FOUR INSCRIPTIONS FROM GREATER KNOSSOS AND THE ROAD TO ITS PORT AT HERAKLION (CRETE)

2012 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 313-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.W. Bowsky
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Private Worship

Four inscriptions of Hellenistic to Early Roman date were found in rescue excavations undertaken during the construction of public housing at the location Bedevi, east of Leophoros Knossou in the suburbs of modern Aghios Ioannis (Heraklion). These four inscriptions constitute an intriguing group as they provide evidence of a rural installation where a vessel with an inscribed lid was stored, a sepulchral site and private worship of Artemis, as well as a point between ancient Heraklion and Knossos where a Roman road crossed the Chrysopigis stream. In antiquity this area was part of the greater Knossos area, albeit closer to Heraklion than to Knossos. These four inscriptions provide new evidence for the nature of this area and for the northern road connections of Roman Knossos, particularly the road that linked Knossos with its harbour at Heraklion.

CONTENTIOUS ELITES IN CHINA: NEW EVIDENCE AND APPROACHES

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor C. Shih
Keyword(s):  
Committee Member ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
The Road ◽  
Elite Politics ◽  
Elite Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
On The Road ◽  
New Evidence

The purges of former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, former Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Xu Caihou, and the former head of the Central Committee Office Ling Jihua in 2014 re-excited a long-standing debate in the field of elite Chinese politics: how contentious is politics at the elite level? On the face of it, these purges, as well as the arrests of ninety nine senior officials associated with these three individuals and with other cases, seem to prove that elite politics remains highly contentious at the top (People's Daily 2015). This outcome was surprising considering that decades of institution building had taken place after the Cultural Revolution. However, proponents of institutionalized politics in the CCP argue that the leadership had a genuine desire to clean house, and that these arrests, even if politically motivated, instilled a renewed discipline in the party. Once the “bad apples” were eliminated, the leadership under Xi Jinping would have continued on the road of institutionalization (Li 2014). Cadre promotion institutions, regular meetings of the Politburo and its standing committee, party congresses, and retirement rules remain largely unaffected by the purges and will continue to ensure relatively harmonious decision making and predictable successions in the foreseeable future.

New Evidence Concerning the Original Order of Deposition of the Longmyndian Rocks

1948 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Challinor
Keyword(s):  
Coarse Grained ◽  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
The Road ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Original Order ◽  
The North ◽  
The Hill ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Village

During the war a large new quarry was opened in the Longmyndian rocks of Haughmond Hill, Shropshire. It is near the south-east edge of the hill, to the west of the road running north from Upton Magna and one mile from the village. On the sketch-map in the Shrewsbury Memoir (p. 58) two arrows are shown, at about this locality, recording dips of 50° in a south-easterly direction. I was told that there was a very small quarry here before the large quarry was excavated. The present quarry is even larger than that near Haughmond Abbey (Shrewsbury Memoir, p. 48), on the north-west side of the Pre-Cambrian outcrop, and the two quarries offer extensive and splendidly displayed exposures of Longmyndian rocks, one in the coarse-grained Western Longmyndian and the other in the fine-grained Eastern Longmyndian.

scholarly journals Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (10) ◽  
pp. 3028-3056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Chyn
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Housing Vouchers ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods ◽  
Young Adult Outcomes ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Displaced Children ◽  
High School Dropout Rates ◽  
Housing Demolition ◽  
New Evidence

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of moving out of disadvantaged neighborhoods on the long-run outcomes of children. I study public housing demolitions in Chicago, which forced low-income households to relocate to less disadvantaged neighborhoods using housing vouchers. Specifically, I compare young adult outcomes of displaced children to their peers who lived in nearby public housing that was not demolished. Displaced children are more likely to be employed and earn more in young adulthood. I also find that displaced children have fewer violent crime arrests. Children displaced at young ages have lower high school dropout rates. (JEL H75, I38, J13, R23, R38)

The Ager Cosanus and the Production of the Amphorae of Sestius: New Evidence and a Reassessment

1978 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 122-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Manacorda
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Accurate Reconstruction

This article arises from the current programme of excavation and survey of the Ager Cosanus and, in particular, of the Late-Republican villa of Settefinestre. The villa stands on a hill in the hinterland close to Cosa beside the line of the road which ran from the statio of Succosa, on the Via Aurelia, towards Saturnia. This villa is the most substantial and best preserved of a number of farms scattered over the district, all similar in plan and architectural features. The structural remains of some of these are still clearly visible: namely, the villa of Casale della Provinca which stands immediately to the north of Poggio di Malabarba, and the villa of Sughereto di Ballantino (or Valle d'Oro) which stands a few metres from the Via Aurelia opposite Succosa. Other visible remains, although clearly recognizable as villas, are in a worse state of preservation and do not allow any reasonably accurate reconstruction of their plan to be made.

