A Barlám-regény kódexképei és címsorai (Cod. Athon. Iviron 463)

Author(s): Emese Egedi-Kovács / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2020

The study examines the relations between different aspects (Ancient Greek main text, miniatures, Old French translation on the margins, Old French headlines) of the manuscript Iviron № 463, which is a bilingual (Ancient Greek-Old French) Byzantine manuscript kept on Mount Athos, from a new perspective by including formerly not investigated viewpoints: by exploring the relationship between the miniatures and the headlines that are highlighted by red ink in the Old French text. The study also mentions the explanatory inscriptions in codices that preserved the Greek versions of the Barlaam-romance and are relevant in connection with the Iviron manuscript, furthermore, it investigates the common features of the manuscripts. The analysis reveals new important relations regarding the circumstances of the creation of codex Iviron.

A BÉKÉSCSABAI KÉSŐROMÁN KORI ARANY MELLTŰ

Author(s): Imre Szatmári / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1-2/2005

In 1878, a golden brooch was inventorised to the Hungarian National Museum, coming to the capital from Békéscsaba (Fig. 1a–b). The object is decorated with human figures, interpreted as a dancing couple of a couple of lovers, man and woman. Probably, the object was intended to clasp the neck-aperture of a lady’s dress. In most of the publications, this object was erroneously mentioned as coming from Tömörd, Komárom county and only most recent research could correctly identify its Békéscsaba provenance.

A besenyők és az oguzok vándorlása a VIII. században

Author(s): Attila Katona-Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

A betűk hatalma

Author(s): Miklós Kőszeghy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2010

Die neuerlich in Tel-Zayit / Israel gefundene alphabetische Buchstabenreihe wirft neue paläographische und historische Fragen auf. Der Artikel versucht aufgrund der Buchstabenformen die Reihe paläographisch einzuordnen und möglichst genau zu datieren (Eisenzeit I, bzw. IIA). Nach der Datierung folgt die historische Auswerung des Befundes. Die Bedeutung der Buchstabenreihe aus Tell-Zayit besteht darin, dass man mit ihrer Hilfe die Ausdehnung und das Niveau der Bürokratie des davidischen Königtums besser beurteilen und verstehen kann.

A BIBLIAI PARADICSOMTÓL MOZART PÁSZTORKIRÁLYÁIG

Author(s): István Borzsák / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1-2/2002

Metastasio, the librettist of Mozart’s “Il re pastore” wrote his libretto on the basis of Curtius Rufus and according to the claims of his epoch and royal court of Maria Theresa with due knots. Aminta, mounted the throne by the favour of Alexander the Great, is nobody else as Abdalonymus, mentioned repeatedly by ancient authors. He was bearer of mythic oriental traditions whose figure was transformed to (the invented) Cincinnatus, incarnating the ancient Roman ideals. Recently, the orientalist W. Fauth revealed the far-ramified treasure of this oriental tradition in his wide-ranging study. By its help the classical philologist can establish unexpected coherences between the cosmological relations of the ancient oriental royal symbolics and the phenomena, unexplained so far, of the Greco-Roman culture (descriptions of paradise, Roma quadrata, political motives of the rise of Roman historiography, etc.). As addition to the subject presented itself the contemporary description of the game reserve at Vienna of the Austrian archduke Maximilian (the later Emperor and King) as an attempt to put into practice the antique idea of paradise in modern Europe.

A BIBRACTEI BAZILIKA KELTEZÉSÉNEK KÉRDÉSÉHEZ

Author(s): Dániel Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2006

A BODROGKERESZTÚRI KULTÚRA BELSŐ IDŐRENDJÉRŐL

Author(s): Pál Patay / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2008

A szerző áttekinti a kultúra temetőinek kerámia leletanyagát, azt vizsgálva, hogy abban milyen mértékben vannak jelen olyan típusok, elemek, amelyeket Bognár-Kutzián Ida a kultúra késői (B) fázisa jellegzetességeiként ismert fel. Ezt követően áttekinti mindazon edényféleséget, amelynek a kultúra belső időrendje szempontjából jelentősége lehet. Végül foglalkozik a polgár-basatanyai temető sírjainak időrendjével is.

