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The Textile Term Gammadia, Maciej Szymaszek Jan 2017

The Textile Term Gammadia, Maciej Szymaszek

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

This paper aims to investigate the origin of the term gammadia by determining the oldest examples of its use both in source texts and secondary literature.1 For nearly four centuries this term was commonly applied to the various motifs on mantles of figures represented in art of the 1st millennium AD.2 These right-angled and letter-like signs attracted the attention of several authors who were seeking to explain their possible symbolic meaning, but they did not pay attention to the correctness of the term adapted to name such motifs.3 This approach contributed to the terminological confusion and difficulties in understanding the …


“Der Faden Soll Nicht Reißen, Während Ich Meine Dichtung Webe…”: Zum Metaphorischen Gebrauch Von Textilterminologie Im Rigveda, Stefan Niederreiter, Jan 2017

“Der Faden Soll Nicht Reißen, Während Ich Meine Dichtung Webe…”: Zum Metaphorischen Gebrauch Von Textilterminologie Im Rigveda, Stefan Niederreiter,

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

Wenn man sich als historisch-vergleichender Sprachwissenschaftler mit einem speziellen realienkundlichen Thema einer ausgewählten Epoche einer altindogermanischen Sprache beschäftigt, so ist man aus Erfahrung darauf gefasst, dass Informationen zumeist lückenhaft vorhanden sind und die Erschließung der Texte mit den unterschiedlichsten philologischen und linguistischen Schwierigkeiten verbunden sein kann. Trägt man das Erkenntnisinteresse textilterminologischer Fragestellungen an den ältesten indischen Text, den Rigveda (RV), heran, liegt es schon an der Textsorte der für rituelle Zwecke bestimmten sacerdotalen Dichtung, dass Informationen zur handwerklichen Praxis des Webens allenfalls verstreut, beiläufig und dann vor allem in poetischen Metaphern den vedischen Hymnen zu entnehmen sind. Aber gerade der …


Purple And Its Various Kinds In Documentary Papyri, Ines Bogensperger Jan 2017

Purple And Its Various Kinds In Documentary Papyri, Ines Bogensperger

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

The colour purple evokes an inestimable, priceless luxury in our understanding. It almost belongs in a legendary world along with other exquisite goods. Purple is seen as example par excellence for a symbol of social status, a token of prestige. A significant study on the importance of purple has brought to light the persistent desire for this colour throughout the Greek and Roman world.2 Literary sources from Roman times provide us quite comprehensive information on the colour and its sources. The most often quoted author is doubtlessly Caius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, who compiled specialist knowledge in …


Facing Mortality: Death In The Life And Work Of Damien Hirst, Dawn M. Delikat Jan 2017

Facing Mortality: Death In The Life And Work Of Damien Hirst, Dawn M. Delikat

Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.


A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Booklet, Historical Administration Jan 2017

A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Booklet, Historical Administration

2016-2017 A Question of History: Public History in Illinois

No abstract provided.


A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Design Brief, Historical Administration Jan 2017

A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Design Brief, Historical Administration

2016-2017 A Question of History: Public History in Illinois

No abstract provided.


Lost & Found: Order In The Court -- The Party Game, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber Jan 2017

Lost & Found: Order In The Court -- The Party Game, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens in our pluralist democracy.

The second game in the series, Lost & Found: Order in the Court …


Ua37/6 Faculty Personal Papers L.Y. Lancaster, Wku Archives Jan 2017

Ua37/6 Faculty Personal Papers L.Y. Lancaster, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding the nomination of Lennie Lancaster for the Kentucky Medical Association and Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians awards. The series is arranged in chronological order. A short biographical sketch by Dr. Jerry W. Martin, who made the nominations, is included. Dr. Lancaster's diplomas are in the collection, as well as an oral history interview conducted in 1973 which tells, among other things, of his work to establish Western's first campus bookstore in the summer of 1921. The collection also includes the KMA and KAFP awards, as well as several other certificates and awards.


Mandates Of Maternity At A Science Museum, From Should To Must, David H. Lee Jan 2017

Mandates Of Maternity At A Science Museum, From Should To Must, David H. Lee

Publications and Research

A pregnancy exhibit at a science museum is an opportunity to research how medical advice is communicated and interpreted. This paper is about the Beginning of Life area of an exhibition called The Amazing You at the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry, where exhibits are prescriptive as well as descriptive. Expectant women are urged to deliver full-term, normal birthweight babies, by behaving according to prescribed medical norms. This study provides ethnographic descriptions of the exhibits, as well as insights from museum visitors who were interviewed. The exhibits, which emphasize fetal rights and maternal duties, are interpreted and critiqued by …


Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams Jan 2017

Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams

Art Inquiries

Book review of Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, by Jane McFadden.


Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan Jan 2017

Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jan 2017

Front Matter

Art Inquiries

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Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp Jan 2017

Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin Jan 2017

The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani Jan 2017

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek Jan 2017

Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz Jan 2017

Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner Jan 2017

Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner

Art Inquiries

Book review of Arts: A Guide for Conservators, Curators, and the Curious, by Roy S. Berns.


Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och Jan 2017

Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond Jan 2017

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Dispatches, Sunny Spillane Jan 2017

Dispatches, Sunny Spillane

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz Jan 2017

Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman Jan 2017

An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus Jan 2017

Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Jan 2017

Back Matter

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, And Politics, Lucy Curzon Jan 2017

American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, And Politics, Lucy Curzon

Art Inquiries

Book review of American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, and Politics, edited by Helen Langa and Paula Wisotzki.


After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity, Donald Schrader Jan 2017

After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity, Donald Schrader

Art Inquiries

Book review of After Caravaggio, by Michael Fried, and of Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity, by Troy Thomas.


Art Inquiries, Xvii:2, Full Issue Jan 2017

Art Inquiries, Xvii:2, Full Issue

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Tools And Crafts, The Terminology Of Textile Manufacturing In 1st-Millennium Bc Babylonia, Louise Quillien Jan 2017

Tools And Crafts, The Terminology Of Textile Manufacturing In 1st-Millennium Bc Babylonia, Louise Quillien

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

What did sheep shears in the 1st millennium BC Babylonia look like? We are not sure. Many cuneiform texts were written about textile work in Babylonia, but it was largely about administration or accounting. There were hardly any descriptions of the actual tools and processes. In this article we go back over the words, the iconography, and the archaeology in an attempt to find these missing descriptions. This study is limited to Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC, and this period correspond to a state of the Akkadian language, called Neo-Babylonian. At these times, major evolution took place. Mesopotamia entered …


Garments, Parts Of Garments, And Textile Techniques In The Assyrian Terminology: The Neo-Assyrian Textile Lexicon In The 1st-Millennium Bc Linguistic Context, Salvatore Gaspa Jan 2017

Garments, Parts Of Garments, And Textile Techniques In The Assyrian Terminology: The Neo-Assyrian Textile Lexicon In The 1st-Millennium Bc Linguistic Context, Salvatore Gaspa

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

At its political and territorial apex in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Assyria developed into an imperial society characterised by the coexistence of languages and cultures of various origins. The policy of deporting and resettling conquered peoples across the Empire’s territory caused the spread of the Aramaic language and alphabetic script as well as the use of Aramaic as a co-official language alongside Akkadian. The linguistic change caused by these events in the Empire’s core territory emerges from the late stage of the Assyrian dialect, which shows the impact of Aramaic on various grammatical and lexical elements of the …