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Book Pondera Antiqua Et Mediaevalia I

Download or read book Pondera Antiqua Et Mediaevalia I written by Charles Doyen and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pondera Online project aims to collect and study ancient and medieval weights. It is intended to fill a gap in the collection, standardization, and processing of the archaeological data, thanks to an open access database (https://pondera.uclouvain.be/).

Book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum Turkey

Download or read book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum Turkey written by Istanbul Türk Eskiçağ Bilimleri Enstitüsü and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages  300 900

Download or read book Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 300 900 written by Ildar Garipzanov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages presents a cultural history of graphic signs and examines how they were employed to communicate secular and divine authority in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe. Visual materials such as the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other such devices, are examined against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, and socio-political transition from the late Graeco-Roman world to that of medieval Europe. This monograph is a synthetic study of graphic visual evidence from a wide range of material media that have rarely been studied collectively, including various mass-produced items and unique objects of art, architectural monuments and epigraphic inscriptions, as well as manuscripts and charters. This study promises to provide a timely reference tool for historians, art historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, manuscript scholars, and numismatists.

Book The Collection of Klima Plus in Silifke Museum

Download or read book The Collection of Klima Plus in Silifke Museum written by Oğuz Tekin and published by Ege Yayinlari. This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum (=CPAI) Project aims at publishing the weights in Turkish museums and private collections. The first volume covers 161 weights from a private collection now housed at the Silifke Museum and is organised under three headings as Hellenistic and Roman Imperial period (49 ea.), Byzantine (33 ea.) and Islamic (79 ea.). Most of the examples from the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods are square or rectangular plain lead weights. The cutting board shaped lead weight of Roman Imperial period is a very interesting example with its unit inscribed as litra and a caduceus depiction on it. Byzantine weights in the collection vary from two-uncia to one-nomisma. Most of the Islamic weights are the dirhams from the Ottoman period but there are also a few dirhams from the pre-Ottoman period. Islamic weights are mostly decorated with bird's eye motif.

Book Balance Weights in the Aegean World

Download or read book Balance Weights in the Aegean World written by Oğuz Tekin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historically, balance weights are as old as the balances themselves. Actually, balance and weight examples of Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Hittite civilisations are known from wall paintings, reliefs, papyri and collections. However, the scope of this book is the balance weights produced and used in the Aegean world during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Balance weights were among the instruments of public sphere (instrumenta publica) of antiquity and they constitute an important group of antiquities worth studying for their unit marks, symbols, depictions, inscriptions and ornaments. However, balance weights have been among the most neglected artefacts within archaeological research. Certainly, this work at handbook level should not be expected to fill the gap entirely, but rather call attention to this field. The examples were chosen from the city-states in the Aegean world and cover only those which bear ethnic or symbol (parasemon)."--

Book  Where are You Going  where Have You Been

Download or read book Where are You Going where Have You Been written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Women Writers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

Book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum Et Islamicorum

Download or read book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum Et Islamicorum written by Oğuz Tekin and published by Ege Yayinlari. This book was released on 2013 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the CPAI Project presents the weights kept in the Department of Metal Objects of Istanbul Archaeological Museums covering a time span from the fourth century BC through the end of the Ottoman Empire. Of the 455 weights presented in the catalogue some were purchased or confiscated while some others were registered as excavation finds: 111 of the weights belong to the period of fourth century BC through the end of the Roman Empire; 196 date to the Byzantine period while 148 belong to the Seljuk and Ottoman periods. Among the examples of the Classical period only few are dated to the fourth century but most to the Hellenistic period and weights from Athens, Lysimachea, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Cyme and Miletus are the most interesting ones. Weights of double-truncated spheroid shape from the Roman Imperial period are quite numerous in the catalogue. Byzantine weights are presented under two headings as "coin weights" (nomisma and multiples) and "commercial weights" (litra, uncia). Islamic weights in the catalogue vary from 400-dirham to 1-dirham and have a variety of forms.

