scholarly journals Newly-Discovered Fragments of the Balustrade of Athena Nike

1893 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 272-280
Author(s):  
V. W. Yorke
Keyword(s):  
Small Hole ◽  
Left Shoulder ◽  
Sculptured Surface ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

The immediate object of this paper is to publish three fragments of sculpture, which I had the good fortune to find on the Acropolis at Athens during the present year, and which may be, I think, claimed as belonging to the reliefs which ran round the bastion of Athena Nike. At the same time I should like to draw attention to, and discuss, certain corrections which have recently been made in some fragments of the same reliefs in the Acropolis Museum, and to make a few suggestions with regard to others.The most important of the new fragments, which is reproduced in the plate, was found among a small heap of débris upon the top of the bastion fifteen yards to the east of the temple of Athena Nike. The marble is Pentelic; the sculptured surface measures roughly ·40 m. by ·28 m., the back of the slab is finished and the thickness from the back to the ground from which the relief springs is ·23 m., while the height of the relief is ·12 m. These measurements, which correspond exactly to the measurements of other slabs that we possess of the balustrade, the high relief, and delicate style of the torso all show that this fragment undoubtedly belongs to the balustrade. Further evidence is present in the small hole drilled in the top for the in-insertion of the bronze screen, which ran along the top of the slabs. The fragment consists of the left shoulder and breast, and portions of the left arm and wing of a Nike.

XVII. Observations on some Roman Altars, found in August 1771, near Graham's Dyke. By Mr. Gough

Archaeologia ◽  
1775 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Gough
Keyword(s):  
Good Fortune ◽  
The Temple

The workmen employed to cut the new canal of communication between the Forth and Clyde, digging in August 1771, near one of the most considerable stations on Graham's Dyke, at Auchindavie, had the good fortune to light on four altars of different sizes, with inscriptions on one side of each, very legible. They had been thrown into a pit with the iron heads of two large sledge hammers, and the shoulders of a bust of the same materials with the altars, viz. of the grit stone of the county. Whether these hammers had belonged to the proprietor of the altars, or were used to demolish the temple, is uncertain. But as they were all buried together in the same pit and at the same time, they had probably served some purposes about the temple or fort, perhaps for knocking down victims.

scholarly journals Transformative Poetry. A Case Study of W. H. Auden’s Musée Des Beaux Arts and General Conclusions

Perichoresis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Marcel Sarot
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Massacre Of The Innocents ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

Abstract This article situates Auden’s poem Musée des Beaux Arts in the process of his conversion to Christianity. The author argues for the layered intertextuality of the poem, in which allusions to Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, The Census at Jerusalem, and The Massacre of the Innocents can be recognised. Moreover, Philippe de Champaigne’s Presentation in the Temple and Peter Paul Rubens’s The Martyrdom of St Livinus (in the same museum in Brussels) seem also to have influenced the poem. Finally, there is reason to suppose that John Singer Sargent’s Crashed Aeroplane influenced Auden. In an analysis of the structure of the poem, the author argues that there is a clear structure hidden under the surface of day-to-day language. He connects this hidden structure with Auden’s poem The Hidden Law, and suggests that Auden wished to claim that even though we cannot understand suffering, it has a hidden meaning known only to God. This hidden meaning connects our suffering with the self-emptying of Christ, a connection which the author demonstrates is in fact also made in Musée des Beaux Arts.

Paul of Samosata, Zenobia and Aurelian: the Church, Local Culture and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria

1971 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fergus Millar
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
The People ◽  
Fertile Crescent ◽  
Actual Movement ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

What we call the ‘Eastern frontier’ of the Roman Empire was a thing of shadows, which reflected the diplomatic convenience of a given moment, and dictated the positioning of some soldiers and customs officials, but hardly affected the attitudes or the movements of the people on either side. Nothing more than the raids of desert nomads, for instance, hindered the endless movement of persons and ideas between Judaea and the Babylonian Jewish community. Similarly, as Lucian testifies, offerings came to the temple of Atargatis at Hierapolis-Bambyce from a wide area of the Near and Middle East, including Babylonia. The actual movement to and fro of individuals was reflected, as we have recently been reminded, in a close interrelation of artistic and architectural styles. Moreover, whatever qualifications have to be made in regard to specific places, it is incontestable that Semitic languages, primarily Aramaic in its various dialects, remained in active use, in a varying relationship to Greek, from the Tigris through the Fertile Crescent to the Phoenician coast. This region remained, we must now realize, a cultural unity, substantially unaffected by the empires of Rome or of Parthia or Sassanid Persia.

A Note on the Temple of Zeus at Cyrene and its Re-Erection

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 185-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. H. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Jewish Revolt ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

During the course of work in Cyrenaica extending over the 1950s and 1960s I was asked by the late Richard Goodchild, then Controller of Antiquities, to note and comment on any architectural features which I felt to have special significance. In this way, across the years, I handed over to him various short notes with drawings of miscellaneous items that I had observed. Of one such observation a copy has come to hand recently among old papers.While working with the Michigan Expedition to Apollonia (1965–68) I visited the late Professor Stucchi's project for re-erecting the remains of the Temple of Zeus at Cyrene, begun in 1967. During the visit I was interested to observe the detailing of a triglyph block from the peristyle entablature. This seemed to conflict with, or rather to add somewhat to the then accepted building history of the temple — i.e. a (late) Archaic Greek Temple overthrown during the Jewish Revolt and subsequently refurbished minus the peristyle.Work on Professor Stucchi's project is not yet completed; and although he published both progress reports and some discussion of the findings, he has not, to my knowledge, given us a detailed account of the evidence for the history of the building; so perhaps my note made in 1968 remains of interest. I have left the argument as it stood, but some updating material has been added to the footnotes.G.R.H.W.Avignon, December 1993.

