Mémoires de la Société royale des antiquaires du NordLa Société, 1844 |
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Page 104 - ... breastplate of brass or other metallic composition, measuring about fourteen inches in length and five and a quarter inches in breadth at one end, and six inches at the other. Its general outline is represented by Fig. 1 (Tab. V). The impression of the skin is very strongly exhibited on some parts. What were the original length and form of this plate it is impossible for me to say, as it was broken or destroyed at both ends when found. Over the breast plate at its lower extremity , and completely...
Page 122 - Celtiberic. Mr. Rafn, in the ,paper referred to, inclines strongly in favor of the latter. " So striking," he observes, is the similarity, " that at first sight we are led to believe that we have a Celtiberic inscription lying before us."* He also points out some striking...
Page 56 - ... a case properly speaking, but only as a modification of the nominative. These seven terminations of cases are however not thoroughly developed: in the singular number the ablative and genitive are often identical ; in the plural the dative and ablative. The dual has only three terminations for cases, one for nominative and accusative, another for the instrumental, dative and ablative, and a third for genitive and locative. This mutual relation between the case-terminations, is obviously the basis...
Page 156 - L'examen des renseignements contenus dans l'ancien rapport, et les éclaircissements plus détailles que le chanoine s'est procurés à Bahia et à Valença, où il s'est rendu à cet effet, le portent à admettre l'exactitude de l'ancien rapport et à placer la ville abandonnée dans la partie méridionale de la province de Bahia sur la rive gauche du Braço do Cincord et sur le penchant de la Serra do Cincorâ vers le midi.
Page 104 - These tubes are in length -1 ;. inches and in diameter less than ¿ inch. By the specimens sent it will be perceived that they were formed around pieces of hollow reed, the edges being brought so nicely in contact as to give them the appearance of unbroken cylinders (vide Fig. 2). Through the inclosed reeds sinews or narrow strips of animal hide were passed, and the ends braided together, so that another string similar in kind might run transversely at top and bottom, and thus complete the belt....
Page 124 - Northmen divided the horizon into 8 grand compartments, called àtlir, so they also made a corresponding octuple division of the solar day into aliquot parts, called eyktir, each of which was consequently equal to 3 hours. For the sake of greater perspicuity...
Page 22 - MM. W. Cathala et J.-F. Magnus, ont revu et signé le compte des recettes et des dépenses de l'année révolue, rendu par le Trésorier MJ-C.
Page 154 - La pierre a probablement éfé déposée dans la fosse à côté du corps pour servir d'amulète on comme table généalogique. L'inscription qui y est gravée entre des lignes parallèles, se compose de vingt-quatre caractères. Le rapport de M. Schoolcraft sur cette trouvaille remarquable a été accompagné de quelques notices par M. Rafn, qui a comparé ces caractères aux anciens caractères européens, nommément à ceux qui tirent leur origine de l'alphabet phénicien, c'est-à-dire aux anciennes...
Page 128 - PI. \l, fig. 1 a & l b. Il est d'une fabrication régulière et bonne. Les trois figurines en relief et les ornements du même genre sur le goulot, sont d'une exécution irréprochable, qu'on peut assimiler aux reliefs des lampes funéraires et autres antiquités romaines semblables , appartenant aux deux premiers siècles de notre ère. La forme ovale et aplatie de ce vase avec ses figures en relief, le place parmi les gourdes et le rapproche d'une petite gourde égyptienne de matière, fine et...
Page 104 - ... of an inch in diameter. These tubes Were formed around pieces of hollow reed, the edges being brought so nicely together that they look like unbroken cylinders; through the reeds, sinews or narrow strips of hide were passed, and the ends braided together, so that another similar string might run transversely at top and bottom.