scholarly journals Elpis-Nemesis

1913 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 84-86
Author(s):  
F. H. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Two Sides

The two objects figured on Plate VII. are casts from the two sides of a limestone mould in the British Museum (Fig. 1). The mould is grooved round the edge, where it is a good deal broken away. The diameter is 11·4 cm., the thickness, 1·9 cm. The mould was acquired by the Museum in 1910. Its provenance is not known. The descriptions which here follow apply to the casts.

scholarly journals III. A Letter to John Gage, Esq. F.R.S. Director, by William Young Ottley, Esq. F.S.A., &c., on a Manuscript in the British Museum, believed by him to be of the Second or Third Century, and containing the translation of Aratus's astronomical Poem by Cicero, accompanied by Drawings of the Constellations: with a preliminary Dissertation in proof of the use of Minuscule Writing by the ancient Romans; and a corrected edition of the Poem itself, including ten lines not heretofore known

Archaeologia ◽  
1836 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 47-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Young Ottley
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come

You are aware that I have, at intervals, employed myself a good deal in the manuscript room of the British Museum, during the last four years, in researches among the Illuminated MSS. of the fifteenth century, on the subject of Costume; for the purpose of helping me to form a right judgment of the ages and country of certain books of wood-engravings, which are known by bibliographers under the name of Block-Books; and are commonly supposed to have given rise to the invention of Typography: for the controversy concerning this subject has long occupied my attention; and, although so many books have been written upon it during the last two centuries, I have become more and more persuaded, that the evidence on both sides must be subjected to a nicer examination, and sifting, than it has yet had, before we can hope to come to a right decision concerning it.

scholarly journals An Inscription from Prienè

1883 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
E. L. Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Southern Slope ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Temple

The following inscription was copied by Mr. A. S. Murray when travelling with Mr. Newton in Asia Minor in 1870, ‘from a stelè at the door of a house at Kelibesch.’ It has been put into my hands for publication because the inscribed marbles brought from Prienè by Mr. Pullan in 1870, and presented to the British Museum by the Society of Dilettanti, have been prepared by me for the press, and are now in course of publication. They will form a portion of Part iii. of the Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum. Kelibesch is a Turkish village on the southern slope of Mt. Mykalè, a short distance from the ruins of the temple of Athenè Polias at Prienè. A description of it will be found in Chandler's Travels in Asia Minor, vol. i., p. 197. Mr. Murray's memoranda do not furnish any account of the size or colour of the marble employed for this stelè: but it is evidently entire at the top and right side; the left-hand edge is slightly injured, but a good deal is broken off at the bottom.

scholarly journals A Vase in Form of a Bust of Athene

1895 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 184-187
Author(s):  
Cecil Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Front Part ◽  
Lower Base ◽  
Plain Surface ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Back Part

In the latter part of 1893 the British Museum acquired the Attic vase which is represented in Plate V. (E 716 of the new Catalogue). The photographic reduction barely serves to convey a summary impression of this finely conceived work, but can give no idea of the subtler refinement of modelling and surface, nor of the delicate colouring which is still fairly preserved, and which would defy reproduction in any process. It belongs to the class of vases which in the latter part of the fifth century came greatly in vogue in Attic pottery, and in which the front part is usually pressed in a mould, in the technique of terracotta statuettes, the back part is varnished and coloured like a red-figure vase of the period: the whole form is usually based on that of the aryballos or acorn-alabastron.The present instance is an aryballos in the form of a bust of Athene: it is nearly intact, the only part broken away being the calix-form lip of the vase. The height as it stands is 20 cm., and perhaps 2 more should be added for the missing lip. The bust, cut off immediately below the lower base of the breasts, rests on a plinth about 1 cm. high, which is varnished black in front, and at back is painted with a band of egg moulding. It is modelled entirely in the round, but the plain surface of the drapery falling from the crown of the head down the back, and the back of the helmet, are treated as the back of an ordinary red-figure vase, and are decorated with the patterns usual in this class of aryballos: the neck of the vase rises vertically out of the crown of the helmet, at the point where the support for the crest would naturally be attached, and the ribbed handle, springing from the upper part of it, broadly suggests the lines which the back part of such a crest would follow. The true crest has been treated in the conventional manner which is not unfrequently found in fifth century art adapted to helmets intended to be seen from the front; that is, it is bisected longitudinally, and the two sides are turned outwards to the front in such a way that they form a continuous crest extending from ear to ear; in this case they serve the double purpose of a screen to mark the neck and handle of the vase, and a division between the polychrome and varnished portions of this part of the vase.

