Sentence examples for mid 2nd from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, this text is probably from the mid 2nd century B.C., 150 years or more after his death, so we cannot assume it is historically reliable.

Both mosaic bowls have spiral canes like the mosaic cane bowls found in the Antikythera shipwreck, dated 80/50 BCE, with parallels dated from the mid 2nd century to the early 1st century BCE [40: p. 258, 63: pp. 34 37].

Excavations at the Roman villa at Caer Mead have revealed that this area was occupied during Roman times for around 350 years; its bathrooms and the mosaic pavements date from the mid 2nd century AD.

This great mid 2nd millennium BC volcanic eruption appears self-evidently an event of historical importance.

Tolerant in religion, it was Parthia that contributed to the dissemination of Buddhism to China, where a Parthian prince spread the word of Buddha near the mid 2nd century ad.

Numenius, a Platonist philosopher of the mid 2nd century CE, had considerable impact on later Platonism, most notably on Plotinus (3rd c). and Porphyry (3rd-4th c.

The earlier colourless glasses from Vergina, Pydna and Gordion (mid 4th early 2nd century BCE) were decoloured with antimony, which is at variance with the manganese decolourant process practiced in the production of later colourless glass from Tel Anafa, and for most colourless glass from Jebel Khalid (mid 2nd early 1st century BCE).

From the mid-2nd century ad the African garrison was largely recruited locally.

Felicitas, Roman goddess of good luck to whom a temple was first built in the mid-2nd century bc.

Opposition to the church through appeal to the Holy Spirit became noticeable for the first time in Montanism, in the mid-2nd century.

Letter of Aristeas, pseudepigraphal work of pseudo-history produced in Alexandria, probably in the mid-2nd century bc, to promote the cause of Judaism.