(ii) Interim report on the inscriptions from the aedes of the fort near Tel Shalem

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 214-222
Author(s):  
Avner Ecker ◽  
Benjamin Arubas ◽  
Michael Heinzelmann ◽  
David Mevorah
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Letter Size ◽  
Military Activity

Ever since the discovery of a building inscription of a vexillatio of the legio VI Ferrata near Tel Shalem,1 it was clear that the area was a locus of Roman military activity. In the following years the vicinity of the Tel yielded the inscription of a Hadrianic arch whose letter-size is surpassed only by the lettering on the Pantheon and the Arch of Titus in Rome.2 Most recently, the headquarters complex of the fort (principia), and in particular the regimental shrine (aedes or sacellum), have been uncovered (see above). Within and in front of the aedes were found three inscriptions:3 a dedicatory inscription to Caracalla on a statue base in front of the building (no. 1), and two mosaic inscriptions inside, one at the entrance to the nave (no. 2), the other at its far end (no. 3). The fills covering the building produced stamped roof-tiles bearing three different formulae. The new inscriptions prove that the building was the aedes of the Ala VII Phrygum. The earliest attestation of its presence in Syria Palaestina is inferred from a military diploma of A.D. 1394 found at Apheka, not far from Tel Shalem. Assuming that the Ala Phrygum, attested without the number VII in the province of Syria up to A.D. 88,5 is the same unit as the Ala VII Phrygum of our inscriptions, its transfer to Iudaea is most likely to be associated with the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt.6 The inscriptions published here provide the latest known date for its stay in Syria Palaestina, some 40 years after the latest date so far attested in military diplomas.7

Danebury, Hampshire: Second Interim Report on the Excavations 1971–5

1976 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Cunliffe
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Second Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Continuous Strip

SummaryThe results of five seasons of excavation (1971–5) are summarized. A continuous strip 30–40 m. wide extending across the centre of the fort from one side to the other was completely excavated revealing pits, gullies, circular stake-built houses, rectangular buildings, and 2-, 4-, and 6-post structures, belonging to the period from the sixth to the end of the second century B.C. The types of structures are discussed. A sequence of development, based largely upon the stratification preserved behind the ramparts, is presented: in the sixth–fifth century the hill was occupied by small four-post ‘granaries’ possibly enclosed by a palisade. The first hill-fort rampart was built in the fifth century protecting houses, an area of storage pits, and a zone of 4-and 6-post buildings laid out in rows along streets. The rampart was heightened in the third century, after which pits continued to be dug and rows of circular houses were built. About 100 B.C. rectangular buildings, possibly of a religious nature, were erected, after which the site was virtually abandoned. Social and economic matters are considered. The excavation will continue.

The Stanwick Excavations, 1951. Interim Report

1952 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. M. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The North ◽  
The One ◽  
Hadrian's Wall

In the parishes of Stanwick St. John and Forcett-with-Carkin, eight miles north of Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, are more than six miles of rampart and ditch, forming a complex of enclosures of a very remarkable kind. Since Leland's day they have been a sufficiently notorious archaeological problem, but their size and remoteness on the one hand, and possibly the counter-attractions of Hadrian's Wall on the other, have combined to deter analytical investigation of them.

Eleutherna on Crete; an Interim Report on the Geometric–Archaic Cemetery

1990 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 375-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Stampolidis
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
Of Greece

This paper gives a preliminary account of the structural and small finds from the excavations of 1985–1988 in the cemetery of Orthe Petra at Eleutherna. Discussion concerns particularly the funerary pyres in trenches with stone lining, the tomb enclosures, pithos-burials and the larger built tombs which date from protogeometric at least to the archaic period. Preliminary comparisons are made with similar customs in other regions as well as Crete, trade links are discussed between Eleutherna and the other cities of Crete, the rest of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, revealed particularly by the small finds.

scholarly journals English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus: An Interim Report

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takehiko Makino ◽  
Rika Aoki
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Corpus Studies ◽  
Secondary Purpose ◽  
Japanese Speakers ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Speech Database ◽  
L2 Pronunciation

