... have of Peckard’s ownership; he left no marks on the volume by which he might otherwise be identified.) manuscript partbooks John Sadler provenance Tudor ownership inscriptions The partbooks known today as the Willmott and Braikenridge manuscripts (Mss. Mus.c.784 and Tenbury 1486 in the Bodleian...

.... human rights violations technological effects technological inscriptions technological transpositions Chile Questions about technology may be answered from different perspectives. Nowadays, registry methods benefit from the availability of audiovisual resources, plus forms of mass communications...

...Katherine Butler Robert Parsons’s Ave Maria is the only motet accompanied by inscriptions that has specifically Catholic associations via its subject of Marian devotion (which had been marginalized by Protestant reform, even if Mary remained a prominent biblical figure). ⁹...

... of inferences by way of an analysis of propositions. This chapter looks at the use of terms, propositions, and inferences during the medieval period, along with thoughts, utterances, inscriptions, the temporality of propositions, and categorematic and syncategorematic terms. ‘and’ inference proposition...

... terms are often used together to describe a single category of “others” against which early Buddhists and Jains constructed their own identities. On the other hand, they are also used together in the early Buddhist texts and Aśokan inscriptions to refer to a single undifferentiated class of worthy...

... and late. Smaller texts, however, in particular formulaic inscriptions (including vows, tomb inscriptions, and curses) have been underrated in their impact as widespread and easily accessible media. It is argued here that specific genres, narratives in particular, played a significant role at the local...

...This chapter examines the captioning of honorific statues in the Hellenistic period, with emphasis on their metaphorical ‘grammar’ in terms of the accusative case. In particular, it analyses the politics underlying inscriptions on the bases of honorific monuments. It argues that captioning prevents...

...Jenny Wallensten, Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions. In: Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury. Edited by John F. Miller and Jenny Strauss Clay, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198777342.003.0016 The chapter...

...Stone inscriptions were a way of signalling land ownership or patronage of monumental structures in premodern Gujarat, as elsewhere in South Asia. They were also a way for rulers or officials to issue edicts. A number of stone inscriptions from Gujarat were written in two or three languages...

...The conclusion evaluates women’s position in urban society of the Roman West. Attention is paid to the dichotomy between the city of Rome and other cities of Italy and the western provinces, between the moralizing literary sources and inscriptions, between the Republic and the imperial period...

... no inscription at all surviving, so we cannot know names of the mother, the infant, or the commemorators. This includes a marble relief panel walled up into the bell tower of the cathedral at Benevento which is graced with a portrait of a woman who holds her swaddled infant conspicuously in 223 her arm...

... translocal local elites Egyptian priests Arsinoe II Cultural Memory Egyptian inscriptions It has long been thought that Ptolemaic rulers generally interacted with Egyptian and Hellenized subjects in distinct cultural languages; on the conventional view, they primarily relied on what we call...

... out the sorts of stories written into different sorts of inscription. It then turn to two particularly rich examples in order examine the way in which two major types of public inscription—lists and decrees—created the template in which the past is made history. Greece inscriptions Bronze Age...

...This chapter discusses the development of inscriptions as historical writing in early India, covering the period from third century bc to sixth century ad. The earliest deciphered inscriptions are the edicts of the Mauryan emperor Aśoka dating to the third century bc...

.... The first consists of funerary inscriptions, the second of monumental dedicatory inscriptions, the third of ensembles of mural inscriptions, and the fourth of inscriptions on various objets d'art. epigraphic sources Fayoum Oasis artefacts Christian Fayoum funerary inscriptions...

...This chapter describes a number of early Indian inscriptions which mention Buddhist monks, nuns, and laymen in terms of familial relationships. These inscriptions could be explained away as records of children who were abandoned and forsaken by their parents when the latter “left home...

...This chapter presents new interpretations of two important inscriptions. In the Greek inscription of Sophytos from Old Kandahar, a man with an Indian name presents himself in a Greek cultural framework. In the Prakrit inscription of Heriodoros from Besnagar, in India, we find in contrast a Greek...

... on the colony. Through an examination of gravestone inscriptions and domestic architecture at sites in the South Carolina Lowcountry, this chapter investigates the role of Huguenots in the development of local culture. Charleston Huguenots Louis XIV Low Country SC Plantation s Refugees from Haitian...

...The most convenient routes that passed by or led to the purest and most dependable water sources, optimal hunting grounds, most desirable places to live, and best sources of usable stone were discovered by early travelers and residents in the Eastern Desert. The Wadi Hammamat inscriptions bear...

...The chapter examines a small subgroup of decorated metal bowls, typically referred to as “Phoenician,” that bear inscriptions on them, as an avenue into the corpus as a whole, and delves into the material association of ornamentation and inscription on vessels designed for pouring and/or drinking...