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The history of domestic ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus) and domestic greylag geese (Anser anser domesticus) remains poorly understood. This is mainly caused by the difficulty of identifying archaeological bones as domestic due to the existing overlap in sizes. A recently published osteometrical methodology is applied that successfully allows to identify domestic forms and distinguish between anatid species with more confidence. Four archaeological assemblages from the Zuid Holland province in the Netherlands are reanalyzed, ranging from the Roman period to the 17th century AD.It is determined that domestic geese were present in the Netherlands since at least 160–230 AD and domestic ducks since at least 585–725 AD. The latter might also be present in the Roman assemblage, but the evidence is inconclusive. Domestic species constitute only a small percentage of the total consumed anatids and do not surpass 15%–20% in any case, which is mainly caused by the weight of wildfowling in the Netherlands. Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) were therefore much more prevalent than domestic anatids in all assemblages. Taphonomical analysis did not show substantial differences between wild and domestic anatids. The sample size considered in this project is likely too small and biased to accurately detect any kind of evolution through time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Roman period saw the empire expand across Europe and the Mediterranean, including much of what is today Great Britain. While there is written evidence of high mobility into and out of Britain for administrators, traders, and the military, the impact of imperialism on local, rural population structure, kinship, and mobility is invisible in the textual record. The extent of genetic change that occurred in Britain during the Roman military occupation remains underexplored. Here, using genome-wide data from 52 ancient individuals from eight sites in Cambridgeshire covering the period of Roman occupation, we show low levels of genetic ancestry differentiation between Romano-British sites and indications of larger populations than in the Bronze Age and Neolithic. We find no evidence of long-distance migration from elsewhere in the Empire, though we do find one case of possible temporary mobility within a family unit during the Late Romano-British period. We also show that the present-day patterns of genetic ancestry composition in Britain emerged after the Roman period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to better understand the authorial figure of Vladislav Vančura by reconstructing the critical and literary-historical image conveyed to us by the reception of the writer during his lifetime, starting with the writer’s first short story collections and finishing with his Obrazy z dějin národa českého (‘Images from the history of the Czech nation’). Loosely following on the theoretical bases of previous discussions, which in various ways conceptualize the effect of the ‘name of the author’ in relation to his work (Foucault, Bourdieu, Russian formalism, Mukařovský), this study examines Vančura’s literary output through the lens of its author (as a constructed figure and category), especially in terms of the author function as it serves to form this output into a unified whole. It deals with changes in the name of the author mainly in relation to Vančura’s reception. During the interwar period the critical reception captured the creative phenomenon of the writer in the course of his development, at a moment when his extreme style and language caused numerous controversies which grew into open polemics. While these revolved primarily around the issue of aesthetics (in the case of Pole orná a válečná and Poslední soud), they involved broader worldview and ideological issues (as with the novel Tři řeky). Vančura’s persistent search for a narrative form repeatedly compelled critics and interpreters of his time to reassess the criteria and critical standards for literature. This study traces the transformations of the author’s image in this context all through his life as it assumed countless ‘faces’, subverting the traditional assumption of coherence in Vančura’s literary output that the concept of the author was meant to guarantee, and thus demonstrating — given the failure of this concept to bring about such coherence — how it is necessary to look instead for those places of incoherence, contradiction, and disparity. To this end, the study does not seek to cover the history of Vančura’s reception in all its facets but to trace those significant moments when the image of the author and his work was transformed, challenging unequivocal interpretations and defying the interpretative stereotypes and schemes into which it has so often been confined.

