Two Roman Funerary Medallions from North Croatia in the Context of Norico-Pannonian Stone Carving Production

The article examines the problems in developing approaches for the description and stylistic interpretation of antique masonry, as well as the issues in their stylistic dating. The task of dating construction remains belonging to the 7th century B.C.E. to the turn of the era, has attracted the scholarly attention of the scientific community since the 1940s and has been considered by both foreign and Russian researchers. The article's research object is the construction remains of Greek civil and military architecture in the Mediterranean and the Northern Black Sea regions - territories considered to have been the center and periphery of the Greek Oikumena. The study applied the comparative-typological method, the synchronization of objects in time and space, and dating by analogy. Both in Russian and foreign studies a significant amount of data has been collected for the analysis and construction of appropriate conclusions regarding the distribution and popularity of certain masonry in particular periods of time. However, due to the presence of many factors affecting the ancient construction and stone-carving craft, a number of exceptions due to local natural, economic, raw material, and administrative factors can be distinguished in the observed patterns. Thus, the whole picture of the formation of the construction and stone-carving craft (with the allocation of the corresponding types of masonry in a certain historical period) can be reconstructed only with a comprehensive examination of all of them. As the most interesting objects in this regard, the article cites a number of architectural remains belonging to the monuments of the distant chora of Tauric Chersonesos dating to the second half of the 4th century B.C.E.

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Te Ara ō Rakimārie: The Pathway of Peaceful Living

Te Kaharoa ◽

10.24135/tekaharoa.v10i1.151 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kelli Te Maihāroa

Keyword(s):

Rural Community ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Historical Record ◽

Short Film ◽

Cultural Events ◽

Grass Roots ◽

Stone Carving ◽

Grass Roots Initiatives

This paper traces the peacebuilding efforts of Anne Te Maihāora Dodds (Waitaha) in her North Otago community over the last twenty-five years. The purpose of this paper is to record these unique localized efforts, as an historical record of grass-roots initiatives aimed at creating a greater awareness of indigenous and environmental issues. It describes the retracing of ancestral footsteps of Te Heke Ōmaramataka (2012), the peace walk at Maungatī (2012) and the Ocean to Alps Celebration (1990). This paper also discusses the genesis behind cultural events such as Oamaru Stone Carving (2000), the short film entitled Tohu (2006), the dramatization of Te Maihāroa and Te Heke (2002) and the historically significant Waitaha Taoka (treasures) held within the Willets Family Artefacts Collection (1990). The accompanied whānau photographs present a visual snapshot of these experiences and provide a sense of the occasions. This paper is concluded with a brief synopsis of these peacebuilding activities, and the added richness to this rural community.

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Additional Stone Carving from the North Highlands of Peru

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/278387 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 245-246 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Donald E. Thompson

Keyword(s):

The North ◽

Stone Carving

AbstractTwo carved stones depicting human heads are currently to be found at Huaylas in the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru. They represent a style so far unreported from the Callejon. The closest stylistic similarities are to be found in the Chavin style and in the unique monoliths at Cerro Sechin Temple in the Casma Valley.

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Features and Current Damaged Situation of Hui-Style Architecture

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.838-841.2905 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 838-841 ◽

pp. 2905-2909

Author(s):

Xue Yu Xiong ◽

Zhao Yang Su

Keyword(s):

Natural Hazards ◽

Sound Insulation ◽

High Humidity ◽

Deep Well ◽

Long Time ◽

Wood Carving ◽

Stone Carving ◽

White Wall ◽

Reinforcement Measures ◽

Near Future

As the key element of Huizhou culture, Hui-style architecture is one of the masterpieces of Chinese ancient architectures. The Hui-style architecture was highly praised by architecture masters both at home and abroad because of its phenotypic features, such as black tiles, white wall, and horse-like wall; its decoration features, such as tile carving, wood carving, stone carving; and its living features, such as high house, deep well, large lobby. Since most of the Hui-style architectures were built long time ago, had not been repaired for many years, as well as influenced by different kinds of natural hazards, the Hui-style architectures were decayed, eaten by worms, or damaged by fire to different degree. Most of these architectures could not meet the living requirements nowadays with faint light, high humidity, poor sound insulation, badly cracks and corrosion of all kinds of wood components; and needed to be repaired and reinforced badly. Based on this situation, the author believes that the Hui-style architecture would be in its original appearance in front of the word in the near future if the scientific research and proper reinforcement measures were adopted for the reinforcement of the Hui-style architectures.

