Asher and -she in the book of ecclesiastes

Art and archaeology of antiquity volume i

Professor Cornelius Vermeule, a leading authority on Graeco-Roman art, has spent five decades researching Greek and Roman sculpture, particularly from the Roman Empire. This collection spans his contributions to periodicals from 1953 to 1995, divided into four volumes. Each volume includes new pr...

Chinese archaeological abstracts, 2

An account of the remarkable decade of Chinese archaeology from 1972 to 1981, as abstracted from Chinese journals. Volume 2, Prehistoric to Western Zhou, contains abstracts of over 110 articles describing excavations at sites ranging from Paleolithic through Western Zhou.

Industrial religion

This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and ch...

The wide lens in archaeology

Brian Hesse was Professor of Jewish Studies, Anthropology and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a leading specialist on ancient animal bones and the zooarchaeology of the Levant.  This volume honours his memory and reflects the wide range of his interests.

Studies in fifteenth-century stagecraft

A close study of eight plays and the elements Robinson considers essential to performance: playwright, sponsors, location, plot, script, players, and audience.

The qur'an revealed

This is a landmark publication in the history of Islamic studies, providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis, The Epistles of Light.

Golden age of king midas

Gordion, central Turkey, a Phrygian city at the crossroads, explored by Penn Museum since 1950. The exhibition "The Golden Age of King Midas" displays Turkish loaned artifacts and rare Penn Museum pieces, highlighting historic King Midas and Phrygia's ties with Lydia, Persia, Assyria, and Greece....

The complete works (robert henryson)

New edition of the poems of Robert Henryson, offers editions of Henryson's Fables, The Testament of Cresseid, Orpheus and Eurydice and twelve shorter poems, grouped according to the strength of their attribution to Henryson, as well as the glosses and explanatory and textual notes characteristic ...

54 souidias

Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the oldest American overseas research institute. This book traces the growth of this academic facility, which sponsors the long-term excavations of ancient Corinth and the Athenian Agora as well as one of the most important la...

The minor latin works

Gower's achievement in writing substantially in all three primary languages of his time—Anglo-French, English and Latin—was a source of pride to others and, undoubtedly, to him too: into the final years of his life he continued to produce poetry in all three languages.

Art and the british empire

This pioneering study argues that the concept of ‘empire’ belongs at the centre, rather than in the margins, of British art history. Twenty essays by authors from four continents offer innovative methodological approaches to the analysis of visual art as it was produced, exhibited, and distribute...

Inscribed material from the pennsylvania-yale excavations at abydos

An illustrated catalogue of inscriptions recorded during excavatione between 1967-69. The inscriptions comprise literary and religious ostraca, construction records, Middle Kingdom texts from the chapel area, inscribed potsherds, bricks, seals and other objects.

The consumers' choice

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between image and use in different contexts, with an emphasis on the user and consumer-that is, they explore the possible meanings images had for the individuals who obtained the objects on which they appear. 67 b&w illustrations.

Urban space between the roman age and late antiquity

This book investigates the substantial changes that can be perceived within the urban fabric and its surrounding territory in the transition period between the second century and the sixth century AD in several areas of the Mediterranean Basin that have remained unexplored until now.

In my fashion

Sol Kent, fashion director at Rich’s store in Atlanta, Georgia from 1948 to 1991, provides a unique education in the production of fashion shows, which he elevated to an art form. Through Kent’s vision, fashion becomes theatre. It will delight those intrigued by the power of style, by the world ...

Syriac hymnal with musical notation

This is the first official and complete hymnal according to the rite of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. It provides chants from Syriac chant traditions having the strongest potential value to the Syriac community. The hymns are transcribed into musical notation system, English translation,...

Visible spirit, vol. ii

The themes of this collection include historicism, commemoration, style and meaning, and the artist's intelligence. Lavin covers various aspects of the life and art of Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bernini's, in these three volumes. The studies have been updated and are accompanied by a com...

The play of daniel

Tthe first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New York Pro Musica. This book provides for the first time a critical introduction to the staging and production, music, and setting of the play in its architectural and historical context.

Hagios charalambos

Sinop landscapes

This book explores the historical connectedness of Sinop, Turkey, investigating economic, infrastructural, and political institutions over 5,000 years. From precolonial Greek settlements to Roman, Russian, and Ottoman periods, the Sinop Regional Archaeological Project sheds light on the region's ...

Rock art at little lake

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize. The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Ro...

Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies, volumes 3-4

The Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is published annually on behalf of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies aims to bring together individuals interested in Coptic Studies by promoting meetings and conferences as wel...

Early italian painting vol. ii

Edward Garrison's 1949 index on Romanesque Italian panel painting set the standard. His four-volume work (1953-1962) is a significant research contribution to Italian medieval painting (11th-13th centuries). These two volumes collect his post-1945 articles, supplementing earlier works and updatin...

The minoan shipwreck at pseira, crete

The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information on a society that revolved around seafaring.

The evolution of the human mind

In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science—from the Paleolithic to the present—vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience.