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R. A. Stewart Macalister

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Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (8 July 1870 – 26 April 1950) was an Irish archaeologist. [1]

64 relations: Aimirgin Glúngel tuir tend, Alexander Macalister, Aqil Agha, Archaeology of Israel, Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Azekah, Baath mac Magog, Battle of Mag Itha, Bayt Dajan, Bayt Jibrin, Beit Guvrin National Park, Biblical archaeology, Cambrian Archaeological Association, Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, Cathair Mór, Cáelbad, Cíarraige, Chronicles of Eri, Cichol Gricenchos, Domari language, Ekron, Eochaid Étgudach, Eochu Buadach, Fingerspelling, Fir Bolg, Françoise Henry, Frederick J. Bliss, Gath (city), Gezer, Gezer calendar, Khirbet Beit Lei, Large Stone Structure, Lebor Gabála Érenn, Levantine archaeology, List of archaeological excavations by date, List of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem, List of archaeologists, Macalister, Madron, Maresha, MMST, Moloch, Moresheth-Gath, Muinemón, Muiredach's High Cross, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Newton Stone, Ogham, Ogham inscription, Palestine Exploration Fund, ..., Pim weight, Qubur Bani Isra'il, Rachel's Tomb, Ricatus, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology, Seefin Passage Tomb, Shelta, Tell ej-Judeideh, 1870 in Ireland, 1916 in archaeology, 1950 in Ireland, 1969 in archaeology. Expand index (14 more) »

Aimirgin Glúngel tuir tend

Aimirgin Glúngel tuir tend, Middle Irish poem by Gilla in Chomded húa Cormaic.

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Alexander Macalister

Prof Alexander Macalister FRS HFRSE FSA LLD (9 April 18442 September 1919) was an Irish anatomist, Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University, from 1883 until his death.

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Aqil Agha

Aqil Agha al-Hasi (عقيل آغا الحاسي, given name also spelled Aqil, Aqila, Akil or Akili; military title sometimes spelled Aga) (died 1870) was the strongman of northern Palestine in the mid-19th century, during Ottoman rule.

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Archaeology of Israel

The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history.

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Ascension Parish Burial Ground

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery in Cambridge, England.

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Azekah

Azekah (עזקה, ʿazeqah) was a town in the Shephelah guarding the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah, about 26 km (16 mi) northwest of Hebron.

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Baath mac Magog

Baath or Baath mac Magog is a figure in Irish legendary history.

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Battle of Mag Itha

The Battle of Mag Itha (alternative spellings: Magh Ithe, Magh Iotha) was, according to Irish mythology, the first battle fought in Ireland, between the Fomorians, led by Cichol Gricenchos, and the followers of Partholón.

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Bayt Dajan

Bayt Dajan (Bayt Dajan; בית דג'אן), also known as Dajūn, was a Palestinian Arab village situated approximately southeast of Jaffa.

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Bayt Jibrin

Bayt Jibrin (بيت جبرين, also transliterated Beit Jibrin; בית גוברין, Beit Gubrin), was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Hebron.

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Beit Guvrin National Park

Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in central Israel, 13 kilometers from Kiryat Gat, encompassing the ruins of Maresha, one of the important towns of Judah during the time of the First Temple, and Beit Guvrin, an important town in the Roman era, when it was known as Eleutheropolis.

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Biblical archaeology

Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible, be they from the Old Testament (Tanakh) or from the New Testament, as well as the history and cosmogony of the Judeo-Christian religions.

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Cambrian Archaeological Association

The Cambrian Archaeological Association (Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru) was founded in 1846 to examine, preserve and illustrate the ancient monuments and remains of the history, language, manners, customs, arts and industries of Wales and the Welsh Marches and to educate the public in such matters.

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Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery

The Carrowkeel tombs are an ancient passage tomb cemetery in southern County Sligo, Ireland.

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Cathair Mór

Cathair Mór ("the great"), son of Feidhlimidh Fiorurghlas, a descendant of Conchobar Abradruad, was, according to Lebor Gabála Érenn, a High King of Ireland.

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Cáelbad

Cáelbad (Cáelbhadh, Caolbhadh, Caolbhaidh), son of Cronn Badhraoi, a descendant of Mal mac Rochride, was, according to Lebor Gabála Érenn, a High King of Ireland for a period of one year.

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Cíarraige

The Ciarraige were a population-group recorded in the early historic era in Ireland.

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Chronicles of Eri

The Chronicles of Eri; Being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber: or, the Irish People; Translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language is an 1822 book in two volumes by Roger O'Connor (1762–1834), purporting to detail the history of the Irish from the creation of the world.

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Cichol Gricenchos

In Irish mythology, Cichol or Cíocal Gricenchos is the earliest-mentioned leader of the Fomorians.

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Domari language

Domari is an endangered Indo-Aryan language, spoken by older Dom people scattered across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Ekron

The city of Ekron (עֶקְרוֹן ʿeqrōn), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron, was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan.

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Eochaid Étgudach

Eochaid or Eochu Étgudach ("possessing clothes") or Etgedach ("negligent"?), son of Daire Doimthech, son of Conghal, son of Eadaman, son of Mal, son of Lugaid, son of Íth, son of Breogán, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

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Eochu Buadach

Eochu Buadach, son of Dui Ladrach, was, according to some redactions or versions of Lebor Gabála Érenn, a High King of Ireland.