The primary purpose of this paper is to explain the procedure of developing the English Read by Japanese Phonetic Corpus. A series of preliminary studies (Makino 2007, 2008, 2009) made it clear that a phonetically-transcribed computerized corpus of Japanese speakers’ English speech was worth making. Because corpus studies on L2 pronunciation have been very rare, we intend to fill this gap. For the corpus building, the 1,902 sentence files in the English Read by Japanese speech database scored for their individual sounds by American English teachers trained in phonetics in Minematsu, et al. (2002b) have been chosen. The files were pre-processed with the Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner to generate Praat TextGrids where target English words and phonemes were forced-aligned to the speech files. Two additional tiers (actual phones and substitutions) were added to those TextGrids, the actual phones were manually transcribed and the other tiers were aligned to that tier. Then the TextGrids were imported to ELAN, which has a much better searching functionality. So far, fewer than 10% of the files have been completed and the corpus-building is still in its initial stage. The secondary purpose of this paper is to report on some findings from the small part of the corpus that has been completed. Although it is still premature to talk of any tendency in the corpus, it is worth noting that we have found evidence of phenomena which are not readily predicted from L1 phonological transfer, such as the spirantization of voiceless plosives, which is not considered normal in the pronunciation of Japanese.

Comparison of Different Speech Processing Strategies on Patients Receiving the Same Implant

1986 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Blair Simmons ◽  
Laurel J. Dent ◽  
Dirk Van Compernolle
Keyword(s):  
Speech Processing ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Scala Tympani ◽  
Processing Strategies

Two subjects with transcutaneously connected 8-electrode scala tympani implants were given subsets of the Minimal Auditory Capabilities test during stimulation with five speech processing strategies — two single channel and three multichannel. While there were significant (p = 0.05%) scores on some items with all types of stimulation, one subject did as well with single channel analog as with multichannel stimulation. She is an enthusiastic full-time user of single channel stimulation. The other, a nonuser of the same device, preferred (and performed better with) one of multichannel stimulation. This is an interim report because neither subject has yet had the opportunity of nonlaboratory use of the multichannel schemes.

A Pannonian auxiliary's epitaph from Roman Gordion

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Military Deployment ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
Military Activity ◽  
Central Turkey

AbstractA funerary stele of a Pannonian auxiliary soldier recovered in 1996 at Gordion (Turkey) provided the first concrete evidence of Roman military activity at the site. The Latin epitaph on the monument revealed the presence of a unit (cohors VII Breucorum c.R. equitata), previously unattested in central Turkey, within the rural environs of northern Galatia. Little is currently known about the garrisons and movements of auxiliary forces in that region, and the monument's discovery permits a fresh examination of military deployment within Rome's comparatively lightly-garrisoned provinces of Asia Minor. New archaeological fieldwork in the Roman settlement at Gordion has provided a firm context for the stele, and recently published epigraphical finds relating to the soldier's unit and its deployment strongly link the monument's presence to activities surrounding Trajan's Parthian War (AD 114–117).

Platelet Involvement After Myocardial Infarction

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.R. O’Brien ◽  
R.I. Handin ◽  
M.D. Etherington ◽  
R.D. Shuttleworth ◽  
W. Calwell
Keyword(s):  
Myocardial Infarction ◽  
Inverse Correlation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Clotting Time ◽  
Enzymatic Process ◽  
Acid Glycoprotein ◽  
The Mean