ABSTRACT آثار زيجريس/لادامانتيا (مرسى باجوش): إلقاء الضوء علي العلاقات البحرية القديمة على الساحل المصري للبحر الأبيض المتوسط [AR] منطقة مرسى باجوش هي عبارة عن خليج كبير يقع على ساحل البحر الأبيض المتوسط في مصر، على بعد حوالي 250 كيلومترًا غرب الإسكندرية. في العصور القديمة، كان ذلك الخليج يضم مينائي )زيجريس( و)لادامانتيا( الرومانيين. وتم ذكرهما عند الجغرافي كلوديوس بطليموس. وفي الدليل البحري الروماني المعروف باسم (( Stadiasmus Maris Magni، حيث وجه ذلك الدليل البحارة إلى الرسو في هذين الميناءين لأنهما آمنان، كما أن السفن يمكن أن تتزود فيهما بالمياه العذبة. ويعتبر مينائي )زيجريس( و)لادامانتيا( من بين كثير من المراسي الطبيعية الممتدة على طول ساحل البحر الأبيض المتوسط بين الإسكندرية والحدود الليبية. ومنذ عام 2015، يخضع خليج مرسى باجوش لمشروع للبحث الأثري تحت الماء يقوم به مركز الإسكندرية للآثار البحرية والتراث الثقافي المغمور بالمياه بجامعة الإسكندرية، بدعم من مؤسسة أونور فروست البريطانية. وقد كشف مشروع المسح الأثري لمرسى باجوش عن ثروة من المعلومات حول النشاط البحري على طول الساحل الشمالي الغربي لمصر في العصور القديمة. ومن بين الاكتشافات الأثرية عدة شواهد على حطام لسفن من العصور الهلينستية والرومانية والعثمانية، بالإضافة إلى أكبر مجموعة من مراسي السفن القديمة التي تم اكتشافها حتى الآن على الساحل الشمالي الغربي لمصر. من ثم، سوف يتناول هذا البحث مشروع المسح الأثري لمرسى باجوش، وأهم النتائج التي تم التوصل إليها حتى الآن. [EN] The site of Marsa Bagoush is a large bay located on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, approximately 250 kilometers west of Alexandria. In antiquity, it comprised the Roman harbours of Zygris and Ladamantia. The harbours were mentioned by Claudius Ptolemaeus, and in the Roman guidebook, the Stadiasmus Maris Magni. Sailors were advised to anchor in those two harbours because they were safe and had access to fresh water. Zygris and Ladamantia are among several natural anchorages that extend along the Mediterranean coastline between Alexandria and the Libyan borders. Since 2015, the sites of Zygris and Ladamantia have been subject to an archaeological investigation conducted by the Alexandria University Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage (CMAUCH), with kind support of the UK-based Honor Frost Foundation. The Marsa Bagoush Research Project (MBRP) revealed a wealth of information on ancient maritime activities along the northwest coast of Egypt. Archaeological finds include evidence of shipwrecks from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Ottoman periods, in addition to the largest collection of ancient anchors to be found on the northwest coast of Egypt. This paper will present the project, its context, goals, methods, and latest results.

الملخص: اكتسبت مهنة الجزارة خلال العصر الروماني أهمية كبيرة، ويرجع السبب في ذلك إلى الاعتماد على اللحوم كوجبة أساسية في النظام الغذائي الروماني، وقد عرف الجزارون الرومان التقنيات المناسبة لذبح الحيوانات ونزع أحشائها لضمان ذبحها بطريقة إنسانية وفعالة، لقد فهموا أيضًا أهمية التعامل مع الذبائح بعناية لمنع الضرر أو التلوث، كما امتلك الجزارون الرومان مهارات استثنائية في استخدام السكاكين ودقة في جز اللحوم وتقطيعها، فصنعوا وطوروا مجموعة متنوعة من السكاكين والأدوات لقطع الذبيحة إلى أجزاء مختلفة، كما عرفوا كيفية تقطيع الدهون الزائدة، وإزالة العظام، وتقسيم اللحوم بشكل مناسب. واللوحات المنتقاة هنا تبرز اختيار النحاتين في تعبيرهم عن مهارة عمل الجزارين من خلال التصوير الفني لبيئة عمل الجزار المرتدي لمريلة العمل إلى الأثاث الذي يشمل الكتلة التي تمثل طاولة التقطيع وحاوية تجميع المخلفات، ثم الأدوات المطلوبة للعمل من سواطير، سكاكين والميزان ثم قطع اللحم المعلقة علي خطافات. يستهدف البحث هنا دراسة الشواهد الجنائزية الخاصة بتصوير الجزارين، والتي اهتم بها صاحب الشاهد بتصوير اعتزازه بمهنته، وبيئة عمله وأدواته ومحل عمله، كما سيتم التقصي وراء الأدوات التي استخدمها الجزار في مناطق وأماكن مختلفة محاولة لفهم سبب تنوعها ومدي تطابق الأدوات التي عثر عليها منحوتة ومقارنتها بالأدوات التي تم العثور عليها فعليا. كما سيتم استنتاج أسلوب عمل الجزار في معالجة اللحوم المذبوحة وطريقة عرضها. Abstract: During the Roman era, the butchery profession gained great importance, due to the reliance on meat as a staple meal in the Roman diet. Roman butchers knew proper techniques for butchering and eviscerating animals to ensure they were slaughtered humanely and efficiently. Selected images highlight how sculptors expressed the skill of the butchers’ work by artistically depicting their work environment. This includes the butcher wearing a work apron, the furniture such as the cutting table block and the waste container, the tools required for work like cleavers, knives, and scales, and pieces of meat hanging on hooks. The research aims to study funerary tombstones depicting butchers, in which the tombstone owner was interested in depicting his pride in his profession, his work environment, his tools, and his workplace. The tools used by the butcher in different regions and places will also be investigated in an attempt to understand the reason for their diversity and the extent to which the tools carved match the tools that were actually found. The butcher's work method in processing slaughtered meat and the method of displaying it will also be deduced.

