Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium: a collection of the papers

Across the Hindukush of the First Millennium: a collection of the papers
  Kuwayama, S. (2002)

Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, 2002, 297p., (Report of the Research Project on the Historical Archaeology of the Hindukush areas carried out under the auspices of the Asian Archaeology Section of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University).

Table of contents: 

List of illustrations [ix]
Sources of the original papers [xi]
I Buddhist Establishments in Taxila and Gandhara: A Chronological Review [p.1-11]
II The Square Podium of Stupa in Taxila: its Introduction [p.12-19]
III The Buddha's Bowl in Gandhara [p.20-43]
IV The Wheel-shaped Structure inside Stupa: A Hidden from Augustan Rome [p.44-68]
V Shah-ji-ki Dheri before Kanishka [p.69-89]
VI Aspects of Stupa Court at Hadda: Tapa Shotor and Lalma [p.90-106]
VII The Hephthalites in Tokharistan and Gandhara [p.107-139]
VIII Two Itineraries concerning the Emergence of the Colossi in Bamiyan [p.140-155]
IX Bamiyan and its Buddhist Activities [p.156-161]
X A New Date for Begram III [p.162-172]
XI The Horizon of Begram III and Beyond: A Chronological Interpretation of the Evidence for Monuments in the Kapisi-Kabul-Ghazni Region [p.173-199]
XII Zhun, Aruna and Two Superimposed Shrines at Khair Khana, Kabul [p.200-207]
XIII Identity of the Napki Coins [p.208-221]
XIV The Turki Shahis and Relevant Brahmanical Sculptures in East Afghanistan [p.222-248]
XV The Inscription of Ganesa from Gardez and a Chronology of the Turki Shahis [p.249-259]
XVI Dating Yasovarman of Kanauj on the Evidence of Huichao [p.260-270]
Notes for chapters [p.271-280]
References [p.281-297]
Illustrations

Open Access Journal: Zinbun: Memoirs of the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto

Zinbun: Memoirs of the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto
ISSN: 0084-5515

発行: Jinbun kagaku Kenkyusho, Kyoto University

• No.43

  2011 : 80th anniversary issue 2

• No.42

  2009/2010 : 80th anniversary issue

• No.41

  2008

• No.40

  2007

• No.39

  2006

• No.38

  2006

• No.37

  2005

• No.36(2)

  2003b

• No.36(1)

  2003a

• No.35

  2001

• No.34(2)

  2000b

• No.34(1)

  2000a

• No.33

  1999

• No.32

  1998

• No.31

  1997

• No.30

  1996

• No.29

  1995

• No.28

  1994

• No.27

  1993

• No.26

  1992

• No.25

  1990

See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Ebla Digital Archives Update

Ebla Digital Archives Project Update:

The editors of the Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA) are pleased to announce another major update to their database, which now includes the texts published in ARET 15,1 (Pomponio F. 2008, Testi amministrativi: assegnazioni mensili di tessuti periodo di Arrugum (archivio L. 2769), Roma : Missione archeologica italiana in Siria). These large administrative documents record monthly deliveries of textiles (often associated with metal objects), and provide the scholars with invaluable information for the reconstruction of the political history of third millennium Syria.

In addition, the text catalog has been further improved, as to include the excavation number, as well as the find spot of the individual tablets.

The next scheduled volume to be added to the EbDA database is ARES 4 by M. Civil, which will become available within a couple of months.

At present, EbDA not only provides the largest number of Ebla texts available on line, but also provides one of the most advanced search engine for cuneiform documents, thanks to the graphemic encoding of the transliterations and the support to regular expressions.

The Ebla Digital Archives project is based at, and funded by Ca'Foscari University of Venice.

Lucio Milano, Editor in Chief
Massimo Maiocchi, Associate Editor
Francesco Di Filippo, Software Designer

 
 See the Ebla Digital Archives Project in AWOL

K.K.Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich and his reports for the Imperial Archaeological Commission

K.K.Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich and his reports for the Imperial Archaeological Commission - К. К. Косцюшко-Валюжинич и его отчеты Императорской Археологической Комиссии

 

Publication of the materials from the archive of Karl Kazimirovich Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich, the founder of the museum in Chersonesos, was rather complicated task. Everyone who participated in this project has put a part of his / her heart into it. We all worked hard, and you can see the result now. 