scholarly journals Art. XII.—On the Assyrian and Babylonian Weights

1856 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The People

Among the relics brought home by Mr. Layard, and deposited in the British Museum, the visitors to our national repository may notice a series of bronze lions, of good workmanship and graduated magnitude, from one to several inches in length,—the largest weighing above 40 lbs., the smallest barely 2 oz. There are also several marble ducks, with cuneiform inscriptions upon them, of Babylonian rather than Assyrian characters. These appear to have been the commercial weights used by the people of Assyria and Babylonia. They were distinguished by cuneiform inscriptions on the back, which must have been originally well engraved, although they are now a good deal defaced, and in some cases so much obliterated as to leave scarcely the slightest trace.

scholarly journals N. F. S. Grundtvigs breve til hans hustru under Englandsrejsen 1843

1952 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-71
Author(s):  
Jørgen Fabricius
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
60Th Birthday ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
Return Journey ◽  
Scanty Information ◽  
The Church

N. F. S. Grundtvig s Letters to his Wife during his Visit to England in 1843. By Jørgen Fabricius. Immediately after Whitsun, 1843, Grundtvig, together with his son Svenn, set forth on his fourth and last journey to England, for which he had been granted a travel bursary by the King through Queen Caroline Amalie. While on his former visits (1829—31) the study of the old Anglo-Saxon manuscripts had been Grundtvig’s chief aim, his principal interest in 1843 was to obtain a first-hand impression of the state of things in the Church in England at the time, and, besides, he hoped to find in England a fruitful soil for his own theories about the Church and thereby to help to lead the Oxford Movement away from a line of development which he thought would inevitably lead its adherents over to Catholicism. Until now, information about Grundtvig’s own experiences and impressions during this visit could be found only in his letters to Queen Caroline Amalie, and his letters to his wife were not generally known until these were recently discovered in private ownership and have now been published here. Unfortunately these letters give only comparatively scanty information about the actual content of the conversations which Grundtvig had with the various English and Scottish theologians, including Pusey, Newman and Chal97 mers; but they make up for that by giving numerous details of the names of people whom Grundtvig met during his trip, and an account, sometimes almost in diary form, of the course of the trip itself, which may be summarised as follows: June 7th. Departure from Copenhagen. June 12th. Arrival in London, where Grundtvig’s friend, Mr. Nugent Wade, had made arrangements for his visit. June 19th to 29th. Grundtvig’s first stay in Oxford, where he was also accompanied by Wade and had several conversations with Pusey and Newman, among others. June 29th to July 24th. In London again, where Grundtvig spent a good deal of time studying in the Library of the British Museum and was also occupied in visiting various people, including some whose acquaintance he had made on his previous trips to England. On July 24th Grundtvig with Svenn and Wade travelled once more to Oxford, where he again had many conversations, especially with the younger adherents of the Oxford Movement. On July 31st the party left Oxford and, after travelling through Westmoreland and Cumberland as tourists, arrived in Edinburgh on August 6th. Here Grundtvig had one conversation with Chalmers, but when Wade became ill they started on their return journey to London as early as August 10th and arrived there on the 14th. After a fairly long stay in London, during which he made preparations for his journey home which included extensive purchases of books, Grundtvig and his son left England on Sept. 1st and were back in Copenhagen on Sept. 7th, the day before Grundtvig’s 60th birthday.

