The Roman Quarry and Installations in Wadi Umm Wikala and Wadi Semna

2001 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-170
Author(s):  
S. E. Sidebotham ◽  
H. Barnard ◽  
J. A. Harrell ◽  
R. S. Tomber
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Desert ◽  
First Century ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Detailed Surface

A detailed surface survey of the gabbro quarry and related facilities in Wadis Umm Wikala and Semna indicates activity in the first to second or early third centuries AD. Surface pottery found associated with quarry faces, loading ramps, related huts, skopeloi, a putative temple, a main adminstrative building and nearby hydreuma attest to intensive operations here contemporary with periods of early exploitation of the larger quarries of Mons Claudianus and Mons Porphyrites farther north in the Eastern Desert. A lengthy Greek inscription of the early first century AD recovered here over a century ago records that the ancient name of the site was Ophites.

Studies in the Ottoman Archives—I.

1954 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
First Century ◽  
General Study ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arabic Speaking

The following studies are all based on the registers of land, population, and revenue contained in the Ottoman archives in Istanbul. They will be limited to the Arabic-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and to the first century of Ottoman rule. It is not my purpose to attempt a general study of the history of these areas in this period, nor to correlate the information derived from the archives with that obtained from other sources in a comprehensive historical monograph. My aim is rather to offer a series of studies in detail in a certain class of documents and on a few special topics; that is, to make a number of soundings in depth at selected points, rather than a surface survey of this material. The topics have, as far as possible, been chosen so as to give a wide range of variety, dealing with town and country, inland and coastal areas, mountain and plain. The first two studies deal with Palestine, which of all the countries under consideration has by far the richest documentation in outside.sources, and therefore offered the most promising field for a first experimental study. This study presents in outline the picture of Palestine in the early Ottoman period that emerges from the registers, and is intended as an introduction to the material as a whole. It will be followed by a documentary study of the quarters, population, and taxation of the towns of Palestine, and then by further studies on selected rural and urban areas in Syria and Iraq.1

scholarly journals L’attività archeologica italiana dell’ISMEO in Armenia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Castelluccia ◽  
Roberto Dan ◽  
Riccardo La Farina ◽  
Arthur Petrosyan ◽  
Mattia Raccidi
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Lake Sevan ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
Detailed Surface ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Middle Iron Age ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Archaeological Landscape

This paper presents the results of the first 3 years of activity of the joint Italian-Armenian expedition between the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Science (Armenia) and the ISMEO – Association of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies (Italy) in the Republic of Armenia. The Italian-Armenian project, named Kotayk Survey Project,  aims to evaluate the archaeological landscape patterns of the territory of the Hrazdan river basin, which is located between two of the most important regions of Armenian highlands: the Araxes valley and the Lake Sevan basin. Along with a detailed surface survey, test excavations have been performed in a fortified site dated to the Middle Iron Age.

Studies of the scanning ion beam sputter-cleaned MgO crystal surface by scanning reflection electron microscopy

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 144-145
Author(s):  
H.-J. Ou ◽  
J. M. Cowley ◽  
A. A. Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Surface ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Carbon Film ◽  
Surface Region ◽  
Bulk Sample ◽  
Chamber Pressure ◽  
Specimen Preparation ◽  
Detailed Surface ◽  
Gate Control ◽  
Reflection Electron Microscopy

A scanning ion gun system has been installed on the specimen preparation chamber (pressure ∼5xl0-8 torr) of the VG-HB5 STEM microscope. By using the specimen current imaging technique, it is possible to use an ion beam to sputter-clean the preferred surface region on a bulk sample. As shown in figure 1, the X-Y raster-gate control of the scanning unit for the Krato Mini-Beam I is used to minimize the beam raster area down to a 800μm x800μm square region. With beam energy of 2.5KeV, the MgO cleavage surface has been ion sputter-cleaned for less than 1 minute. The carbon film or other contaminant, introduced during the cleavage process in air, is mostly removed from the MgO crystal surfaces.The immediate SREM inspection of this as-cleaned MgO surface, within the adjacent STEM microscope, has revealed the detailed surface structures of atomic steps, which were difficult to observe on the as-cleaved MgO surfaces in the previous studies.

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