1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716433903321

Titolo

Military and naval compensation, Veterans' Bureau, 1927 and prior years. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting draft of proposed legislation to extend the availability of the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Military and naval compensation, Veterans' Bureau, 1926 and prior years," ... February 8, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 pages)

Collana

House document / 69th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 695

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8735]

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolidgeCalvin <1872-1933.>

Soggetti

Finance, Public

Legislative materials.

United States Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785478003321

Titolo

Ancient graffiti in context / / edited by J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89463-2

1-136-89464-0

1-282-92995-X

9786612929953

0-203-84087-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in ancient history ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BairdJennifer A. <1978->

TaylorClaire <1978->

Disciplina

080.9

Soggetti

Civilization, Ancient

Classical antiquities

Graffiti - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Ancient Graffi ti in Context: Introduction; 2 Dialogues of Graffiti in the House of the Four Styles at Pompeii (Casa Dei Quattro Stili, I.8.17, 11); 3 The Graffiti of Dura-Europos: A Contextual Approach; 4 Identifying Children's Graffiti in Roman Campania: A Developmental Psychological Approach; 5 Graffiti and the Epigraphic Habit: Creating Communities and Writing Alternate Histories in Classical Attica; 6 Transcripts of Dissent?: Political Graffiti and Elite Ideology Under the Principate

7 The Materiality of Graffiti: Socialising a Lekythos in Pherai8 Egyptian 'Inscriptions' and Greek 'Graffiti' at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert; 9 Blogging Rome: Graffiti as Speech-Act and Cultural Discourse; 10 Graffiti in Aphrodisias: Images-Texts-Contexts; Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They



include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways. Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history and archaeol