a dictionary of ancient near eastern architecture

... Mesopotamian tradition, for narrower spaces. The walls were predominantly of mudbrick, occasionally decorated with moulded glazed bricks in ACHAEMENIAN ARCHITECTURE A Dictionary of ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ARCHITECTURE 9 the ... 142 ILLUSTRATIONS xiii Nineveh: SW palace 147 Nush-i-Jan: plan 149 Nuzi: double sanctuary (level B) 151 Mari: palace of the Isin-Larsa period 156 Pers...

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... References Alexia; Allographia; Aphasia; Apraxia; Broca’s aphasia; Fast micro- graphia; Gerstmann syndrome; Hypergraphia; Macrographia; Micrographia; Neglect; Wernicke’s aphasia Agraphognosia - see AGRAPHESTHESIA Agrypnia Agrypnia ... Astereognosis; Auditory Agnosia; Autotopagnosia; Dysmorphopsia; Finger agnosia; Phonagnosia; Prosopagnosia; Pure word deafness; Simultanagnosia; Tactile agnosia...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... women with anxious faces stood in groups at their doors and watched the royal party as it drove out. The charioteer of Amuba was a tall and powerful man; he carried a shield far larger than was ordinarily ... Egyptian archers a column of men advanced a hundred abreast, each carrying a great fagot. Their object was evident: they were about to prepare a wide causeway across the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... times when a person of high rank died a painter was brought in to provide an image of the deceased. The painter arrived with a readymade picture of a man in official garb or of a lady in court ... raw material for perfumes, or as building material. Such natural phenomena as clouds, rain, dew, thunder also make a deep impression on man. Animals are seen in an ambivalen...

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2014, 18:07

... India via Danubian culture, a new stage of development beginning with the Age of Metals’. He points out that there are marked similarities between the ideas of regions as far apart as America, ... Aristotelian thought also contained a strong element of symbolism. In Syria, Mesopotamia, Transcaucasia and Egypt, oriental Christianity had ab- sorbed a vast symbological inheritance....

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2014, 18:09

... : cal- cium : calcium salts calcite calcimeter calcospherite calcaneo- combining form calcaneum : calcaneal and calca- neoastragalar calcaneocuboid calcareo- combining form calcareous ... Neogaea galact- or galacto- combining form galact- fr. MF or L MF galact-, fr. L, fr. Gk galakt-, fr. galakt-, gala galacto- fr. Gk galakto-, fr. galakt-, gala 1:milk, milky fluid galac...

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... all of the University of Texas at Austin. Again, we wish to thank Joe Gonzalez, Chris Braun, Ken McFarland, Kathryn Kenefick, Gabriel Alvarado, Janice Duff, Rennison Lalgee, Deidra Allen, Brian ... non- practitioner who has an interest in medicine, with a volume of unaltered quotations. Another aim has been to provide a book that is attractive in appearance and of convenient size s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... Carp (Ch. li; Jap. koi). A Chinese and Japanese symbol of per- severance: fish, traditionally carp, annually leap cataracts in the Huang-Ho to spawn and, on passing the Dragon-gate rapids, ... The ritual of pronouncing magical formulae, or mantras [i:'om manipadme hum', "Ranja characters', 7th cent, AD], by followers of the Vajrayana sect of Buddhism...

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