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Umm Tawabin (‘Mother of Bread Ovens’ in Arabic) is a large fortress overlooking the Wadi ‘Arabah and southern Dead Sea in Jordan. From the time of its discovery by a Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) expedition in the late 19th century, Umm Tawabin had not been excavated, nor published extensively in spite of its strategically elevated location with panoramic views on all sides, its monumental fortification and numerous and varied archaeological remains until the Ghor as-Safi Project survey (Ariotti 2017) and excavations (Ariotti 2022; 2021; Politis and Ariotti 2020). The goal of this investigation was to determine the extent, function (or multiple functions) and dating of the site, along with the subsistence practices and diet of its inhabitants based on its topographical, architectural and excavated material culture, botanical and faunal remains (Ariotti 2021, Edwell 2023, Hansen and Heinrich, in press). This paper presents an overview of the chronological development and strategic importance of Umm Tawabin from the Hellenistic to Roman periods in view of its stratigraphic evidence, radiocarbon dates and pottery. It also presents some fragmentary remains dated to the Iron Age II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Imili Nasrullah was born on July 6, 1931 in the village of Kevkeba in the Hasbaya region of Southern Lebanon. He spent his childhood in his village, where he was engaged in gardening. While living in the village, he had the opportunity to observe the traditions, customs and traditions of his village and conveyed them to the reader. Imili Nasrullah, one of the important writers of Arabic Literature, also conveyed the lives, joys and happiness of the villagers in his novels. Although Imili Nasrullah is considered a feminist, she has addressed many topics in various fields in her works. The topics he generally deals with in his novels and stories are: Lebanon's village life, family roots, freedom, migration, exile, equality between men and women, the struggle for freedom of expression, war and the suffering they suffered in war. The author has created an exemplary identity with his works for his period and the new generation of writers. In addition, the author, who attaches importance to the individual and the inner world of the individual, especially the lives of women, also discussed social issues. Imili Nasrullah also discussed the place of women in society and criticized the difficulties they suffered. However, she criticized the discrimination between men and women. This study will focus on the theme of women in Imili Nasrullah's novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parts of a subterranean hiding complex and a miqveh (ritual bath) were excavated at Ḥorvat Maskana in 2020. The Byzantine pottery from the excavation, along with the dating of the plaster, suggests that the complex was used in the Byzantine period and may originally have been hewn in the Roman period. Additional hiding complexes with not only Roman but also Byzantine pottery exist elsewhere in Galilee. The presence of Byzantine pottery inside some of the hiding complexes points to the possibility that their use should not be limited to the Roman period, and that there may have been limited use in the Byzantine period by the local Jewish Galilean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, which was created with the aim of evaluating the novel Handan, published in 1912 by Halide Edib Adıvar, who tried to create an ideal female image in the majority of her novels, around the Cinderella complex introduced to the literature by Colette Dowling, the character Handan was examined in terms of the reasons and consequences of the Cinderella complex, and it was determined that this character had a fear of independence. By presenting Handan to the reader from the perspectives of different people, Handan has become available to be read from different perspectives, and thus, clearer results can be achieved in the evaluations of the Cinderella complex. Handan's growth-development stages progressing in the form of growth-shrinkage rather than growth-development has been identified as the first signs of the Cinderella complex. It has been stated that lack of guidance, not being able to hold on tightly to success, prioritizing love over success, experiencing fluctuations between the mind-heart-body trio, and taking shelter behind a male God cause this growth-shrinkage situation. As a result, Handan's refusal to