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• Lycian Apollo — The Lycian Apollo type, originating with Praxiteles and known from many statue and figurine copies as well as from 1st century BCE coinage, is a statue type of Apollo showing the god resting on a support (a tree trunk or tripod), his right arm… …   Wikipedia

• The Byzantine Empire —     The Byzantine Empire     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Byzantine Empire     The ancient Roman Empire having been divided into two parts, an Eastern and a Western, the Eastern remained subject to successors of Constantine, whose capital was at …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lycian language — For other uses, see Lycian (disambiguation). Lycian Trm̃mili Xanthos stele with Lycian inscriptions …   Wikipedia

• Valley of the Kings — The Valley of the Kings (Arabic: وادي الملوك Wadi Biban el Muluk ; Gates of the King ) [Reeves and Wilkinson (1996), p.6] is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for… …   Wikipedia

• Bridge at Oinoanda — The Bridge at Oinoanda (or Oenoanda), or Bridge of Kemerarası, is an Ottoman arch bridge over the river Xanthos close to the Lycian town Oinoanda, Turkey. It stands on or near the spot of a Roman bridge, whose existence became known in the 1990s… …   Wikipedia

• Apollino — The Apollino or Medici Apollo is a Hellenistic sculpture of the god Apollo of the Lycian Apollo type. It is now in the Uffizi, Florence. Its head has proportions similar to those of Praxiteles s Aphrodite of Cnidus [As represented by… …   Wikipedia

• Anatolia — /an euh toh lee euh/, n. a vast plateau between the Black and the Mediterranean seas: in ancient usage, synonymous with the peninsula of Asia Minor; in modern usage, applied to Turkey in Asia. Cf. Asia Minor. * * * or Asia Minor Turkish Anadolu… …   Universalium

• Leto — Lētṓ (Greek: polytonic|Λητώ , Λατώ , Lato in Dorian Greek, etymology and meaning disputed), in Greek mythology, is a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe: [Hesiod, Theogony 403.] Kos claimed her birthplace. [Herodotus 2.98; Diodorus… …   Wikipedia

• epigraphy — 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… …   Universalium

• Anatolian languages — Branch of the Indo European language family spoken in Anatolia in the 2nd–1st millennia BC. The attested Anatolian languages are Hittite, Palaic, Luwian (Luvian), Hieroglyphic Luwian, Lycian, and Lydian. Hittite, by far the most copiously… …   Universalium

• ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction       the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …   Universalium