This article deals with curse tablets against thieves, also known as ‘prayers for justice’. In the first part, I offer a short introduction to topic and scholarly debate surrounding definition of this type inscription, concluding that more emic approach can help us understand complex nature technology that, far from being monolithic, evolved over time space. second compare literary epigraphic e...

The problem of the origins and early development of the Roman public bath has proven an intractable one for classical archaeologists. In the absence of hard ancient evidence, many modern propositions have been put forward to explain the process of development. In this paper, the six most influential of these approaches are presented and critiqued for their strengths and weaknesses. It is found ...

The article introduces a hitherto unpublished small fragment of bronze tablet in the Collec-tion Fedor K., Budapest. It is inscribed with copy an imperial letter (exemplum sacrarum litterarum) presumably from Black Sea region. Although neither name emperor nor date preserved, epigraphic elements point to dating 3rd-4th century.

Inland Toledo District, Eelize, is rich in Classic period archaeological sites. Among the most important Maya centers and cities oe Pusilhd. Uxbenka, Lubaantun, ctnd Nim Li Punit. lfthat has not been certain is whether these sites formed distinct political or eonomic units. A particular problem in answering lhis questian has been chronologlUntil recently, it has not been clear if dcse sites wer...

The ASJP (Automated Similarity Judgment Program) described an automated, lexical similarity-based method for dating the world's language groups using 52 archaeological, epigraphic and historical calibration date points. The present paper describes a new automated dating method, based on phonotactic diversity. Unlike ASJP, our method does not require any information on the internal classificatio...

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PSYCHIATRIC THOUGHTS IN TAMIL CULTURE IS BROUGHT FORTH WITH RELEVANT HISTORICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCES: psycho-physiological aspects of emotions, descriptions of severely disturbed individuals, attitude of the society towards the mentally ill and epigraphic material describing hospital care of psychiatric patients in the first millennium are alluded. These references unravel...

This article investigates the Bilecik region, which is located between Mysia, Bithynia and Phrygia in north-western Anatolia, during pre-Hellenistic period, 1st millennium BC. The paper aims at understanding cultural identities of people who inhabited region by interpreting ancient sources, archaeological evidence epigraphic data together. Moreover, it analyses Vezirhan stele stylistically, was...