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The underwater excavation of Dor D a Byzantine shipwreck off the Carmel coast began in 1999 This volume forms the report of the survey and excavation of the wreck and of its cargo and associated finds its domestic assemblage of pottery and metal wares anchors and ballast The second part of the report includes a broader study of Palestinian wine production wine exports and Levantine trade in general in the late 6th century Kinglsey argues that although Dor D is a lowstatus ship with a less than bounteous cargo that this is not representative of an economic decline during this period
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Scythians and Greeks focuses on the ancient history of the northern Black Sea region a major new frontier of Classical studies The book presents a series of engagements with key themes bearing on cultural interactions within the region from archaic Greek colonial settlement approx sixth century BC down to the regions inclusion within the Roman imperial system first century AD By bringing together contributors from Russia Ukraine and Georgia the book makes available material and ideas which are either wholly new or known only to a very limited circle of specialists The particular focus is on the relationships which developed in peace and war between the local peoples of the region conventionally termed Scythians and the cultures of the classical GraecoRoman world
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The underwater excavation of Dor D a Byzantine shipwreck off the Carmel coast began in 1999 This volume forms the report of the survey and excavation of the wreck and of its cargo and associated finds its domestic assemblage of pottery and metal wares anchors and ballast The second part of the report includes a broader study of Palestinian wine production wine exports and Levantine trade in general in the late 6th century Kinglsey argues that although Dor D is a lowstatus ship with a less than bounteous cargo that this is not representative of an economic decline during this period
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Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperors principal consort Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperors service As punishment Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean but she never reached her destination Instead she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto In 1641 Nakako began a new adventure she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nunRecounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her wartorn world G G Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives village storehouses and the records of imperial convents She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile receives an unexpected reprieve and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery While unraveling Nakakos unusual tale Rowley also reveals the littleknown lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war Written with keen insight and genuine affection An Imperial Concubines Tale tells the true story of a womans extraordinary life in seventeenthcentury Japan
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This book forms a final report on the underwater excavations I directed at Yassi Ada Turkey during the summers of 1961 through 1964 for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania The excavation was the first to have been completed on the floor of the Mediterranean of a wreck with substantial hull remains This pioneering work required the ingenuity effort and generosity of many people and institutions The seventh century ship was chosen for primary excavation not only for its lesser depth which allowed longer working dives but also because Throckmorton had uncovered traces of its timbers just beneath the sand and because it was more intelligible from the outset a stack of concreted iron anchors lying across the cargo at its upper end suggested the forward part of the ship pointing up the slope toward Yassi Ada while a mass of broken terracotta tiles and cooking ware suggested the galleyand presumably the sternat the deeper end of the site
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This book tells the story and presents the objects found on the Tang Shipwreck discovered off Belitung Island in Indonesia in 1998 and now housed at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore It is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of recent times Found at the site was a remarkable cargo of some 60000 Chinese ceramics dating from the Tang dynasty 618907 along with finely wrought gold and silver objects bronze mirrors and more ordinary objects belonging to the crewJust as remarkable were the remnants of the ship itself which consisted of wooden planks sewn together with rope This construction technique clearly indicated that the vessel had been built in the Persian Gulf or western reaches of the Indian Ocean and had sailed all the way from the Middle East to China and was on its way home when it ran aground in the Java Sea The Tang Shipwreck is a time capsule into ninthcentury China but also reflects many other cultures The ceramics were made for consumers halfway around the world which demonstrates the market demand and taste could play a role in mass production even in an age of agonizingly slow and perilous communication The ten essays in this profusely illustrated volume discuss the ceramics and other commodities onboard the ships construction and possible origin Chinas maritime trade in the Tang period Chinese ceramic production ports of call in Asia and Southeast Asia and life on board the ship
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Describes the worst shipwrecks during each decade of the current century including several worse than the Titanic
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Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperors principal consort Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperors service As punishment Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean but she never reached her destination Instead she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto In 1641 Nakako began a new adventure she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nunRecounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her wartorn world G G Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives village storehouses and the records of imperial convents She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile receives an unexpected reprieve and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery While unraveling Nakakos unusual tale Rowley also reveals the littleknown lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war Written with keen insight and genuine affection An Imperial Concubines Tale tells the true story of a womans extraordinary life in seventeenthcentury Japan
