MLA Commons | J. M. Sobota | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jmsobota/activity/ Activity feed for J. M. Sobota. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0abf756bf5f47355c4f20aa24550bc46 J. M. Sobota's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1942440/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:11:37 -0500 0 3b281d47a13fa626716b8855e6ce2cc4 J. M. Sobota deposited Libredón, Arcis Marmoricis, new etymologies in the possible archaeological scenario of the pre-Roman Celtic Santiago de Compostela https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899243/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:33:45 -0400 The Celtic nature of pre-Roman Galicia and during the Roman occupation is increasingly accepted as a fact in academic circles. Around 50 per cent of Galicia’s toponyms have their etymology in the Celtic language. This Celtic language spoken in Galicia would not be related to Gaulish (Brittonic), but would be close to Irish (Gaelic). For these…[Read more]

]]> 0 3158ada6cca69122c71f0d71ede27a16 J. M. Sobota deposited Owl-like plaques from the Copper Age and the dusio, duso, dusion, dūsius, and duc. Not primarily toys, and with deep ritual significance (death) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867725/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:19:54 -0500 The article Owl-like plaques of the Copper Age and the involvement of children, [Negro, J.J. et al. (2022)] in Science Reports proposes that those plaques were manufactured by children who learned to make them by playing with them as toys. The authors propose that the plaques were primarily dolls and toys that were later used as votive objects in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fb795b8c02f85f7ded5d48bf0223bf1 J. M. Sobota deposited Finding Pliny's Eumenium River and a better suited meaning for the oppidum Eumenium (Aeminium, Coimbra) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867723/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:01:44 -0500 This article proposes a new etymology for the toponyms Eumenium (Aeminium, Coimbra) mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis and suggests within a reasonably degree of feasibility why they were denominated eumenium. I suggest that not only the prefix eu- but also ae-, u-, and ari- might possibly be nouns from a pre-Celtic PIE…[Read more]

]]> 0 248c8e0e58be1d5fcbeac810971d69c8 J. M. Sobota's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849218/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:05:32 -0400 0 79c54e878b0b6535a833032645ee8a6f J. M. Sobota's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842433/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:39:39 -0400 0 76c076f00dd0e0477f06cff05e7c8423 J. M. Sobota deposited Clamart, uma solução mais provável para a sua etimologia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842431/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:32:48 -0400 Esta é a tradução para português da carta Clamart, a likelier solution for its etymology DOI: 10.20935/al5129, publicada por Academia.edu, com pequenas melhorias gramaticais.

A etimologia de Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), cidade situada nas proximidades de Paris, atraiu a atenção de vários investigadores ao longo dos últimos 150 anos. Ao analisa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8728136d6b9a16b153759ae09f783ede J. M. Sobota deposited Santarém, o Paraíso das Delícias: encontrando a Mōron de Estrabo e a sua ilha, com uma nova etimologia para Mōron. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1838971/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:33:34 -0400 Esta é a tradução para o português do artigo Santarém, the Paradise of Delights: finding Strabo’s Mōron and its lost island, with a new etymology for Mōron, publicado na RHGT Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics, v. XVII, issues 33-34, pp.115-136 em https://geografie.uvt.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/05_Sobota_2022.pdf . O texto em…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6e77369aa6f4fd3f244c92f98301d5b J. M. Sobota deposited Santarém, the paradise of delights: finding Strabo's Moron and its lost island with a new ethymology for Moron https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827624/ Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:07:43 -0500 The city of Mōron mentioned by Strabo would be at either Santarém or Chões de Alpompé, but not at the Alto do Castelo, in Alpiarça. This was the conclusion of a study by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in 1982-88. Other authors point to Almeirim, a city eight kilometres south of Alpiarça. Schulten proposes Mōron is the island and castle…[Read more]

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