risk a life without love and turning away from success, her desire to be feminine, her feeling in need of protection like a little girl, her acceptance of leaning on others as a necessity, and her running after the myth of security are associated with the Cinderella complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Prophet Muhammad, of Arab origin, spent his life in the Arabian Peninsula. It is widely believed that his initial followers were predominantly of Arab descent. However, it is crucial to note that Muhammad is regarded as the final prophet, sent as a messenger to invite all of humanity to follow Allah. Consequently, it is not uncommon for individuals of non-Arab backgrounds to embrace Islam and believe in his message. In this study, the personalities of "Byzantine origin" or "Rûmî/Rûmî origin" as the Arabs call them, who met the Prophet and became Muslims and gained the qualification of being a Companion, were investigated, their identities were determined and information about their lives was given, with special emphasis on whether they narrated hadith or not. The primary objective is to identify these individuals, provide information about their lives, and emphasize whether they were involved in narrating hadiths. It is noteworthy that there has been no independent study conducted on the subject of "Roman/Byzantine Companions" to date. To facilitate a comprehensive examination and establish a robust foundation for evaluation, it is imperative to offer brief insights into both Arab and Roman/Byzantine contexts. This includes exploring relations between the Arabian Peninsula and the Roman/Byzantine Empire. The research commences by providing information on "Arabian Peninsula - Roman/Byzantine Empire Relations," with a primary emphasis on the relations during the Prophet's era. The study aims to elucidate how individuals of Roman/Byzantine descent came to the Arabian Peninsula, laying the groundwork for a more nuanced understanding of this historical context. Individuals of Roman/Byzantine origin residing in the Arabian Peninsula arrived through diverse means. Many were brought in as slaves and established a permanent presence in the region. Additionally, there were those who chose to settle here, driven by motivations such as practicing their professions, spreading Christianity, and engaging in commercial endeavors. Notably, certain Romans/Byzantines who encountered the Prophet in Mecca were blacksmiths, while those in Medina included carpenters and merchants. To address the question of whether individuals of Roman/Byzantine origin who embraced the Prophet would be classified as Companions, it became imperative to establish a clear definition of the term "Companion". A dedicated section was created for this purpose, where in individuals meeting this defined criterion were assessed and recognized as Companions. Those identified as companions were then listed alphabetically, accompanied by biographical information extracted from various sources, including hadith, tafsir, sira, tabaqât, and Islamic history. It is worth noting a specific aspect during this review. While examining Islamic sources that provide insights into the lives of the Companions, numerous names were discovered that deviated from customary Arabic nomenclature and were identified as of Roman/Byzantine origin. Examples include Nestas (Anastas), Mina (Minas), and Yuhannes (Yoanis). Despite the likelihood that bearers of such names were slaves and potentially of Roman/Byzantine heritage, the absence of explicit evidence precludes their inclusion among the Companions of Roman/Byzantine origin. There were also people of Roman/Byzantine origin who lived during the Prophet's time and converted to Islam but were unable to meet him. It is seen that these people, who are called Mukhadrams, are mistakenly considered as Companions in some sources. In order to prevent this confusion and to distinguish between those who were Companions and those who were not, the Mukhadrams are analyzed under a separate heading, and those whose names are identified are introduced here with brief biographical information. The article introduces an individual who, despite not being a Companion of Roman/Byzantine origin, has made such a claim, leading to significant revelations. A key finding dispels the notion held by some, particularly in the West, that the Prophet was exclusively "the prophet of the Arabs". The research substantiates this by establishing that seven individuals of Roman/Byzantine origin encountered the Prophet, embraced Islam, and became Companions, disproving the misconception. Among these seven, six were men and one was a woman. The study further discerns that Roman/Byzantine descendants who migrated to the Arabian Peninsula, adopted Islam, and became Companions were predominantly