Archaeological Discoveries in Sicily and Magna Graecia

1939 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Umberto Zanotti-Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
The South ◽  
Total Length ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
South West ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Southern Flank

In my previous report (JHS, 1938, p. 247) I spoke of the work being carried on at Syracuse to bring to light the remains of the temple of Apollo. The east, north, and west sides had been freed by then, whilst the southern side was still hidden under seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses, so that it had never been possible to dig trial trenches through their foundations to ascertain if any part of the temple was preserved there. The demolition of the houses and the excavation under the modern ground level beginning from the south-west angle have fully satisfied our hopes. Five columns of the southern flank of the peristasis have appeared, preserved to a height of over 2 metres, with the stylobate beneath them (Fig. 1): only the angle column had been destroyed during the building of the walls of the Spanish barracks. The cella is equally well preserved, and a third of its total length has already been liberated, although the work is in temporary suspense owing to unsettled disputes with the owners of the houses. The southern flank of the archaic Syracusan temple appears to be in much better condition than the others.

scholarly journals TEMUAN FRAGMEN GERABAH SEBAGAI INDIKASI PERMUKIMAN KUNO DI SITUS BOROBUDUR

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-226
Author(s):  
Agni Sesaria Mochtar
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Back Side ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
Few Data ◽  
The Temple

Borobudur temple has been famously known as one of the Indonesian heritage masterpiece. Various aspects of it had been studied thoroughly since the beginning of 20th century A.D. Those studies tended to be monumental centric, giving less attention to the cultural context of the temple and its surroundings. Settlement in the nearby places is one of the topics which not have been studied much yet; leaving a big question about how the settlement supported continuity of many activities in the temple, or even the other way around; how the temple affected the settlement. There is only a few data about old settlement found in situ in Borobudur site, only abundance of pottery sherds. The analysis applied on to the potteries find during the 2012 excavation had given some information about the old settlement in Borobodur site. The old settlement predicted as resided in the south west area, in the back side of the monument.

scholarly journals Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, C. B. E., 17 April 1899 - 12 February 1994

1996 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 541-553 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Early Death ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Scale Models ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Artistic Talent

On 17 April 1899, in Kirkham, Lancashire, Vincent Brian Wigglesworth was born into a talented and idiosyncratic Victorian family with roots going back to the hamlet of Wigglesworth in the south-west comer of Yorkshire. He was the son of Sydney Wigglesworth, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Captain R.A.M.C., and Margaret Emmeline (née Pierce). Sydney Wigglesworth was a general practitioner but also an amateur mechanic and inventor who had studied engineering at Owens College (later the University of Manchester) before changing to medicine. He made scale models of locomotives and was a passionate pioneer motorist. Margaret Pierce came from a well-to-do family of London solicitors originating from Devon yeoman stock with business and nautical interests (Pierce Sound in North West Canada is named after an eighteenth-century ancestor). As an amateur painter trained at South Kensington she developed a great eye for colour. It was the kind of family that produced many famous Englishmen, artists as well as scientists. V.B.W.’s scientific illustrations show that he inherited his mothers artistic talent. His elder brother’s career as a landscape painter was cut short by his early death in 1936.

scholarly journals Excavations at Zerélia, Thessaly

1908 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 197-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. B. Wace ◽  
J. P. Droop ◽  
M. S. Thompson ◽  
Wilhelm Vollgraff
Keyword(s):  
Small Lakes ◽  
The South ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
South West ◽  
Prehistoric Settlements ◽  
The Temple

The mound known as Zerélia stands on a hill between two small lakes to the south-west of Almyró in Phthiotis (Fig. 1). Recent writers on the topography of the district have conjectured that this was the site of Itonos and the famous temple of Athena Itonia. We first visited the site in July 1907, and believed, that apart from the question of the site of the temple, it would repay excavation, since we recognised that the mound (Fig. 2) was probably formed by the accumulation of débris from prehistoric settlements. Thanks to a grant from the Cambridge University Worts Fund, and to subscriptions from several friends we were enabled to excavate here in June 1908.

scholarly journals To the Issue of the Distribution and Influence of Islam in the Cities of the Southwestern Zhetysu Region in the Second Half of the 8th – 12th Centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (34) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Arnabay A. Nurzhanov ◽  
◽  
Galina A. Ternovaya
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
South West ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Temple

The article examines some aspects related to the changes that have occurred in the urban culture of the South-West Zhetysu at the initial stage of the establishment of Islam. The results of archaeological research carried out at the architectural and archaeological complex Akyrtas, monuments discovered at the medieval fortified of Taraz, Kostobe, Lugovoye, Ornek are presented by the authors. The early period of Islamization includes the construction of pillar mosques (Akyrtas, Ornek), alteration of the temple into a mosque (Taraz), elements of Muslim decor in religious premises of representatives of other religions (Kostobe, Lugovoye Г) and relic manifestations in the design of the columns of the Ornek mosque. 8th–12th centuries – this was a time associated with a series of historical events: the mass resettlement of the Sogdians in connection with the seizure of Central Asia by the Arabs, the conquest of Taraz and the Talas Valley by Emir Ismail from the Samanid dynasty and the adoption of Islam by the Karakhanids.