A bone disc with an inscription from Marina el-Alamein (Egypt)

Author(s): Grażyna Bąkowska-Czerner / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2020

A bone disc with an inscription has been found at the archaeological site of the Greco-Roman period at Marina el-Alameinin Egypt. It has a hole drilled in the center and a name IOULIOS (Ιούλιος) written in Greek letters on one side. One may wonder about the diskfunction. Names appear on theatre tickets and on game counters, but they also usually bear a number or an image, e.g. a figure or a building. In the town, which has been subject of a recent research, a large number of diverse types of game pieces were discovered; glass pawns and bone counters predominate among them, however, they differ from the discussed disc: they are smooth or decorated with cut concentric circles. The number and variety of pawns indicates diverse types and a big popularity of games among the inhabitants of Marina. The described disc may have been a strategic board game counter.

A Boudica-felkelés az új kronológiai és topográfiai eredmények tükrében

Author(s): Gyula Speck / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2014

The Boudican Revolt of AD 60–61 is a very controversial story still today, despite the many researches in the 20th and 21th century. The purpose of this study is to show new results in chronology and battlesite topography of the rebellion, which have been disregarded by many today’s well-known scholars. The greatest debate among the contemporary scholars is on the exact date of the Boudican Revolt. Most studies agree with D. R. Dudley and Graham Webster, who claim that the rebellion occured in AD 60, despite of Tacitus’ AD 61. They assert that the uprising happened in AD 60 by the CIL VI 597 inscription. But I have found one more inscription (AE 1998, 419) and two wax tablets from Pompeii (CIL IV 3340, CLIV and CLV) certifying clearly that Webster and Dudley misdated the rebellion which occured definitely in AD 61. Finally I have found many reasons and geographical evidences referring to John Pegg’s terrain analysis attesting that the final battle of Boudica happened in the Church Stowe Ridge, Northamptonshire.

A Brief History of Nursing

Author(s): Sergiu Teodorescu,Aurelia Preda / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2018

Could Hippocrates be an ancestor of the nursing profession? The nursing profession brings into practice, in addition to spiritual care, a palpable method of self-healing. The history of medicine, which cannot be separated from the act of nursing and the history of nursing are part of the human history. Practiced from prehistoric times, the art of nursing is universal and can be considered a law of nature. Its recognition as a "useful and unique" profession began in the second half of the 20th century, when "the art of nursing" started to be influenced by the cultural, ethnic and religion specificities of the different ethnic groups.

A Brief Introduction to the Byzantine Portrait Art

Author(s): Irina-Andreea Stoleriu,Adrian Stoleriu / Language(s): English / Issue: 11/2016

Guided by the Christian faith, Byzantine art has attached special meaning to the representation of the human figure. Grounded on aesthetic principles, the artistic representation of the human face relinquished on the physical materiality of the represented model, searching for its essences and resemblances to the divine world. Subject to specific representation rules, Byzantine portraiture bears a series of peculiar characteristics that mark it out among other images of this kind belonging to other spirituality areas, periods and artistic styles. Both in icons, where it highlights a series of particular significances describing the divine nature of saints, and in other fields of Byzantine arts – such as mural painting or mosaic –the portrait stands out due to its importance. This paper intends to present a few of the defining characteristics of portraiture in Byzantine art, exemplifying the evolution of this artistic genre by analysing some of the most representative creations of this field.

A Brief Look at a Missing World. Interview with Emeritus Professor Anthony F. Harding – Exeter University

Author(s): Vasile Diaconu / Language(s): English / Issue: XXXV/2019

A Brief Military History of the Later Reign of Šāpur II

Author(s): Michael Richard JACKSON BONNER / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2017

This is a brief history of the wars of Šāpur II from the middle of the fourth century to the death of that king in theyear 379. These conflicts represent the military operations of the Sasanid state at its height before a gradual decline underthe successor to Šāpur II.

A bronze steelyard with an acorn-shaped counterweight from the Paphos Agora

Author(s): Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka,Maciej Wacławik / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2016

Steelyards were commonly used by sellers at agorae and fora during the Roman and Byzantine periods. They are based on the principle of the lever, mentioned by Aristotle and probably well-known even earlier. One steelyard made of bronze has been found, together with an acorn-shaped counterweight, at the agora of Nea Paphos during an excavation conducted by the Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University. Also preserved were fragments of chain and two hooks that were used to hang the weighted objects, as well as fragment of a third hook. The device represents the Pompeian type of steelyard and can be dated by analogy to other examples from the 1st century AD. The Paphos balance may be evidence of the use of a local island weighting system based on an operating unit other than the Roman pound (libra).

