Finnish Oriental Society, 1987. — 272 p. — (Studia Orientalia 59). Nomen Romanum Wo der Pfeffer wächst L’origine du gerondif absolu On the absolute instrumental in Sanskrit Conditionals in Buddhist Sanskrit Word-pairs in Tokharian and other languages Deciphering the Indus script, methods and results Marginal notes on the Meluhha problem Connections between Finnish and Aryan...
Arcturus Publishing, 2008. — 571 р. This book takes a bird's eye view of architecture in time, and explores the different ways architects have responded to civilizations, giving them the buildings and cities they deserve. Synopsis From ancient amphitheatres to modern ziggurats, the art of building affects us all. The History of Architecture is an inspirational guide to what...
Langenscheidt, 2008. — 256 S. Sprachenlernen mit System: Die vollständige Neubearbeitung des klassischen Langenscheidt-Sprachkurses für Selbstlerner führt zuverlässig zum Lernerfolg.
Šviesa, 2007. — 166 p. Knyga skiriama unikaliam daugiasluoksniam, gilias europines šaknis turinčiam Lietuvos dvarų istorijos ir architektūros paveldui. Pateikiama duomenų apie dvidešimt daugiau ar mažiau išlikusių Lietuvos dvarų, jų istoriją, garsiąsias dvarininkų šeimas, kurių genealogija siekia senąsias lietuvių, lenkų, rusų ir kitų tautų gimines, apibūdinama rūmų ir kitų...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 230 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 73/Materials in languages of Indonesia 37). The book explores the role of the Indonesian language in unifying the diverse linguistic landscape of Indonesia. It delves into the historical development and sociolinguistic aspects of Indonesian, highlighting its...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 190 p. — (BAR International Series 3020/African Archaeology 93). This research aims to reconstruct the dynamics of exploitation and management of animal resources during the Middle Iron Age in the northern part of the Limpopo region (South Africa). The book offers an interpretation of faunal remains from two sites: Mapungubwe, an important regional...
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003. — 159 p. This volume presents the results of three seasons of excavations at Chogha Bonut, Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran. Susiana was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East and, thanks to more than a century of archaeological investigation, it...
Fratelli Fabbri, 1966. — 160 p. — (Storia universale dell'arte 1). La civiltlt egiziana, con i suoi aspetti cosi singolari ed ' unici', e per di piu conservatisi per millenni con poche varianti, gia presso gli antichi esercito un fascino e suscito un interesse maho maggiore di qualsiasi altra civilta contemporanea. Furono la sua stessa durata e il suo carattere conservatore (e...
Peerage Books, 1972. — 166 p. This authoritative guide contains 92 full colour illustrations that show brilliant examples of Art Nouveau's precursors and the style itself as it was applied in painting, architecture, sculpture, stained glass, ceramics, and small-scale domestic objects.
Octopus Books, 1972. — 168 p. The Shang dynasty (1523-1028 BC) The reign of the Chou (1027-256 BC) The Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) The six dynasties (220-590) The brief reign of the Sui (581-618) The T'ang dynasty (618-906) The five dynasties (907-60) The Sung nationalists (960-1279) The Yu an Mongols (1260-1368) The Ming (1368-1644) The Ch'ing (1644-1912)
Lincom Europa, 2000. — 65 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 301). Oneida is an endangered language of the Iroquoian family of northeastern North America. Among its more notable structural features are: its relatively small phonemic inventory lacking in labials; its use of whispered syllables; the complexity of the verbal morphology; the dominance of verbal structures over...
The University of Chicago Press, 1957. — 146 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 75). The eight documents presented in this work (together with Oriental Institute No. 14046, previously published) form the main basis of the present study. They represent nine fields and periods of pre-Islamic and early Islamic history that range from the story of creation to military history in...
The University of Chicago Press, 1967. — 336 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 76). This study was intended as an introduction to a fresh approach to the understanding of Islamic early attitudes toward Qur'anic commentary and toward the evolution and recording of Islamic tradition, as to both categories of content and methods of transmission. The first part of this work...
The University of Chicago Press, 1972. — 244 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 77). The present volume concludes the series of studies in Arabic literary papyri as envisaged in the Preface to Volume I. The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. Poets and scholars in the various fields...
