the study of seals and seal impressions can make clear the dark corners of the social history of the seleucid and parthian. on the other hand, the analysis of personal and social position of individuals or groups for understanding the complicated relationship between human with other people or groups, also for the understanding of interactional relationships has gained special attention in hist...

The Seleucid Laodicea by the Sea has left us but one Hellenistic public decree (IGLS IV 1261). To the extent that scholars have paid close attention to this text it has been to support the argument that Seleucid kings ruled with a heavy hand, operating in concert with entrenched oligarchs and micro-managing through personal appointees. The decree was passed by the peligãnev, a council of elders...

the seleucid seals and bullae play a significant role in understanding the administration and social structures of this period. due to the limitations in the seleucids sigillographic study, a wide variety of administrative archives of bullae found from important sites such as qumis, susa, babylon, nippur and kadesh are waiting for the researchers to deal with the bullae’s various aspects. apart...

This study examines the evolution of Greek and Roman medical conceptualizations of preputial aesthetics, utilizing evidence found in classical medical texts as well as clues from literature, legal sources, and art. A conclusive picture emerges that the Greeks valued the longer prepuce and pathologized the penis characterized by a deficient prepuce--especially one that had been surgically ablate...

Abstract In this paper we present the analysis of archaeobotanical material retrieved by means flotation from well-secured features during recent excavation work carried out in 2019 and 2020 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project Seleucid-founded town Nysa-Scythopolis. Founded under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175–164 bce ) destroyed Hasmonaeans later years John Hyrcanus (in 108/07 ), site ...

The Seleucid town of Nysa-Scythopolis on Tell Iẓṭabba (Israel) was destroyed by the Hasmoneans at end second century BC. In this article, we discuss exact season and possible year destruction using a multimodal approach argue for its in spring/early summer 107

silver coins of alexander of macedonia, until the arrival of parthians in the 1st century bc, have been put in wdxrf in order to determin ag, cu, pb and au as major and trace elements for fineness, debasement and refinement of silver in ancient persia. seleucid kingdom from 4th to 1st century bc was succeeded by several dynasties and kings. but the chemical composition of their silver coins an...

Lead isotope and portable energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry were applied to a small group of Hellenistic lead objects from Tell Iztabba (Beth Shean, Israel). The market weights sling bullets this short-lived Seleucid-founded site analysed in order understand their production process the provenance raw materials. are pure lead, its isotopic signature suggests that was produced La...