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2016
Introduction: This is an exciting time for yoga studies because in the last ten years a number of crucial new discoveries have been made about yoga's history. These have rewritten our understanding of yoga's evolution, both as a philosophy and as a physical practice. The first of these new...
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Organization of the water supply for the Trajanic frontier fort in the Nabataean settlement of Hawara
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Oleson, John Peter, Harvey, Craig A.
This article explores the impact of Roman imperialism on the water infrastructure of Humayma, Jordan (Nabataean Hawara, Roman Hauarra). In particular, the uniqueness of a large water reservoir within the Roman auxiliary fort at the site is explored in the context of the site as a strategic way...
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2021-01-01
Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A.
The 2014 season of the al-Ḥumaymah Excavation Project was devoted to surveying rock-carved graffiti and other human activity areas on Jabal Kalkhah and the sandstone ridges west of al-Ḥumaymah’s Nabataean through early Islamic settlements (Reeves, Harvey and Seymour 2018). In the course of this...
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2009
Book chapter on post-classical Indian traditions of medical debate and argumentation focused on the medical discourse of Viresvara.
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2017-01-01
Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A., Fergusson, Mike, Harden, Sherry, Holman, Lindsay M., MacKinnon, Marla, Shelton, Andi
Ḥumayma, ancient Ḥawara, is the largest Nabataean and Roman period site in the Ḥisma desert of southern Jordan. The Nabataeans, in the first century BC, had founded a town with an impressive water-supply system here on a pre-existing caravan route. Just over a century later, following the...
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2018-01-01
Reeves, M. Barbara, Harvey, Craig A., Seymour, Brian
In May 2014 the Ḥumayma Excavation Project (HEP) conducted a short survey in the sandstone hills and ridges to the west of Ḥumayma’s Nabataean to early Islamic settlement.
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1990
It has been said that “of the whole collating project, the hardest part to carry out with complete success is probably the business of finding out what manuscripts there are.”1 This remark, originally intended to apply to classical Latin and Greek works, is even more true for Sanskrit...
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1997
1 The demand for digitized information: Everyone today is mad with digitization-fever. What does it mean for Sanskritists? Where will it end? Can we afford it? Can we afford not to do it? The talk opened by addressing the question “What is the audience for digital archives?” The following...
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Table of contents of 中國書畫全書 (2009; 20 volume-set)
2011-01-01
The multi-volume set 中國書畫全書 published by 上海書畫出版社 in 2009 contains major pre-modern writings on Chinese calligraphy and painting. The complete list of writings contained there is present only in volume 1 of the set. Louis Chor transcribed the entire list (the table of contents) as this Web page....
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2006
Introduction: A visitor to the Indian city of Thanjavur finds two great cultural monuments. The first is the Temple of Brihadisvara, one of the most magnificent temples in India. The temple was founded almost one thousand years ago by King Rajrajesvara of the Chola dynasty (985-1016). The second...