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An Egyptian Prince at Alexander's Court at Asia? A New Interpretation for the Evidence of the Statuette of the Son of Nectanebo II
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Ladynin I. A.
The article analyses two Ancient Egyptian sources, which might have reflected the contacts of Egyptian noblemen with Alexander the Great.
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English
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Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016.
Ladynin I. A., В кн.: Сборник статей к юбилею Алексея Ивановича Солопова.: Р.Валент, 2025. С. 235–247.
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In the poem *Argonautica* by Apollonius of Rhodes, there is the following passage (IV. 253-290): Argus speaks of the route for the Argonauts’ return home, discovered by “priests… those who left Tritonian Thebes,” at a time when the “sacred race of the Danaans” was still unknown ...
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Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 244–261
The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1(91) С. 24–37
The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 1 С. 5–26
The article analyses a set of Classical evidence reflecting the Egyptian conquest of Bactria or its attempt (Diod. I. 46–47; Tac. Ann. II. 60. 3; Strabo XVII. 1. 46), a statement of Manetho of Sebennytos on the vast conquests of king Sethos-Ramesses (I) (Manetho. Frg. 50 = Ios. C.Ap. I. 15. § 98–102), and the ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Ivan A. Ladynin, Nemirovsky A., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 162–167
The article deals with the problem of the state formation in the two key areas of the early civilizations, i.e. Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt the stage of the so-called nome states was largely avoided, as the local polities had probably the nature of chiefdoms and the state emerged when they were integrated into larger ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Loktionov A., Briefing: Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society (Великобритания) 2025 Vol. 16 P. 24–26
Burnt mounds have served as an enduring source of fascination for anyone ranging from the professional Bronze Age archaeologist to the curious hiker taking in the scenery of the Yorkshire Dales. The monuments, always associated with springs, consist of two crests and a deep trough between them often lined with wood or clay and containing ...
Added: August 5, 2025
Getman-Pavlova I. V., Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2023 Т. 16 № 4 С. 4–33
The problems of the genesis of private international law do not receive some special attention in the Russian doctrine. This situation is regrettable, since a study of history is the basis of the society’s legal culture. The article is aimed at partially filling this gap. It is devoted to the origin of conflicts of different ...
Added: February 2, 2024
Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2023.
How did the Ancient Egyptians maintain control of their state? This book considers this question from a wide variety of angles and across all periods of Egyptian history, from the Old Kingdom to Coptic times. Topics include the controlling function of temples and theology, state borders, scribal administration, visual representation, patronage, and the Egyptian language ...
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Alexandrova E. V., Шаги/Steps 2024 Т. 10 № 2 С. 34–53
The idea that fear of death forms the basic motivation for cultural and religious practices gained attention of cognitive science and was experimentally tested in recent decades. It is now known as the terror management theory (TMT). However the idea itself was influential in scholarship at least since 19th century and has had a significant ...
Added: November 12, 2023
Анохина Е. А., Васильева О. А., Ladynin I. A. et al., Издательство Русской христианской гуманитарной академии, 2021.
The collective monograph summarizes the results of research conducted within the framework of the RSF project No. 19-18-00369 “Classical East: culture, worldview, traditions of study in Russia (based on monuments from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
and archival sources)" in 2019–2021. Each chapter of the book offers a research
a monument or ...
Added: October 31, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2023 № 27-1 С. 672–684
The article deals with a noticeably short account about an alleged war waged by the Egyptian king-conqueror of the remote past Sesostris as narrated by Megasthenes in his list of rulers that failed to conquer India before Alexander. The account is quoted at greater length by Strabo (XV. 1.6, p. 686-687) and considerably shorter by Arrian ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Antiguo Oriente 2022 Vol. 20 P. 119–130
The article proposes an attribution for the royal sculpture head preserved in the Egyptian collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Inv. I, 1a 4979). The object obviously represents the iconographic standard of royal sculpture, which was in use in Egypt throughout the 3rd and the 4th centuries B.C. The sculpture head is ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Аристей. Aristeas: Вестник классической филологии и античной истории 2023 Т. 27 С. 28–47
The article considers the evidence by Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Dicaearchus of Messana, Hecataeus of Abdera (followed by Diodorus) and Strabo on the organization of the Ancient Egyptian society. According to this tradition, its major feature was the division into three self-contained and hereditary social groups: priests, warriors and labourers. In the 4th century B.C. ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2023 Т. 14 № 2(124)
The article presents a detailed analysis of arguments forwarded by a leading Soviet Orientalist Vassiliy Struwe (1889—1965) for his thesis about the existence of the slave-owning mode of production at the Ancient Orient. This thesis was formulated in his lecture at the State Academy for the History of Material Culture (GAIMK) on 4 June 1933 ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2023 № 5 С. 224–235
The article deals with a number of monuments in the Egyptian collection of the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts showing Egyptian deities in the guise of Roman warriors: I, 1a 2985 (the best known and widely reproduced object) – a statuette of the falcon-headed god Horus in the double crown and in the Roman ...
Added: October 29, 2023
Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 1 С. 164–184
The article contains a publication and a tentative interpretation of a group of artifacts from the Egyptian collection of the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (ГМИИ I.1a.5001, 4688, 4687, 4689, 4691, 4690–5005). Those are the masks placed on the mummies of sacred falcons and representing an Egyptian king. No analogies to them ...
Added: October 29, 2023
Loktionov A., The Cambridge journal of law, politics, and art 2021 Vol. 1 P. 383–386
Conventional wisdom tells us that the first civilisation to be governed in a manner comparable to our own was Ancient Greece—the world’s first democracy. Such discourse has contributed to popular belief that earlier civilisations, of which Egypt is probably the best-known example, might be interesting in myriad ways but surely have little to offer scholars ...
Added: February 13, 2023
Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt
Alexandre A. Loktionov, International Review of Social History 2023 Vol. 68 No. S31 P. 33–52
This paper investigates two New Kingdom Egyptian texts pertaining to labour regulation: the Karnak Decree of Horemheb and the Nauri Decree of Seti I. They focus on combating the unauthorized diverting of manpower and represent the oldest Egyptian texts (fourteenth–thirteenth century BCE) explicitly concerned with the legal dimension of managing the workforce. After a brief ...
Added: February 13, 2023