VIII.—Roman Roads and the Distribution of Saxon Churches in London

Archaeologia ◽  
1917 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 229-262
Author(s):  
Reginald A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Line ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Middle Point ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City

The two centuries after the official withdrawal of the Romans from Britain are almost a blank in the history of the capital, and it is only fitting that the Society of Antiquaries of-London should discuss any new evidence of the city's condition during that period of transition. The picture has indeed been painted by a master-hand, but even John Richard Green's arguments are weakened by certain inconsistencies, and archaeology may be called in to give precision and completeness to his plan of Anglo-Saxon London. ‘That this early London’, he writes, ‘grew up on ground from which the Roman city had practically disappeared may be inferred from the change in the main line of communication which passed through the heart of each. This was the road which led from Newgate to the Bridge. In Roman London this seems to have struck through the city in a direct line from Newgate to a bridge in the neighbourhood of the present Budge Row. Of this road the two extremities survived in English London, one from the gate to the precincts of St. Paul, the other in the present Budge Row. But between these points all trace of it is lost’ For the Roman road shown in his map as crossing the Walbrook at Budge Row there is indeed more warrant than he was aware of. The road has been actually found near its middle point, and the Saxon churches along it suggest that it had not been obliterated in the centuries before the Norman Conquest.

scholarly journals Cramond Roman Fort: evidence from excavations at Cramond Kirk Hall, 1998 and 2001

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Masser ◽  
Fraser Hunter ◽  
Mhairi Hastie ◽  
Jeremy Evans
Keyword(s):  
Military Occupation ◽  
The South ◽  
The Road ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
New Evidence

Excavation on the site of an extension to Cramond Kirk Hall has provided new evidence for the layout of the defences of the Roman fort, the route of the road immediately beyond it and for the phases of Roman military occupation at Cramond postulated by previous excavators. The features encountered included a broad right-angled ditch, possibly part of the outer defences, turning at this point to run parallel with the road into the fort. Three much slighter parallel ditches or gullies at the south end of the site are tentatively identified as drainage features beside the Roman road which, on this interpretation, would lie just beyond the limit of excavation. At a later date, the ditch had been allowed to silt up and features including pits and a stone box-drain were cut on a different alignment, through the fill of the earlier ditch; a well was also cut across two of the roadside ditches. These later features appear to represent encroachment of extramural settlement on the defences during the Severan occupation, at a time when a large defended annexe had been constructed to the east of the fort.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Road Policy in the Light of Vision Zero in Jaworzno, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8745
Author(s):  
Paweł Pistelok ◽  
Daniel Štraub
Keyword(s):  
Road Safety ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
The Road ◽  
Serious Injuries ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City ◽  
Vision Zero

Vision Zero (VZ) is a systematic approach whose goal is to reduce the fatalities and serious injuries suffered in road accidents to zero, which was first adopted in Sweden in 1997. Besides assessing the policy implementation in the Polish town of Jaworzno, this paper applies VZ as a framework to describe transport policy development in Jaworzno. It concludes, that even without an explicitly defined strategical VZ document, the action taken by city officials in Jaworzno clearly overlaps with VZ, as evidenced in Sweden. Also, strong political commitment, clear leadership and a dynamic approach to adjust the development according to new evidence, show the city of Jaworzno to be a learning institution in its enhancement of road safety and its support of sustainable development.

New Evidence for a Polyandrion in the Demosion Sema of Athens?

1981 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 132-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Clairmont
Keyword(s):  
Archaic Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
General Terms ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Evidence

In 1967 Miss Olga Alexandri reported the discovery often trenches on the road from the Dipylon gate to the Academy. The area into which the trenches were dug measures c. five by seven meters; the individual trenches measure 1.10–1.35 m in length, 0.35–0.65 m in width, and 0.80–1.05 m in depth. They are arranged to form two pairs and two further groups each of three trenches set one behind another. In attempting to interpret the trenches, the excavator was reminded of beddings for stelai such as are attested for the archaic period. Apt as this observation is, it does not help to explain the number ten nor the togetherness of the trenches.In the introductory chapter to the Funeral oration by Perikles, Thukydides (ii 34) describes in general terms what the patrios nomos, the ceremony for the public burial of Athenian soldiers consisted of.

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