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Ancient West & East; v.4 no.2.


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Ancient West & East; v.4 no.2.

Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers.

Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican.
 Academic Publishers

2006

530 pages

$124.00

Hardcover

Monograph supplement: Colloquia col·lo·qui·a  
n.
A plural of colloquium.
 Pontica

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The bi-annual (not biennial) series explores the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near East, and early Byzantine worlds. Here are a continuation of an article on the Iron Age in the Mediterranean, contributions to the continuing Al Mina
Al Mina, Tyre is a spectacular and more familiar Roman site near Tyre.
Al Mina was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the Orontes, near present-day Samandag.
 debate, a study of local schools in Thracian Toreutics to·reu·tics  
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The art of working metal or other materials by the use of embossing and chasing to form minute detailed reliefs.
 of the fourth century BC in a broader context, and a chronology of cultural transformations in the basins of the Upper Dneiper and Western Dvina Western Dvina: see Dvina (Western Dvina).  in the first to fifth centuries AD. Also included are discussions of various topics and reviews of recent books. There is no index.

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