Oxbow Books, 2013. — 193 p. Throughout the local Bronze and Iron Age, European and Mediterranean societies appear to have been involved in complex systems of exchange networks which invariably affected local customs and historical developments. Archaeological evidence suggests social and economic phenomena, cultural expressions and technological skills stemmed from multifaceted...
Éditions Latomus, 2012. — 276 p. — (Collection Latomus 336). Among the stories surrounding the legendary foundation of the city of Rome by the twins, Romulus and Remus, previous scholarly attention has focused primarily on one scene - the depiction of the she-wolf nursing the twins following their miraculous salvation from the floodwaters of the Tiber. This book examines...
Theiss Verlag, 2003. — 364 S. Ex oriente lux - aus dem Osten kommt das Licht", kann auch in dem Sinne verstanden werden, dass im alten Orient vor allem in Technik, Wissenschaft und Kultur Leistungen erbracht wurden, die dann über Griechenland, Rom und Byzanz bis nach Europa hin wirkten. Bereits im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. waren in den Ländern des Vorderen Orients auf der Basis...
Harvard University Press, 1969. — 64 p. The first inscription of the category now known as Proto-Sinaitic was discovered and copied by E. H. Palmer in Wadi Magharah during the winter of 1868-1869. The text was not published until 1904 and seems subsequently to have eluded rediscovery. But this find was useless until the Sinai expedition of (Sir) W. M. Flinders Petrie, who,...
Historia16, 1993. — 143 p. — (El Arte Y Sus Creadores 11). Tintoretto, cuyo nombre era Jacopo Comin (Venecia, 29 de septiembre de 1518-31 de mayo de 1594), fue uno de los grandes pintores de la escuela veneciana y representante del estilo manierista. En su juventud también recibió el apodo de Jacopo Robusti, pues su padre defendió las puertas de Padua frente a las tropas...
Historia16, 1993. — 137 p. — (El Arte Y Sus Creadores 3). Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai (San Giovanni in Altura, hoy San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo; 21 de diciembre de 1401 – Roma; otoño de 1428), más conocido como Masaccio, fue un pintor cuatrocentista italiano. A pesar de la brevedad de su vida, su obra tuvo una importancia decisiva en la historia de la pintura....
BAR Publishing, 2008. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 10784; South American Archaeology Series 4). La Cerámica Yampara Presto Puno - Orlando Tapia Matamala La Política Imperial Inka en el Norte de Chuquisaca: Cambios y Reestructuraciones en la Capital Yampara de Quila – Quila, Bolivia - María del Pilar Lima Torrez Identidad vs. Estilo: Los Yamparaes y la Ocupación...
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. — 120 p. The Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte is a master of optical illusion. His influence on pop culture is felt everywhere—from advertising and corporate logos, to consumer products and design. Magritte s paintings are witty and easy to enter, but their eerie calm can be unnerving and leave us with a feeling of Let's get out of here! We end up...
A. Tiranti, 1949. — 113 p. The aim of this little book is to present to the general reader a brief survey of the art of Ancient Egypt as revealed in its funerary sculpture during the Old Kingdom-the period covered by the first six dynasties (c. 3188 to 2294 B.C.).
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 223 p. — (Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 2 ). The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs - an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume...
Serindia, 2005. — 335 p. — (Volume One of Tibet Heritage Fund's Conservation Inventory). The Temples of Lhasa is a comprehensive survey of historic Buddhist sites in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The study is based on the Tibetan Heritage Fund's official five-year architectural conservation project in Tibet, during which the author and his team had unlimited access to the...
Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, 1980. — 265 p. — (Serie de gramáticas de lenguas indígenas de México 2). Esta gramática bilingüe de la lengua mixteca utiliza términos no demasiado técnicos para describir la variante de mixteco que se habla en el pueblo de San Esteban Atatláhuca, distrito de Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, México. La primera parte es en español y la segunda parte es en...
Augusta Raurica, 1975. — 92 S. — (Forschungen in Augst 2). One of the first clues in establishing the dating of the finds from Venusstrasse Ost came in the form of negative information in that only a few of our sherds were covered in Dr. Elisabeth Ettlingens now classic work on the excavation of the Frauenthermen in Augst. Since these baths were in use during the Second...
Brill, 2011. — 324 p. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 17). Setting as a starting point the introduction of the black-figure technique in Attic workshops at around 630 BCE, this book attempts a contextual analysis of Attic pottery until late in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE. The shapes and their functions, as well as the iconographic themes are explored through this...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 371 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 192). Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997 In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates,...