skilled artisans, including blacksmiths, carpenters, and construction masters. It appears that many of them arrived or were brought to the region for the purpose of practicing their respective professions. Additionally, the research notes that due to factors such as their status as slaves and language barriers, individuals of Roman/Byzantine origin did not actively transmit hadiths from the Prophet. Consequently, it is established that they did not significantly contribute to the dissemination of scientific knowledge during that historical period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study examines changes in cattle farming between the Iron Age and the Roman period in the Netherlands. There are regional differences in the frequency, management, size, and shape of cattle. The western and northern regions had higher proportions of cattle, while the southern region had the lowest proportions. The size of cattle did not significantly increase until the Roman period, and only in the regions that were part of the Roman Empire. There are also differences in gender ratios and the size of cattle in different regions and time periods. The size of cattle generally increases during the early and middle Roman period. There are also regional differences, with the southern region having the largest cattle, possibly due to intensive agriculture. The use of cow's milk was limited and decreased during the Roman period. Overall, the study shows that Roman occupation had an influence on cattle farming, particularly on the size of the animals and their use as meat suppliers and draft animals. [Extracted from the article]

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Generative AI, propelled by innovations like ChatGPT, has gained widespread recognition. In the realm of archeology, there exists significant potential for generative AI, particularly in reconstructing the appearance of cultural artifacts through the introduction of 2D or 3D renderings derived from damaged or degraded objects. In this study, we showcase and evaluate the practical application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), harnessing the power of deep learning, for 2D image reconstruction of ancient Roman coins, aimed at aiding their improved visualization. Roman coins are chosen as our focal point due to their relative abundance and accessibility through online repositories and datasets. Our results demonstrate improved ability to enhance damaged or degraded coins, rendering them more similar to their better-preserved counterparts. In some instances, generated coins are virtually indistinguishable from the originals. The contribution of this work showcases the potential of GANs in assisting cultural heritage specialists and archeologists in recreating the appearance of damaged objects, thereby facilitating improved visualization of coins that are not well preserved. However, we also discuss when there might be limitations to using GANs in reconstructions. Although this work is tailored for ancient coins, GANs hold promise in application for other artifacts provided sufficient training data are available. We discuss how GANs can be applied and improve the appearance of artifact reconstructions, where we also provide relevant data used in this research.

Zamanın Bittiği Yer, Can Eryümlü tarafından 1999’da yayımlanan fantastik ögeler barındıran, sembolik bir romandır. Roman, bilinenden oldukça farklı ve sıra dışı bir dünyada, bir kitabın içinde, başlar. Yediği kitap sayfalarını okumayı öğrenen bir “kitap kurdu”, dünyaya geldiği kitabı terk edip kitaplar arası bir yolculuğa başlar. Yediği her kitaptan yeni bilgiler öğrenir; öğrendikçe de merakı artar. Bir noktadan sonra da benliğini, toplumunu, cinselliği, inancı, zamanı, ölümü ve varoluşu sorgulamaya başlar. Roman “özgürlüğe” yolculuk olarak nitelendirilebilecek en temel insani etik anlayışına dayanmaktadır. Dünyaya geldiği kitaptan başlayarak özgürlüğü arayan kitap kurdu kısıtlı olanaklarına rağmen bulduğu cevaplarla 20 Ağustos 1977’de fırlatılan Voyager 2 uzay aracına ulaşır. Zamanın Bittiği Yer, insan ve yaşamına dair en temel soruları soran, varlık ve hiçlik kavramlarına değinen bir romandır. Can Eryümlü, bir kitap kurdunun bakış açısını kullanarak insan ve toplum normlarına karşı eleştirel bir tavır takınır. Özellikle bireysel gelişmeyi engelleyici toplumsal “normlar” üzerine yazar dikkatle durur. Bu çalışmada amaç romanda yazarın satır aralarına yerleştirdiği “varlık felsefesi ve varoluşsal” soru ve sorunları ne şekilde ele aldığı tespite çalışılacaktır. Özellikle Baruch Spinoza’nın varlık felsefesine dair görüşleri çerçevesinde roman incelenecektir. Romanın yapısal ve tematik incelemesinin yanı sıra romanda yer alan ve insan ve toplum açısından sembolik değerler barındıran bazı kavramlara da değinilecektir.