The University of Chicago Press, 1938. — 123 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 15). This volume presents five Arabic papyri from the collection of the Oriental Institute. All five come from the town of Aphrodito (modern Kum Ishḳaw) in Upper Egypt and derive from the archive of Ḳurrah ibn Sharik, who was appointed governor of Egypt in AD 709 during the Ummayyad...
The University of Chicago Press, 1937. — 74 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 16). In the Moritz Collection, acquired in 1929 by the Oriental Institute, are three Arabic parchment documents of the fourth-century Hijrah (tenth century A.D.), two of which are contracts of sale of property, while the third deeds property as a charitable grant to what seems to be the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1939. — 160 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 50). The Oriental Institute acquired in 1929 the valuable Moritz collection, consisting largely of Arabic papyri, parchments, and paper manuscripts, with some Arabic stone inscriptions. The plan of the present volume grew out of an attempt to catalogue the Kur'an manuscripts in the Oriental...
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974. — 717 p. Provides information on the physical characteristics, geographical locations, and bathymetric ranges of sixty-five hundred species of North American mollusks.
Durham University, 1969. — 424 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Durham University, 1969. — 364 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Durham University, 1969. — 289 p. Linguistic study of personal names in the Nubian kingdom of Meroe: their semantics, meaning and connection with ancient Egyptian names.
Propylaeum, 2015. — 206 S. — (Daidalos – Heidelberger Abschlussarbeiten zur Klassischen Archäologie 4). Jahrhundertelang fuhren phönizische Schiffe, vom Wind angetrieben, von der syrischlibanesischen Küste über das Mittelmeer u nd über seine Grenzen hinaus. Die Berichte dieser Erkundungs- und Handelsfahrten wurden größtenteils nicht überliefert. Bis Mitte des 20. Jh. wurden...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 118 p. — (The Asyut Project 13). — ISBN13 9783447114318. — ISBN10 3447114312. Since 2003, the Egyptian-German team of The Asyut Project has been working on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi close to the modern city of Asyut. One of the areas investigated is a tomb known as Northern Soldiers-Tomb (H11.1) due to its painted decoration of marching warriors....
Archaeopress, 2015. — 234 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 6). This thesis explores the complexity and fluidity of Egyptian cultural identity in architectural form in Roman Egypt. It covers the period from the Roman conquest in 30 BC to the official recognition of Christianity in AD 325. The thesis focuses on the relationship between architectural form and layers of...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 388 p. Alexandria Antiqua: A Topographical Catalogue and Reconstruction is an attempt to find a way through an archaeological labyrinth of fragmentary evidence. Taking into account the last two centuries of systematic research into the topography of the ancient city while integrating the latest discoveries, the volume aims to catalogue the archaeological...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 408 S. Der vorliegende Band enthält den vollständigen Katalog von 719 Gräbern der spätbronzezeitlichen Nekropole von Džarkutan 4a, Süd-Usbekistan. Nach Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan ist es das umfangreichste archäologisch untersuchte Gräberfeld des Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC). Die Nekropole wurde in den 1970er Jahren durch Wissenschaftler...
LINCOM Europa, 2004. — 258 p. — (Languages of the world 32). Stylistic variation is the colourful manifestation of language. It is an intriguing linguistic phenomenon that can take place at different levels of language as it has been found in Qur'anic genre. Stylistic shift can occur within the sentence boundary at both the micro and the macro levels. In the micro text,...
Springer, 2017. — 246 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 93). This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties. The birth of the Principles and Parameters Approach makes it possible...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 322 p. The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets’ Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material demonstrates how ceramics, lithics, wrist guards, and metal artifacts contribute to our...
Wilhelm Friedrich, 1886. — 534 S. Eine Schrift wie die vorliegende läuft Gefahr einer doppelten Abneigung zu begegnen. Nicht nur sind die früheren Versuche ägyptischer Etymologen, eine Annäherung an Semitische und Indoeuropäische Etymologie zu vollziehen, von den beiden Gegenständen ihrer verwandtschaftlichenNeigung ziemlich unbeachtet geblieben: auch das mehrfache Unternehmen...
F. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung/Harrwitz und Gossmann, 1876. — 472 S. Den wesentlichen Stoff dieser Arbeit haben die gedruckten memphitischen Texte geliefert. Vom Sahidischen sind hauptsächlich Zoega, Catalogus, Pistis Sophia, die Woide'sche Ausgabe des Neuen Testaments und die Georgi 'sehen und Mingarellischen Editionen berücksichtigt; Baschmurisch ist nur selten nach Zoega...
