By the Hellenistic period, it began to also be associated with Greco-Roman mystery cults and ceremonies, becoming synonymous with the Greek term musterion.

By then all Hellenistic kingdoms and the Greek city-states were in decline, exhausted from endless civil wars and relying on mercenary troops.

By the Hellenistic period, the language was largely confined to scholars and priests working in temples in Assyria and Babylonia.

By Hellenistic times, the city had moved to a new site south of what is now Bat Galim because the port's harbour had become blocked with sand.

By Hellenistic times, under the Achaean League, the Achaean Doric Koine appeared exhibiting many peculiarities common to all Doric dialects and which delayed the spread of the Attic-based Koine to the Peloponnese until the 2nd century BC.

By the Hellenistic period, the limited evidence indicates that debt bondage had replaced outright enslavement for debt.

By Hellenistic and Roman times, the domical tholos had become the customary cemetery symbol.

By creating a stronger Hellenistic state, Mithridates was to contend with the well-established Roman foothold in Europe.

By the 3rd century BC, Alexandria had become the center of Hellenistic Judaism, and a Koine Greek translation was compiled in several stages during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BC ( known to have been complete by 132 BC ).

By Hellenistic times, combined punches and dies were in use.

By the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

By the Middle Preclassic Period ( 900-300 BC ), Olmec artistic styles had been adopted as far away as the Valley of Mexico and Costa Rica.

By dividing the Tertiary Period into two periods instead of five epochs, the periods are more closely comparable to the duration of ' periods ' in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic Eras.

By the Imperial Period, the Romans had adopted the Greek combat sport ( spelled in Latin as pancratium ) into their Games.

By the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period it was called Jiangning ( 江寧 ); in the Southern Song Dynasty the name of Jiankang was revived.

By the Warring States Period, bronze vessels had become objects of aesthetic enjoyment.

By the 3rd century ( during the Three Kingdoms Period ), the Chinese had termed the device as the ' jì lĭ gŭ chē ' ( 記里鼓車 ), or ' li-recording drum carriage ' ( Note: the modern measurement of li = 500 m / 1640 ft ).

By the Spring and Autumn Period ( 770 BC-476 BC ), the territory of today's Hubei was part of the powerful state of Chu.

By the Meiji Period, the practice was adopted amongst commoners as well, and included the modern ritual of visiting a shrine to drive out evil spirits and wish for a long healthy life.

By about 300 million years ago ( Pennsylvanian Period ) Africa was approaching the North American craton.

By the end of the First Intermediate Period, some nomarchs ruled their nomes as minor potentates, such as the nomarch Nehry of Hermopolis, who dated inscriptions by his own regnal year.

By this time it was understood that the palace had been constructed at the beginning of the Proto-Palace Period, along with all the others.

By the early Archaic Period Rhodes and Kos emerged as the major islands in the group, and in the 6th century BC the Dorians founded three major cities on Rhodes ( Lindos, Kameiros and Ialyssos ).

By the end of the Warring States Period, Zhao was the only state strong enough to oppose the powerful Qin state.

By the Sengoku Period, Izumo had lost much of its importance.

By the Sengoku Period, the consolidated Kawachi was the asset of Hatakeyama Tanenaga, but the real power was imbued in the shugodai, a title that passed into the hands of Yusa Naganori: the shugo came to be reduced to a mere figurehead.

By the end of the First Temple Period, Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a centre of regular pilgrimage ; a fact which archaeologists generally view as being corroborated by the evidence, though there remained a more personal cult involving Asherah figures, which are found spread throughout the land right up to the end of this era.

By the Sengoku Period, other clans fought over Bitchu, and Oda Nobunaga and Mōri Terumoto were fighting in the province when Oda died, leading to a division of the province.

By the Mississippian Period, 340 million years ago, much of western North America was covered with a warm, shallow sea, much like the Gulf Coast of Florida today.

By 200 B. C., the Chinese state had emerged from a loose federation of feudal states of the Warring States Period to the unified empire with patrimonal rule.

By the time of the Warring States Period, generals were appointed based on merit rather than birth, the majority of whom were talented individuals who gradually rose through the ranks.

By the late Warring States Period ( about the late 4th century BC ), however, Chu's prominent status had fallen into decay.

By the middle 1990s, after Grusin and Rosen left the company, GRP used the marketing slogan " Great Records Period.

* “ History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period ” By Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

By the Edo Period, the Shogun was referred to as " Man of Tianxia " and the Shogunate as " Court of Tianxia ".

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

By monitoring, we mean some system of control over the types of information sent from the various centers.

By reducing rates as much as 60 per cent, it and its associated railroads hope to win back some of the business they have lost to truckers and barge lines.

By permitting freshman students we might extend the opportunity for such a course to some individuals who otherwise might never get to take it.

By convention in some law reports, the appellant is named first.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

By some estimates, this might account for most of the internal radiation damage, as the recoil nuclei are typically heavy metals which preferentially collect on the chromosomes.

Proof: By symmetry, it suffices to prove that there is some constant c such that for all bitstrings s

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

By " art " we may frame several artistic " works " or " creations " as so though this reference remains within the institution or special event which creates it and this leaves some works or other possible " art " outside of the frame work, or other interpretations such as other phenomenon which may not be considered as " art ".

" Caplan comments on the impact of the Supreme Court's decision making it necessary for there to be evidence of guilt in such a plea, " By requiring that there be some evidence of guilt in such a situation, the decision attempts to protect the ' really ' innocent from the temptations to which plea-bargaining and defense attorneys may subject them.

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

By offering to isolate her in Senex's house, he is able to give Philia and Hero some time alone together, and the two fall in love.

By 1867, it ballooned to over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana.

By 2011, 165 countries had signed the treaty and none are known-though some are still suspected-to possess any biological weapons.

By the turn of the 21st century, Battery Park City was mostly completed, with the exception of some ongoing construction on West Street.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

By 1866 the collection consisted of some 10, 000 objects.

By the 1980s, many of Balsall Heath's houses were in a dilapidated condition, some were still without bathrooms or indoor toilets.

By the mid-1980s at least 500 courses in business ethics reached 40, 000 students, using some twenty textbooks and at least ten casebooks along supported by professional societies, centers and journals of business ethics.

By contrast to statutory codification of common law, some statutes displace common law, for example to create a new cause of action that did not exist in the common law, or to legislatively overrule the common law.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.