UNLABELLED This work presents the results of research into the life and work of Dr. Stanko Sielski, related to his professional, scientific and humanitarian work. He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in 1891, to a family of Polish origins. He attended high school in Travnik and completed his studies of medicine in Vienna in 1919. During the First World War he served on the fron...

MARIANNE WINDER, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institutefor the History ofMedicine, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1989, 4to, pp. xiii, 112, illus., £15.00. The Library of the Wellcome Institute houses a considerable number of Tibetan manuscripts, blockpr...

Abstract This essay introduces new evidence for an eschatological Phoenician motif that alludes to a final sailing and its perils, represented by monstrous lion attacking or sinking boat. The lion-and-boat was, so far, only documented in funerary stela from late classical Athens, the Antipatros/Shem stela. Excavations at fifth-century BCE Tartessic site of Casas del Turuñuelo southwestern Spain...

Hedgehogs held a special place in ancient Egyptian life like many other desert- and marsh-dwelling animals. Their natural defensive qualities were admired by Egyptians their bodily parts, notably hardened spines, used as ingredients medico-magical prescriptions. In tomb reliefs of the late 3rd Millennium BCE, hedgehogs are represented being carried alive offering bearers or background participa...

Decorations of the Chernyakhiv—Sintana-de-Mures Culture (ChSM) includes metal and leather pendants which by some morphological features can be considered as derivatives roman bulla. Bulla is a small capsule pendant folded from two identical halves. It’s assumed that bulla originated with Etruscans in VIIth century BC. The was later borrowed romans, who originally intended it for boys — children...

The materials of the catacomb burial, investigated in 1988 by expedition Kharkiv Historical Museum under leadership V. H. Borodulin, located on main site early medieval burial ground near Verkhnii Saltiv village (Verkhnii Burial Ground-I, hereinafter — VSBG-I), are introduced into scientific circulation. had a long (6.3 m) and deep (5.05 dromos, western part which path re-entry chamber was fixa...

Na provincijalno-rimskom groblju Štrbinci kod Đakova, iz druge polovice 4. i prve polovice 5. st., dosad je istraženo stotinjak kosturnih grobova. Među većinom priloga, prosječnih u smislu učestalosti pojavljivanja na kasnorimskim grobljima Panonije, zatečena je i nekolicina nalaza iznimnih po svojoj materijalnoj, statusnoj i/ili kulturnoj rijetkosti, dragocjenosti ili pak neobičnosti. Među nji...