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Book and Sword – pontifex minimus

  • By Sean Manning
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Ownership History is Hard and Often Does Not Matter
This terracotta statuette from Babylon is one of very few images of a woman in the ‘Elamite robe’ or Faltengewand from the Achaemenid period. Photo of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum, object VA Bab …
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How To Track Down a Manuscript of a Classical Text
The first page of the manuscript of Herodotus in Florence, courtesy of https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1358114/rec/4 Over on another site, Anoneuoid asked how to track down the past owners of a manuscript of a classical text such as …
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Linen Armour in the Twelfth Century
The first part of my three-part series on medieval linen armour has appeared in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 18. Whereas in some periods linen armour is commonly showed in paintings and sculptures, there are very …
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