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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • from Thebes remembered as a disciple of Socrates. One work, known as the Pinax (Πίναξ) or Tabula, attributed to Cebes still survives, but it is believed...
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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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    prickly species growing in Egypt, from acacis meaning "a point". In his Pinax (1623), Bauhin mentioned the Greek ἀκακία from Dioscorides as the origin...
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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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    Persephone and Pluto or Hades on a pinax from Locri...
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    direct reference to the cherry tomato appears in 1623, in a work called Pinax theatri botanici (English: Illustrated exposition of plants) by Swiss botanist...
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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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    Pinax with Persephone and Hades Enthroned, 500–450 BC, Greek, Locri Epizephirii, Mannella district, Sanctuary of Persephone, terracotta – Cleveland Museum...
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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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    Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne, from the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri....
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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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    "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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    Synopsis methodica avium et piscium. The earliest list of British birds, Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, was written by Christopher Merrett in 1667...
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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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    dogs on remote estates. The naturalist Christopher Merret in his 1666 work Pinax Rerum Naturalium Brittanicarum has a list of British mammals, including...
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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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    Persephone opening a cista containing the infant Adonis, on a pinax from Locri Epizephyrii....
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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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    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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    wooden plate painted with some religious or mythological scene, called pinax, but these have all disappeared owing to the fragility of the material,...
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    it as only a variety, Prunus cerasus var. avium, citing Gaspard Bauhin's Pinax theatri botanici (1596).[citation needed] His description, Cerasus racemosa...
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    Dioscorides (De Materia Medica) Renaissance Ulisse Aldrovandi Gaspard Bauhin (Pinax theatri botanici) Otto Brunfels Hieronymus Bock Andrea Cesalpino Valerius...
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  • Pinax from Locris: Persephone and Hades sitting on the throne...
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