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Corinna Rossi. (2019). Egyptian cubits together with Late Roman architecture: the blueprint of the forts of the Kharga Oasis (Egypt), 16. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/16/>. 2333.1/5tb2rmg1Abstract: The Kharga Oasis, inwards Egypt’s Western Desert, is endowed amongst a scatter of Late Roman forts together with fortified settlements. The architectural remains of Umm al-Dabadib, the largest together with best-preserved site, were surveyed inwards 3D inwards 2014 at a high grade of accuracy together with precision. The ensuing 3D model allowed a detailed metrological study of the fort, which revealed that this edifice was planned together with built using Egyptian cubits. The other Late Roman forts of Kharga receive got non been surveyed equally accurately equally Umm al-Dabadib, merely even so a careful analysis of their architectural remains reveals that the same conclusions may live extended to these buildings also. This article presents the results of this investigation, which stand upwards for the latest attestation of the job of this unit of measurement of measure inwards architecture, together with suggests that these buildings were the effect of a articulation Roman together with Egyptian endeavour to guard the empire’s frontier.All Articles
Alexander Jones together with John M. Steele. (2011). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New Discovery of a Component of Greek Astrology inwards Babylonian Tablets: The “Terms”. ISAW Papers, 1. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/1/>. DOI: 2333.1/k98sf96r
LOC Subjects: Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian, Astronomy, Egyptian, Astronomy, GreekAbstract: Two cuneiform astrological tablets inwards the British Museum provide the maiden of all testify for Babylonian noesis of the so-called "doctrine of the Terms" of Greco-Roman star divination (BM 36326 together with BM 36628+36817+37197). Greek, Latin, together with Egyptian astrological sources for the diverse systems of Terms together with their root are reviewed, followed yesteryear preliminary editions together with translations of the relevant sections of the tablets. The organisation of Terms is shown to live so far the most technically complex element of Greek star divination to originate inwards Babylonia. Over the course of study of the Hellenistic menstruum an Egyptian root was ascribed to the systems of Terms equally it was combined amongst components of Greek horoscopic astrology. By Ptolemy's day, this spurious history had largely displaced the true.Catharine Lorber together with Andrew Meadows. (2012). Review of Ptolemaic Numismatics, 1996 to 2007. ISAW Papers, 2. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/2/>. DOI: 2333.1/9s4mw84wLOC Subjects: Ptolemaic dynasty, 305-30 B.C.Abstract: The authors review scholarship on Ptolemaic numismatics published betwixt 1996 together with 2007. They introduce the major conclusions of articles discussing the distribution, role inwards the economy, iconography, weights standards together with other aspects of this of import Hellenistic coinage.Gilles Bransbourg. (2012). Rome together with the Economic Integration of Empire. ISAW Papers, 3. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/3/>.Abstract: The modern economist Peter Temin has late used econometrics to fighting that the Roman grain marketplace was an integrated together with efficient market. This newspaper gathers additional information together with applies farther methods of modern economical analysis to accomplish a dissimilar conclusion. It shows that the overall Roman economic scheme was non fully integrated, although the Mediterranean Sea did create some meaningful integration along a few privileged merchandise routes. Still, it is non possible to seat pure marketplace forces that existed inwards isolation, since the political structures that maintained the Empire strongly influenced the displace of money together with merchandise goods.Tony Freeth together with Alexander Jones. (2012). The Cosmos inwards the Antikythera Mechanism. ISAW Papers, 4. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/>.Abstract: The Antikythera Mechanism is a fragmentarily preserved Hellenistic astronomical machine amongst bronze gearwheels, made almost the 2nd century B.C. In 2005, novel information were gathered leading to considerably enhanced noesis of its functions together with the inscriptions on its exterior. However, much of the front end of the musical instrument has remained uncertain due to loss of evidence. We study progress inwards reading a passage of i inscription that appears to depict the front end of the Mechanism equally a representation of a Greek geocentric cosmology, portraying the stars, Sun, Moon, together with all 5 planets known inwards antiquity. Complementing this, nosotros advise a novel mechanical reconstruction of planetary gearwork inwards the Mechanism, incorporating an economical blueprint closely analogous to the previously identified lunar anomaly mechanism, together with accounting for much unresolved physical evidence.Adam C. McCollum. (2012). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Syriac Fragment from The Cause of All Causes on the Pillars of Hercules. ISAW Papers, 5. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/5/>.Abstract: This brief notation draws attending to a passage from the Syriac Cause of All Causes that describes the Pillars of Hercules, merely equally existence 3 inwards issue rather than two. The Syriac text inwards interrogation has been well-known since it was published inwards 1889. This particular passage is studied together with commented on hither especially equally it appears inwards a late cataloged manuscript from Dayr Al-Za‘farān, inwards which the passage is completely divorced from its context inwards the Cause of All Causes.Mantha Zarmakoupi. (2013). The Quartier du Stade on belatedly Hellenistic Delos: a instance study of rapid urbanization (fieldwork seasons 2009-2010). ISAW Papers, 6. http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/6/>.Abstract: This study examines recent archaeological testify for the Quartier du Stade on Delos, which was newly formed later on 167 CE. Analysis of the changes inwards the houses together with the overall urban evolution of this neighborhood contribute to revealing the forces that shaped the metropolis of Delos inwards this period, such equally economy, politics, together with ideology.Tom Elliott, Sebastian Heath together with John Muccigrosso. (2014). Current Practice inwards Linked Open Data for the Ancient World. ISAW Papers, 7. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/>.Abstract: Reports on electrical flow piece of work relevant to the role of Linked Open Data (LOD) inwards the study of the ancient world. As a term, LOD encompasses approaches to the publication of digital resources that emphasize stability, relatively fine-grained access to intellectual content via populace URIs, together with re-usability equally defined both yesteryear publication of machine reabable information together with yesteryear publication nether licenses that permit farther copying of available materials. This article presents a serial of reports from participants inwards 2012 together with 2013 sessions of the NEH-funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute. The contributors come upwards from a broad arrive at of academic disciplines together with professional person backgrounds. The projects they stand upwards for reverberate this arrive at together with likewise illustrate many stages of the procedure of moving from concept to implementation.Links: zoteroFederico De Romanis. (2014). Ivory from Muzuris. ISAW Papers, 8. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/8/>.Abstract: The extant part of the verso side of the “Muziris papyrus” (PVindob G 40822 v = SB XVIII 13617 v) contains the monetary evaluation of three-quarters of an Indian cargo loaded on the transportation Hermapollon. Among the commodities are 167 elephant tusks weighing 3,228.5 kgs together with schidai weighing 538.5 kgs. It is argued that schidai are fragments of tusks trimmed away from captive elephants. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 comparing amongst commercial ivory lots of the early on sixteenth century shows the selected character of the tusks loaded on the Hermapollon.Links: zoteroPaola Davoli together with Christian Miks. (2015). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 New “Roman” Sword from Soknopaiou Nesos (El-Fayyum, Egypt). ISAW Papers, 9. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/9/>.Abstract: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 long together with good preserved sword was brought to low-cal inwards 2006 during the archaeological excavations carried out yesteryear the Soknopaiou Nesos Project (University of Salento, Lecce) inwards the temenos of the principal temple inwards Soknopaiou Nesos, modern Dime. The electrical flow nation of inquiry would suggest a classification equally a Roman, or at to the lowest degree Roman influenced, weapon of the belatedly Republican period. However, some peculiar elements of this sword seem to dot to an oriental or Egyptian lastly assemblage. It hence may give a novel impulse to the soundless opened upwards intelligence almost the appearance of Hellenistic swords starting from the menstruum of Alexander's Successors. The weapon tin receive got been used yesteryear soldiers of the belatedly Ptolemaic menstruum equally good equally yesteryear members of the Roman army. The interrogation whether the sword ended upwards inwards the temenos equally component division of local defensive arms or equally a votive object volition largely stay speculative, equally its honor context is non stratigraphically reliable.Links: zoteroSebastian Heath, J.L. Rife, Jorge J. Bravo III, together with Gavin Blasdel. (2015). Preliminary Report on Early Byzantine Pottery from a Building Complex at Kenchreai (Greece). ISAW Papers, 10. