Gorgias Press, 2007. — 163 p. — (Gorgias Historical Grammars 2.3). Arayathinal’s grammar is among the most comprehensive Syriac grammars ever produced. Designed as a teaching text, this volume is also a solid reference grammar for use by advanced scholars and beginners alike.
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 261 p. — (BAR International Series 2740/British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 16). Two silver vases of Greco-Roman style from the ‘treasure of wādī Ḍuraʾ’ (Yemen) Qatabanian jars in the port of Sumhuram: notes on the trade by sea in South Arabia Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and...
Peeters, 1988. — 612 p. — (Bibliotheque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain (BCILL) 42). I. STUDIES IN ANATOLIAN LANGUAGES FRANCISCO R. ADRADOS - Archaisms in Anatolian Nominal Inflexion YOEL L. ARBEITMAN - An Exchange of Letters between Edgar H. Sturtevant and J. Alexander Kerns on the " Is Armenian an Anatolian Language?" Question FRANCOISE BADER - La...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988. — 547 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 58). This is a memorial volume for Albert Ehrman. The contributions of this Gedenkschrift testify to his scholarly excellence in the field of Judaic-Semitic lexicography and etymology, and do full justice to the richness and thought inspiring qualities of his publications. Besides the...
Peeters, 2000. — 258 p. — (Orbis: Supplementa 13). This volume brings together twenty-one articles, all dealing with the languages, literatures and cultures of Asia Minor. The essays are preceded by a tribute to the late Charles William Carter (1928-1988), a specialist of Hittite, whose bibliography has been compiled by the editor of the volume. The articles, ranging from...
Zaphon, 2021. — 534 p. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 91/The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project Series 4). The excavations published in this volume are the first systematic investigation of Ottoman remains in the lower town of Jaffa and the only such volume in Israel dedicated largely to a final excavation report of Ottoman period remains. This is profound, because cultural...
Archaeological Society at Athens, 2003. — 144 p. — (Archaeological Society at Athens Library 229). In its final form the Atlas consists of a text beginning with a chapter on the accounts of early travellers from de Monceaux (1669) to Agnes Smith (1883). It is further divided into two parts, the first dealing with the Citadel and the second describing the area around it. The...
Verlag Huber, 2010. — 408 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 16). Eine neue Archäologie des Kantons Thurgau bietet jetzt auf über 400 Seiten pädagogisch hervorragend aufgearbeitete Sachinformationen über die Landschafts-, Klima- und Naturgeschichte zwischen dem Bodensee und dem Kanton Zürich. Sechs ausgewiesene Fachautoren zeigen in flüssig geschriebenen Kapiteln, wie die Menschen in...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 241 p. The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranches of the western Sand Hills. The first atlas of Nebraska published in over thirty years, this collection chronicles the history of the state with more than three hundred original, full-color maps accompanied by...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 356 p. — (Archivi Reali di Ebla Testi XX). Among several administrative sectors, the Archives of Ebla (Syria, ca. 2380–2330 B.C.) document month after month, over forty years, the expenditures of textile production (the first manufacture of the time) giving substance to an archaic society, also in relation with the neighboring states. An entire...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 680 p. — (Archivi Reali di Ebla Testi XIV). The Central Archive of Ebla (24th century BC) preserved a series of annual documents which allow us to reconstruct on one side the incomes of metals and garments to the Central Administration, and on the other side the expenditures of metals in the shape of objects (weapons, decorative objects, and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 878 p. — (Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 7). The cuneiform tablets from Ebla (3rd millenium BC) attest to the most ancient Semitic language and provide insight into a period in the history and religion of Syria that was previously unknown. The restoration, interpretation, and classification of these tablets has taken more than thirty years....
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 396 p. La publication des actes du colloque « Mégalithismes et monumentalismes funéraires : passé, présent, futur » reprend les trois grands thèmes de ces rencontres internationales en offrant une large place aux études récentes du mégalithisme en Europe ainsi qu’à l’ethnoarchéologie et aux questions de valorisation et de conservation de ce patrimoine...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 149 p. — (BAR International Series 3017). Il libro presenta l’edizione di un gruppo iscrizioni greche tardo-ellenistiche provenienti dalla città di Halaesa Archonidea in Sicilia, comprendente documenti di recente scoperta, alcuni dei quali inediti e altri recentemente pubblicati dall’autore, fra cui spiccano due frammenti superstiti delle perdute Tabulae...
