Sargonid sculpture and the late Assyrian cubit

Iraq ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Eleanor Guralnick
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The South ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
South West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Battle Scenes ◽  
The University

AbstractDuring the Spring of 1991, the Fall of 1993 and the Summer of 1994, a major effort was completed to measure all the surviving untrimmed, monolithic and essentially entirely preserved Late Assyrian sculptured slabs and figures from Khorsabad, dating to the time of Sargon II, that are now held in Western museums. The programme of measurement was undertaken as the Paris slabs were in the process of being installed in their new home in the Richelieu Wing, Musée du Louvre, Paris. The Khorsabad slabs in the British Museum, London, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and the Sargon stele in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin were also measured. In addition, a number of slabs in the British Museum from the South-West and North Palaces at Nineveh were measured. Some were carved during the reign of Sennacherib, while others, from Room 23, were decorated in the reign of Assurbanipal.The first stages in the analysis of the measurements have already led to a number of useful observations concerning the standards of measurement used in decorating Late Assyrian Palaces. Measurement of untrimmed slab widths and frieze heights from Nineveh portraying battle scenes suggest that the standard Late Assyrian cubit equalled 51.5 cm in length. Slabs from Khorsabad Façade L are cut to this same cubit. On the other hand, religio-mythological royal emblemata, or guardians of the gates, at the palace of Sargon at Khorsabad were carved in accordance with a cubit of 56.6 cm, precisely three finger-breadths longer than the standard cubit. A slab featuring King Sargon was carved to a cubit 55 cms in length, precisely two finger-breadths longer than the standard. This confirms the existence of three Late Assyrian cubits: a standard cubit, a “Big Cubit” (KÙŠ GAL-ti in the annals of Sennacherib, AS4.LUM GAL-ti in a text of Esarhaddon), and the rare “Cubit of the King” (KÙŠ LUGAL in Late Assyrian cuneiform documents), which is probably the same as the “Royal Cubit” (basileios pēchys), three finger-breadths longer than the standard cubit, mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus (I, 178).

VIII.—Contemporary Opinion of Poe

PMLA ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Killis Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Study ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
The South ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sir Walter Raleigh ◽  
The University

Although Poe is now all but universally acknowledged to be one of the three or four literary geniuses that America has produced, there was a period immediately following his death when few writers in America were willing to concede to him any extraordinary merit beyond that of an exceptionally gifted artist. It has sometimes been held that Poe was similarly neglected even before his death. Thus, so distinguished a scholar as Professor Sir Walter Raleigh, of Oxford, in a letter addressed to the celebrators of the Poe centenary at the University of Virginia (1909), makes the statement that Poe was “barely recognized while he lived.” Baudelaire, who did more than any other to light the flame of Poe's reputation abroad, believed that Poe was cruelly neglected by his fellow-countrymen, and most other Frenchmen have, I believe, adopted much the same view. In America, too, there has long existed a tradition that Poe was but little appreciated during his lifetime,—a tradition that has flourished especially at the South, though it has not been confined to the South. On the other hand, some of the ablest of those who have made a special study of Poe have held that this tradition is without any substantial basis in fact. The lamented Professor Charles F. Richardson, for instance, in one of the most sympathetic and discriminating essays that we have on the Southern poet, asserts that it is “a serious mistake” to assume that Poe was unpopular in his own day. And Professor W. P. Trent, a no less eminent authority on our literary history, has recorded the belief that “Poe is no exception to the rule that the writers who really count began by counting with their contemporaries.”

Federalism Vindicated: University Desegregation in South Carolina and Alabama, 1962–1963

1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia G. Synnott
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Minimum Amount ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
The South ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
White Racism ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The University

By the 1950s, two contrasting strategies of white leadership were emerging in the South: “massive resistance” and “moderation.” Both were equally committed in principle to a defense of segregation, but they employed different tactics: The former trumpeted “defiance,” the later counseled “delay.” The strategists of-“massive resistance,” who for a decade largely dominated politics in Alabama and Mississippi, were convinced that any concession, even a tactical one, would be a dangerous break in the dike of segregation. They believed that defiance could deter the federal government from enforcing the university desegregation decisions and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954; 1955). On the other hand, the strategists of “moderation,” who gained political ascendancy in South Carolina, maneuvered within the law, first to postpone implementation of Brown, and then to determine the minimum amount of desegregation that blacks would accept, which would not at the same time inflame white racists. In effect, they used skillful tactics of delay to “moderate” both white racism and black aspirations. Ultimately, they were more successful in achieving their objectives than the resisters, because they avoided sweeping federal interventions.

