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Gaming Heroes : Ajax and Achilles on a Lekythos in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1989)
and Archaeology of the University of Missouri-Columbia."--First paragraph....
Walter Jackson Ong, S.J.: A Selected Bibliography
(1987-01)
The published works of Walter J. Ong, S.J., number close to four hundred. What follows here is a chronological listing of about half that total. Some earlier publications, some items that would be difficult to obtain, and many of his book reviews...
"Ouch!" Inscribed Greek Sling Bullets in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1999)
Theriac : A Panacea for all Periods
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1995)
"With advances in medical science and with the development ofso many new medicines over the centuries, it is astonishing to find one medicine that was taken for more than two thousand years-from the third century B.C.E. ...
The Funerary Stele of Heliodora, Astrologer
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2019)
, and a considerable number of further examples known but not yet published, the stele in the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology belongs to a tiny group of such gravestones with unusual interest and, indeed, a unique description...
Class Voice Teachers: Are Specialized Background and Preparation Necessary?
(1983)
The
hypothesis of this paper is that specialized background and preparation
are necessary for a class voice teacher. In order to test this
hypothesis, the following sub-hypotheses were devised to find out
how and in ...
Thoughts on the Provenance of Some Merovingian-Era Buckles at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2010)
"Among the thousands of objects in the collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri is a little-known group of early medieval artifacts from France. Given by the artist Evelyn Borchard Metzger in 1962, the European...
The Gazelle Mosaic : An Inhabited Scroll in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1997)
"Floral scrolls occupied by human and animal elements performing a variety of activities were an extremely popular motif of Roman decorative art. The popularity of these "peopled" or "inhabited" scrolls was such that they ...
Molded Bowls from Tel Anafa and Elsewhere
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
"Ten seasons of excavation at Tel Anafa in Upper Galilee, 1968-70, 1972-1973, 1978-1981 and 1986, have shown the site to be one of the richest late Hellenistic settlements yet revealed. Among the copious finds were great ...
The Hidden Treasures of Rome : Tracing the Context of Isolated Artifacts
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2015)
Cyprus at the End of Antiquity : Investigations at KaIavasos-Kopetra
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1987)
Mediterranean island community. The expedition is a collaborative undertaking of the authors on behalf of the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University Museum, University...
Rock Crystal Vessels in Antiquity
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1973)
A Gold Finger Ring and the Empress of Eudocia
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1989)
Horseman in Bronze : A Belt from Urartu
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
A Matter of Life and Death : "Reading" a Funerary Relief
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2009)
"Funerary monuments from the eastern Roman Empire are both numerous and varied. The Museum of Art and Archaeology at the university of Missouri has a particularly interesting one -- a relief that commemorates a woman named Levitha, who lived...
Dipstick urinalysis for the diagnosis of acute UTI
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
UTI diagnosis. If nitrite and LE tests are negative, the odds of a UTI decrease by 40 to 60 percent. (SOR: A, based on systematic reviews of cross-sectional studies including men and women.)...
The Judgement of Paris : An Excerpt on a Roman Relief Mirror
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1992)
"Gilded bronze reliefs are characteristic of a group of Roman mirrors of otherwise simple design. Most of the mirrors are small, 9-12 cm in diameter; all have an unadorned, round, reflecting surface of polished high-tin ...
A Fifteenth-Century French Illuminated Calendar Leaf
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 2005)
to the circle of the Coerivy Master. In the case of the Missouri leaf, we are fortunate: enough sister leaves are documented to reconstruct an idea of the manuscript's textual and visual content. These clues suggest that the calendar leafwas part of a unified...
Cupids at the Circus : Missouri's Chariot Sarcophagus
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1995)
"One of the more peculiar and intriguing phenomena in Roman archaeology is the abrupt and still generally unexplained switch from cremation to inhumation that seems to have occurred throughout the Empire during the second ...
Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys: The Peculiar Incentives in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Consequences for School Staffing
(American Education Finance Association, 2009)
This article examines the pattern of incentives for work versus retirement in six state teacher pension systems. We do this by examining the annual accrual of pension wealth from an additional year of work over a teacher's ...