Saving Faculty Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
John Zerilli
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Multiple Realization ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Function ◽  
Two Sides

The future of faculty psychology depends in no small part on the productive collaboration between neuroscience and psychology. The argument from multiple realization has posed a significant philosophical stumbling block to this quest in the past. Multiple realization should not be taken as an empirical given—establishing that a kind is multiply realizable takes a good deal of work, as Shapiro has been at pains to show; and even when the existence of an MR kind can be verified, the details of its implementation do not suddenly become irrelevant. Structure and function are two sides of the same coin. Thus the multiple realization argument provides no basis for neglecting the discoveries of neuroscience. Faculty psychology’s strength lies precisely in its willingness to work with neuroscience.

scholarly journals A Terra-Cotta Diadumenos

1885 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 243-247
Author(s):  
A. S. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Tree Stem

The position of Polykleitos in the history of Greek sculpture is peculiarly tantalizing. We seem to know a good deal about his work. We know his statue of a Doryphoros from the marble copy of it in Naples, and we know his Diadumenos from two marble copies in the British Museum. Yet with these and other sources of knowledge, it happens that when we desire to get closer to his real style and to define it there occurs a void. So to speak, a bridge is wanting at the end of an otherwise agreeable journey, and we welcome the best help that comes to hand. There is, I think, some such help to be obtained from the terra-cotta statuette recently acquired in Smyrna by Mr. W. R. Paton.But first it may be of use to recall the reasons why the marble statues just mentioned must fail to convey a perfectly true notion of originals which we are justified in assuming were of bronze. In each of these statues the artist has been compelled by the nature of the material to introduce a massive support in the shape of a tree stem. That is at once a new element in the design, and, as a distinguished French sculptor has rightly observed, this new element called for a modification of the entire figure.

Sappho, Book I.: The Nereid Ode

1921 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Lobel
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum

Since the poem of Sappho, which was first published as No. 7 of the Oxyrhynchus series, has been the object of a good deal of attention and ingenuity (some of it frivolous), it is perhaps not too early to publish a number of new readings, the result of repeated examinations of the papyrus (now P. 739 in the British Museum), that may provide a surer foundation for future attempts at reconstruction. I have submitted my suggestions to Professor Hunt, who does not reject them (though in fairness it must be added that he has not re-examined the original), and I have to thank him and Mr. H. I. Bell, of the Department of MSS., for the readiness of their help whenever and under whatever form I made appeal to it. But, of course, neither of them is in any way committed to any of my readings or deductions.

III. Southern South America

1962 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. McGann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Plain Truth ◽  
Source Materials

There is no egoism or special virtue in the fact that all of us on this program have numerous research possibilities to suggest. The plain truth is that the field of Latin American history bulges with first-class topics for historical writing. In this respect I am sure that we Latin Americanists are more fortunate than colleagues in some other historical fields where, it is my impression, there is a good deal of trampling of each other’s grapes. But historical research is not the contemplation of ideas, no matter how promising they may be, and in Latin America the investigator confronts notorious difficulties in obtaining orderly source materials. Therefore, before turning to some of the research possibilities, I should touch briefly on several underlying assumptions. The first is that the investigators working on these topics shall be qualified linguistically, technically, and intellectually to accomplish their work in Latin America and in the United States. Unhappily, this has not always been the case in this underdeveloped field. Second, for all of these topics I estimate that there exists a sufficiency of source materials, although in some cases that assumption has not been fully tested in the field. (This is the point at which field research in Latin America takes on a more colorful aspect than research, let’s say, in the British Museum.) Finally, an investigator engaged in research in Latin America must have, or quickly develop, a hunter’s ability to move rapidly yet sure-footedly after his quarry, tracking down private and even public archives which, at the outset of his adventure in research, may be completely unknown to him.

scholarly journals Some Account of Ancient Churchwarden Accounts of St. Michael's, Bath.

1878 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 309-329
Author(s):  
Charles Buchanan Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The World

The notices which have appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society of the accounts of God's house at Southampton, and other documents of a like nature, have led me to think that some accounts of the churchwardens' accounts preserved in the vestry of St. Michael's, Bath, might prove interesting to the members. Their existence was known only to a few, and as far as I am aware no accurate examination has ever yet been made of them, or if made, not published to the world. I became acquainted with them about a year ago, and gave a short account of their contents to the Bath Literary Club, in consequence of which the members determined to have them copied by a practised decipherer in the British Museum; and the Somerset Archæological Society has undertaken to print portions of them in their Transactions. As these, how-ever, will not circulate much beyond the county, and in many respects the documents in question differ a good deal from any already printed, as far as I have been able to ascertain, I think my paper this evening will not be regarded as a repetition of what is already known.

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