Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 vols written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

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Download or read book Satrianum written by R. Ross Holloway and published by Brown Publishing Company. This book was released on 1970 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Satriano (called Satrianum in Latin) was originally a Lucanian town. Excavations have brought to light traces of a small rectangular temple with a banqueting hall, an area for religious ceremonies and a portico. The town was situated at 950 metres above sea level on the top of a hill overlooking the modern town that since 1887 is called Satriano di Lucania (not to be confused with another town called Satriano in Calabria), and which, before taking the name of the destroyed city, was called Pietrafesa and, earlier, Petrafixa. Documents from the ninth century AD onward mention Satriano, which was definitively destroyed in 1430 by order of Queen Joan II of Naples. It is recounted that the queen ordered that it be burned to the ground because of the abduction there of a lady in waiting of the court who was passing through. The inhabitants moved to Pietrafesa. All that remains are some ruins, including those of the cathedral, which was dedicated to Saint Stephen, and a better preserved 12th-century tower."--Wikipedia.

Download or read book Egyptian and Egyptianizing Scarabs written by Andrée Feghali Gorton and published by Oxford University School of Archaeology. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarabs are common finds in Punic sites around the Mediterranean. In this study the author presents a simple typology for the scarabs that will provide a guide to classifying these finds. She indicates their own kind on other Mediterranean sites and investigates the grounds for their dating and their origin. The study is selective, being based on the major groups if finds from major Punic sites and from many minor ones. It offers some provisional answers to the many questions that beset studies of east and west, of Greek and non-Greek in the 8th-6th centuries BC and sets the scene for futher detailed study of the many scarabs from non-Punic sites that do not fall within this typology.

Download or read book Engineering Geology for Society and Territory Volume 5 written by Giorgio Lollino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the urban environment, such as: finding aggregates for construction works; providing adequate water supply and waste management; solving building problems associated to geological and geomorphological conditions; evaluating host rock conditions for underground constructions; preventing or mitigating geological and seismic hazards. Furthermore, this book illustrates recent advancements in sustainable land use planning, which includes conservation, protection, reclamation and landscape impact of open pit mining and alternative power generation. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes River Basins 3. Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes Urban Geology 5. Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Download or read book The Thomas Ashby Collection of Roman Brick Stamps in the American Academy in Rome written by James C. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashby's brick stamps forms the nucleus of a collection of some 350 different stamps in the American Academy at Rome. All are here published in full, though, since most can be found in CIL XV, it seems surprising that they have not been presented in a more economical format.

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Download or read book The Mediterranean Medina written by AA. VV. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.