Examples of 'palimpsest' in a sentence
Meaning of "palimpsest"
palimpsest (noun) - a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
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- A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
- Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
- Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
- Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
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The result is a kind of palimpsest in permanent mutation.
Plowing creates a specific type of archaeological palimpsest.
This is palimpsest in codex form written on parchment.
This is how you read a palimpsest.
He mentions a palimpsest with a mathematical text in it.
I managed to decode the next part of the palimpsest.
More than a disturbing palimpsest of strange encounters.
A palimpsest is a manuscript which has been erased and overwritten.
Deuteronomy isaiah palimpsest quran christies.
A large portion of this manuscripts is a palimpsest.
The album was a palimpsest of different influences.
He searches her place and finds the palimpsest.
A double palimpsest is one that has been erased twice.
They were themselves most likely a palimpsest.
This is the palimpsest of our excavation.
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As if it were possible to decipher there a palimpsest of.
Two palimpsest leaves nos.
They will be harder to read now than the palimpsest.
This palimpsest has been analysed by.
It is a rare example of a double palimpsest.
It is a palimpsest that is always being rewritten.
In some parts it is a double palimpsest.
The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.
Palimpsest when you return.
A series of propositions of geometry are proved in the palimpsest by similar arguments.
A palimpsest without a sting.
The work of art as a palimpsest.
A palimpsest is a recycled manuscript.
These streets are a palimpsest of desire.
The history of the new pavement could be understood as a palimpsest.
Palimpsest of languages.
My calendar has become a palimpsest.
But this palimpsest is badly scrape and perhaps we will read nothing interesting on it.
Hinging all our hopes on pulling a palimpsest out of that chip.
They also suggest that any surface to be covered is always already a palimpsest.
It is a palimpsest.
The inner ridge and trough zone surrounds the central palimpsest.
It was a palimpsest.
She found each of them was precisely the same size as those in the palimpsest.
Becoming the first new text from the palimpsest to be published in a scholarly journal.
This is a palimpsest manuscript of the septuaginta dated late fifth century and early sixth century.
The codex is a palimpsest.
In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille.
This manuscript is a palimpsest.
This palimpsest is the very substance which nourishes the project and gives its first intentions.
Our flesh is a palimpsest.
This collaborative digital edition questions the phenomena of remediation and the figure of the palimpsest.
It is a palimpsest The manuscript has not survived in complete condition.
An exception is the Archimedes palimpsest see below.
The idea of Palimpsest comes as a reflection on the traditional rural architecture.
