Search results for "antico"

The ‘grave of the Court Pit’, A rediscovered Bronze Age tomb from Carchemish

2014

This paper examines the British Museum unpublished records related to an Early Bronze (EB) Age pithos burial uncovered a century ago in the Inner Town at Carchemish. The grave, cursorily cited and variously dated (Chalcolithic, EB or even LBA) in the final reports, was described in some detail by Hogarth and Thompson; a precise dating is, however, possible today thanks to the information of paramount importance given by T. E. Lawrence who identified and took a picture of the associated finds, which was recently rediscovered in the Carchemish Archives. The pithos can be now ascribed to the third quarter of the third millennium BC and helps to confirm the recent theory according to which the …

Biomolecular study of the human remains from tomb 5859 in the Etruscan necropolis of Monterozzi Tarquinia (Vitarbo, Italy)

2004

Abstract Archaeological excavation in an Etruscan room tomb, from the Monterozzi necropolis in Tarquinia led to the recovery of four individuals. It was hypothesized that they could be members of a single family group. As both archaeological data and classical anthropological analysis provided little information in this direction, ancient DNA (aDNA) was extracted from bone and tooth fragments of the individuals. For each subject HVR-I of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was cloned and sequenced. To identify the sex of the individuals, amelogenine and SRY genes were analysed. Short tandem repeat (STR) characterization was also performed. DNA studies were preceded by the evaluation of amino acid…

Gli studi sull’arte armena a Venezia. Alpago Novello e le prospettive di ricerca

2020

<div> <p>This paper aims to retrace the Armenian Studies’ tradition in Venice. This tradition moved from the firsts scientific publications edited by the Mechitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro to Ca’ Foscari University’s first chair of Armenian Studies, led by father Levon Zekyan in 1976. During that year, Adriano Alpago Novello founded the Study and Documentation Centre of Armenian Culture that in 1992 moved from Milan to Venice. The present paper focuses on the legacy of Alpago Novello through the analysis of his working methods and results in the context of the history of Armenian art and architecture. His methodology belongs to the field of the ecology of art.</p> &lt…

Rev. of. M. J. Geller, Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East

2015

The World Bank’s Early Reflections on Development: A Development Institution or a Bank?

2009

Until the late 1960s, the World Bank presented itself as an institution devoted to making sound and directly productive project loans. Yet, during its very early years, some discussions developed inside the Bank regarding the possibility of issuing different types of loans, namely (i) loans aimed at tackling social issues ("social loans"), and (ii) loans aimed at providing foreigncurrency to address disequilibria in the balance of payments ("impact loans"). This paper brings together historical analysis and theories of organization development to study the housing issue as a case in point. The analysis reveals that the Bank was unwilling to lend for housing programs not because these were n…

Pottery of Phases 16-19” and "Pottery of Phases 20-23" in: Pfälzner, P. – Qasim, H. A. “Urban developments in North-Eastern Mesopotamia from the Nine…

2019

Pottery comes from various debris layers (mainly A16 to A18) and from floor layers of the domestic building of Phase A19.

The Ninevite 5 pottery assemblage of Phase A25 from the extra-mural dwellings and the kiln. In P. Pfaelzner and A. H. Hasim "From Akkadian Maridaban …

2021

The focus of the 2018 and 2019 excavations at Bassetki was on investigating the beginning of the city in the Ninevite 5 period, its importance in the Akkadian and Old Babylonian periods, and its function as a governor’s seat in Middle Assyrian times. Thus, the main stages of the urban development of Maridaban/Mardaman/Mardama can be traced, which are also documented textually. Der Fokus der Ausgrabungen 2018 und 2019 in Bassetki lag auf der Untersuchung des Beginns der Stadtanlage in der Ninive 5-Periode, ihrer Bedeutung in der Akkad- und der Altbabylonischen Zeit sowie ihrer Funktion als Statthaltersitz in Mittelassyrischer Zeit. Damit können die wesentlichen Etappen der Stadtentwicklung v…

La «Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage». Parodia e ironizzazione letteraria

2012

La «Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage» («Battaglia di Quaresima e Carnevale») è un poemetto francese di 574 ottosillabi a rima baciata, risalente al XIII sec., breve e lineare per ciò che riguarda l’articolazione narrativa, ma quanto mai complesso nelle sue interne e sotterranee significazioni. Un testo, la «Bataille», che si rivela campione privilegiato di indagine sia letteraria sia folklorico-antropologica, poiché caratterizzato da una sapiente tessitura di motivi che rimandano al "fabliau", al "lai", al "débat", al contrasto e, in ultima analisi, anche al teatro. Un testo, inoltre, evidentemente contrassegnato dalla costante e consapevole parodia dei temi e degli stilemi delle "chanson…

Successful Treatment of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (CAPS) Associated With Splenic Marginal-zone Lymphoma With Low-molecular Weig…

2008

ABSTRACT Case report A 69-year-old woman with splenic marginal-zone lymphoma was admitted with progressive abdominal pain and splenomegaly as the suspected cause of pain. Rituximab treatment (375 mg/m 2 ) had been initiated on the day of admission. Abdominal computerized tomography revealed splenic infarction. Laboratory tests showed elevation of liver enzymes and creatinine, low platelet count, prolonged partial thromboplastin time, and lupus anticoagulant positivity. The diagnosis of catastrophic antiphospholipid antibody syndrome was made. Weight-adjusted low-molecular weight heparin therapy was initiated. Freedom from symptoms and normalization of liver enzymes and creatinine occurred w…

Determination of phenytoin in plasma by molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction.

2001

Abstract A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) using phenytoin as template and methacrylamide as the functional monomer was prepared. The selectivity was measured by comparing capacity factors of phenytoin and other structurally related compounds. The polymer was evaluated as a selective sorbent in molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction (MISPE). Several washing solvents were tested to study their ability to disrupt the non-specific interactions occurring between the sample and the polymer matrix and the role of water in the recognition process was also investigated. It was shown that the key step of successful sample extraction is the right choice of the washing solvent. Plasma sample…