Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-271
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road

Matronianus, Comes Isauriae: an Inscription from an Early Byzantine Basilica at Yanıkhan, Rough Cilicia

1985 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hill
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
The Road ◽  
Scrub Oak ◽  
The North ◽  
Wild Olive ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Olive Trees ◽  
The Village ◽  
Early Byzantine

The ruins at Yanıkhan form the remains of a Late Roman village in the interior of Rough Cilicia some 8 kilometres inland from the village of Limonlu on the road to Canbazlı (see Fig. 1). The site has not been frequently visited by scholars, and the first certain reference to its existence was made by the late Professor Michael Gough after his visit on 2 September 1959. Yanıkhan is now occupied only by the Yürüks who for years have wintered on the southern slopes of Sandal Dağ. The ancient settlement at Yanıkhan consisted of a village covering several acres. The remains are still extensive, and some, especially the North Basilica, are very well preserved, but there has been considerable disturbance in recent years as stone and rubble have been removed in order to create small arable clearings. The visible remains include many domestic buildings constructed both from polygonal masonry without mortar and from mortar and rubble with coursed smallstone facing. There are several underground cisterns and a range of olive presses. The countryside around the settlement has been terraced for agricultural purposes in antiquity, and is, like the settlement itself, densely covered with scrub oak and wild olive trees. The most impressive remains are those of the two basilical churches which are of little artistic pretension, but considerable architectural interest. The inscription which forms the substance of this article was found on the lintel block of the main west entrance of the South Basilica.

The Making of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibetan Plateau

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Searle
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Plate Boundary ◽  
Indian Plate ◽  
North West ◽  
Geological Interpretation ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Himalaya

My quest to figure out how the great mountain ranges of Asia, the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibetan Plateau were formed has thus far lasted over thirty years from my first glimpse of those wonderful snowy mountains of the Kulu Himalaya in India, peering out of that swaying Indian bus on the road to Manali. It has taken me on a journey from the Hindu Kush and Pamir Ranges along the North-West Frontier of Pakistan with Afghanistan through the Karakoram and along the Himalaya across India, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan and, of course, the great high plateau of Tibet. During the latter decade I have extended these studies eastwards throughout South East Asia and followed the Indian plate boundary all the way east to the Andaman Islands, Sumatra, and Java in Indonesia. There were, of course, numerous geologists who had ventured into the great ranges over the previous hundred years or more and whose findings are scattered throughout the archives of the Survey of India. These were largely descriptive and provided invaluable ground-truth for the surge in models that were proposed to explain the Himalaya and Tibet. When I first started working in the Himalaya there were very few field constraints and only a handful of pioneering geologists had actually made any geological maps. The notable few included Rashid Khan Tahirkheli in Kohistan, D. N. Wadia in parts of the Indian Himalaya, Ardito Desio in the Karakoram, Augusto Gansser in India and Bhutan, Pierre Bordet in Makalu, Michel Colchen, Patrick LeFort, and Arnaud Pêcher in central Nepal. Maps are the starting point for any geological interpretation and mapping should always remain the most important building block for geology. I was extremely lucky that about the time I started working in the Himalaya enormous advances in almost all aspects of geology were happening at a rapid pace. It was the perfect time to start a large project trying to work out all the various geological processes that were in play in forming the great mountain ranges of Asia. Satellite technology suddenly opened up a whole new picture of the Earth from the early Landsat images to the new Google Earth images.

ARISTODEMUS ‘THE GOOD’ AND THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AGROTERA AT MEGALOPOLIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Annalisa Paradiso
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
The South ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Temple

Aristodemus, a Phigalian by birth, was tyrant of Megalopolis for around fifteen years in the first half of the third century b.c., possibly from the time of the Chremonidean War (267–262) until around 251, when he was murdered by two Megalopolitan exiled citizens, Megalophanes and Ecdelus, pupils of the Academic Arcesilaus. While giving an account of his violent death, Pausanias, none the less, draws a very positive portrait of him, also mentioning the nickname ‘the Good’ which he probably read on Aristodemus' grave. Pausanias also reports the foundation of two temples by the tyrant, both dedicated to Artemis. At 8.35.5 he locates one of the two temples at thirteen stades from Megalopolis on the road to Methydrion, so to the north. There, he says, is a place named Scias, where there are ruins of a sanctuary of Artemis Sciaditis. At 8.32.4, Pausanias briefly refers to the temple of Artemis Agrotera at Megalopolis. He says only that the sanctuary was on a hill in the south-east district of the polis, and adds that it was dedicated as an ἀνάθημα by the tyrant as well.

scholarly journals Ars Apodemica. Albert Meier og kunsten at rejse i renæssancen

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Cristina de Lima Agra Amorim Brander
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Petrus Ramus