Isotopic analysis of archaeological charred plant remains is a useful tool to infer past agricultural practices. However, debate continues over whether charred seeds should be untreated or pretreated before analysis, to counteract any residual contamination and retrieve the “true” isotopic signature of the seed. This paper presents a case study examining whether archaeobotanical remains from Croatia and northern Serbia should be pretreated before isotopic analysis with the aim to provide a pragmatic technique for wider application. A small subset was first examined with an ATR-FTIR and then four different protocols were examined: water rinse only, two different acid-only methods and ABA (acid–base-acid). The results were inconsistent, displaying variability in the effect each protocol had on the isotopic values. Overall, it was concluded that the slight differences between untreated and pretreated sub-samples should not impact the archaeological interpretation, removing the need for pretreatment of the remaining archaeobotanical material.

This paper discusses the growing trend in Late Hellenistic- and Early Roman-era Judea (ca. 200 b.c.e. –70 c.e.) for constructing "display tombs"—funerary architecture designed to achieve maximum visibility and project the status of the individual or family who financed the construction, not just in the cities, but also in the countryside. It uses the case study of the recently excavated pyramidal tomb marker at Horvat Midras (Israel), an affluent village, located on the border of Idumea and Judea about 30 km southwest of Jerusalem in the Judean Foothills. After a detailed discussion of the new finds, it is placed within the material and broader socioeconomic contexts of rural Judea in these periods. As will be shown, this monument's architectural style, location, and other attributes enhance our understanding of monumental funerary architecture in rural settings, adds new archaeological data to often-overlooked rural areas, and contributes to a better understanding of socioeconomic elites in rural Judea at this time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the materiality of lighting influenced the development of ancient rabbinic teachings that would later become the foundations of Jewish law. Drawing on ideas and frameworks from scholarship on material religion, I bring together archaeological finds, experimental archaeology, and references to objects in classical rabbinic literature to argue that the ways that lighting was used provided the earliest rabbis with tools and fodder for developing new expressions of piety that could be performed in one's household. How lamps, oils, and wicks were used in Roman-era Palestine (second-third century CE) played an influential role in the development of rabbinic Judaism. I show this through rabbinic prescriptions on lighting lamps on Friday evening to mark the onset of the Sabbath, as the different wicks and oils created opportunities for one to choose to perform the custom in rabbinically-prescribed ways. I next demonstrate how the rabbis drew on common lighting practices to reinterpret biblical laws on the now-destroyed Jerusalem Temple cult into expressions of piety that can be performed in households throughout Roman Palestine. In this way, the materiality of light contributed towards the ancient rabbis' role in transforming Judaism in the post-Temple age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The novel was accepted as a genre in its own right after going through several stages. In the West, writers who wanted to distinguish the novel from romances and picaresques tried to emphasize that the novel told the "truth" and tried to define the novel's boundaries with "fantastic" products. The fantastic has existed in literature since fairy tales, but the assumption that the fairy tale is only a product of imagination distinguishes it from fantastic fiction. In the beginning, realist novels overtook romantic language, followed by naturalist novels. However, as modernism and postmodernism influenced the novel's language, it became more flexible and could no longer stand up to the "imaginary," that is, the fantastic. The Tanzimat novelists, who sought to tell the "truth" in Turkish literature as well as in the West, opposed fantasy. However, the susceptibility of traditional language to fantasy did not prevent writers from benefiting from it. As a result, the fantastic novel, a genre that had been delayed in Turkish literature, continued in silence. The first examples of this genre were written by Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Giritli Aziz Efendi, and Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpnar. Babil Melikesi, written at the beginning of the 19th century, is also a remarkable novel in terms of its fantastical features and is significant for being one of the first fantasy novels. The fantastic elements in Babil Melikesi, by Selami İzzet Sedes, will be examined in this study, as will the place of the fantastic novel in Turkish literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on Şahap Sıtkı’s novels Gün Görmeyen Sokak and