Establishing the provenance of the Nazareth Inscription: Using stable isotopes to resolve a historic controversy and trace ancient marble production

Harper, Kyle; McCormick, Michael; Hamilton, M.; Peiffert, Chantal; Michels, Raymond; Engel, Michael H.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102228

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“…The first stones used as construction material came from the vicinity of the place where they would be used. They were used as prehistoric tools [5,6], amulets [7], support for petroglyphs [8,9], projectiles [10], support for inscriptions of important events or laws [11], walls [12], monuments, dikes, warehouses, paving [13] and all kinds of constructions [14]. Stones have also been used to manufacture mortars [15][16][17], ceramics [18,19], bricks [20,21] and mosaics [22].…”

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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Freire-Lista

2021

Heritage

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Human activity has required, since its origins, stones as raw material for carving, construction and rock art. The study, exploration, use and maintenance of building stones is a global phenomenon that has evolved from the first shelters, manufacture of lithic tools, to the construction of houses, infrastructures and monuments. Druids, philosophers, clergymen, quarrymen, master builders, naturalists, travelers, architects, archaeologists, physicists, chemists, curators, restorers, museologists, engineers and geologists, among other professionals, have worked with stones and they have produced the current knowledge in heritage stones. They are stones that have special significance in human culture. In this way, the connotation of heritage in stones has been acquired over the time. That is, the stones at the time of their historical use were simply stones used for a certain purpose. Therefore, the concept of heritage stone is broad, with cultural, historic, artistic, architectural, and scientific implications. A historical synthesis is presented of the main events that marked the use of stones from prehistory, through ancient history, medieval times, and to the modern period. In addition, the main authors who have written about stones are surveyed from Ancient Roman times to the middle of the twentieth century. Subtle properties of stones have been discovered and exploited by artists and artisans long before rigorous science took notice of them and explained them.

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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Freire-Lista

2021

Heritage

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Narrative aspects of Callirhoe’s tomb

Paschalis

2023

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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In Chariton’s Callirhoe the heroine’s tomb and burial receive attention unparalleled in ancient Greek novels. As the physical manifestations of apparent death, they point either to death or to (anticipated) “resurrection” or to both, with reference not only to Callirhoe but also to Chaereas. Of the two major reappearances of Callirhoe’s tomb, at Miletus and Syracuse, the former (real) reproduces and the latter (metaphorical) inverts the initial burial. There is a prominent association in the novel beween tomb and ship in terms of identification, reversal, and proximity, as well as an intriguing one between tomb and bedchamber. The narrative suggests that Callirhoe’s tomb encloses her bridal chamber, and later the heroine becomes aware that not only was she buried alive but carried Chaereas’ child in her womb and Chaereas’ image on her ring. This reality will later affect the lives of both Chaereas and the unborn child. The Appendix discusses Seneca’s Troades, Act 3, where Andromache hides her son Astyanax in Hector’s tomb, as a possibly contemporary parallel to Callirhoe’s tomb. It also rejects the widespread association of Jesus’ empty tomb and resurrection with Callirhoe’s empty tomb and “resurrection”.

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Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey

Sommerschield,

Assael,

Pavlopoulos

et al. 2023

Computational Linguistics

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Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from deciphering lost languages to restoring damaged inscriptions, to determining the authorship of works of literature. Technological aids have long supported the study of ancient texts, but in recent years advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have enabled analyses on a scale and in a detail that are reshaping the field of Humanities, similarly to how microscopes and telescopes have contributed to the realm of Science. This article aims to provide a comprehensive survey of published research using machine learning for the study of ancient texts written in any language, script and medium, spanning over three and a half millennia of civilisations around the ancient world. To analyse the relevant literature, we introduce a taxonomy of tasks inspired by the steps involved in the study of ancient documents: digitisation, restoration, attribution, linguistic analysis, textual criticism, translation and decipherment. This work offers three major contributions: first, mapping the interdisciplinary field carved out by the synergy between the Humanities and Machine Learning; second, highlighting how active collaboration between specialists from both fields is key to producing impactful and compelling scholarship; third, flagging promising directions for future work in this field. Thus, this work promotes and supports the continued collaborative impetus between the Humanities and Machine Learning.

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Establishing the provenance of the Nazareth Inscription: Using stable isotopes to resolve a historic controversy and trace ancient marble production

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution

Narrative aspects of Callirhoe’s tomb

Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey

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