeological features, such as a svastika-shaped well and the earliest known depictions of some of Kṛṣṇa’s feats; it inspired hymns of the Tamil Vaiṣṇava devotional corpus, the Divyaprabandham, and offers numerous inscriptions. The link between Śiva, Viṣṇu and local goddesses proves to be as remarkable here as that between texts and archaeology. …”
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Daoism and Sacrifices to the Five Sacred Peaks in Tang China (618–907) by Wen Lei, Luying Zhao

“…Through examining related stone inscriptions, we argue that the establishment of the Shrines for the Perfected Lords of the five sacred peaks, the Shrine for the Elder of Mount Qingcheng, and the Temple for the Envoy of the Nine Heavens at Mount Lu were in debt to the suggestions of the Daoist master Sima Chengzhen during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712–756). …”
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Le décor peint du refuge de l’abbaye augustine du Mont Saint Éloi à Arras (fin XVe-début XVIe siècle) by Laurence Baudoux-Rousseau, Hugues Dewerdt, Matthieu Fontaine

“…Today, we know the scenes depict some of the Alciato’s Emblemata, in the 1615 edition. And the inscriptions have something to do with money. The using of the room is unknown (the archives have disappeared) and this choice remains unexplained.…”
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Changing thermal comfort over southern India under warming environment: an analysis of heat index by Manasi DESAI, A. G. DHORDE

“…The study demands attention on precarious health risks inscriptive to increasing heat stress casualties and developing indigenous thermal stress alerts during persistent climate extremes.…”
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ALTERNATIVES TO KINSHIP? TETRARCHS AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF REPRESENTING NON-DYNASTIC RULE by Olivier Hekster

“…<span lang="EN-GB">Throughout Roman history, members of the imperial family featured regularly in central coinage, on reliefs and statues, and in inscriptions – both in Rome and the provinces. Roman emperorship was a <em>de facto</em> dynastic system, which explains the sustained emphasis on imperial fathers, mothers, wives and children. …”
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Il viaggio in Italia di Theodor Mommsen nel 1867 by Calvelli, Lorenzo

“…Mommsen spent seven months in Eastern Lombardy and the Veneto, in order to perform the autopsy of the Roman inscriptions that were to be published in the first part of the fifth volume of the «Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum» (1872). …”
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Decreto concernente la terra sacra del santuario di Eleusi by De Martinis, Livia

“…Moreover, it confirms the existence of the practice of renting the sacred land in mid-fourth century BC – mentioned in other contemporary inscriptions and urged by Xenophon in his Poroi. It also offers some useful elements for the dating of the Eleusinion’s restoration works. …”
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El culto a Júpiter Optimo Máximo en el conventus emeritensis by Antonio ROMERO PÉREZ

“…<br /><br />ABSTRACT: This paper considers the study of the worship of Jupiter Optimus Maximus attending two aspects: on the one hand the votive inscriptions, on the other onomastic and juridical status of worshippers. …”
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Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control by Matthias Leese, Silvan Pollozek

“…Data temporality explicates how the speed of knowledge and action in datafied environments unfolds in close correspondence with (1) variegated social rhythms, (2) technological inscriptions, and (3) the balancing of speed with other priorities. …”
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MONUMENTE FUNERARE DEPISTATE ÎN CIMITIRELE DIN SATELE MOLDOVENEŞTI DIN STÂNGA NISTRULUI. ASPECTE GENERALE by USM ADMIN

“…Nicolae (village Vărăncău), édifiée en 1838, le cimitière ancien de formes différentes, avec des inscriptions etc. L’auteur discute aussi sur l’architecture d’un manoir de la famille Juravschi, édifié pendant les années 1850 (village Jura). …”
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Scripsi manu mea Hartmann Schedel in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, clm 490 by Outi Merisalo

“…Thanks to his well-spent study years in Padua (1463–1466), he also played an important role in the dissemination of Italian humanism north of the Alps, as witnessed, for example, by his important collection of inscriptions and Humanist texts. His rich library, consisting of manuscripts, both autographs and written by others, and printed books, was bought from his family by H. …”
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Questioni minori di lingua e cultura egiziana by Franco Crevatin

“…A. Kitchen, Ramess. Inscript. 3, 438), datato all' anno 48 del regno di Ramesse II, è piuttosto interessante: iscritto sulle pareti di uno dlegli edifici del complesso funerario del Faraone Djoser, esso è composto da due testi distinti (A: 1-4; B: 5-7), redatti da due persone diverse che forse sono andate assieme per turismo culturale o religioso a Sak.kara. …”
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An Icon in Motion: Rethinking the Iconography of Itinerant Monk Paintings from Dunhuang by Haewon Kim

“…The first matter is discussed in relation to the religious and artistic contexts of the inscriptions preserved in some paintings, and possible changes in the main figure’s identity from a monk worshiping Baosheng Buddha to the incarnation itself. …”
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Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of Eastern China: City residents' perceptions and attitudes by Guowen Shang

“…It is found that most participants are aware of the multilingual practices in the written environment, and they respond positively to the Chinese-dominant, English-rich multilingual practices in the LL. The inscriptions of English and other foreign languages are generally conceived of as instrumental in the construction of an international-oriented city image. …”
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Benaugurio e malaugurio ad Arkesine di Amorgos in età arcaica by Alessandra Inglese

“…This paper will discuss three archaic inscriptions from Arkesine (Amorgos), identified as funerary by Delamarre in IG XII 7. …”
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CHANDRAVALLI – AN EARLY HISTORIC SETTLEMENT IN KARNATAKA, INDIA by Hema Thakur

“…Chandravalli has given evidence for typical early historic material assemblage comprising of brick structures, pottery, ornaments, terracottas, coins, Roman antiquities, inscriptions, etc.  In this paper the author has attempted to have an understanding of the sources which would have supported the human habitation at Chandravalli.  …”
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“What’s in a Name?”: H.D.’s Re-Vision of Shakespeare by Claire Conilleau

“…It explores the creative diversions and reappropriations of Shakespeare’s plays that H.D. resorts to, especially her play with onomastics, the evocations and inscriptions of the Bard and his plays in the body of her works as well as a lesser known text, By Avon River, whose theme is Shakespeare himself.…”
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A Note on Sasanian Glassware and Zoroastrian Sacred Numbers (Sasanian to Post-Sasanian Periods) by Daryoosh Akbarzadeh

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