Fire favours expansion of bamboo-dominated forests in the south-west Amazon

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maira Smith ◽  
Bruce Walker Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fires ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Control Area ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
The Face ◽  
Woody Bamboos ◽  
Two Measures

Abstract:Forests dominated by semi-scandent woody bamboos of the genus Guadua cover about 165 000 km2 of the south-west Amazon. Because many woody bamboo species are favoured by disturbance some authors have inferred this landscape to be a consequence of indigenous or natural disturbance. As seen in satellite images, the rounded edges of some bamboo-dominated forests indicate expansion into surrounding forest. These edges are unrelated to topography and resemble the borders of ground fires in unlogged Amazon forests, suggesting that bamboo may have been favoured by past fires. We studied the recovery of Guadua sarcocarpa and its competitors in the face of simulated fire by cutting all plant stems at ground level in ten 100-m2 plots, compared with ten control plots, and by burning a 2500-m2 plot. In the clear-cuts, bamboos recovered more successfully than did palms and dicots, by two measures: biomass accumulated and per cent recovery of pre-disturbance biomass. Resprouted bamboo attained higher stem densities than in control sites at 11 mo. In the burn plot, bamboo basal area recovered to pre-burn levels after 2 y and approached that of an undisturbed control area after 3 y. Though other natural disturbances are relevant, we conclude that forest fires should favour the spread and dominance of Guadua species in the south-west Amazon.

Palatine Apollo

1956 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
Private House ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
The Temple

The purpose of this note is to redirect attention to some of the literary evidence that concerns the site of Apollo's temple on the Palatine. For this evidence has an irritating habit of refusing to confirm what would otherwise be irrefutable archaeological proof of the temple's site. It is now fashionable to identify the site of the temple with that occupied by the temple-core that was originally assigned to Iuppiter Victor on the south-west angle of the Palatine in the region of the Scalae Caci, the Temple of Magna Mater, the Casa Romuli, and the so-called House of Liuia. This was, in the view of most scholars, Euander's citadel that Virgil calls Pallanteum and this must be the site of the Augustan buildings. Now the House of Liuia has been identified with apparent probability as the House of Augustus, and we know from literary evidence (Suet. Aug. 29, 72, Vell. 2. 81, Dio Cass. 49. 15. 5) that the temple of Apollo, Augustus' private house, and the house decreed to him by the senate (Richmond, J.R.S., 1914, pp. 194 f.) must have been in close proximity to each other. The temple-core on the south-west of the Palatine is of Augustan date and is built over the remains of houses of the late republic1 which appear to have been demolished for the purpose. If Liuia's House was the house of Augustus then Iuppiter Victor's temple must be assigned to Apollo.

III.—The Temple of Aphrodite: its Architectural History and Remains

1888 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
R. Elsey Smith
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The South ◽  
South West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple

The history of the temple, as far as it can be ascertained from literary records from the study of ancient coins and from any similar sources, is elsewhere fully discussed; it remains to examine the actual ruins of the fabric, in order to extract from them what internal evidence there may be as to the date of the various portions from the style of workmanship and the methods of construction therein employed.It will be easier to follow this examination in connection with the plan if we systematically pursue it from the south-west corner northwards. There are two great divisions into which the work may be separated—pre-Roman and Roman. In the first of these there are certainly three subdivisions, and the Roman work shows two main divisions denoting two great periods of restorative work; but the work of all these five distinct periods is so interwoven that it is not possible to separate and make them clear on a small scale plan. The two main divisions are indicated by differences in shading on the plan opposite, and the position of the more minute subdivisions will be referred to in order as they occur.

scholarly journals Portraits of Serbian rulers in the Duljevo monastery

Zograf ◽  
2002 ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Vojvodic
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
South West ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
The Church ◽  
Western Wall ◽  
Southern Wall

In the Church of Saint Stephen in Duljevo, not far from Budva (Pastrovici) an interesting composition of the founders (ktetores) has been preserved. In accordance with an early Serbian tradition, it was painted on the southern wall in the western bay of the naos (drawing 1), and it is possible that it extended over the southern part of the western wall that was demolished very long ago. The Duljevo composition of the founders now depicts the images of the patron saint of the church, Saint Stephen, the First Martyr, painted on the southern side of the south-west pilaster, and the presentations of the two rulers to the west of him (drawing 2). The patron saint of the church who was the protector of the Serbian medieval state and its rulers, is represented in a deacon's sticharion, with a censer in his hands, blessing the founders. The ruler in his prime approaches the First Martyr, presenting him with a model of the church (drawing 2, figs. 1, 2)...

Some notes on the climate of the British Solomon Islands

1969 ◽  
Vol 255 (800) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Root Zone ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
The South ◽  
Wave Type ◽  
South West ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
Full Analysis ◽  
Growing Network

The Solomons are among the wettest regions of the globe. Among twenty-four stations having 7 years or more of complete years’ records to 1963, only four had a mean annual rainfall below 100 in. Pending full analysis of records from a scattered, but growing, network of climatological stations taking upper-air observations in the south-west Pacific, it seems that there is a basic easterly flow of air, with wave-type perturbations, and surface vortical circulations having a generally westerly movement. South of the equatorial perturbation belt, and dominating weather over the Solomons during the larger part of the year, are the south-easterly variables, or ‘trades’, themselves marked by zones of convergence that may be related to passage of meridional fronts along the root-zone of the south-easterlies, far south of the Solomons. These may be responsible for the spells of wet weather that occur during the south-easterly months, during some of which quite exceptional conditions of cloudiness and precipitation occur. The Royal Society Expedition encountered one such in 1965; more than 120 in. of rain were recorded in 2 weeks at a gauge on the southern side of Guadalcanal; severe landslip and flood damage occurred quite widely in the Solomons and adjacent areas

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