A Late Mamluk Document Concerning Frankish Commercial Practice at Tripoli

1999 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Commercial Practice ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Oriental Institute ◽  
Mamluk Period ◽  
The University

Much has been written about the trading relations of the Italian states with the Levant in the period of the Crusades and the late Middle Ages. The bulk of the material that has made these studies possible has been provided by the voluminous archives of the various Italian cities, which also contain a few treaties and letters that originated from Muslim authorities (largely of the Mamluk period) and have been preserved in the original and/or in translation. The document to be presented here was addressed to various officials in Tripoli, that is, Tarābulus al-Shām, and dates from near the end of the Mamluk sultanate. It is an order for the attention of the Mamluk authorities only, intended to govern commercial dealings in Tripoli as they were unilaterally understood. The document is not to be thought of as comparable with the so-called ‘treaties’, which were draw up after a process of negotiation although they were ultimately expressed as independent decrees of the Sultan. One can only wonder at the chance survival of this undoubtedly genuine piece. It is now held in the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, under the number OIM 13787. It was purchased in 1929 from Dr Bernhard Moritz, one-time librarian of the Khedivial Library in Cairo, and its provenance beyond that point is unknown. Three other Mamluk documents of the same period, which are relevant to affairs at Tripoli, survive in the archives of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, namely nos. LXIX, LXX and LXXI of those published by Ernst. The first of these three refers to the monastery's waqf property at Tripoli, but the other two have absolutely no connection with any interests or affairs of the monastery, and it is difficult to imagine how they found their way there.

scholarly journals Introducción a las fracciones en textos escolares de educación básica ¿figuras representaciones estáticas o dinámicas? -Introduction to fractions in textbook of Basic Education. Figures Dinamic or static representations?

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (23) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Gustavo Adolfo Marmolejo-Avenia ◽  
Lucy Yudy Guzmán ◽  
Ana Lucia Insuaty
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Geometric Shapes ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
South West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
The Way

La visualización desempeña un papel determinante en la comprensión de los fenómenos que subyacen al aprendizaje y enseñanza de las matemáticas, sin embargo, no es un asunto de constatación inmediata y simple, por el contrario, es una cuestión de tratamiento de información cuya complejidad debe ser descrita. En este artículo se explora el rol que juega la visualización asociada a las figuras geométricas en la manera en que algunos textos escolares de mayor uso en el sur-occidente colombiano introducen la enseñanza de las fracciones en los primeros ciclos de la educación básica. Se observó en los libros de texto analizados un desequilibrio entre el número de actividades que privilegian roles potentes a nivel visual y aquellas cuya potencia es moderada o inexistente.Introduction to fractions in textbook of Basic Education. Figures Dinamic or static representations?ABSTRACTVisualization plays an important role to understand the phenomena that underlie the learning and teaching of mathematics, however, it is not a matter for immediate and easy verification, on the other hand, it is a matter of information processing that describes complexity. This article explores the role that plays the visualization associated with the geometric shapes on the way in which some textbooks that are most widely used in the South-West of Colombia, are in charge of introducing the teaching of fractions during the first levels of basic education. It was observed in the analyzed textbooks an imbalance between the number of activities that promote visually powerful roles and those which power is controlled or non-existent.Introdução às frações em textos escolares da educação básica, figuras estáticas ou dinâmicas?RESUMOVisualization desempenha um papel fundamental na compreensão dos fenômenos que fundamentam a aprendizagem e ensino de matemática, no entanto, não é uma questão de observação imediata e simples, no entanto, é uma questão de processamento de informações cuja complexidade deve ser descrito. Este artigo descreve o papel desempenhado pela exposição associada às figuras geométricas sobre como alguns livros didáticos mais utilizados no sudoeste da Colômbia introduziu o ensino de frações no primeiro ciclo do ensino básico é explorado. Observou-se em livros de texto analisado um desequilíbrio entre o número de actividades que enfatizam visualmente funções potentes e aqueles cuja energia é moderada ou inexistente.

Constantinopolitana

1923 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-167
Author(s):  
F. W. Hasluck
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
The South ◽  
Essential Point ◽  
Long Cycle ◽  
South West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Many ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The City

Of the many resting-places assigned, by patriotic fancy, we must regretfully admit, rather than by well-authenticated traditions, to the last Greek emperor of Constantinople, none is more picturesque or more appropriate than the Golden Gate, through which, when the years are fulfilled, the victorious army of the Greeks is to enter the city and take possession once more of their ancient heritage. More than this, as Professor Polites has remarked, relatively ancient traditions of the saviour-king, who is to rise from the sleep of death at this historical moment, speak of him as dwelling ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ ἄκρᾳ τῆς Βυζαντίδος which may well enough be interpreted of the Golden Gate, standing as it does at the south-west corner of the triangular city.Despite this appropriateness, we note in the traditions a certain discrepancy as to one essential point—the identity of the sleeper at the Golden Gate. He is either the emperor Constantine Palaiologos, or his predecessor John Palaiologos, or—S. John the Evangelist! All these traditions are historically almost equally incredible. But the intrusion of S. John, who, according to mediaeval traditions, sleeps without tasting of death in his tomb at Ephesus, is at least intelligible in this setting. The figure of John Palaiologos, on the other hand, seems to be no more than a bridge effecting the transition between the deathless saint, John, and the deathless emperor, Palaiologos, of popular tradition. This hypothetical development would be explicable if we could find such a combination as the existence at the Golden Gate of a body marvellously preserved, and therefore reputed that of a saint, which was ignorantly identified first for obvious reasons with S. John, and later swept into the long cycle of local legends concerning the sleeping saviour-king. It seems possible that some, though not all, of the missing links can be supplied.

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