Ars apodemica emerged in the 16th century as the result of an essential need for approaching and systematising knowledge acquired by means of travel. By developing methodologies of travel or ars apodemica, Renaissance scholars were implementing a reliable method to help travellers learn how to observe and gather valuable information about exotic worlds during their journey. Albert Meier (1528-1603), a minister living in the parish of Lindholm in the province of Schleswig, in the North of Germany, wrote in 1587 Methodvs describendi regiones, vrbes & arces…, a work that reflects the first steps on the road to the scientific discovery of the world, as well as the author’s ambition to organise travel and information. This article introduces the epistemological and pragmatic nature of the earliest methodologies of travel with specific focus on Meier’s work. Influenced by the French humanist and philosopher Petrus Ramus, Meier’s work reflects the growth of scientific method and consequently the emergent need for the systematisation of knowledge about exotic peoples and places. In other words, travel became secularised and consequently an instrument of learning. The main objective of this article is to direct attention to the fact that methodologies of travel challenged the traveller’s consciousness of the world as a locus of knowledge. Ideally speaking, the methodologies of travel or ars apodemica are the Art of Knowing – Man and the World.

Site Soil Investigations for Road Rehabilitation

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 372-379
Author(s):  
Vasile Boboc ◽  
Ancuţa Rotaru ◽  
Andrei Boboc ◽  
Gupinath Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Road Traffic ◽  
Surface Condition ◽  
Physical And Mechanical Properties ◽  
Soil Parameters ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Geotechnical Characteristics ◽  
On The Road ◽  
National Road ◽  
Short Time

The soil investigation performed on site identifies the physical and mechanical properties of the soil under the present road structure as well as the nature and thickness of the road structure to rehabilitate it when the road surface condition becomes poor or defective due to ageing, weathering and road traffic action. The rehabilitation processes re-assess the soil parameters to restore the pavement surface to the required level of service based on the recommendations of the field stratification as well as of the geotechnical characteristics of the studied emplacement. The paper presents the soil investigations on site along DN29 Suceava-Botoşani-Săveni-Manoleasa, Km 18+075 section of national road in Romania to get the information on subsurface conditions. The national road DN29 Suceava-Botoşani-Săveni-Manoleasa is covering the north-eastern part of Romania, in Moldavia region. Since its asphalt works in the '70s and '80s, nothing but partial sections of asphalt works has been carried out having never undergone major repairs. Due to external factors such as rain, snow, and traffic, the minor works that had been made make it usable for a short time, the results of soil investigation clearly attesting the rehabilitation priority. Some geotechnical characteristics of the national road DN29 Suceava-Botoşani-Săveni-Manoleasa, Km 18+075 section in Romania appear in comparison with those identified on site on the road DN29A Suceava-Dorohoi-Darabani, Km 50+075, in Romania, under a road structure that needed rehabilitation works as well.

Gambassini on the road. Underpinning evidence for a medieval widespread glass production in the north Adriatic area

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 103039
Author(s):  
Tania Chinni ◽  
Sara Fiorentino ◽  
Alberta Silvestri ◽  
Mariangela Vandini
Keyword(s):  
Glass Production ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road

scholarly journals Roads to recovery: an investigation of early medieval agrarian strategies in Byzantine Italy in and around the eighth century

Antiquity ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (332) ◽  
pp. 444-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Arthur ◽  
Girolamo Fiorentino ◽  
Anna Maria Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
The South ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
On The Road

The cumulative power of botanical and chemical analysis is demonstrated here by our authors, who succeed in opening a window on Europe's most obscure period, in the south as in the north, the time after the Roman and then the Byzantine empire lost its hold. The emphasis here is on the rise in production and trade of cash crops in the eighth century as detected by survey, pollen, charcoal and residues. Taken together, the new data show a community well on the road to economic recovery after two centuries of recession and monetary failure.

scholarly journals II.—On a Granophyre Dyke intrusive in the Gabbro of Ardnamurchan, Scotland

1900 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 436-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Busz
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Examination ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The Road ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The North ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Isle Of Skye

Last year, while on an excursion to Scotland, I visited the Ardnamurchan peninsula, which, as is well known, consists to a great extent of rocks belonging to the gabbro family. On the road leading from the little village of Kilhoan, opposite the Isle of Mull, on the north coast, a small quarry has been opened for road-metal, which shows an exquisite section of a granophyre dyke intrusive in a dark and almost black fine-grained rock, which the microscopic examination proved to be a gabbro. This is, therefore, a similar occurrence to that of Barnavave, Carlingford, Ireland, which has been admirably described by Professor Sollas, and also that of Strath in the Isle of Skye, of which Mr. Harker has given us a detailed account. As occurrences of this kind seem to be rather rare and, as far as I am aware, hitherto not known from Ardnamurchan, I may be excused for calling your attention to the following short description of these rocks, although there is but little to be added to the results attained by the skilful researches of the above-mentioned authors, and it only shows again that on Ardnamurchan we are to expect very nearly the same geological phenomena as in the adjacent islands, in particular in Skye and Rum.

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