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/10/>.Abstract: This newspaper presents the results of preliminary study of Early Byzantine pottery from a large edifice nigh the waterfront at Kenchreai inwards southern Greece. Kenchreai served equally the eastern port of Corinth throughout antiquity. The edifice was maiden of all excavated inwards 1976 yesteryear the Greek Archaeological Service, together with it has been investigated since 2014 yesteryear the American Excavations at Kenchreai amongst permission from the Ministry of Culture nether the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The pottery is characterized yesteryear the presence of many Late Roman Amphora 2 rims equally good equally stoppers together with funnels. This indicates that the edifice had a role inwards the distribution of regional agricultural products during its lastly phase, which is dated to the really belatedly 6th or early on 7th centures A.D. yesteryear African Red-Slip together with Phocaean Red-Slip tablewares. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 broad arrive at of lamps, drinking glass vessels, together with other small-scale finds has likewise been recorded. Results to appointment are preliminary merely ongoing piece of work may allow farther precision equally to the chronology together with job of this building.Links: zoteroChristián C. Carman together with Marcelo Di Cocco. (2016). The Moon Phase Anomaly inwards the Antikythera Mechanism. ISAW Papers, 11. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/11/>.Abstract: The Antikythera Mechanism is a mechanical astronomical musical instrument that was discovered inwards an ancient shipwreck at the maiden of all of the twentieth century, made almost the 2nd century B.C. It had several pointers showing the positions of the Moon together with Sun inwards the zodiac, the estimate appointment according to a lunisolar calendar, several subsidiary dials showing calendrical phenomena, together with likewise predictions of eclipses. The machinery likewise had a display of the Moon’s phases: a small-scale ball, one-half pale together with one-half dark, rotating amongst the lunar synodic menstruum together with so showing the phases of the moon. The remains of the Moon stage display include a fragmentary contrate gear. According to the reconstruction offered yesteryear Michael Wright, this gear is directly pointing unintentionally inwards the incorrect direction. In this newspaper nosotros offering for the maiden of all fourth dimension a detailed description of the remains of the Moon stage mechanism. Based on this evidence, nosotros fighting that the extant contrate gear management is the originally intended one, together with nosotros offering a conjectural explanation for its management equally an essential component division of a representation of Aristarchus’s hypothesis that one-half Moon stage is observably displaced from exact quadrature.Dorian Greenbaum together with Alexander Jones. (2017). P.Berl. 9825: An elaborate horoscope for 319 CE together with its significance for Greek astronomical together with astrological practice. ISAW Papers, 12. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/12/>.Abstract: The regain of this elaborate horoscope inwards the Berlin papyrus collection is a milestone inwards the history of ancient horoscopes. The papyrus takes its house amid really few such detailed horoscopes good preserved from antiquity. This newspaper discusses both the astronomical together with astrological details of P.Berl. 9825, enumerating its contents together with situating it inside the broader historical together with cultural context of astrological cloth from western antiquity. The maiden of all department outlines the physical details of the papyrus, its paleography, together with the layout of the cloth amid the dissimilar sections of the papyrus. It consists of seventeen columns spread amid 4 framed sections. The maiden of all of the papyrus is lost, merely plenty remains to allow reconstruction of the appointment together with fourth dimension of the horoscope, inwards add-on to the positions of the missing luminaries together with planet (Saturn). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 transcription together with translation amongst apparatus together with textual notes follow. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 commentary inwards 3 parts follows the maiden of all section. Part 1 contains restorations, confirmations together with corrections. This includes both a tabular summary of the information given inwards the horoscope, together with a diagrammatic representation of the data. Part 2 consists of an astronomical commentary, comparing the astronomical information inwards the papyrus amongst Ptolemy’s Almagest together with modern theory, to demonstrate that the horoscope was constructed using tables distinct from Ptolemy's, though of comparable quality. The commentary likewise includes analysis of solar together with lunar data, planetary latitudes, together with fixed stars “co-rising” amongst the longitudes of the relevant heavenly body. Part 3 is an astrological commentary. Comparisons amongst other elaborate horoscopes are made, inwards add-on to analysis of the astrological techniques based on the information provided. Because this is the alone extant representative of a documentary horoscope containing all 7 of the “planetary” lots of Paulus Alexandrinus, in that location is a to a greater extent than extensive intelligence of the lots used hither inside their historical together with cultural context.Daniel Hoyer. (2018). An Overview of the Numismatic Evidence from Imperial Roman Africa. ISAW Papers, 13. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/13/>. DOI: 2333.1/76hdrfz3Abstract: This article describes a database of 50,970 coins from the Roman Empire minted inwards the 'high' regal menstruum (23 BCE-275 CE). It includes mainly coins constitute inwards the regions that were component division of regal Rome's African provinces, amongst some cloth from Western Europe for comparative purposes. This database represents information culled from numerous sources together with previous publications, representing i of the largest unmarried collections of numismatic cloth from Roman Africa during this menstruum currently available; though it is yesteryear no agency exhaustive, together with farther inquiry is needed to supplement the introduce project. I introduce hither an overview together with some notes on the quantification of this material, highlighting the most prominent together with interesting patterns. This quantification suggests sure enough interpretations concerning primal topics inwards the monetary history of the western Empire, which I dot to briefly. Further, the consummate dataset is provided for download equally both a csv file together with a to a greater extent than structured information file (JSON file) to facilitate hereafter inquiry on Roman Africa's numismatic tape equally good equally related information. My intention is, thus, both to advance the study of Africa's numismatic heritage inwards full general equally good equally to contribute to the available corpus of accessible, digital information concerning the ancient world.Roger S. Bagnall together with Gilles Bransbourg. (2019).The Constantian Monetary Revolution. ISAW Papers, 14. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/14/>. DOI: 2333.1/3n5tb9scAbstract: The quaternary century CE represents a peculiar instant of monetary history. Most prices rose almost 50 thousandfold, materializing the strongest inflationary menstruum always experienced during Antiquity. Traditionally, this cost inflation has been linked to coinage debasement. However, the reality is to a greater extent than complex: regal regime likewise manipulated coinage tariffs inwards electrical flow units of account. This is peculiarly noticeable nether the reign of Constantius II, when most prices increased almost twenty-fold inwards a thing of few years inwards the early on 350s, amongst no coinage alter of comparable magnitude. Very interestingly, gilded together with argent rose to preeminence at the same moment, at the expense of base of operations metal. We believe both phenomena were linked. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 thorough analysis of papyrological together with numismatic testify volition demonstrate that the increased provide of argent coinage was allowed yesteryear the removal of argent from the existing billon coinage supply, spell growth inwards gilded coinage depended on novel metallic element sources. The abrupt cost increase, sometimes explained yesteryear some cast of contest betwixt precious together with base of operations metals, would inwards fact termination almost mechanically from the retariffication together with subsequent demonetization of the existing billon coinage, replaced during that procedure yesteryear bronze coins of comparable monetary value merely of much lesser commodity value. This led ultimately to the bimetallic gold:bronze bullion-based cost organisation that defines the Byzantine period. This newspaper originated inwards a conference presentation at "Money Rules!", held inwards Orléans Oct 29-31, 2015, together with organized yesteryear Thomas Faucher. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 slightly dissimilar version volition look inwards the proceedings of that conference: R. Bagnall together with G. Bransbourg, The Constantian Monetary Revolution. In Th. Faucher (ed.), Money Rules! The monetary economic scheme of Egypt, from Persians until the maiden of all of Islam (Cairo, IFAO, forthcoming).Christián C. Carman together with Dennis Duke. (2019). Tables of Synodic Events from -800 to 1650 Using Modern together with Almagest Models , 15. <http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/15/>. 2333.1/2fqz68dkAbstract: This article describes together with makes available computed information for the major synodic events for the inner (Mercury, Venus) together with outer (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) planets for the fourth dimension menstruum -800 to 1650.Additional Information
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