The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler by Duncan Fishwick

By Duncan Fishwick

This quantity analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in each province of the Latin west the place facts has survived within the interval from Augustus all the way down to the mid 3rd century.
Particular recognition is paid to the epigraphic checklist, particularly the Testimony of honorific statues particularly at provincial centres, yet dialogue additionally focusses at the foundation and heritage of provincial clergymen, their workplace and tasks, and their careers either prior to and after keeping provincial office.
Of particular curiosity are the 16 tables that checklist the most evidence preserved through the epigraphic checklist, additionally a concluding evaluate that summarizes the vital gains of the establishment together with the place of work of priestess and the position of administrative officers. a few fifty plates illustrate the textual content.

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Key interiors since 1900 by Graeme Brooker

By Graeme Brooker

This publication defines the background of contemporary inside layout during the reuse of present structures. This procedure permits the background of the inner to be seen as break away the background of structure and in its place allows the internal to improve its personal historic narrative.

Following a quick creation, the booklet is prepared in six chapters at the following topics: domestic, paintings, retail, demonstrate, rest, and tradition. every one bankruptcy contains a range of case stories in chronological order. fifty two key examples courting from 1900 to the current are explored by way of context, inspiration, association, and element and are illustrated with images, plans, sections, idea drawings, and sketches.

This detailed historical past can be helpful for college students of inside structure and layout looking a survey adapted specially for them, in addition to attractive to basic readers

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Alberto Pinto Orientalism by Alberto Pinto

By Alberto Pinto

Дизайнерская фирма Alberto Pinto является одним из лидеров в области роскошного оформления интерьеров. Это парижское агентство со штатом в 50 человек пользуется авторитетом во всем мире благодаря разнообразным проектам оформления отелей, дорогих квартир, яхт и частных самолетов.

В книге отсканированы иллюстрации, 146 стр., текст отсутствует.

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Divinités orientales sur le littoral nord de la Mer Noire by M. M. Kobylina, O. J. Névérov

By M. M. Kobylina, O. J. Névérov

Synthèses partielles consacrées à l'un ou l'autre dieu, inventaires iconographiques, catalogues et synthèses régionales alternent dans los angeles série des ÉPRO pour l. a. plus grande delight des spécialistes de l'antiquité classique et de l'histoire des religions auxquels ces différents volumes apportent le plus généralement une documentation renouvelée et abondante ainsi que des monuments peu connus ou inédits. A ce dernier titre, on sera reconnaissant à M. M. Kobylina et O. J. Névérov d'avoir fait le journey des musées et collections d'URSS pour recueillir ces témoignages du culte des Divinités orientales sur le littoral nord de los angeles Mer Noire et de n'avoir pas négligé non plus, à cet effet, certains musées «occidentaux» (Paris, Constantinople).

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Burmese Design & Architecture by John Falconer, Elizabeth Moore, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni,

By John Falconer, Elizabeth Moore, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Alfred Birnbaum

The Burmese culture of structure, artwork and layout is historical, varied and beautifully wealthy. a mirrored image of a civilization unbreached through eu powers for 3,000 years and encouraged by means of China to the north and India to the West, Burmese layout is interwoven with non secular, spiritual and political messages. it's only now that this practice is coming to be preferred by means of Western scholars of structure and design.Burmese layout and structure will deepen and improve that appreciation, for this can be the 1st booklet to catch the complete span of Burmese layout, from arts and crafts to structure, from the enormous pagodas of Bagan to the architectural background of latest Rangoon. protecting either spiritual and secular layout, this ebook deals specialist insights supplied via top archaeological specialists during this box. With 500 full-color images, this can be a significant work-and essential for severe connoisseurs of structure, layout or Burma itself.

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The architecture of imperialism : military bases and the by Ellen Morris

By Ellen Morris

This quantity lines the evolution of recent state overseas coverage in Syria-Palestine, Nubia, and Libya via an research of the distribution of Egyptian army bases over the years and throughout borders. Archaeological and textual proof referring to fortress-towns, forts, border checkpoints, and armed forces headquarters is analyzed which will remove darkness from the ever-shifting techniques hired by means of the Egyptian executive to rule its topic territories. Exhaustive in its scope and illustrated all through with various maps and architectural plans, this publication may still curiosity Egyptologists, close to jap archaeologists and historians, in addition to anthropologists engaged within the comparative examine of early empires and armed forces strategies.

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Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern by William W Hallo

By William W Hallo

Origins is the 1st absolutely entire examine of the debt owed by way of sleek western tradition to historical close to jap civilization - a debt touched upon via average histories of the traditional close to East yet by no means as systematically investigated as the following through William W. Hallo. The writer, who has committed an entire life to the examine of the traditional close to East, areas the emphasis at the method the traditional close to East maintains to form our Western global. he's taking an in-depth examine the traditional origins of many associations which are so much necessary to modern lifestyles - and almost always taken with no consideration. within the exploration of the "first 1/2 history", Hallo exhibits that smooth principles of urbanism and the formation of capital have been first built among 3000-500 BC and that facets of 20th-century agriculture, production and alternate cross again to historic Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel. detailed awareness is given to the function performed via girls, arguing that this used to be a regularly non-traditional one; for instance, ladies are proven to were between the 1st authors in heritage who're really recognized via their names. The scope of the paintings is monstrous: Hallo methodically examines a variety of issues, from the order of the alphabet to the coronation of kings, and from education to the calendar. An fascinating contact is equipped by means of sections on video games and at the world's oldest cookbooks. This ground-breaking research leaves the reader with a whole appreciation of the legacy of the traditional close to East to trendy Western society, in all its elements. it will likely be crucial examining for researchers and basic readers alike who're drawn to the cultural background of the West in addition to the background of the historical close to East.

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Anubis alexandrin et romain by Jean-Claude Grenier

By Jean-Claude Grenier

Le dieu Anubis, une des plus antiques figures du panthéon de l'Egypte, est ici considéré dans le cadre de l. a. diffusion des cultes isiaques qui se propagèrent d'abord dans le bassin de l. a. Méditerranée Orientale sous l'impulsion des rois Lagides, dans l'Empire romain ensuite. Le yet de cette thèse est de confronter ce que devint Anubis dans le monde gréco-rpmain avec ce qui était sa personnalité traditionnelle dans son berceau naturel: l'Egypte.

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Uniqueness Questions in Reconstruction of Multidimensional by V. P. Golubyatnikov

By V. P. Golubyatnikov

The 1st a part of this new quantity within the Inverse and Ill-Posed difficulties sequence reports distinctiveness questions for recuperating the shapes of the convex and extra complex our bodies from shapes in their projections onto planes of low size. a few balance estimates of the recommendations to those inverse difficulties are given. the second one half offers with inverse issues of projection information at once attached to tomography, particularly to obvious contours of delicate surfaces, that have sensible interpretations resembling skinny cracks in non-stop media that are studied in wave optics, and so forth. New effects on reconstruction of delicate surfaces from observations of the wave fronts iteration through those surfaces are bought. This booklet will be of curiosity to researchers within the fields of inverse difficulties, crucial geometry and tomography.

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