the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (Greek: πίναξ; pl.: pinakes, πίνακες, meaning 'board') is a votive tablet...
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Pinax may refer to: Pinax, a votive tablet that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or burial chamber Pinakes, a 3rd-century-BCE work by...
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Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them...
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applied: "Canis pugnax, a Butchers Bull or Bear Dog", as an entry in his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. The designation "bull" was applied because...
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Plantarum in 1753. But as early as 1622, Gaspard Bauhin introduced in his book Pinax theatri botanici (English, Illustrated exposition of plants) containing...
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Ninnion Tablet (redirect from Ninnion pinax)
The Ninnion Tablet, dated to approximately 370 BC, is a red clay tablet depicting the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries (religious rites connected to...
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the name. The genus name comes from Neo-Latin; Gaspard Bauhin in his book Pinax (1623) writes it coming from Dioscorides; the Koine term ἀκακία akakía is...
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reference to cherry tomatoes in European literature appears in 1623, in Pinax theatri botanici (English: Illustrated exposition of plants) by Swiss botanist...
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Chionodes pinax is a moth in the family Gelechiidae.[failed verification] It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from southern British...
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The Pinakes (Ancient Greek: Πίνακες 'tables', plural of πίναξ pinax) is a lost bibliographic work composed by Callimachus (310/305–240 BCE) that is popularly...
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to the red kite as "fork-tailed kite" by Christopher Merret in his 1667 Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. By the time of Thomas Pennant's 1768 British...
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Pinax with Persephone and Hades Enthroned, 500–450 BC, Greek, Locri Epizephirii, Mannella district, Sanctuary of Persephone, terracotta – Cleveland Museum...
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Persephone opening a cista containing the infant Adonis, on a pinax from Epizephyrian Locris....
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Archive. London: Robert Hardwicke. p. 306. Merret, Christopher (1666). "Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia, et Fossilia"...
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sanguineum means 'blood-red'; Linnaeus cites Gaspard Bauhin's 1623 book Pinax theatri botanici as his source for the name, which in turn refers ("sanguinaria...
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Bauhin as having used the polynomial Geranium robertianum primum it in his Pinax theatri botanici in 1623. Bauhin, in turn, credited it to Dodoens, who listed...
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Persephone and Pluto or Hades on a pinax from Locri...
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inspired prints. He collaborated with Johann Remmelin on an anatomical work, Pinax microcosmographicus. "Stephan Michelspacher (Biographical details)". British...
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borrowing from Ancient Greek: πινακοθήκη, romanized: pinakothēkē = πίναξ, pinax, '(painted) board, tablet' + θήκη, thēkē, 'box, chest') was a picture gallery...
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(prothesis) attended by family members, with the women ritually tearing their hair, depicted on a terracotta pinax by the Gela Painter, latter 6th century BC...
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in England had been noted twelve years earlier in Christopher Merret's Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. Ireland Benelux: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg...
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"cut into stone". It was an allusion to the word pinacotheca (from πίναξ pinax, "panel" or "painting"). Glypton (γλυπτόν) is the Greek word for a sculpture...
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Throne comes from the Ionic temple of Marasà. Furthermore, a fragment of pínax from 470-60 BC (currently in the Museum of Magna Graecia in Reggio Calabria)...
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lists of the flora, fauna and minerals of England, the Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. The Pinax was published in 1666 and is an alphabetical catalogue...
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judges Ruta sylvestris Dioscorides to be a type of Hypericum. Later, in his Pinax Theatri Botanici of 1623, he attempts to sort the synonymy in all the previously...
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Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne, from the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri....
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and Epistle XIII. Three dialogues, the Hebdome, the Phrynichus, and the Pinax (Πίναξ) or Tabula, are attributed to him by the Suda and Diogenes Laërtius...
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Cesena, Italy Ex-voto plaques on a wall at the Roman Viale Trastevere Pinax Tama (votive) Votive candle Milagro (votive) Ex Voto: Votive Giving Across...
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Pinax from Locris: Persephone and Hades sitting on the throne...
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1179/030801807X163670. S2CID 54663891. X. Moussas. Antikythera Mechanism, "PINAX", Greek Physical Society, Athens, 2011 X. Moussas Antikythera Mechanism...
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