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  • Epoch-making also were Kircher's labours in the domain of deciphering hieroglyphics, and, on the excavation of the so-called Pamphylian obelisk, he succeeded in supplying correctly the portions which had been concealed from him.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • This reflected much better economic realities as all import and export to or from Sagalassos passed through the Pamphylian ports, especially Perge, on the Mediterranean coast to the south with which Sagalassos was connected by the Via Sebaste, the southern main highroad created by Augustus in 6 B.C.

    The Antonine Dynastic Gallery at Sagalassos 2008

  • The bus roared off, through beautiful green Pamphylian countryside soured by rain and grey cloud.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • The bus roared off, through beautiful green Pamphylian countryside soured by rain and grey cloud.

    Log of the Eclipse (7) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this, too, is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • And here he introduceth one Er, the son of Harmonius, a Pamphylian, to tell what he had seen in hell; intimating that our souls are begotten according to harmony, and are agreeably united to our bodies, and that, when they are separated, they are from all parts carried together into the air, and from thence return to second generations.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And here he introduceth one Er, the son of Harmonius, a Pamphylian, to tell what he had seen in hell; intimating that our souls are begotten according to harmony, and are agreeably united to our bodies, and that, when they are separated, they are from all parts carried together into the air, and from thence return to second generations.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • However, only the Bouleuterion (council house) was finished then, whereas most other structures with the same orientation were completed during the later first century B.C. and the early to middle Imperial period possibly because of the Mithridatic wars and the problems with the Cilician and Pamphylian pirates of the first century B.C.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Hadrianic Nymphaeum Report 2 2003

  • This was rather surprising; after the construction of the Via Sebaste (6 B.C.), which linked the city's territory to the Pamphylian ports, the road was used for exporting Sagalassos red slip wares to Egypt, Carthage and Italy.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3 2003

  • There is a pirate king called Zenicetes who controls the whole of the Pamphylian gulf, including Attaleia.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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