scholarly journals On the observations of stars made in some British stone circles.—Preliminary note

1905 ◽  
Vol 76 (508) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
Preliminary Note ◽  
May Day ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Made In

In continuation of my work in Egypt in 1891, and Mr. Penrose’s in Greece in 1892, I have recently endeavoured to see whether there are any traces in Britain of the star observations which I found connected with the worship of the sun at certain times of the year. A star rising about an hour before the sun was watched in order to determine the time at which it was necessary to begin the preparations of the sacrifice which took place at the sun’s rising. I stated that Spica was the star the heliacal rising of which heralded the sun at Thebes on May-day in the temple of Min, 3200 b. c. Sirius was associated with the Summer Solstice at about the same time. The equinoxes were provided for in the same way in Lower Egypt, but they do not concern us now.

The Influence of Sir William Jones upon Sanskrit Studies

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Master
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Pure Research ◽  
Made In ◽  
Sir William Jones

The advancement of learning is learning is chiefly made in these three ways—by pure research, by applied research, and by interesting the general public in the results achieved. The last item is not the least important, although scientists, especially those engaged in pure research, are apt to discount and even to ignore it. In any event it is essential to publish the fruits of research among fellow-scientists for criticism, appraisement, and development. The spark of learning, which passes from master to pupil, is so feeble that unless fanned to a vigorous flame by some external agency it is apt to flicker out. It was only by a stroke of good fortune that the works of Mendel were brought to light after a long lapse of years.

A surgical mask worn by the patient in addition to the barrier box reduces the droplet spray during endoscopy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Qadeer ◽  
Zaigham Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Face Mask ◽  
Small Hole ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Front Wall ◽  
Nasal Prong ◽  
Proper Position ◽  
The Face ◽  
Droplet Spray ◽  
Made In

Recent guidelines for the prevention of COVID-19 advocate that all the elective procedures should be postponed as these produce aerosols that may affect the staff engaged. Sagami R et al and Neven L et al published the use of a barrier box to prevent the spread of droplets.1, 2 We have done some modifications to this technique. Our endoscopic shield is made of three plastic square walls with a height and width of 50 cm and a length of 40 cm. The wall facing the patient has a hole of 10cm for insertion of the scope. The foot and head sides of the cube are left open. The opening in the head side helps the assistant to keep the patient in proper position, along with the mouth-piece and nasal prong. One may argue that it would lead to the spread of droplets but the previous study has shown that the droplets fall more on the wall facing the patient’s mouth, hence placing the surgical mask over the patient’s face further reduces the head-ward spread of droplets.3 This also helps to facilitate the to and fro movement of the box so that the intubation hole moves away and the intact part of the front wall faces the mouth. A surgical mask with a small hole is placed in a way that the hole is aligned with the mouthpiece hole. The shield is placed over the patient’s head. The scope is passed through the endoscopic port made in the wall of the shield facing the patient and endoscopy is performed. This technique has a few advantages. First, it gives free access to the assistant during the procedure. Second, putting the face mask further reduces the risk of the spread of droplets. Third, an appropriate window for endoscope insertion allows the operator to work at ease, especially during challenging procedures. Continuous....

scholarly journals Third Eteocretan Fragment

1904 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
R. S. Conway
Keyword(s):  
British School ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

§ 1. A Welcome addition to our knowledge of this language, the pre-Hellenic speech of Praesos and therefore the direct representative, according to all the traditions, of that spoken at the Court of Minos, was made in the continued explorations of the Altar-hill of Praesos by the British School in June 1904. As the nomos-fragment was found among débris which had fallen from the temple on the top of that hill, Mr. Bosanquet set himself to explore a line of ‘pockets,’ or vertical cavities in the rock along the side of the hill, some distance below the summit. One of these was choked with large pieces of rock which he removed by blasting; and he was rewarded by the discovery underneath of the new and most interesting inscription reproduced here.

Rosaliae Signorum

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

In the campaign of 1931–32 at Dura-Europos on the Euphrates there was found among the military archives in the temple of Artemis Azzanathcona a papyrus document containing a list of the festivals which were officially celebrated by the Roman garrison in the city. This document, of unique interest and importance, placed by internal evidence in the reign of Severus Alexander between the years A.D. 223 and 225, contains among its entries the two lines quoted above. In them is prescribed for celebration on two different dates a hitherto unknown festival which is of some little importance both for the religious life of the Roman army and for the history of Roman festivals during the Empire. An attempt will be made in this paper to interpret its nature and to touch briefly on both these aspects of its significance.

The Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome

1929 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-163
Author(s):  
Thomas Ashby
Keyword(s):  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Made In

A remark which I made in regard to Tenney Frank's article on the first and second temples of Castor at Rome, to the effect that its conclusions are based on inaccurate drawings, seems to call for some justification on my part. I may say that I had fully intended to discuss the matter in print long before this, and that it was only the impossibility of offering a more satisfactory solution that prevented me from doing so. But, if the truth is ever to be reached in this difficult problem, we must first clear away mistakes and misunderstandings; and it is with this object in view that I am publishing this note at the present time.A careful examination of the existing remains seems to establish the following points with regard to the earliest temple. (As I have not been able to give a fresh series of drawings, I have adhered closely to the order of Frank's argument.) The first point of divergence is in regard to the interpretation of the walls e and d. The former is no less than 3·24 metres in thickness, the latter 1·54 m.; and they are supposed each to carry a line of four wooden columns only 0·77 m. in diameter. The adaptation of means to ends is entirely out of all proportion.

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