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    Le formule medico-terapeutiche delle coppe magiche islamiche

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    This article focuses on a group of 80 Islamic magic-medicinal bowls in bronze or copper alloy, bearing an Arabic therapeutic formula which is generally executed on the outside, beneath the rim. In addition to specifying various conditions for which the bowls could be useful, the inscriptions have several interesting features. The most important of these features being the quotation of the name of some characters of great historical importance (but almost always having a lot of inconsistencies), the mode of the bowls’ use and the time of their production

    Alla ricerca di un’archeologia perduta. Spunti e riflessioni su uno scavo di quaranta anni fa: Umberto Scerrato e il suo Sistan (In Search for a Lost Archaeology. Ideas and Thoughts on a forty years ago excavation: Umberto Scerrato and his Sistan

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    The author very shortly deals with the main scientific results of the Italian Excavations in Sistan on the site of Dahan-i e Ghulaman (Sistan). He focuses on the particular urban character of the site, which represent a unique example in the archaeological history of the Achaemenid time in the plateau

    Un pensiero per Maria Vittoria

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    A short preface to a volume in honour of Maria Fontana, a tribute to a dear friend who has always been a point of reference, in our private lives as well as in our academic career
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