OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2012)Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario. This book is the first presentation of revolutionary new methods for restoring damaged marine ecosystems. It ...
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(2024)This paper aims to engage in a dialogue with R. Del Punta's essay titled 'Labour Law and the Third Sector,' published in the Italian Journal of Labour Law in 2001. Its primary objective is to verify the central thesis of ...
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(2024)Although letters are probably the most intensively studied type of documents in papyrology, their material and visual aspects have received little scholarly attention. Yet, in recent years there has been a noticeably growing ...
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(2024)This chapter offers some reflections on the layout of Hellenistic rulers’ correspondence on stone, an analysis that has the methodological function of defining the position and power of the recipient of a royal letter, be ...
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(2024)This chapter investigates the physical features, mise en page, and palaeography of Roman wills from Egypt before and after Severus Alexander (222–235 CE). Writing media (tablets and papyri) and language (Latin and Greek) ...
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(2024)Between the 360s and the late second century BCE, Cyrenaean documents attest the importance of a local board of magistrates: the damiergoi, who were in charge of administering some sacred estates and their revenues to fund ...
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(2024)The chapter analyzes the use of layout strategies in Greek magical texts, from the earliest examples up to the late antique period, with the aim of understanding how these strategies were related to the content of the text, ...
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(2024)Layout issues have never been systematically considered in relation to re-engraved epigraphic texts. In such cases, focusing on layout is important not only for the sake of restoring missing words, but also in order to ...
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(2024)The chapter surveys the occurrences of the lectional sign known as the paragraphos and how it is employed in the Greek epigraphic record, in an attempt to counter the idea that it is irrelevant to inscriptional evidence. ...
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(2024)Athenian building accounts inscribed on stone underwent a gradual evolution in classical Athens. The first preserved specimens, dating to the third quarter of the fifth century BCE, adopted a “list-like format,” with receipt ...
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(2024)How is a document transformed in the journey from text to monument? This chapter explores how the process of inscribing (or recarving) a document could impact its appearance, function, and meaning. Monumental documents ...
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(2024)This chapter explores some aspects of the materiality and layout of the Leukophryena epigraphic dossier (I.Magnesia 16-87). Starting from the dossier’s layout, I analyze the location of the documents within the dossier, ...
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(2024)This chapter focuses on a formal feature of displayed writings on portable media from Egypt, in particular whitewashed wooden tablets and papyri, namely the use of large letters. By examining a series of case studies that ...
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(2024)After some preliminary reflections on the ancient Greeks’ genealogical attitude, the chapter focuses on the layout of genealogical gravestones, which consist of two main types. The first type includes individual gravestones, ...
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(2024)Late Roman documents inscribed in Greek on wall space in Asia Minor look surprisingly different from earlier Greek documentary inscriptions also inscribed on walls, which were often carved with the text subdivided into ...
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(2024)Starting from the examination of one of the most recently discovered Greek inscriptions from the North Necropolis in Antinoupolis – found by the archaeological mission of the Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” at El Sheikh ...
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(2024)Chi-rho ⳩ is universally known as the Christian monogram, consisting of the first two letters of the name Χριϲτόϲ. In ancient times, it coexisted with other common signs, the staurogram ⳨ and stauros ϯ, both connected to ...
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(2024)Praia a Mare, called the city of the island due to the presence of the island of Dino, is characterized by the presence of many caves both on the mainland and on the island. The life of men has taken place in these caves ...
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(2024)This work presents preliminary numerical simulation results on wave interaction with a fixed Bottom-Detached Breakwater (BDB). The purpose of developing fixed BDB is to provide a safe offshore zone for human activities, ...
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(2024)The environmental and ecosystem values of wetland are maintained through standardized methods, monitoring ecological ed ecosystems aspects like quality of water bodies, the presence or abundance of species and so on. ...
