This thesis analyzes an anonymous portrait painting of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839), called by its descriptive title Seated Portrait of Mahmud II, within the context of the extensive portrait campaign commissioned by the sultan. Surviv...
The Avar were nomadic people from Central Asia who migrated into the Carpathian Basin in Central-Eastern Europe during the mid to late Migration Period (AD 568 - 895). Archaeological evaluation of grave goods and documentation of mortuary practices h...
The area adjacent to the Osiris temple precinct in North Abydos comprised a focal point for ritual activity associated with the cult of Osiris at both the royal and non-royal level during the Eighteenth Dynasty (ca 1552–1305 B.C.). Textual evidence a...
The Tomb of the Dancers represents the Ji'an style which established in the 4th century in the northeast frontier of China. Han funerary art which became the ultimate model and foundation of funerary art in East Asia was transferred and transformed i...
The primary objective of this study is to further develop anthropological models of complexity and political development by focusing them on a historically well-known and rich data set. This is done by developing a general interpretive framework with...
Nippur, the center of Sumerian culture, located about 120 miles south of modern day Baghdad, Iraq, produced important cuneiform documents for 2000 years, from the middle of the third millennium B.C. The University of Pennsylvania launched the first U...
Since her discovery in Cuban waters in 1611, La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (The Virgin of Charity) has become the leading transnational religious symbol for Cubans. The oldest stories about the appearance of La Virgen in Cuba suggest the presence...
The peculiarities of Roman architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture are visible in many of the empire's remaining cities. However, evaluation of the landscapes; and analysis of the urban fabric, spatial compositions, and the concepts a...
This dissertation explores maps as powerful representations of landscapes and pasts. The Ordnance Survey maps of 19th century Ireland are artifacts encoded with messages about social identity, social relations of power and are culturally meaningful w...
Chinese spirit-basketdivination, which dates to the fifth century, would have been lost to the worldhad it not been reincarnated as Indonesian jailangkung. The term is thehomophonic rendition of the Chinese cai lan gong [菜篮公, vegetable basket deity]a...