Book The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations

Download or read book The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations written by Ekrem Akurgal and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pied Piper of Tucson

Download or read book The Pied Piper of Tucson written by Don Moser and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Life and Time magazines that turned a local story from Tucson, Arizona, into a national abomination. Reporters came from all over, to be sure, but on March 4, 1966, Life printed an ominous photo of the desert landscape where three girls had disappeared and the story of Charles Howard Schmid, Jr., or "Smitty," became international news. He had been arrested four months earlier on November 11, just after marrying a fifteen-year-old girl whom he'd met on a blind date. The article was published even before the juries in two separate trials had decided his fate. Dubbed "The Pied Piper of Tucson," for his ability to get girls to fall for him, he stood five feet, four inches tall, but added three more inches by padding his stack-heeled cowboy boots with rags and tin cans. He also dyed his reddish-brown hair black, used pancake make-up, whitened his lips, and applied a fake mole to his left cheek-a "beauty" mark. Arrogant and narcissistic, he came from a wealthy family, so he used the niceties he could buy to impress young high school girls. He adopted the droopy-eyed look associated with Elvis, his idol, and acquired a rock musician's mystique. His tiny house on his parents' property was the scene of many parties. Tucson society was not merely shaken by the murders of three of their young women but by what the details of those murders revealed about its adolescent population-sex clubs, drinking parties, blackmail, cover-ups for murder, and even connections with the crime underworld. Parents suddenly became more strict, more aware now that their kids weren't safe and maybe weren't even behaving properly. When kids looked to someone like Charles Schmid for answers, there was something terribly wrong.

Book Antioch on the Orontes

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  • Author : Koç Üniversitesi. Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araṣtirma Merkezi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9786055250263
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Antioch on the Orontes written by Koç Üniversitesi. Anadolu Medeniyetleri Araṣtirma Merkezi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) hosts the exhibition Antioch on the Orontes, Early Explorations in the City of Mosaics. Curated by Murat Akar, the exhibition presents photographs from the first archaeological excavations carried out by Princeton University in Antioch between 1932 and 1939. These eight excavation seasons constitute the most comprehensive archaeological work in the region at the time, and the photographs on display document the discovery of the world-famous mosaics now in the Hatay Archaeological Museum and of other artifacts from Ancient Antioch. Moreover, Antioch on the Orontes, Early Explorations in the City of Mosaics provides clues about the excavation methods and archiving techniques of the 1930s"--Publisher's website.

Book Early Hellenistic Coinage from the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamaea  336 188 BC

Download or read book Early Hellenistic Coinage from the Accession of Alexander to the Peace of Apamaea 336 188 BC written by Otto Mørkholm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1991, is a full study of early Hellenistic coinage. It provides a history of the coinage of Alexander the Great and his successors in the Near and Middle East, and of the cities of Greece and Asia Minor. It is fully illustrated and provides a detailed and authoritative guide to the coinage of the period.

Book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum Et Islamicorum   Turkey

Download or read book Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum Et Islamicorum Turkey written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

Download or read book The Invention of Heterosexual Culture written by Louis-Georges Tin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards—and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the symbolic primacy of the heterosexual couple was not. Tin maps the emergence of heterosexual culture in Western Europe and the significant resistance to it from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Tin writes that before the phenomenon of "courtly love" in the early twelfth century, the man-woman pairing had not been deemed a subject worthy of more than passing interest. As heterosexuality became a recurrent theme in art and literature, the nobility came to view it as a disruption of the feudal chivalric ethos of virility and male bonding. If feudal lords objected to the "hetero" in heterosexuality and what they saw as the associated dangers of weakness and effeminacy, the church took issue with the “sexuality,” which threatened the Christian ethos of renunciation and divine love. Finally, the medical profession cast heterosexuality as pathology, warning of an epidemic of “lovesickness.” Noting that the discourse of heterosexuality does not belong to heterosexuals alone, Tin offers a groundbreaking history that reasserts the cultural identity of heterosexuality.

Book The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

Download or read book The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader written by Sandra G. Harding and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Hattusha guide

Download or read book Hattusha guide written by Jürgen Seeher and published by Ege Yayinlari. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide includes a practical itinerary that leads you past all the most significant features of the ancient capital, including the rock-cut sanctuary of Yazilikaya nearby. Color photography and a wealth of reconstruction drawings accompany the descriptions interesting, clear and easy to read- of each monument. You will also have at hand a brief history of the city, as well as bibliographical references for further reading in various languages.

Book Margaret Mead and Samoa

Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.

Book Ancient Coins from Mysia  Troad and Aeolis in the Collection of Selcuk Tanrikulu

Download or read book Ancient Coins from Mysia Troad and Aeolis in the Collection of Selcuk Tanrikulu written by Oğuz Tekin and published by Ege Yayinlari. This book was released on 2010 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present catalogue comprises a selection from the collection of Selocuk Tanrkulu ... [of] coins from Pergamum and her environs ..."--Preface.