scholarly journals The Minories Eagle: A New Sculpture from London's Eastern Roman Cemetery

Britannia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Antonietta Lerz ◽  
Martin Henig ◽  
Kevin Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
The South ◽  
Oolitic Limestone ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Roadside Ditch

ABSTRACTThe limestone sculpture of an eagle firmly clasping a serpent in its beak was recovered from within the eastern Roman cemetery of London on the last day of excavations at 24–26 Minories, EC3 in September 2013. The sculpture, which is dated stylistically to the late first or early second centurya.d., had been carefully buried within the backfill of a roadside ditch no later than the mid-second century. The Minories eagle is one of the finest and earliest examples of freestone sculpture from the London cemeteries and presumably adorned the tomb of a rich and important individual or family located nearby. Petrological analysis of the sculpture has revealed it is carved from oolitic limestone quarried from the south Cotswolds. The article presents the context of the findspot and a detailed description of the eagle sculpture with an in-depth discussion of the iconography of the image and the results of the petrological examination. The Supplementary Material available online (http://journals.cambridge.org/bri) presents an account of the site stratigraphy, integrated with the specialist finds and the environmental reports.

scholarly journals Suitability of surficial media for Ni-Cu-PGE exploration in an established mining camp: a case study from the South Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. geochem2021-051
Author(s):  
Sarah Hashmi ◽  
Matthew I. Leybourne ◽  
Stewart Hamilton ◽  
Daniel Layton-Matthews ◽  
M. Beth McClenaghan
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Contamination ◽  
The South ◽  
Aqua Regia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Igneous Complex ◽  
Sudbury Igneous Complex ◽  
Geochemical Study ◽  
Pge Mineralization ◽  
Supplementary Material

A geochemical study over the southwestern part of the South Range of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) was completed to assess the suitability of surficial media (humus, B-horizon soil and C-horizon soil) for delineating geochemical anomalies associated with Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization. Another objective was to test whether Na pyrophosphate can eliminate the effects of anthropogenic contamination in humus. Results of this study suggest that the natural geochemical signature of humus is strongly overprinted by anthropogenic contamination. Despite no indication of underlying or nearby mineralization, metal concentrations in humus samples by aqua regia collected downwind from smelting operations are higher compared to background, including up to 13 times higher for Pt, 12 times higher for Cu and 9 times higher for Ni. The high anthropogenic background masks the geogenic signal such that it is only apparent in humus samples collected in the vicinity of known Ni-Cu-PGE deposits. Results of this study also demonstrate that anthropogenically-derived atmospheric fallout also influences the upper B-horizon soil; however, lower B-horizon soil (at > 20 cm depth) and C-horizon soil (both developed in till) are not affected. Glacial dispersal from Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization is apparent in C-horizon till samples analyzed in this study. Compared to the background concentrations, the unaffected C-horizon till samples collected immediately down-ice of the low-sulfide, high precious metal (LSHPM) Vermilion Cu-Ni-PGE deposit are enriched over 20 times in Pt (203 ppb), Au (81 ppm) and Cu (963 ppm), and over 30 times in Ni (1283 ppm).Supplementary material:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5691080

scholarly journals Supplementary material to "Mixing state of refractory black carbon aerosol in the South Asian outflow over the northern Indian Ocean during winter"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sobhan Kumar Kompalli ◽  
Surendran Nair Suresh Babu ◽  
Krishnaswamy Krishnamoorthy ◽  
Sreedharan Krishnakumari Satheesh ◽  
Mukunda M. Gogoi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Black Carbon ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Mixing State ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Black Carbon Aerosol

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 321-324
Author(s):  
Federico De Romanis
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
South India ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The South ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Ganges ◽  
Precious Stones

The epilogue summarizes what the two texts of the Muziris papyrus tell us about the pepper and ivory production of the ancient Cēra kingdom, South Indian commercial connections with the Ganges Valley, the logistics of the Red Sea–Alexandria transports, the complex relationships between the South India traders and the contractors of the Red Sea tax, and the assessment and payment of the import and export customs duties. It also looks at what the two texts do not mention—the part of pearls and precious stones in the South India trade of the mid-second century ad. Furthermore, a speculative estimate of the commercial venture final balance is attempted.