Lerner Publications Co., 1990. — 88 p. — (The Key to Art). Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music and science. Renaissance art, perceived as a royalty of ancient...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. — 427 p. — (Creole Language Library 15). This introduction to the linguistic study of pidgin and creole languages is clearly designed as an introductory course book. It does not demand a high level of previous linguistic knowledge. Part I: General Aspects and Part II: Theories of Genesis constitute the core for presentation and...
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2018. — 371 s. — (Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 10). Die internationale Abschlusskonferenz des Projekts »Für Seelenheil und Lebensglück. Das byzantinische Pilgerwesen und seine Wurzeln« vom Dezember 2015 versammelte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Disziplinen von Archäologie, Byzantinistik, Kunstgeschichte,...
Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces, 2019. — 463 p. Este libro ofrece una síntesis del arte medieval cristiano e islámico, en Oriente y Occidente, desde su nacimiento hasta el siglo XII. Abarca, así, un amplio espacio temporal en el que tienen lugar manifestaciones artísticas de gran riqueza, producidas por distintos pueblos y culturas. El texto intenta responder a las...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1987. — 704 p. irst of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves—from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1989. — 675 p. Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1990. — 743 p. The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. The present book, fourth in the popular series, chronicles...
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1991. — 654 p. This is the final volume of an already standard work on private life in Western civilization from Greco-Roman times to the present. The entire work was planned by Phillipe Ariès and Georges Duby in the tradition of the Annales group; this volume was first published in France as Histoire de la vie privee: de la Première...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 288 p. A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts of their missions. These profoundly social museums adopt participatory practices and embark on community engagement processes in order to embed themselves...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 160 p. Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Approaches, Methods and Case Studies contains original research presented at the third international symposium of SNELA – the Society for Near Eastern Landscape Archaeology. SNELA was established in 2016 with the first symposium (held in Jerusalem) with the express aim of providing a meeting ground for all...
Archaeopress, 2009. — 198 p. — (BAR International Series 2009). This study focuses on Qasr al-Buleida ('the countryside castle [or] palace' in Arabic), a small hamlet located six kilometres to the northeast of the modern village of Ghor al-Mazra'a on the Dead Sea Plain. The hamlet comprises the archaeological remains of five free-standing, fortified architectural complexes, as...
Undena Publications, 1979. — 24 p. — (Monographic journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics 6.6). Dissatisfaction is expressed with the theories generally offered as explanation for the development of the IIwy verbs in West Semitic. As a result, recourse is made to an internal reconstruction of the relevant groun as it occurs in Classical Arabic, in terms of its lin...
Watson-Guptill, 2008. — 256 р. Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually...
Watson-Guptill, 2008. — 487 р. Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. The educational process begins as students copy masterworks, then gradually...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 267 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 35). In recent years an increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of water management in the ancient civilizations has generated much new discussion on water archaeology in ancient Greece. The present volume, Great Waterworks in Roman Greece, consists the very first presentation of large scale waterworks in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2005. — 284 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 571). The Ninth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and the Fifth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics were both held at The Australian National University in Canberra during January 2002. Rather than publish a single very diverse...
Penerbit Universitas Atma Jaya, 2011. — 158 p. This dictionary must be viewed as a work in progress. In what follows, I outline the methodology and other related topics that need to be further worked through. Hopefully, the quality of later versions of this dictionary can be improved. Researching and writing up a dictionary is a long, timeconsuming and delicate process. This...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 288 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 547). This book is the first comprehensive study of Balinese morphosyntax from a lexicalist perspective. It discusses intricate facts in the relationship between morphosyntax and semantics in Balinese and highlights the significance of the facts with regard to...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 229 p. Edson Armi offers an original interpretation of Romanesque architecture by focusing on buildings in northern Italy, Switzerland, southern France, and Catalonia, the regions where Romanesque architecture first appeared around 1000 AD. He integrates the study of medieval structure with a knowledge of construction, decoration and...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2022. — 122 p. — (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 72). On four renowned French Romanesque churches artisans treated formal and functional components, and practicalities of construction and support, as inseparable.
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2017. — 133 p. — (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 56). At the beginning of the eleventh century in northwestern Italy builders created a comprehensive system of architecture, integrating the square edges of stacked bricks on the exterior with arches, vaults, and niches inside the wall. They used the continuous verticality of bands to plan and demarcate at...