Albert Heitz, 1889. — 522 S. Diese Schrift sucht in der Analyse einer Wurzel die Erkennbarkeit einer der indoeuropäischen vorausgehenden ägyptisch-indoeuropäischen Periode und ihrer Laut-, Begriffs- und Stammbildungsgesetze nachzuweisen. Die Entscheidung über die letzten Verwandtschaften wird für diese früheren Gesetze in Anspruch genommen. Den indoeuropäischen Gesetzen...
W. Spemann, 1890. — 102 S. Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung ist lediglich zu praktischen Zwecken bestimmt und beabsichtigt nur den Anfängern eine Auswahl von solchen Texten leicht zugänglich zu machen, deren Studium sie am schnellsten und sichersten zu eigenem Weiterarbeiten in Stand setzen wird. Zu „entdecken" ist nichts darin, da der Anfänger gut thun wird zu lernen, anstatt...
Édition Errance/Centre Camille Jullian, 2014. — 416 p. — (Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine 16). Les objets du quotidien, devenus mobilier archéologique du fait de leur enfouissement dans les couches sédimentaires ou de leur insertion dans des maçonneries, font partie intégrante des données que les archéologues utilisent pour la compréhension d’un site...
Lund Humphries, 2010. — 164 p. This book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was...
INAPH, 2021. — 561 p. — (Colección Petracos 4). Le présent volume rassemble diverses études qui, sous le titre “Bâtir en Afrique et en Ibérie pendant l’Antiquité”, ont pour principal objet d’analyser l’architecture, ou plutôt “l’art de bâtir”. Le croisement de méthodologies, d’hypothèses théoriques et d’approches pratiques d’une part et l’étude de paysages bâtis, d’édifices...
Springer, 2010. — 246 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 78). This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 300 p. — (Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 1). Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2007 The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 337 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). The papers in this collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic theory and more specifically relate to the various contributions Luigi Rizzi has made in this connection over the past three and a half decades. The authors are all either former students of Rizzi’s or colleagues and...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — 332 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 191). Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages,...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1988. — 58 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 32). I found it very convenient to gather, the history of the Library in this cahier in the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the building. Thus Annales LXVII and its supplement are consecrated to celebrate such an occasion. Both reveals incidents in the...
Brill Academic Publishers , 2001. — 492 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 7). The history of Israel of the Bible remains one of the most hotly contested issues in scholarship of the Hebrew Bible today. One of the clearest voices in the debate is that of Abraham Malamat. In the pages Malamat distills years of writing on the history of Israel from its beginnings...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 375 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 27). Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1)...
Zaphon, 2021. — 257 p. — (Kasion 6). “Les Chérubins / Keruvim dans l’Antiquité” explores the rich tradition of the angelic class of Cherubs (keruvim) and related winged divine figures in the Ancient World. Twelve articles are devoted to their conceptions, roles, and iconographies in the Hebrew Bible, in the Ancient Near East, in Ancient Egypt, in the Eastern Mediterranean...
University of Texas Press , 1994. — 194 p. Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures...
J. J. Augustin, 1937. — 82 S. Ein kurzer Aufsatz über die alten ägyptischen Kronen der Pharaonen: Ihre Art, ihr Aussehen und ihre symbolische Bedeutung vom ägyptischen Archäologen Abd el Moneim Abubakr.
Helmut Buske, 2021. — 192 S. Dieser praktische Sprachreiseführer bietet allen, die vorhaben, Georgien zu besuchen oder sich dort länger aufzuhalten, die Möglichkeit, sich während ihres Aufenthaltes auch ohne profunde Sprachkenntnisse verständigen zu können und die Besonderheiten des Landes von Beginn an zu verstehen. Der Fokus liegt auf der Kommunikation mit Einheimischen und...
CDL Press, 2001. — 482 p. This work consists of two volumes, on historiography in the Ancient Near East and on the use of seals in the Ancient Near East. The discussions and illustrations provide rare insight into facets of Mesopotamian civilization. Part I: Historiography in the Cuneiform World and Part II: Seals and Seal Impressions.
Brill, 1990. — 542 p. — (Harvard Semitic studies 37). Articles for this Volume in honor of William L. Moran were solicited from Bill's friends and colleagues in the summer of 1985. The majority of the contributions were received in 1986 or early 1987, and with few exceptions authors have not had the opportunity to make substantive changes or to update their references. The...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 306 p. In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet...