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The Edge of the Sahara
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Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Phyllis Brevoort Eby 1962
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Shallow Bowl with Tall Foot and Knobbed Lid
Shallow Bowl with Tall Foot and Knobbed Lid
Interior: in the center a whirl pattern in black bounded by a checker border between two stripes of applied purple. Around an animal zone, panther, goose, panther, goose, lion, ibe...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Time Script
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This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is inscribed with twenty columns of text, the columns with varying numbers of characters and thus of varying lengths. The ...
Textile Fragment with Tapestry Band
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Fragment of plain linen cloth with tapestry woven band. The band is red with thin yellow and dark blue borders. A yellow vine runs the length of the red band, containing within its...
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Late pre‐Islamic burials at Mleiha, Emirate of Sharjah (UAE)
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The history of two monumental grave buildings (nos. 4 and 5), excavated in area P of the late pre‐Islamic city of Mleiha, has been studied in detail. Like all other tombs excavated...
The bilingual tomb inscription from Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE—palaeographical and philological remarks
The bilingual tomb inscription from Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE—palaeographical and philological remarks
AbstractThe Aramaic‐Hasaitic bilingual tomb inscription from Mleiha published in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27 (2016) is one of the most important epigraphic discoveries fro...
Coffee and socialism in the Venezuelan Andes
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Barinas, this article investigates the impact of “twenty-first century socialist” policies on the Andean peasantry and the relat...
An Ancient Maya Measurement System
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In this report we attempt to answer the question: which measurement system did the Late Classic Maya use to build their buildings? Measurements were collected from ten buildings at...
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