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This book forms a final report on the underwater excavations I directed at Yassi Ada Turkey during the summers of 1961 through 1964 for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania The excavation was the first to have been completed on the floor of the Mediterranean of a wreck with substantial hull remains This pioneering work required the ingenuity effort and generosity of many people and institutions The seventh century ship was chosen for primary excavation not only for its lesser depth which allowed longer working dives but also because Throckmorton had uncovered traces of its timbers just beneath the sand and because it was more intelligible from the outset a stack of concreted iron anchors lying across the cargo at its upper end suggested the forward part of the ship pointing up the slope toward Yassi Ada while a mass of broken terracotta tiles and cooking ware suggested the galleyand presumably the sternat the deeper end of the site
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This highly illustrated volume traces the evolution of shipping through the drama of shipwrecks
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Of the many translators who carried the Buddhist doctrine to China Paramartha a missionarymonk who arrived in China in AD 546 ranks as the translator par excellence of the sixth century Introducing philosophical ideas that would subsequently excite the Chinese imagination to develop the great schools of Sui and Tang Buddhism Paramarthas translations are almost exclusively of Yogacara Buddhist texts on the nature of the mind and consciousness This first study of Paramartha in a Western language focuses on the Chuan shih lun Evolution of Consciousness a text that reveals the outline of Paramarthas Yogacara thought The study begins with a discussion of Paramarthas life the historical and political context of the time in India and south China and the roles of his main disciples in disseminating his work It then describes Paramarthas treatment of Yogacarin views on language and the process of cognition both central to this system of thought The final chapter analyzes the history and content of the Chuan shih lun and the book concludes with a new translation of the text with extensive annotations
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Of the many translators who carried the Buddhist doctrine to China Paramartha a missionarymonk who arrived in China in AD 546 ranks as the translator par excellence of the sixth century Introducing philosophical ideas that would subsequently excite the Chinese imagination to develop the great schools of Sui and Tang Buddhism Paramarthas translations are almost exclusively of Yogacara Buddhist texts on the nature of the mind and consciousness This first study of Paramartha in a Western language focuses on the Chuan shih lun Evolution of Consciousness a text that reveals the outline of Paramarthas Yogacara thought The study begins with a discussion of Paramarthas life the historical and political context of the time in India and south China and the roles of his main disciples in disseminating his work It then describes Paramarthas treatment of Yogacarin views on language and the process of cognition both central to this system of thought The final chapter analyzes the history and content of the Chuan shih lun and the book concludes with a new translation of the text with extensive annotations
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We learn best by doing Informed by astronomy education research the Sixth Edition reflects an emphasis on learning by doing This emphasis is reinforced through thoughtful pedagogy and an innovative teaching and learning package Students get to interact with astronomy while instructors receive the resources they need to incorporate active learning into the classroom
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Through paintings sculpture and the decorative arts Luther Link examines common perceptions of the Devils image and attributes his tail horns flaming hair pitchfork Yet as Link shows there is no one standard depiction of Satan just as he has no one name Behind the mask of evil he has taken a bewildering variety of forms he can be the bloated and wanton cannibal of Giottos Last Judgment he can be half wise old man half malevolent monster he can even be beautiful and grand as in the Limbourg Brothers Fall of LuciferLinks compelling text identifies for the first time the origins of many of the Devils features provides new perspectives on the image of the Devil today and in medieval and early Renaissance times and offers unexpected insights or artworks ranging from illuminated manuscripts mosaics and reliefs to Michelangelos Sistine Chapel frescoes Drawing on original textual sources including colorful accounts of the Devils origins in the Bible the Apocrypha the writings of St Augustine and reports on the intrigues of popes and emperors Link produces a fresh view of this powerful and mysterious figure
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This book covers all early Indian objects pre600 AD held by the Department of Eastern Art in the Ashmolean MuseumContains previously unpublished materialNew photography for all objectsThe Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London Especially strong in sculpture this rich representation of Indian art from prehistory to the twentieth century has come about through the generosity of our benefactors over more than three centuries The Museums first major Indian sculpture acquisition a stone Palastyle Vishnu image of the eleventh century was given in 1686 by Sir William Hedges a governor of the East India Company in Bengal From the late nineteenth century a substantial core of the present collection was assembled at the Universitys former Indian Institute Museum 18971962 precursor of the Department of Eastern Art which opened within the Ashmolean in 1963 Since that date many more Indian objects of all periods have been acquired by gift bequest or purchase Contents Introduction Prehistoric South Asia The Northwest North amp Central India Eastern India and Deccan Miscellanea Bibliography
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