After myocardial Infarction (MI) the Heparin Thrombin Clotting Time (HTCT) of platelet (plt) poor plasma is short, indicating an increase in Heparin Neutralizing Activity (HNA). Plt. Factor 4 (PF4) released in vitro also neutralizes heparin. Does the plasma HTCT in MI reflect PF4 released in vivo? Fifteen patients with MI were compared with 23 controls. The mean HTCT was 43.9 sees, in controls and 14.8 sees, in patients. Plasma PF4 measured by RIA was abnormal in 3 patients but strictly normal in the other 12 (n = 12, mean 3.96 ng/ml; controls n = 22, mean 3.54). There was no correlation between the plasma PF4 and the HTCT. The plts, were frozen and thawed and the patients’ plts, released less HNA (0.17 units/109 plts.) relative to the controls (0.70 units/109plts.) and there was a tight inverse correlation between the plasma HTCT and the intra-plt. HNA. Plts, were isolated and stimulated maximally with thrombin; then malondialdehyde (MDA) production reflecting PG synthesis was monitored fluorometrically. Patients liberated less MDA. (415 ng/109plts.) than the controls (911 ng/plts.). All differences are significant, except the PF4. Plasma fibrinogen and α1 acid glycoprotein were also measured. Thus after an MI and presumably as a result of it, plts, are damaged or “exhausted” as reflected both by a decrease in an enzymatic process - PG synthesis and by a decrease in the content of HNA (? PF4). This interim report also clearly demonstrates that the plasma HTCT does not reflect the same attribute as plasma PF4 detected by RIA.

scholarly journals Military Rhetoric in the Description of Women’s Behavior on the Basis of Cicero’s and Livy’s Selected Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziuba
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Early Literature ◽  
Military Science ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Roman Military ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Ancient Texts

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 60, issue 3 (2012). The article analyzes the original and rare Roman military phraseology found in surviving works of literature, which is part of the convention of invectives against women. As testified by the surviving fragments of the Law of the Twelve Tables, the Roman civilization divided the sphere of men’s activities (politics and war) from the sphere of women’s activities (home and family) quite early. Literature imbued with didacticism supported this division by creating archetypal figures of ideal representatives of both genders. In the course of development it worked out a stereotyped phraseology that served the purpose of describing virtutes feminae and, separately, men’s virtues, corresponding to the spheres ascribed to them. Any breach of the order established by tradition (mores maiorum) and law encountered severe reprimands, which nevertheless remained within the rhetorical convention of vituperatio. The two texts by outstanding rhetors that are analyzed here—Cato the Elder’s speech against the repeal of the Oppian law (AUC 34, 2-4) by Livy and Marcus Tullius Cicero’s speech Pro Caelio—supply examples of the use of military phraseology, usually used to describe typically male activities, in descriptions of women’s behavior. In the case of Marcus Porcius Cato’s speech, vocabulary belonging to the field of military science (agmen, expugnare, obsidere, coniuratio, seditio) serves the purpose of inducing fear in the men listening to him. In this way, by using the threat of power being seized in the republic by women, the consul motivated patres familias to act and not to yield to women. In the case of Cicero’s speech, military rhetoric was used to ridicule and embarrass Clodia Metelli as a credible witness for the prosecution in the trial of Marcus Caelius Rufus. Aggressive and at times obscene humor was supposed to divert the listeners’ attention from the defense’s lack of arguments concerning the substance of the trial. The original military phraseology used by both authors serves definite practical aims. What is more, its artistic dimension is decidedly pushed into the background. Cicero’s and Livy’s surprising idea allows us, on the one hand, to appreciate their ingeniousness in the field of rhetoric and their conscious rejection of conventions; on the other, it helps the contemporary reader of ancient texts realize the fact that men of the period of the Republic found it difficult to keep women within the limits imposed by tradition. They were forced to resort to sophisticated verbal argumentation in order to convince the judges and politicians (in both these groups patres familias prevailed) about the real threat posed by the ones in their charge.

scholarly journals Étude du changement découlant de l’intégration des technologies de l’information et de la communication dans une école secondaire de l’Ontario

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Leclerc
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Change Factors ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Integration Of Ict

This case study, which provides an interim report of the research conducted, describes the changes experienced by teachers after participating for three months in a project to integrate information and communications technologies (ICT) into an Ontario secondary school. The goal was to determine what changes occurred and what factors either fostered or impeded them. The participating teachers perceived active leadership in the school and social pressure to be the emergent positive change factors. On the other hand, they viewed a lack of available tools, time, and anxiety as being the main constraints. Profound changes in the roles of the teacher and the student were also noted during this period, changes that the teachers attributed to the integration of ICT into the curriculum.

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