hat gemäss Datierungen in Ostafrika vor 1.9 bis 1.6 Millionen Jahren gelebt. Peter Schmid und seine Forscherkollegen der University of the Witwatersrand, der Texas A&M University, der Duke University und [...] begrub die Fossilien in der Höhle. Aufgrund paläomagnetischer Daten hat diese Schicht ein Alter von 1.95 bis 1.78 Millionen Jahren. Das jüngste zuverlässig datierte Fossil eines Australopithecus africanus ist [...] Institut der Universität Zürich fest. Australopithecus sediba "Die Fossilien sind zwischen 1,78 und 1,95 Millionen Jahre alt", so Peter Schmid weiter. Die Funde passen zu keiner bisher bekannten H

vorchristlichen Bereich um 1 Jahr: die historische Zeitrechnung kennt nicht das Jahr 0 im Gegensatz zur astronomischen. Das Jahr a vor Chr. entspricht daher dem astronomischen Jahr ­-(a­-1). Die genaue Angabe [...] mit eingeritzten Geraden, Sternen und einer etwa halbmondförmigen Figur (Abb. 1). Die Platte ist im Museumsführer [1] abgebildet. Die dazugehörige Schrifttafel in der Vitrine erläutert: »Broken [...] shows five sections separated with incised lines. Four of these sections have star-like incisions whereas the middle one has a semi circular incision which could represent the moon. Provenance Tal-Qadi«.

How did a foreign deity like Bendis receive an officially accepted public cult with a temenos and what did this entail for her Thracian worshippers? A glimpse of what happened is given in a late inscription [...] sanctuaries for the cohesion and definition of a polis community. [17] Founding a cult and building a sanctuary was one of the most important acts a community as a whole could undertake through which it [...] the Athenian community as a politico-polis (especially Ath. Pol. 1275a). But recently Ober has stressed that Aristotle also uses the word ‘polis’ to describe a community in a more inclusive sense, the

Lifting up the stone has therefore a quite clear link with an initiation [11] and with a succession or a power taking. Therefore, the image of a stone is involved in a mythical tale, when somebody [...] as 'image' in such a sense, the image of a stone lifted up, only in the event that a substantive indicating the stone is near a verb signifying the act of lifting up, or that is a clear expression re [...] to a real language. Consequently, reading the Greek mythology is similar to reading a language, in which the basic part (the ' image ') is the issue of the fusion between a signifier and a signified

Combining a locally inspired costume with large wings as well as a “prophetic” gesture, the Bosporan artisans thus seem to have created a new iconographic type of a death demon rather than that of a paidagogos [...] Excursus: A winged demon One of these types, however, is remarkably different: the figure of a bearded man dressed in a long-sleeved robe, which reaches to his feet, and a cloak ( himation [...] in the pair can be either another Niobid (according to iconography) or a different personage: a bearded man dressed in a cloak or a woman with heavy drapery. As in the case of the single appliqués an exact

Similitudo IX, 6,1, GCS 48,1, pp. 80-81; F. OEHLER (ed.), EPIPHANIUS 1,1, Panarion , 30,3, CH 2,1, pp. 244-247. ↩ IO.CAR.TH. OTTO (ed.), JUSTIN, Dialogue , 72,4, CAC 2, 1,2, Iena 18773 [...] Anima , 55, CSEL 20,1, pp. 387-389; 1Pt 3,19; 4,6. ↩ IO.CAR.TH. OTTO (ed.), JUSTIN, Apologia I, 55,60, CAC 1, 1,1, Iena 18763, pp. 150-163; Dialogue , 90-91, CAC 2, 1,2, Iena 18773, pp [...] which they draw upon [24] . The 1 st Peter is aimed to ἐκλεκτοῖς παρεπιδήμοις διασπορᾶς Πόντου, Γαλατίας, Καππαδοκίας, ̉Ασίας καὶ Βιθυνίας (1 Pt. 1,1) that is, every country in Asia Minor except

the bar of iron rolled on the ground in two pieces, as a woodsman would sever a sapling with a hedging-bill. "By the head of the Prophet, a most wonderful blow!" said the Soldan, critically and accurately [...] into a mass consisting of nought but bone, brawn, and sinew. He unsheathed his scimitar, a curved and narrow blade, which glittered not like the swords of the Franks, but was, on the contrary, of a dull [...] exercise his strength, he saw a steel mace held by one of the attendants, the handle being of the same metal, and about an inch and a half in diameter. This he placed on a block of wood. The anxiety

evocatory rite: 1) in place of the god’s name appears the usual formula sive deus sive dea ; 2) the addressee is the oppidum ’s tutelary deity; 3) there has been a votum of a temple or of a cult, and [...] sold the prisoners, to that deity, be it a god or a goddess, under whose protection stood the city of Isaura Vetus (...) fulfils the vow» . This finding has a great importance for the study of evocatio [...] words [69] . The speaking statues, at first sight a “folkloric” fact, played actually a fundamental politic role: Romans found in them a suitable way to hide their real expansionistic policy in

(1991): 142. ↩ A branch associated with the festival of Sukkoth. ↩ A citrus fruit perhaps likea lemon that is associated with Sukkoth. ↩ A ram’s horn used ritually [...] is a fascinating piece – one that I think it is a particularly good example of the sort of thinking going on in various Jewish communities during this time because of its contradictions. This is a Jewish [...] views: is this (a) a confusion on the part of the Romans between these two cults, (b) the Jews attempting to make their worship of Yahweh Sabaoth more accessible to Roman sensibilities, or (c) a reflection

can’t be considered a direct approach. Following the theories of Post-Processual Archaeology we have always to remember that what can be captured observing funerary remains is only a metaphoric image of [...] were reorganized by the community with a new symbolic order and expressed through the filters of ideology (ideas, beliefs and meanings). In fact there is sometimes a transmission of symbols from the living [...] of the deceased in observation of rules concerning religion and tradition . The case study of a rural area situated in Cilicia Campestris (Kozan-Adana) shows in part some of these activities even