Books from Dumbarton Oaks
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Kourion: Excavations in the Episcopal Precinct
By Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw, Richard AndersonExcavations in the Episcopal Precinct Arthur Hubert Stanley Megaw, Richard Anderson, Helen Brown ... scroll is the tail of a bird facing left.139 The width of the wave crest itself ( 4.1 cm ) and veining of the marble link this to no .
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Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World
By Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Victor H. Bolaños, Rafael CobosChichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World Cynthia Kristan-Graham, George J. Bey, III, ... In Trade and Market in the Early Empires ( K. Polanyi , C. Arensberg , and H. Pearson , eds . ) : 114-153 .
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The Olmec & Their Neighbors: Essays in Memory of Matthew W. Stirling
By Matthew Williams Stirling, Michael D. Coe, Elizabeth P BensonTwo other fragmentary Olmec figurines , which are said to come from La Venta , are pictured in Cabecitas olmecas ( González Calderón 1977 : Fotos 157 and 162 ) . Although the published photographs of the pieces are of poor quality ...
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The Correspondence of Ignatios, the Deacon
By Ignatios, Ignatios the Deacon, the Deacon IgnatiosIgnatios was a key figure in the revival of literary culture in Constantinople during the first half of the ninth century.
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The Architecture of the Kariye Camii in Istanbul
By Robert G. Ousterhout, Professor Department of the History of Art and Director of the Center for Ancient Studies Robert G OusterhoutThe Kariye Camii remains one of the most important and best-known monuments of the Byzantine world.
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Pre-Columbian Metallurgy of South America: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 18th and 19th, 1975
By Elizabeth P Benson, Elizabeth P. BensonMuseo Arqueológico Adán Quiroga , Catamarca ( No. 166 ) . e . With four anthropomorphic heads ( trophy heads ? ) and two amphisbaenas . Belén or Santa María culture . Talamayo , Department of Belén , Province of Catamarca .
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Armenian Gospel Iconography: The Tradition of the Glajor Gospel
By Thomas F. Mathews, Avedis Krikor Sanjian, Mary Virginia OrnaWhen the Gospel book came to U.C.L.A. the solitary first leaf ( pages 1–2 ) , which is blank except for the inscription of the baroness Vaxax , was bound in upside - down at the very back of the book . But this leaf is of the same fine ...
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Ecclesiastical Silver Plate in Sixth-century Byzantium: Papers of the Symposium Held May 16-18, 1986, at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore,...
By Susan A Boyd, Walters Art Gallery, Dumbarton OaksSeveral different ware sizes exist , but their usage cannot be determined from the samples . CATALOGUE OF POTTERY preserved ; est . RD 29 cm , T 1 cm , PL 12 cm , PW 7.5 cm ; upward with flat top rim , possibly shallow body ; 30 light ...
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A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
By Robert G. Ousterhout, Professor Department of the History of Art and Director of the Center for Ancient Studies Robert G Ousterhoutenhanced through the use of older photographs , including those of Gertrude Bell ( 1907 ) , Michael Ballance ( 1956 ) , Nicole Thierry ( 1958 and later ) ... The figures are set against a rich blue background and stand on a green ground .
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The Danzantes of Monte Albán
By John F. ScottThe volume includes an illustrated catalogue of the reliefs and an appendix on their petrography and pigmentation.
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Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire
By John Philip Thomas( Paris , Turnhout , 1904- ) Wilhelm Riedel and Walter Ewing Crum , The Canons of Athanasius of Alexandria , The Arabic and Coptic Versions ( London - Oxford , 1904 ) Canons of Pseudo - Basil , ed .
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Tokalı Kilise: Tenth-century Metropolitan Art in Byzantine Cappadocia
By Ann Wharton Epstein, Annabel Jane Wharton, Paul M. SchwartzbaumTokali Kilise (Buckle Church) was the principal sanctuary of a large monastic center in Byzantine Cappadocia, now central Turkey.
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Highland-lowland Interaction in Mesoamerica: Interdisciplinary Approaches : a Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 18th and 19th, 1980
By Arthur G. MillerHighland-lowland Interaction in Mesoamerica: Interdisciplinary Approaches : a Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 18th and 19th, 1980
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Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1988
By Janet Catherine Berlo( a − b ) Mirrors with feathered rims ( after Langley 1986 : 318 ) ; ( c ) Mirror with feathered rim ( after Miller 1973 : fig . 191 ) ; ( d ) Back mirror with opposing flares on rim ( after Miller 1973 : figs .
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A Study of Olmec Sculptural Chronology
By Susan MilbrathPhoto by Elizabeth P. Benson . Fig . 32 ( below ) La Venta Altar s ( after Stirling 1943 : Pl . 40 ) . Fig . 35 ( left , below ) San Lorenzo. Fig . 30 ( above ) La Venta Altar 4. Photo by Elizabeth P. Benson . Fig .
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Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government
By Dumbarton Oaks, William Harris Isbell, Gordon Francis McEwanPrehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government William Harris Isbell, Gordon Francis McEwan, Dumbarton Oaks William H. ... DONNAN , CHRISTOPHER , AND Carol J. MACKEY 1978 Ancient Burial Patterns in the Moche Valley , Peru .
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The Vernacular Garden
By Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape ArchitectureLittle wheels represent the water mills on the canals on the left side ( photo : from Duthoit , Le vieil Amiens , CRDP ) worlds . Thus , this is a merchant city where even the temporal powers of the cathedral had been drastically ...
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Regional Garden Design in the United States
By Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape ArchitectureIn February of 1841 the Secretary of War , and of the Institute , Joel Poinsett , commissioned Robert Mills to design a building on the opposite side of the Mall from its present position and a botanical garden for whichever institute ...
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American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900): From the Newengland Farmer to Italian Gardens : an Annotated Bibliography
By Jack Becker, Joachim Wolschke-BulmahnRichardson and Lord , Boston , 2 Riker , Thorne and Co. , New York , 152 Jos . H. Riley and Co. , Columbus , Ohio , 304 W. A. Rind , Washington , D.C. , 123 Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass . , 195 , 323 , 338 , 339 , 365 Roberts ...
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The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989
By Samuel Thomas Parker, John Wilson Betlyon50:35 ) , BethShan / Beisan ( Fitzgerald 1931 : pl . 33:16 ) , Bethany ( Saller 1957 : fig . 53 : 3835 ) , and Jerusalem ( Magness 1993 : 166–71 , with additional parallels , 193–99 ) . Although Gichon rightly suggested that ...