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Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands.

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Fir Bolg

In medieval Irish myth, the Fir Bolg (also spelt Firbolg and Fir Bholg) are the fourth group of people to settle in Ireland.

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Françoise Henry

Françoise Henry (16 June 1902 – 10 February 1982) was a scholar of early Irish art, archaeologist, and art historian.

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Frederick J. Bliss

Frederick Jones Bliss (22 January 1859-–3 June 1937) was an American archaeologist.

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Gath (city)

Gath, Gat, or Geth (גַּת, wine press; Geth), often referred to as Gath of the Philistines, was one of the five Philistine city-states, established in northwestern Philistia.

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Gezer

Gezer, or Tel Gezer (גֶּזֶר)(also Tell el-Jezer) is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

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Gezer calendar

The Gezer calendar is a small inscribed limestone tablet discovered in 1908 by Irish archaeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister in the ancient Canaanite city of Gezer, 20 miles west of Jerusalem.

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Khirbet Beit Lei

Khirbet Beit Lei or Beth Loya is an archaeological tell in the Judean lowlands of Israel.

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Large Stone Structure

The Large Stone Structure (Mivne haEven haGadol) is the name given to the remains of a large public building in the City of David neighborhood of central Jerusalem, south of the Old City, tentatively dated to tenth to ninth century BC.

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Lebor Gabála Érenn

Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is a collection of poems and prose narratives that purports to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages.

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Levantine archaeology

Levantine archaeology is the archaeological study of the Levant.

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List of archaeological excavations by date

This is a list of significant archaeological expeditions by date, which include first excavations at important sites, or expeditions that uncovered important objects.

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List of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem

List of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem is an incomplete list of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem.

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List of archaeologists

This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.

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Macalister

Macalister, MacAlister, MacAllister and their variants are forms of a Gaelic surname which means 'son of Alisdair'.

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Madron

Madron (Eglos Madern) is a civil parish and village in west Cornwall, Great Britain.

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Maresha

Tel Maresha (תל מראשה) is the tell (archaeological mound) of the biblical Iron Age city of Maresha, and of the subsequent, post-586 BCE Idumean city known by its Hellenised name Marisa, Arabised as Marissa (ماريسا).

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MMST

MMST (Hebrew Mem, Mem, Shin, Tau) appears exclusively on LMLK seal inscriptions, seen in archaeological findings in Israel, and its meaning has been the subject of continual controversy.

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Moloch

Moloch is the biblical name of a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice.

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Moresheth-Gath

Moresheth (מוֹרֶשֶׁת גַּת), also known as Moreseth-Gath, was a town of the tribe of Judah in ancient Israel mentioned in the Bible.

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Muinemón

Muinemón (later spelling Muineamhón), son of Cas Clothach, son of Irárd, son of Rothechtaid, son of Ros, son of Glas, son of Nuadu Declam, son of Eochaid Faebar Glas, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

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Muiredach's High Cross

Muiredach's High Cross is a high cross from the 10th or possibly 9th century, located at the ruined monastic site of Monasterboice, in County Louth, Ireland.

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New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary ("NOBTS") is a private, non-profit institution of higher learning affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Newton Stone

The Newton Stone is a pillar stone, found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Ogham

Ogham (Modern Irish or; ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).

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Ogham inscription

There are roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions on stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the 5th and 6th centuries.

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Palestine Exploration Fund

The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society based in London.

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Pim weight

Pim weight, a polished stone about 15 mm (5/8 inch) diameter, equal to about two-thirds of a Hebrew shekel.

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Qubur Bani Isra'il

Qubur Bene Isra'in or Qubur Bani Isra'il (lit. "Tombs of the Children of Israel"), are four, formerly five, huge stone structures dated to the Middle Bronze Age, which rise from a rocky plateau overlooking Wadi Qelt in the West Bank, about 3.5 miles northeast of Jerusalem, between Hizma and Geva Binyamin along Highway 437.

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Rachel's Tomb

Rachel's Tomb (קבר רחל translit. Qever Raḥel, قبر راحيل Qabr Rāḥīl) is the site revered as the burial place of the matriarch Rachel.

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Ricatus

Ricatus was a possible 11th-century king of Cornwall, although recent scholarship has cast doubt on his existence.

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Royal Irish Academy

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an all-Ireland independent academic body that promotes study and excellence in the sciences, and humanities and social sciences.

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Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is a learned society based in Ireland, whose aims are "to preserve, examine and illustrate all ancient monuments and memorials of the arts, manners and customs of the past, as connected with the antiquities, language, literature and history of Ireland".

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Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology

The Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology are a series of lectures delivered and published under the auspices of the British Academy.

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Seefin Passage Tomb

Seefin Passage Tomb is a passage grave and National Monument located atop Seefin Hill, County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Shelta

Shelta (Irish: Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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Tell ej-Judeideh

Tell ej-Judeideh is a tell in modern Israel.

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1870 in Ireland

Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.

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1916 in archaeology

The year 1916 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1950 in Ireland

Events from the year 1950 in Ireland.

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1969 in archaeology

The year 1969 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Stewart_Macalister

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