Cevdet Kudret’s Havada Bulut Yok, this article aims to examine the authors’ attitudes towards reality and their views on social reality comparatively. In these novels, both of which were published in 1958, in accordance with the understanding of art and literature of the period, the village, the peasant and the civil servant are looked at through the eyes of two ‘teachers’ named Nurseren and Süleyman respectively. The prevailing mentality in both of the novels is the importance of education and development, and the fact that the situation of middle and lower strata people is quite difficult and painful. However, although Şahap Sıtkı sees social reality with artistic sensitivity, he does not deal with the fictional world of the work or the people of this world on a social and economic basis; it does not offer a ‘solution’ or a ‘prescription’ to the social problems it touches on in his work. On the other hand, Cevdet Kudret adopts an interventionist attitude although it ends in failure in the face of social realism; The novel person struggles with the reality he finds wrong through Süleyman. In this context, it can be said that Gün Görmeyen Sokak is a realist novel while Havada Bulut Yok is a social realist one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ayfer Tunç, who started her writing career in newspapers and magazines in the 1980s, addresses the difficulties of being a woman in a selfish, opportunistic, hypocritical, greedy, deceitful, and objectifying society in her latest novel, Kuru Kız. The symbolic narrative of the novel allows for both thematic and psychoanalytic examination, which can be interpreted through concepts such as Freud's Oedipus Complex, Kristeva's "abjection," and Arendt's "banality of evil." The connections between these concepts and the novel Kuru Kız are interpreted with examples from the text. There are significant parallels between the harassment of the sister by her brother and the subsequent events, and the mythological story of Oedipus, indicating a psychoanalytic construct where "The Brother" character embodies traces of guilt and abjection. The behavior of the neighborhood residents exemplifies thoughtlessness and lack of judgment, in line with Arendt's concept of the banality of evil. The concepts of abjection and disgust serve as symbols of "resistance" against the evils portrayed by the other two concepts in Kuru Kız's inner monologues. Ultimately, the novel allocates a significant portion of its narrative to the psychological and sociological roots of the evils manifested or endured by Kuru Kız and those around her. The author suggests "taking action" as a way out for women through the message conveyed in the novel. Merely being aware is not sufficient for women to find peace in their lives; they must bravely implement the necessary changes. The novel Kuru Kız contains strong evidence to be considered an example of a female bildungsroman, as it encapsulates the coming-of-age story of a woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• μXCT accelerates the numismatic identification process, outperforming current protocols. • It is performed on coins prior physical cleaning, without sample preparation. • Enables virtual reconstruction, preventing risks linked to manual handling. • Digitisation allows for information preservation and guides further cleaning. This study utilises X-ray Computed Micro-Tomography (μXCT) as a non-destructive and non-invasive method to recover the original surface features and reveal the characteristics of encrusted, illegible Roman copper-based coins before any physical cleaning process is performed. The coins were retrieved from the topsoil during an archaeological survey in the countryside of the ancient city of Aquileia, Italy, and were severely degraded, covered with accumulated matter and pronounced encrustations developed over centuries of aging buried in soil. Despite their condition, most of the coins were identified from a numismatic standpoint using tomographic data alone, with the aid of reference images. They were subsequently cleaned using traditional manual methods and the results compared with μXCT. X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the coins after the physical cleaning confirmed their numismatic attribution and revealed information regarding the influence of different alloy compositions on the applicability of the μXCT method, as well as on the corrosion process of the coins. This study showcases how the application of μXCT on fragile corroded metal artifacts prior to any intrusive manual procedures can expedite the identification process, mitigating the risk of information loss caused by physical handling and cleaning. This approach proves particularly valuable when dealing with large numbers of coins that would typically require restoration for identification purposes. It also emphasises the numerous advantages of using μXCT for coin identification, provenance determination, dating, virtual restoration, digitisation, and long-term preservation. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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