Inscriptions, Epigraphy
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Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch to forge a more authentic relationship to the past, to challenge stagnant artistic canons, and to foster deeper human connections. Networks of...
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Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of FatnessIn the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods...
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Texts from the Pyramid AgeAuthor: Nigel StrudwickPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/18/2005Pages: 564Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.68lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.32w x 1.26dISBN: 9781589831384This title is not returnable
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Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient MayaBorn in Siberia during a turbulent period in Russian history, Tatiana Proskouriakoff came to America with her family when her father was commissioned during World War I by Czar Nicholas II to oversee the production of munitions in the United States. With the Czar's...
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Sentinel's SoulWhen the most valuable power source on the planet is the human soul, protecting humanity is more than an essential service. Arturo Morales, a supernatural hybrid known as a sentinel, has spent half a century fighting in the shadows to protect those souls and...
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Disembodied Souls: The Nefesh in Israel and Kindred Spirits in the Ancient Near East, with an Appendix on the Katumuwa InscriptionBiblical scholars have long claimed that the Israelites "could not conceive of a disembodied nefesh soul]." In this book, Richard C. Steiner rejects that claim based on a broad spectrum of textual, linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological evidence spanning the millennia from prehistoric times to...
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Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary StudiesWomen Officeholders in Early Christianity is a scholarly investigation of the evidence for women holding offices of authority in the first several centuries of Christianity. Ute Eisen focuses on inscriptions and documentary papyri (private letters, official documents, contracts, and other such pieces) that have...
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Reading the Maya GlyphsDecipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has progressed to the point where most Maya written texts--whether inscribed on monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramics--can now be read with confidence. In this practical guide, first published in 2001, Michael D. Coe,...
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Decipherment of Ancient Maya WritingThe Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. Using classic articles taken from publications unavailable to most readers, accounts by Spaniards...
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Translating Maya HieroglyphsMaya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs...
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The Decipherment of Linear BThe languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by...
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The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: Codical Texts Volume 264This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and...
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Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of becoming American. The Angel Island Immigration Station in...
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Dictionary of Maya HieroglyphsThis authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script's complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each entry includes the illustrated glyph, its phonetic transcription, Mayan equivalent, part of speech, and meaning. About the...
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Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking RunesOf outstanding value to both runologist and Anglo-Saxonist alike. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Discussion of the forms of the runic alphabet and interpretations of individual inscriptions, with consideration of wider matters on which runes throw light - magic, paganism and literacy. How, where and why...
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L'anfiteatro Flavio nei suoi venti secoli di storiaL'anfiteatro Flavio nei suoi venti secoli di storia Gli incend, i terremoti, i saccheggi, le fazioni medioevali, le prepotenze dei baroni, la lontananza del Papa dalla sua sede, gli sconvolgimenti politici, fecero disgraziatamente sparire un gran numero di monumenti romani; ma la venerabile mole...
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El Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New MexicoEl Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New MexicoIn the year 1540, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado came up from Mexico with some 350 Spanish soldiers and crossed southeastern Arizona to Zui, a pueblo 30 miles west of El Morro. Breaking up into several groups,...
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London Signs and InscriptionsLondon Signs and InscriptionsUNTIL the beginning of this century, I may almost say till the development of our railway system some fifty years ago, though London was continually spreading in all directions, its heartthe Cityremained very much as Wren had left it. Here many...
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The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's NeedleThe New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle - With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of ObelisksChapter II. (Page 12.) The goddess Nekheb, the tutelary deity of kings, represented as a vulture carrying the Atef-crown on its head and holding a...
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Roman Sepulchral InscriptionsRoman Sepulchral Inscriptions - Their Relation to Archæology, Language, and ReligionThis little work originated in two papers, read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. They were designed to direct the attention of the members to the monuments preserved in their own Museum, and at the...
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