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111Nortia — is the Latinized name of an Etruscan goddess whose sphere of influence was time, fate, destiny[1] and chance. The Etruscan form was perhaps Nurtia.[2] Variant manuscript readings include Norcia, Norsia, Nercia, and Nyrtia. Contents 1 Ritual of… …
112Cumaean Sibyl — by Andrea del Castagno. The ageless Cumaean Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples, Italy. The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess …
113Tutelary deity — A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture or occupation. Both tutelary and tutelar can be used as either a noun or an… …
114Timgad — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Timgad State Party = ALG Type = Cultural Criteria = ii, iii, iv ID = 194 Region = Arab States Year = 1982 Session = 6th Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/194Timgad (Arabic تيمقاد, called Thamugas or Thamugadi… …
115Palestrina — Infobox CityIT img coa = Palestrina Stemma.png official name = Comune di Palestrina name = Palestrina region = Latium province = Rome (RM) elevation m = 450 area total km2 = 46.8 population as of = December 2004 population total = 18012… …
116Serapeum — A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Hellenistic Egyptian god Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria. There were… …
117Roman commerce — Roman trade was the engine that drove the Roman economy of the late Republic and the early Empire. Fashions and trends in historiography and in popular culture have tended to neglect the economic basis of the empire in favor of the lingua franca… …
118Paestum — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archaeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula State Party = ITA Type = Cultural Criteria = iii, iv ID = 842 Region = Europe and North… …
119Sant'Angelo (rione of Rome) — Sant Angelo is the eleventh historic district or rione of Rome, often written as rione XI Sant Angelo . Its coat of arms is an angel on a red background, holding a palm branch in its left hand. In another version, the angel holds a sword in its… …
120epigraphy — epigraphist, epigrapher, n. /i pig reuh fee/, n. 1. the study or science of epigraphs or inscriptions, esp. of ancient inscriptions. 2. inscriptions collectively. [1850 55; EPIGRAPH + Y3] * * * ▪ historiography Introduction the study of written… …