A BŰBÁJOS VIRGILIUS - A VERGILIUS-ÉLETRAJZOK KALANDOS TORZULÁSAI

Author(s): István Borzsák / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2003

We tried to follow up the incredibly rich posterity of Vergilius in the context of the antique biographical literature, more exactly in that of the biographies of writers. As to a modest modern complement to the collection, indispensable even today, by D. Comparetti (Virgilio nel medio evo), we drew attention to a trash of the 19th century (The miraculous story of the enchanting Vergilius), the author of which „enriched” the already otherwise adventurously embellished biography of the poet with further romantic — even foolish! — inventions. Of course, not even this can damage the fame of the divines poeta.

A bűzös Piso

Támadási stratégia M. Tullius Cicero Piso ellen intézett invektívájában

Author(s): Levente Pap / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: V/2018

The invective against Piso constitutes one of the most important post-reditum speeches of Marcus Tullius Cicero. On his return from exile the former consul delivers a speech wishing to verbally express his “gratitude” to all those who either by means of their blissful actions have actively taken part in his banishment or merely by their silence have been accomplices in it. Piso was one of them and Cicero, in his invective, attempts by almost every possible means to destroy any remaining credibility of Piso. In order to do so the orator exploits all kinds of opportunities even those given by certain odour associations.

A CARMEN SAECULARE ÉS A LUDI SAECULARES

Author(s): János Bollók / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1(2)/2001

A casting mould of a pilgrim flask with the depiction of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger

Author(s): Maurizio Buora,Ergün Lafli / Language(s): English / Issue: 30/2020

In this short paper a formerly unpublished casting valve for a metal eulogy ampulla from the museum of Gaziantep in southern Turkey will be presented. This casting mould by soap stone has an inscription as Eὐλογία [Κ]υρίου καίτοῦΑγίου [θαυματουρ]γού (eulogia of the Lord and saintly thaumaturgist- a performer of miracles). It also bears the depiction of St. Symeon Stylites the Younger from the sixth century A.D. and two knights riding mounts in a heraldic position on below. The mould at Gaziantep can be dated to the middle Byzantine period, more precisely to the period between A.D. 969 and 1074. For its size and the unusual scene of the two pilgrims (?) on horseback our matrix appears to be a unique one.

A Catalogue of Harbours in the Province of Ĝirsu/Lagaš Documented in the Administrative Texts of the Ur III Period

Author(s): Sergio Alivernini / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

As is well known, boat trips on rivers and canals were an essential part of Mesopotamian economy at the end of the 3rd millennium BC; the Tigris and Euphrates, with their tributaries and canals, served as major highways in Mesopotamia. In the Ur III period, inland traffic by waterway was very extensive (more so than interregional water transport). This paper aims at highlighting ports/harbours of the province of Ĝirsu/Lagaš recorded in the administrative texts from the end of the 3rd millennium, by cataloguing the name of the places where these harbours are located.

A cemetery of the Gáta–Wieselburg culture at Nagycenk (Western Hungary)

Author(s): János Gömöri,Eszter Melis,Viktória Kiss / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

The 29 individuals found in 27 graves at Nagycenk were buried there in the time period between 2000–1700 BC, according to radiocarbon dates – i.e. at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary. The cemetery is of unique importance, both because of the richness of burial assemblages (altogether 30 bronze objects, 5 gold jewelries) and the scarcity of known Gáta–Wieselburg cemeteries. 15 percent of the ca. 180 burials in total, which relate to this culture in Hungary, are in this cemetery, and because of the few published burial sites, the cemetery at Nagycenk represents about one fourth of the materials published so far in the whole distribution area of the culture. Pottery style, typology and raw material of metal artefacts, as well as the radiocarbon dates (with the earliest among the published radiocarbon dates in context of this culture) support the dating of the cemetery section to the early phase of the Gáta–Wieselburg culture. The oval arrangement of burials around grave 55 and grave 1 suggest that each of these correspond to a household of high status men representing a few generations of the population living in the settlement excavated in the vicinity of Nagycenk.