Babylone achemenide est en general jugee peu importante au regard de la cite neo-babylonienne. Pourtant les archives privees temoignent l’activite cette ville, meme que nombreuses tombes epoque, un tresor d’objets d’argent, des figurines, sceaux. Les signes l’interet rois perses eux-memes pour ont ete tres sous-estimes. A part fragments d’une stele reprenant le relief d Bisutun et Perserbau, pe...

The present paper offers some suggestions as to the way in which female figurines produced during Christian period (IV-VII ce) Egypt should be interpreted. They seem have been predominantly used a votive object talismans, others words amulets endowed with sacred meaning, expressions of personal, individual piety through religious worship. Their symbolical form had its background tradition Egypt...

To physicists and engineers, ceramics represent materials demonstrating excellent strength and hardness, materials that can serve as electrical insulators or conductors, some of them being able of a high-temperature superconductivity. To researchers working in archaeology and art history, ceramics mean objects such as figurines, tiles and tableware helping understanding cultures and technologie...