Download or read book Glenway Wescott written by Ira D. Johnson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century AD written by Christian Niederhuber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were made available to both the mint and the marble workshops in Rome, assuming a close correspondence between portraits on coins and in the round. All ofthis, however, has never been clearly proven, nor has it been disproven by a close systematic examination of the evidence on a broad material basis by those scholars who have questioned it.Through systematic case studies of Faustina the Younger's and Marcus Aurelius' portraits on coins and in sculpture, this book provides new insights into the functioning of the imperial image in Rome in the second century AD that move a difficult, much-discussed subject forward decisively. The newevidence presented here has made it necessary to adjust the established model; more flexibility is needed to describe the processes and practices behind the phenomenon of 'repeated' imperial portraits and how the imperial portrait worked in the mint of Rome and in the metropolitan marbleworkshops.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Documents of the the Fifty third Congress to the 76th Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medals of Creation Or First Lessons in Geology and the Study of Organic Remains Fossil Cephalopoda Crustacea insects fishes reptiles birds and Mammalia with notes of geological excursions written by Gideon Algernon Mantell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins Tokens Commemorative War Medals Books Cabinets written by Spink & Son and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Josiah Wedgwood from His Private Correspondence and Family Papers in the Possession of Joseph Mayer et Al and Other Original Sources written by Eliza Meteyard and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Josiah Wedgwood from His Private Correspondence and Family Papers in the Possession of Joseph Mayer F Wedgwood C Darwin Miss Wedgwood and Other Original Sources with an Introductory Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England written by Eliza Meteyard and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean written by Philippa M. Steele and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how they do it. Nor are these practices static, as those involved exploit opportunities to adapt old features and develop new ones. The act of writing then has tangible and visible consequences not only for the writers but also for those encountering what has been produced, whether they can read its content or not – with potential for a wider social visibility that can in turn affect the success and longevity of the writing system itself. With a focus on the syllabic systems of the Bronze Age Aegean, this book attempts to bring together different perspectives to create an innovative interdisciplinary outlook on what is involved in writing: from structuralist views of writing as systems of signs with their linguistic values, to archaeological and anthropological approaches to writing as a socially grounded practice. The main chapters focus on the concepts of script adoption and adaptation; different methods of logographic writing; and the vitality of writing traditions, with repercussions for the modern world. Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Download or read book German Renaissance Medals written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1990 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly work on German medals examines their origins, purposes, contexts and identification guidelines.
Download or read book Commemorative Medals and Coins Legislation written by United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Morgantina Studies Volume VI written by Shelley C. Stone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported. This volume presents the fine-ware pottery dating between the second half of the fourth century BCE, when Morgantina was a thriving inland center closely tied to the Hellenistic east through Syracuse, and the first half of the first century CE, when Morgantina had been reduced to a dwindling Roman provincial town that would soon be abandoned. Bearing gloss and often paint or relief, these fine ceramics were mostly tableware, and together they provide a well-defined picture of the evolving material culture of an important urban site over several centuries. And since virtually all these vessels come from dated deposits, this volume provides wide-ranging contributions to the chronology of Hellenistic and early Roman pottery. An introductory chapter sketches out a comprehensive history of the city, discusses the many well-dated archaeological deposits that contained the excavated pottery, and defines the major fabrics of the ceramics found at the site. The bulk of the volume consists of a scholarly presentation of more than 1,500 pottery vessels, analyzing their shapes, fabrics, chronology, decoration, and techniques of fabrication. This rich ceramic material includes significant bodies of Republican black-gloss and red-gloss vases, Sicilian polychrome ware, and Eastern Sigillata A, as well as early Italian terra sigillata, with numerous examples imported from Arezzo and other Italian centers, along with regional versions from Campania and elsewhere on Sicily. The relief ware includes important groups of third-century BCE medallion cups and hemispherical moldmade cups of the second and first centuries BCE. Morgantina was also an active center of pottery production, and the debris from several workshops has been recovered, enabling Shelley Stone to reconstruct the working techniques and materials of the local craftsmen, the range of ceramics they produced, and how their products were influenced by pottery imported to the site from elsewhere on Sicily, the Italian mainland, and even more distant centers. The volume also presents new information about the sources of the clay used by the Morgantina potters, as revealed by X-ray fluorescence analysis of selected vases.
Download or read book The Medals of Creation Or First Lessons in Geology and in the Study of Organic Remains Fossil Cephalopoda Crustacea insects fishes reptiles birds and Mammalia with notes of geological excursions written by Gideon Algernon Mantell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mouldmade Bowls of the Black Sea Region and Beyond written by Pia Guldager Bilde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-22 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up a new window into the Hellenistic world through a close study of mouldmade bowls, their places of production (both in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean), iconographies and distribution. The author’s unique access to material in the Black Sea Region provides the backbone to a rare comparative approach to an important type of vessel that traditionally has been studied in local isolation.
