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Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666750782
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0266213308
Excerpt from Nineveh and Its Remains, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; And an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians The Kiayah, or chief secretary, was chosen Governor of the province by the council, until the Porte could name a new Pasha, or take other steps for the ad ministration of affairs. Essad Pasha, who had lately been at Beyrout, was at length appointed to succeed Tahyar, and soon after reached his Pashalic. These changes did not affect my proceedings. Armed with my Vizirial letter I was able to defy the machinations of the Cadi and the Ulema, who did not cease their endeavours to throw obstacles in my way. After the celebration of Christmas I returned to N imroud, and the excavations were again carried on with activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Assyria
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011317906
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Assyria
ISBN : 1107300576
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Assyria
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000111739
Author : John S. Guest
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136157363
First published in 1993. The Yezidis are a community of around 200,000 Kurds who possess their own religion, quite distinct from Islam, which most other Kurds profess, and from the Christian and Jewish faiths. The Yezidis live in the northern parts of Iraq and Syria, in eastern Turkey, in Germany and in the ex-Soviet republics of Armenia and Georgia. (In Armenia the Yezidis, long classified as Kurds, are now recognized as a separate minority group and the term 'Kurd' is applied only to Moslem Kurds.) This book stems from a conversation with the Yezidi priest of the village who remarked that now the children were learning to read and write they were asking him questions about the Yezidi scriptures and the history of the community. Lacking any written material, he could only repeat to them the oral traditions he had himself learned as a child.
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1330111346
Excerpt from Nineveh and Its Remains, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; And an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians Procession of the Bull beneath the Mound of Nimroud.; The King. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.); Plan 4. Upper Chambers on the West Side of the Mound. (Nimroud.); Enemy asking Quarter of Assyrian Horsemen. (S.W. Palace, Nimroud.); Part of a Bas-relief showing a Pulley, and a Warrior cutting a Bucket from the Rope.; Plan 5. Excavations in the South-east Corner of the Mound. (Nimroud); Sitting Figure in Basalt, from Kahah Sherghat.; Warriors hunting the Lion. (N.W. Palace, Nimroud.); Plan of excavated Ruins at Kouyunjik.; The King in his Chariot returning from Battle. (Kouyunjik.); Wedge or Arrow-head on an Altar. (From a Stone in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris.); Scribes writing down the Number of Heads of the Slain, and the Amount of the Spoil. (Kouyunjik.); Figures, and Cartouche with Hieroglyphics, on an Ivory Panel from the N. W.Palace, Nimroud.; The Egyptian Goddess Ken (from a Tablet in the British Museum); and Assyrian Deity,? the Astarte of the Assyrians and the Ken of the Egyptians (from a Hock Tablet at Malthaiyah, near Mosul).; Forms of Pottery found in the Tombs above the Ruins at Nimroud.; A House. (Kouyunjik.) The Interior of a Tent. (Kouyunjik.); A Temple, or Fishing Pavilion, supported by Proto-Ionic Columns, and standing in a River or artificial Lake. (Khorsabad.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Rawlinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Assyria
ISBN : CHI:21132023
Author : Elena Chestnova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000594089
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style. This book demonstrates how Semper’s theories crystallised among his encounters with material things of the late 1840s and early 1850s. It examines several discursive frameworks and phenomena which shaped the attitude to artefacts in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and which were specifically pertinent to Semper’s evolution: archaeology and antiquarianism, the domestic interior, print media, collections, and the embodied relationship between the designer and their work. For the first time, this book examines the construction of a design theory not only as an intellectual endeavour but also as a process of confrontation with material things. It employs recent approaches to material culture, in particular Thing Theory, in order to show that Semper’s artefact references constituted his ideas, rather than simply giving impetus to them. It will be an important investigation for academics and researchers interested in interior design history, as well as scholars of material culture and history of design theory.
Author : Yasmeen Hanoosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786725967
Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name. First identified as 'Chaldean' by the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, this misnomer persisted, developing into a distinctive and unique identity. In modern times, the demands of assimilation in the US, together with increased hostility and sectarian violence in Iraq, gave rise to a complex and transnational identity. Faced with Islamophobia in the US, Chaldeans were at pains to emphasize a Christian identity, and appropriated the ancient, pre-Islamic history of their namesake as a means of distinction between them and other immigrants from Arab lands. In this, the first ethnographic history of the modern Chaldeans, Yasmeen Hanoosh explores these ancient-modern inflections in contemporary Chaldean identity discourses, the use of history as a collective commodity for developing and sustaining a positive community image in the present, and the use of language revival and monumental symbolism to reclaim association with Christian and pre-Christian traditions.
Author : Professor Shawn Malley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479178
In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), and were then dispersed into the public domain of popular amusements. That the stones of Assyria resonated in debates far beyond the interests of religious and scientific groups is apparent in the prevalence of poetry, exhibitions, plays, and dioramas inspired by the excavation. Of particular note, correspondence involving high-ranking diplomatic personnel and museum officials demonstrates that the 'treasures' brought home to fill the British Museum served not only as signs of symbolic conquest, but also as covert means for extending Britain's political and economic influence in the Near East. Malley takes up issues of class and influence to show how the middle-class Layard's celebrity status both advanced and threatened aristocratic values. Tellingly, the excavations prompted disturbing questions about the perils of imperial rule that framed discussions of the social and political conditions which brought England to the brink of revolution in 1848 and resurfaced with a vengeance during the Crimean crisis. In the provocative conclusion of this meticulously documented and suggestive book, Malley points toward the striking parallels between the history of Britain's imperial investment in Mesopotamia and the contemporary geopolitical uses and abuses of Assyrian antiquity in post-invasion Iraq.
Author : Shawn Malley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317132523
In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), and were then dispersed into the public domain of popular amusements. That the stones of Assyria resonated in debates far beyond the interests of religious and scientific groups is apparent in the prevalence of poetry, exhibitions, plays, and dioramas inspired by the excavation. Of particular note, correspondence involving high-ranking diplomatic personnel and museum officials demonstrates that the 'treasures' brought home to fill the British Museum served not only as signs of symbolic conquest, but also as covert means for extending Britain's political and economic influence in the Near East. Malley takes up issues of class and influence to show how the middle-class Layard's celebrity status both advanced and threatened aristocratic values. Tellingly, the excavations prompted disturbing questions about the perils of imperial rule that framed discussions of the social and political conditions which brought England to the brink of revolution in 1848 and resurfaced with a vengeance during the Crimean crisis. In the provocative conclusion of this meticulously documented and suggestive book, Malley points toward the striking parallels between the history of Britain's imperial investment in Mesopotamia and the contemporary geopolitical uses and abuses of Assyrian antiquity in post-invasion Iraq.
Author : Clifford Mark McCormick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110907940
This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the author interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained as presenting communicative icons intended to influence contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes with innovative interpretations of the contributions of architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199662265
"Identifies and locates one of the Ancient World wonders -- New description of a very early garden and the technology behind its water supply -- Identifies the early occurrence of the "Water-raising Screw" -- Links Assyrian texts and sculpture to later classical sources and explains legends surrounding the characters of Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar -- Reassesses specific sculpture in the British Museum." --Publisher.
Author : George Rawlinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183026610598