Century BC

List Of State Leaders In The 20th Century BC - Middle East - Assyria - Kings Whose Eponyms Are Not Known
... Type Name Title Royal house From To Refs Sovereign Akiya King — 21st century BC or early 20th century BC? Sovereign Puzur-Ashur I King — First half of ...

Socii - Benefits of Roman Hegemony
... Gallic invasions from the North were, from 390 BC when the Senones Gauls destroyed Rome, seen as the most serious danger and continued into the 1st ... During the 3rd century BC, the confederation successfully repulsed the invasion of Pyrrhus and of Hannibal, which threatened to subject the whole peninsula to Greek ... The last such levy was as late as 60 BC, on the eve of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul itself ...

Charon's Obol - Archaeological Evidence - 'Ghost' Coins and Crosses
... In a 5th- or 4th-century BC grave at Syracuse, Sicily, a small rectangular gold leaf stamped with a dual-faced figure, possibly Demeter/Kore, was found in the skeleton’s mouth ... In a marble cremation box from the mid-2nd century BC, the "Charon's piece" took the form of a bit of gold foil stamped with an owl in addition to the charred bone fragments, the box also ... Within an Athenian family burial plot of the 2nd century BC, a thin gold disk similarly stamped with the owl of Athens had been placed in the mouth of each male ...

List Of Chinese Dictionaries
... otherwise, include Title Year Notes Adsotrans since 2001 CEDICT since 1997 Erya 3rd century BC Fangyan 1st century BC Ganlu Zishu 8th century (Tang) Guangya 3rd century Guangyun ...

Charon's Obol - Archaeological Evidence - Hellenized World
... they came into circulation on the island in the 6th century, and some predate both the first issue of the obol and any literary reference to Charon’s ... an originally Minoan settlement on Crete, a tomb dating from the second half of the 3rd century BC held a rich variety of grave goods, including fine gold jewelry, a gold tray ... The burials dated from the 4th to the late 2nd century BC ...