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Kainar: A Late 18th to Early 20th Century Ritual and Housing Complex in the Northern Ustyurt

Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia ◽

10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.109-119 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 109-119

Author(s):

S. E. Azhigali ◽

L. R. Turganbayeva

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Spatial Organization ◽

Early 20Th Century ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Nomadic Pastoralists ◽

Permanent Settlement ◽

History Of ◽

Stone Carving ◽

Housing Complex

This is the fi rst description of a key Kazakh recent permanent settlement at Donyztau, in the northern Ustyurt. Such sites, evidencing major historical processes during the transition of nomadic pastoralists to a semi-sedentary lifestyle (mid-19th to early 20th century), are known as “ritual and housing complexes” (RHC). Kainar, a highly representative site, is viewed as a socio-cultural phenomenon and an integral architectural and landscape ensemble. The excavation history of RHCs in the Donyztau area and their evolution are discussed, and the role of ascetics such as Doszhan-Ishan Kashakuly is described. We highlight separate parts of the complex (the settlement and cemetery) and their elements. The architecture of the RHC is reconstructed with regard to structure, function, and continuity with the landscape. The layout of the site as a whole and of the madrasah with its typical elements are compared with those of similar sites in Central Asia and Kazakhstan. A reconstruction of the complex is proposed and the function of public halls is interpreted. The role of the cemetery and of its parts in the structure of the RHC is evaluated; the evolution of its spatial organization is traced. Types of memorial complexes are listed in terms of harmony with the landscape, archaic beliefs, architecture, and style, specifi cally stone carving. The historical and cultural signifi cance of Kainar as a source of knowledge about the transition to a semi-sedentary way of life and the Islamization of the steppe is discussed.

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Turning to Stone

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas ◽

10.5117/9789463721721_ch06 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Walters

Keyword(s):

The Core ◽

Origin Stories ◽

Stone Carving ◽

Creation Stories ◽

Birth Death

Shaligram origin stories are as variable as the stones themselves. Whether formed by the vajra-kita (thunderbolt worm) whose stone-carving capabilities continue to link religious creation stories with ammonite paleontology or by any number of curses levied at Vishnu for betraying the chastity of the goddess Tulsi, the mountain and river birth of a Shaligram is always preceded by a complex narrative of time, place, and personhood. The core conceptualization of bodies as landscapes, however, remains constant. The birth-death-rebirth processes of the landscape then becomes metonymic for the karmic birth-death-rebirth cycle shared by humans, their deities, and their Shaligrams.

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Chapter 12. Contemporary Ainu Wood and Stone Carving

Ethnic and Tourist Arts ◽

10.1525/9780520316775-020 ◽

1976 ◽

pp. 211-226

Author(s):

Setha M. Low

Keyword(s):

Stone Carving

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Crosses from the Walls of Zaitun

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ◽

10.1017/s0035869x0010629x ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 86 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John Foster

Keyword(s):

Medical Doctor ◽

Doctor Who ◽

The West ◽

Stone Carving

In November of 1952 I received a note from a medical doctor who some two years earlier had returned to Britain from Ch'üanchou, in the province of Fukien. A Chinese acquaintance had given him photographs of carved stones, Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian, collected by him in recent years, with the hope that someone in the West might publish them. At first glance I recognized fifteen undoubtedly Christian crosses, five with figures of angels on either side, and seven with considerable inscriptions. With the photographs came a copy of a Chinese monograph published by the collector, Wu Wen-liang, An Introduction to the Ancient Stone Carving of Ch'uan-chou. I had enlargements of the Christian set of photographs made, as published in plates II to XVII, 2 sent a set to Professor A. C. Moule, and sought his help. That help has been generously given, in translating part of Wu's monograph, in corresponding with other scholars who might decipher the inscriptions, and in assessing the significance of these new finds. It seems more suitable to recognize general indebtedness here than to refer to him by footnote at the end of every paragraph.

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