The museums of southeast Turkey(Upper Mesopotamia:see Fig.1)contain a wide range of Roman-era funerary monuments with Greek inscriptions,the most common type of which is the stele.They come in many varieties:some are ...
This article results from research conducted under the auspices of the project REPAC"Repetition,Parallelism and Creativity:An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition"(2019-2024,University of Vienna)that has received funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant agreementno.803060).
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