Springer, 1999. — 283 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 43). This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 289 p. — (BAR International Series 2760). Salt is a biological and social necessity to human life. Salt has played a significant role in many ancient and modern processes, such as trade, preservation, health and cooking, which in turn makes the production, trade, transport and use of salt visible both in archaeological and historical evidence. This...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 477 p. Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi (Romania). The impact of salt on the development of human communities, from the Neolithic to the present, has generated a huge number of specialized studies. However, scientific...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. — 432 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 132). Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 345 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 110). Until recently, the lower Euphrates basin in southeastern Turkey had remained closed to research. The region was virtually unexplored, an archaeological terra incognita. This situation was particularly regrettable since downstream in northern Syria recent archaeological work along the...
The University of Chicago Press, 1990. — 478 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 110). Until recently, the lower Euphrates basin in southeastern Turkey had remained closed to research. The region was virtually unexplored, an archaeological terra incognita. This situation was particularly regrettable since downstream in northern Syria recent archaeological work along the...
Chronicle Books, 2012. — 164 p. From LAIKA, the studio behind the hit film Coraline, comes another marvel of stop-motion animation and creative storytelling. For ParaNorman, LAIKA's team of artists and animators built and brought to life a miniature town, a horde of zombies, and a quirky cast of characters to tell a tale of a boy with spooky talents who must save his hometown...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 421 p. Modern Standard Arabic Grammar is comprehensive guide that introduces readers to the basic structure and grammar of the Arabic language. Its features include: Comprehensive coverage of Arabic grammar and structure in current standard use (MSA), from entry level to advanced proficiency Balanced treatment of the phonological, syntactic, and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. — 335 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 267). Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic linguistics. Alexandria, 2003 and Norman, Oklahoma 2004 The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held in 2003 (Alexandria) and 2004 (Oklahoma). They tackle a broad range of...
Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1983. — 218 S. — (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 184). Text in Mari in lateinischer Übersetzung und Deutsch. Текст на марийском языке в латинской трансляции и немецком языке.
Helmut Buske, 1993. — 254 S. Von den rund 670.000 Tscheremissen oder - wie sie sich selbst nennen - Mari sprechen mehr als 80 % Tscheremissisch als Muttersprache. Etwa 324.000 von ihnen leben in der Republik Mari in Russland an der mittleren Wolga. Die andere Hälfte der Mari wohnt verstreut, unter anderem in den Republiken der Baschkiren und der Tataren sowie in den Gebieten...
Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 2010. — 176 s. — (Apuneuvoja suomalais-ugrilaisten kielten opintoja varten 10). Kieliopin tarkoituksena on antaa lukijalle perustiedot marin äänne- ja muotorakenteesta, ortografisista periaatteista sekä taivutusmuotojen käytöstä. Teos on pyritty laatimaan mahdollisimman konkreettiseksi ja havainnolliseksi sekä oppikirjaksi soveltuvaksi. Kielioppi...
Otto Harrassowitz, 2002. — 319 S. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen IV. Reihe Ägypten 34). Neben den üblicherweise mit Tinte geschriebenen hieratischen Texten gibt es nicht selten auch hieratische Graffiti - insbesondere in den Steinbrüchen -, die in den Stein des Untergrundes eingeritzt worden sind. Die Zeichen dieser Texte weichen oft von denen des Tintenhieratischen ab, zeigen...
Hippocrene Books, 2006. — 252 p. — (Hippocrene Language Studies). This is revised and expanded edition of the popular guide introduces students to the Arabic language and script. It includes: - Model sentences and vocabulary lists - Comprehensive grammar - Irregular plural forms indicated - Imperfect verb form lists with tenses - Selections in Arabic from prose and poetry of...
The University of Chicago Press, 1932. — 427 p. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 6). This volume presents the text of Ibn Dawoud’s Kitab al-Zahrah, an anthology of verses on the subject of love, culled from preceding and contemporary poets. The Arabic text, drawn from a manuscript held by the Egyptian Library in Cairo, has been left untranslated in the hope that it...
The University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 688 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 140). After a decade-long hiatus in the years of World War II, archaeological fieldwork was resumed in Iran in 1948. In that year, the Oriental Institute returned to its long tradition of archaeological research by sending Donald McCown to the lowlands of southwestern Iran to conduct a series of...
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008. — 485 p. The present publication is the final report on the eleven seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, Alizadeh uses the data available from the excavations of the neighboring sites of Chogha Bonut and Boneh Fazl Ali to augment his reconstruction of Susiana...
University of Michigan Press, 1992. — 190 p. — (Technical Report 24). This book reports the results of an archaeological survey undertaken in southwestern Iran by a remarkable researcher: Dr. F.G.L. Gremliza. The author, Abbas Alizadeh, presents Gremliza’s survey data and provides an analysis of the developmental implications.
