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Were the Assyrians at Ecbatana?
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The historical geography of Media of the 9th-7th century B.C. presents one of the most complicated problems in the history of the Ancient Near East. The toponyms of Media testified by Assyrian sources do not coincide with the later Median toponyms of the Achaemenid period known to Ancient Greek, Roman and Armenian geographers (1). This leaves us with very few place-names of the 9th-7th century to locate on the present-day map of the region.
Meanwhile, the existing relative topography of Media and the regions adjoining it, based on detailed descriptions of Assyrian ...
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From Minerals to Art.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals
; ...ultramarine blue was obtained from lazurite, a component of lapis lazuli found in the Kokcha Valley in Afghanistan. This rich blue...golden-yellow color (aurum means gold). Some artists mixed ground lapis lazuli with orpiment to create green. The historical record for...
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Risk tip: look, don't touch: feast your eyes on treasures of the ancients.(RIMS PHILLY)
Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance
; Extravagant jewelry of gold, lapis-lazuli and carnelian, cups of gold and silver, bowls...the-Thicket, the Great Lyre with a gold and lapis lazuli bull's head, Lady Puabi's lapis lazuli and carnelian jewelry, an electrum drinking...
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Viennese enamels in the Renaissance revival style.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...such ostentatious constructions the main body was made of lapis lazuli or of engraved rock crystal or glass mounted in chased gold...covered with painted enamel decoration replaced polished lapis lazuli or engraved crystal. This radical modification allowed the...
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Jean-Valentin Morel and the revival of the Lapidary's art: Isabelle Lucas describes the career of the remarkable French goldsmith who pioneered the taste for hard-stone vessels in renaissance taste. The article marks the acquisition by the Indianapolis Museum of Art of one of Morel's masterpieces, made in 1854-55 for the duc de Luynes.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...The task of bringing objets d'art made of jasper, agate, lapis lazuli and rock crystal back into favour would fall to Jean-Valentin...mosaics on cups, vases and objets d'art made of jasper, lapis lazuli, agate, etc., as well as mounts for them made of gold and...
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Afghanite: Sar-e-Sang, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.(Connoisseur's Choice)
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals
; ...particularly desirable, specimens. Recently, however, the legendary lapis lazuli (lazurite) occurrence at Sar-e-Sang, Afghanistan, has produced...almost a century ago by Zambonini (1910). The world's premier lapis lazuli occurrence is the Sar-e-Sang area of the Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan...
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IRAQ: ASSYRIANS INCLUDED IN BUSH'S IRAQI POLITICAL FORMULA.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...government, he mentioned directly the Assyrians as part of the formula of a future Iraq...the U.S. president also referred to Assyrians (including Chaldeans and Syriacs) in...liberation of Iraq 'The oppression of Kurds, Assyrians, Turkomans, Shi'a, Sunnis, and others...
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For my son. (Poetry).(Poem)
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine
; ...placing a word, naming time, calling moon. We two watch the tree's unadorned silence and evolve to marble, grit of ground lapis lazuli mixed with oil, gold leaf, frankincense and myrrh. Madonna and child, the old thing again, over and over, and roosting on...
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A Bit of the Real. (poem)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...build boxes for them to nest in, but the boxes could be empty forever. You may as well buy a figure of one with wings of lapis lazuli as wait for the real. But today a pair of them streaked in front of my windshield as I traveled down a gravel road. It was...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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EASTER TREASURES FROM FABERGE.(Arts & Literature)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...about 1900, about which little is known historically, and the Lapis Lazuli Egg of 1886. Also on display at the museum are several dozen...Museum are the Imperial Gatchina Palace Egg (at left) and the Lapis Lazuli Egg (above). Portland Art Museum The Rose Trellis Egg is...
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Mineral mania; scientists crack the case of a masquerading, true-blue mineral. (aernite) (includes information on other rocks)
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...color, but she knew it was misidentified. The label read, Lapis lazuli, a blue stone used to make jewelry. It was clear to me that...scratched, and its luster, or ability to reflect light. Unlike lapis lazuli, this mineral won't shine if you polish it, Cressey discovered...
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