Unidad Editorial, 2005. — 180 p. — (Los Grandes Genios del Arte 27). Jan van Eyck es considerado como uno de los "meteoros" de la historia del arte, es decir, una de esas raras figuras que con su aparición cambiaron el curso de la historia de la pintura, inventando un modo completamente nuevo de representar la realidad. Semejantes conceptos se arriesgan a crear confusión,...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2020. — 320 p. The Sculptor's Cave is one of the most enigmatic prehistoric sites in Britain. Excavated in the 1920s and 1970s, new analysis of the archive has revealed a complex history of funerary and ritual activity from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman Iron Age. Using innovative methods and new techniques, this volume re-examines the...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2006. — 308 p. Wheelhouses were Iron Age buildings of great sophistication. Although found only in northern Scotland, they belong to a much wider “roundhouse tradition” that, before the arrival of the Romans, covered the whole of Britain. When tidal erosion on Cnip beach in west Lewis uncovered a spectacularly well-preserved wheelhouse...
Springer, 2021. — 352 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 99). This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and dialects. The collection, divided into four sections, proposes that SE...
Pearson, 2013. — 835 p. History of Modern Art is a visual comprehensive overview of the modern art field. It traces the trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The seventh edition deepens its discussions on social conditions that have affected the production and reception of modern and...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 152 p. — (BAR International Series 3063). Les données actuelles sur le peuplement de la péninsule italienne suggèrent un retard dans l'acquisition des autapomorphies néandertaliennes, lié à leur isolement géographique. En Europe, les premiers traits dérivés néandertaliens apparaissent il y a environ 450 ka alors qu'en Italie les spécimens présentent une...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2022. — 179 p. — (Bibliothèque générale 67). Cet ouvrage pratique se présente sous la forme d'un lexique réunissant le vocabulaire couramment employé sur un chantier de fouilles et de restauration en Égypte. Une première partie thématique recense les termes utilisés lors des activités de fouille et dans la vie quotidenne, hors du...
Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1967. — 263 p. Selected Articles on Tocharian Linguistics by George Sherman Lane Problems of Tocharian Phonology The Tocharian Palatalization (I) Miscellanea: The Tocharian Genitive B -epi, A -(y)ap Imperfect and Preterit in Tocharian Tocharian Evidence and the Trubetzkoy-Benveniste Hypothesis On the Significance of Tocharian for...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2019. — 625 p. — (Recherches d’archéologie, de philologie et d’histoire 43). Religion et alimentation sont intrinsèquement liées. La religion, en particulier antique, a besoin de la nourriture pour donner forme au rite : les aliments, en tant qu’offrandes, circulent entre l’ici-bas et l’au-delà, depuis les hommes qui les présentent...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 580 p. This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art Combines original research with a survey of...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. — 286 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 28). This volume documents twenty-six monumental tombs of the ancient Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty that were excavated by the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition from 1906 to 1934 and 1984 to 1991. Focusing on the study and reconstruction of the architecture of...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. — 329 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 26). Senwosret III was one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt, and his pyramid complex was one of the major architectural achievements of the Twelfth Dynasty. This book is the first volume of a projected series on the excavations conducted since 1990 by...
Philipp von Zabern, 1971. — 95 S. — (Grabung im Asasif (1963-1970) 1). Al-Assasif ist Teil des archäologischen Komplexes in Luxor, der zur Theban-Nekropole des Neuen Reichs gehört. In der Zeit von 1963 bis 1970 wurden dort vom Deutschen Archäologischen Institut in Kairo Ausgrabungen von Privatgräbern durchgeführt. Diese Reihe enthält detaillierte Berichte zu diesen Studien.
Phillip von Zabern, 1974. — 116 S. — (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 8.1). Eine detaillierte archäologische Untersuchung des Tempels des vereinigenden Pharaos und Schöpfers des Mittleres Reichs Mentuhotep II (ca. 2060–2009 v. Chr.) aus der XI. Dynastie in Deir el Bahri durch den großen deutschen Ägyptologen Dieter Arnold (* 1936).
Phillip von Zabern, 1974. — 115 S. — (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 8.2). Eine detaillierte archäologische Untersuchung des Tempels des vereinigenden Pharaos und Schöpfers des Mittleres Reichs Mentuhotep II (ca. 2060–2009 v. Chr.) aus der XI. Dynastie in Deir el Bahri durch den großen deutschen Ägyptologen Dieter Arnold (* 1936).