Archaeopress, 2021. — 336 p. — (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 7). Numerous metallic artefacts, which anciently were deposited in a hoard, came to light per chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Khawd, Sultanate of Oman. Mostly fashioned from copper, these arrowheads, axes/adzes, bangles, daggers, knives, socketed lance/ spearheads, metal vessels,...
Brill, 2019. — 167 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 98). This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, comprising more than 1400 lemmata and 1500 lexical items. The dictionary includes a lengthy introduction to the inscriptions as well an outline of various aspects of the Safaitic writing tradition.
MHGA, 2019. — 119 p. I first compiled this manual in 2014 to teach the Historical Grammar of Arabic at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School. I have since continued to update it with new material and insights, and have used various iterations to teach my classes at Leiden University and again at the Leiden Linguistics Summer School, the second time with Dr. Marijn van Putten....
The University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 160 p. — (Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East 2). The Damascus Psalm Fragment investigates Arabic’s transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It asks, What would Arabic’s early history look like if we wrote it based on the documentary evidence? The book frames...
Brill, 2022. — 164 p. — (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 1). This book approaches the religion and rituals of the pre-Islamic Arabian nomads using the Safaitic inscriptions. Unlike Islamic-period literary sources, this material was produced by practitioners of traditional Arabian religion; the inscriptions are eyewitnesses to the religious life of Arabian nomads prior to...
Gorgias Press, 2005. — 494 p. One of the most detailed and accessible grammars of the Syriac language written in Arabic, covering both morphology and syntax.
Undena Publications, 1978. — 100 p. — (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 8). In this work, I attempt to show the importance of studying together the various elements of man's remains in the archaeological record. This is particularly true in historical archaeology and specifically in urban architecture. The method used here aims at integrating cuneiform sources, art objects, artifacts...
Selbstverlag der Hausgegebers, 1973. — 109 S. — (Untersuchungen zum Rechtsleben im alten Ägypten 1). Eine Studie des Verfahrensrechts im Ramessidenzeit (XIII-XI Jh. V. Chr.) anhand von Materialen aus Deir-el-Medineh.
Im Selbstverlag des Herausgebers, 1973. — 340 S. Ausgabe von Papyri und Ostraka mit rechtlichem Inhalt aus der Zeit der Ramessiden (XIII-XI Jh. V. Chr.).
Im Selbstverlag der Hausgegebers, 1973. — 133 S. Ausgabe von Papyri und Ostraka mit rechtlicher Inhalt aus der Zeit der Ramessiden (XIII-XI Jh. V. Chr.).
Im Selbstverlag des Herausgebers, 1994. — 417 S. — (Untersuchungen zum Rechtsleben im alten Ägypten 2). Tagungsband des gleichnamigen Symposiums vom 18.-20. Juni 1990 in Tübingen (Deutschland), herausgegeben von Shafik Allam. Gegenstand der Forschung sind die Rechtsordnung und die sozioökonomische Rolle der Grundstücke im alten Ägypten im Besitz von Privatpersonen.
Macmillan , 1909. — 425 p. IN publishing this treatise on Greek Architecture I wish to acknowledge my obligations to many writers. These are all recorded in the List of Abbreviations at the end of the volume and in the references given in the text. But a more special acknowledgment is due to the scholars whose work has appeared in the publications of the German Government on...
Hazan, 2013. — 420 p. Nous est offert, pour la première fois en France, un panorama de la création artistique allemande sur une durée relativement longue — plus d’un siècle. Les courants artistiques, du classicisme weimarien, des Nazaréens à Otto Dix, en passant par Hans von Marées, Adolf von Hildebrand ou Franz von Stuck, mais aussi du romantisme d’un Caspar David Friedrich à...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. — 332 p. Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the towering figures to emerge in France in the wake of Napoleon. No other artist of the nineteenth century balanced a reverence for the past with such a strong ambition and spirit of innovation. Distinguishing himself from many other talented young artists in Paris, he gained renown in the...
English Heritage, 1988. — 150 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 7). During the examination of a sequence of timber forts underlying the third century military base at the Roman site of Corbridge, the remains of an iron-bound wooden chest was uncovered. Although much of the wood and other organic remains had rotted away, the contents, a remarkable hoard of metalwork...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 378 p. Roman Britain has given us an enormous number of artefacts. Yet few books available today deal with its whole material culture as represented by these artefacts. This introduction, aimed primarily at students and general readers, begins by explaining the process of identifying objects of any period or material. A series of themed...
BAR Publishing, 1989. — 238 p. — (BAR British Series 201). An illustrated catalogue of ear-rings with drawings or photographs, and distribution maps of the types; discussion of fashions and their use, manufacture, materials, workshops, distribution.