Gabriel Fauré and Théodore Reinach

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-46
Author(s):  
Samuel N. Dorf
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The South ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Gabriel Faure ◽  
French School ◽  
Ancient Music ◽  
Instrumental Accompaniment ◽  
School Of Athens

This chapter focuses on archaeologist and music scholar Théodore Reinach’s collaboration with composer Gabriel Fauré. In 1894 Reinach asked the composer to create an instrumental accompaniment to a recently discovered second-century BCE hymn dedicated to Apollo in Delphi. Reinach, along with other scholars from the French school of Athens, deciphered the Greek notation from the marble tablets, and Fauré wrote a modern accompaniment to the original melody. For Reinach, the need to re-enact antiquity transcended scholarly interest in his personal life. Reinach not only reconstructed ancient Greek music, but also built a replica ancient Greek villa in the south of France (with a modern piano hidden behind an ancient cabinet) in order to live out his ancient Greek fantasies. This chapter uses the metaphor of the modern piano hidden behind the ancient veneer of the cabinet to explore the ways modern aesthetics lurk underneath the scientific reconstructions of ancient music carried out by Reinach in the 1890s and 1910s.

Caesar: De Bello Gallico, Book I, cc. 1–41

1935 ◽  
Vol 5 (13) ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
A. G. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Military Intervention ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Lake Geneva ◽  
The South ◽  
Jura Mountains ◽  
Maritime Alps ◽  
South West ◽  
The Mediterranean

From about the fourth century b.c. Rome had a long-standing alliance with the Greek colony of Massilia (Marseilles) whose territory was constantly raided by southern Gallic tribes; these incursions called for military intervention from the Romans from the middle of the second century, culminating in a series of successful campaigns, the enlargement of Massilia's territory, the founding of the colony of Aquae Sextiae (Aix, 30 miles north of Marseilles), and the annexation of southern Gaul in 121 b.c. after the defeat of the Allobroges and Arverni. The province stretched from the Pyrenees up to Tolosa (Toulouse), then the frontier skirted the Cevennes to the Jura Mountains and the south-west corner of Lacus Lemannus (Lake Geneva); then it came in a south-south-easterly line to the Mediterranean coasts, by the Maritime Alps. It formed a very valuable corridor from Italy to Spain, and through it ran the Via Domitia beyond the Rhone; in 118 b.c. Narbo Martius (Narbonne) was founded, and so flourishing a Roman civilization grew up that Pliny later described it as ‘Italia verius quam provincia’.

Supplementary material to "Advection (non-climate) impact on the South Pole Ice Core"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler J. Fudge ◽  
David A. Lilien ◽  
Michelle Koutnik ◽  
Howard Conway ◽  
C. Max Stevens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Core ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
South Pole ◽  
The South ◽  
Supplementary Material

scholarly journals Colonización y emigración en el Alto Guadalquivir (siglos I a.C.- II d.C.) = Colonization and Emigration in the Alto Guadalquivir (Centuries I BC - II AC)

2017 ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
José Ortiz Córdoba
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
The South ◽  
El Alto

El presente trabajo pretende realizar una aproximación a los procesos de colonización y emigración presentes en las colonias romanas deducidas en la región geográfica del Alto Guadalquivir en el periodo comprendido entre los siglos I a.C. y II d.C. Partiendo de un estudio del contexto histórico que nos aporta la colonización desarrollada por César y Augusto en el sur hispano y basándonos fundamentalmente en la documentación epigráfica disponible, trataremos de abordar el estudio del momento fundacional de las colonias de Tucci, Salaria e Iliturgi, los contingentes de población que participaron en sus respectivas deductiones, así como detallar la emigración posterior que sobre ellas se proyecta; igualmente abordaremos el estudio de los individuos que, habiendo nacido en estas colonias, deciden trasladarse a otros lugares de la geografía peninsular o imperial.The current paper tries to make an approximation to the processes of colonization and emigration in the Roman colonies settled in the geographic region of Alto Guadalquivir from the first century BC. to the second century AD. Thanks to the study of the historical context of the colonization carried out by Caesar and Augustus in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the available epigraphic documentation, we will try to approach the study of the foundation of the colonies of Tucci, Salaria and Iliturgi, the groups of population that participated in their respective settlement, as well as to detail the subsequent emigration projected on them; we will also study the individuals born in these colonies that decided to move to other places of the peninsular or imperial geography.

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