Meteriola inscription: fifth-century tombstone of a Christian lady from Remagen.
The Meteriola inscription (13.7813)
Among the many delights of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum…
On this page, you will find several ancient Nabataean inscriptions.A Deified Nabataean King
One of the three Nabataean kings named Obodas was deified as a healing god, probably Obodas I (r.96-87 BCE). How serious this cult was, is proved by an…
Queen Neithhotep lived during the final phase of Egypt’s Predynastic age and was presumably the wife of King Narmer, the unifier of the “Two Lands”, which may have taken place in the thirtieth century BCE.
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Ostracism, "the judgment of the potsherds": Athenian juridical practice in which a potentially dangerous person would be exiled from the city without loss of property or civil rights.
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Persepolis Treasury Tablets: large collection of ancient Persian cuneiform administrative texts, written between 506 and 497 BCE. They are one of the most important sources for the study of the administration of the Achaemenid Empire.
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Persian Alphabet: script of thirty-six signs and eight ideograms, used in the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions.
Achaemenid Royal Inscription DSe
When the Persian…