Use of this website allows you to trace how the scale of the studies increased year after year (you can see special time line above), how the excavations were recorded, how Chersonesos we know now was raising from under many-centuries-deep strata. However, the finds images of those are presented on this site scattered through different museums long ago, so they could hardly be brought together in reality. We collected them for you in " Photographs " section, though the drawings of the areas excavated every year are accumulated in " Drawings ". 

Texts section is digital version of the " Reports " of the excavations in Chersonesos, published by the Imperial Archaeological Commission in printed form. " Manuscripts " incorporate photos of manuscript reports by Kostsyushko; he made his reports in two copies: the first was sent to the Archaeological Commission, and the second remained in the archive of the museum established by him. The Commission developed printed version of the report on the background of Kostsyushko's manuscripts. 

From 1901, the Archaeological Commission begun to issue, apart from the Reports, its Proceedings (Izvestiya Arkheologicheskoy Komissii) that published the results of the excavations as scholarly articles. Several Kostsyushko's reports from this issue (they were not annual), as well as his articles from the Crimean newspapers have make the " Publications " section. 

Those who are interested in ancient inscriptions on stones will find some useful data in the " Squeezes ": here you can view photos of paper imprints of the inscriptions, which Kostsyushko made with great skill. Now squeezed are the most fragile articles within the collection and rarely appeared in scholars' hands because of that reason. Virtual squeezes will be much more available, and one inscription is presented as three-dimensional reconstruction. 

In order to make the elements of systematic excavations known to most large circle of history and archaeology lovers, we need to make English translation of the huge number of pages from our website. All the translations have been made by historian and archaeologist, in result of which the nineteenth century archaeological " Lexicon " developed. It will help modern reader understand some specific features of the style of the reports.

Here is the brief guide to our website, which is called after the most popular address to Kostsyushko from the correspondence: "Dear Karl Kazimirovich…" Brief biographic essay will make our website's visitors understand why this person was so respected by the contemporaries. 

Although the process of he site development was very hard for all of us, Kostsyushko's industry and his utterly devotion to his work were the great example to us. In the year 2007 we will celebrate the 160^th birthday and the 100^th anniversary of the death of Kostsyushko. By publishing this resource in the Web, we would like to honour these dates and to make Kostsyushko's life and merits widely known to the public. 

We are thankful for help and support to the authorities of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, our colleagues from the Institute of Classical Archaeology and Harry Ransom Humanity Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Our gratitude is to wonderful person Glenn Mack who inspired us for realization of this and many other projects.
main :: biography :: texts :: manuscripts :: photographs :: drawings :: squeezes :: publications :: guestbook :: about

A component of BIBLIOTHECA CHERSONESSITANA

   See also: Open Access Journal: Отчеты Археологической Комиссии

Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist

Sixteen more volumes of the series Assyriological Studies are Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist:

• "AS 24. The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard. Hans G. Güterbock and Theo P. J. van den Hout. Originally published in 1991."
• "AS 21. Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Ignace J. Gelb, with the assistance of J. Bartls, S.–M. Vance, and R. M. Whiting. Originally published in 1980."
• "AS 19. The Akkadian Influences on Aramaic. Stephen Kaufman. Originally published in 1974."
• "AS 18. Sequential Reconstruction of Proto-Akkadian. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1969."
• "AS 15. The Second Dynasty of Isin According to A New King-List Tablet. Arno Poebel. Originally published in 1955."
• "AS 14. Miscellaneous Studies. Arno Poebel. Originally published in 1947."
• "AS 13. The System of The Quadriliteral Verb in Akkadian. Alexander Heidel. Originally published in 1940."
• "AS 12. Lamentation Over the Destruction of Ur. Samuel N. Kramer. Originally published in 1940."
• "AS 10. Gilgamesh and the Ḫuluppu-Tree: A Reconstructed Sumerian Text. Samuel N. Kramer. Originally published in 1938."
• "AS 9. Studies in Akkadian Grammar. Arno Poebel. Originally published in 1939."
• "AS 8. The Sumerian Prefix Forms BE- and BI- in the Time of the Earlier Princes of Lagaš. Samuel N. Kramer. Originally published in 1936."
• "AS 7. The Chicago Syllabary and the Louvre Syllabary AO 7661. Richard T. Hallock. Originally published in 1940."
• "AS 6. Philological Notes on Eshnunna and Its Inscriptions. Thorkild Jacobsen. Originally published in 1934."
• "AS 4. Beitrage zum Assyrischen Wörterbuch II. Bruno Meissner. Originally published in 1932."
• "AS 3. Das appositionell bestimmte Pronomen der 1. Pers. sing. in den westsemitischen Inschriften und im Alten Testament. Arnold Poebel. Originally published in 1932."
• "AS 1. Beitrage zum Assyrischen Wörterbuch I. Bruno Meissner. Originally published in 1931."

In the next few day I will incorporate these titles into the list of all Oriental Institute publications available online:

The Oriental Institute Open Access Publications

British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Welcome to the Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, a searchable database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library. The Library holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world, and aims to provide access to images and information about its manuscripts to students, scholars, and the general public. 

The Catalogue includes descriptions and images of western manuscripts with pictorial and decorative embellishments, from fully painted miniatures to decorated initials. Because it includes such a wide range of material, it serves as a useful resource for those working in a variety of disciplines. In order to maximize the number of images, the Catalogue includes digital scans of existing slides as well newly-commissioned digital images. As a result, the image quality can vary. 

Users can devise their own search criteria in using the Catalogue. For details of how to use the system, see Search tips
 
Manuscripts included in the Catalogue:
The illuminated manuscripts in the following collections are included in the Catalogue: Additional, Arundel; Burney; Egerton; Hargrave; Harley; Henry Davis; Hirsch; King’s; Lansdowne; Sloane; Royal; Stowe and Yates Thompson (Oriental, for Hebrew illuminated manuscripts).
 
Manuscripts in the Additional collection are currently being added to the Catalogue. At the moment they consist primarily of around 675 illuminated miniatures cuttings and Hebrew manuscripts (see Italian illuminated cuttings and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts), and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

   •   perform a quick search (this searches for a word or number in all sections of each catalogue entry, including images);
   •   perform a simple search using keywords and dates;
   •   look for information about a particular manuscript if you know its collection name and manuscript number;
   •   perform an advanced search using different types or combinations of information;
   •   explore the virtual exhibitions of various aspects of the British Library's western illuminated manuscript holdings; and
   •   check the illustrated glossaries of terms.
   •   download digital images for further reuse such as in educational contexts, placing on your blog or sharing with others. Please see guidance notes on Access and Reuse.

Open Access Dissertations at the University of Helsinki

Open Access Dissertations at the University of Helsinki

The paribhasas arthavadgrahane nanarthakasya, laksanapratipadoktayoh pratipadoktasyaiva grahanam and ekadesavikrtam ananyavat : Studies on some Metarules in Paninian system 

Ben-Dor, Sharon (Helsingin yliopisto, 2009-06-09)

"Do Not Celebrate Your Feast without Your Neighbours" : A Study of References to Feasts and Festivals in Non-Literary Documents from Ramesside Period Deir el-Medina

Jauhiainen, Heidi (Helsingin yliopisto, 2009-09-30)

The Hinterland of a City : Rural settlement and land use in the Petra region from the Nabataean-Roman to the Early Islamic period

Kouki, Paula (Helsingin yliopisto, 2012-05-30)

A Touch of Red : Archaeological and Ethnographic Approaches to Interpreting Finnish Rock Paintings

Lahelma, Antti (Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistys r.y, 2008-04-19)

Archaeology of wings : Birds and people in the Baltic Sea region during the Stone Age

Mannermaa, Kristiina (Helsingin yliopisto, 2008-06-13)

Studies on Stone Age Housepits in Fennoscandia (4000 - 2000 cal BC) : Changes in ground plan, site location and degree of sedentism

Mökkönen, Teemu (Helsingin yliopisto, 2011-06-17)

Power and Women in the Neo-Assyrian Palaces

Svärd, Saana (Helsingin yliopisto, 2012-02-22)

Locus Bonus : The Relationship of the Roman Villa to its Environment in the Vicinity of Rome

Viitanen, Eeva-Maria (Helsingin yliopisto, 2010-10-02)