There was a missing period (".") in one of the URLs of Heleanor's photos. Here is the message resent with the URL corrected: XXXX Last week John Huntington...
Dear List, Heleanor has sent me further images of lions, this time one from ... See them side-by-side on one of my servers: http://tinyurl.com/8bupo I asked...
Dear List members. Helanor's comparison is very interesting (Indeed, I had not known about the Han piece myself). Howevr, one must note that Persepolis "lion"...
Years ago when reading Vedarthasangraha with the Pdt. Srinivasa Raghavachariar of Tiruvarangam, of the Deccan College, we came to a standard Ramanujiya...
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Victor Mair
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Aug 1, 2005 5:08 pm
Dear Colleagues, Seldom do I see such a bargain for a book that is essential for anyone who is doing research on Chinese history, so I consider it my solemn ...
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Victor Mair
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Aug 1, 2005 6:26 pm
While the matter of purple gold is still live on the list, I'm wondering if the attractiveness of this particular metal was partly due to the royal...
It's important to note that murex was not the only source for dyeing purples -- just the most famous, and the most restricted one. Orchil purples were produced...
It is also worth noting that the vocabulary of color shifts significantly over time, so that colors called purple in ancient and medieval periods might not be...
Yes, the horned bixie certainly does display some Achaemenid characteristics, transformed by Chinese artistic sensibilities and iconographic needs. There are...
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Bjarte Kaldhol
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Aug 1, 2005 10:39 pm
Dear Listmembers, Victor Mair asked: How early can the passion for purple be traced? In the West, at least as early as the Late Bronze Age. Purple (kinahhu,...
Dear John et. al. Some of the Eastern Han bixie, particularly the smaller tomb furnishings such as bronze lamp-bases (which may reflect a Zoroastrian...
Most varieties of gold are actually alloys, with the colour being determined by the variety and amount of the secondary metal, copper produces rose gold, very...
[Ram: I changed your long URL into a tinyurl. Posters should be doing that routinely on their own when URLs are long. - Steve.] Ram Varmha writes: Allen, Since...
"kanaka" the word when it does not mean gold alos means riches/assets/moeny. VSV ... -- Vinayak Vaidya [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Duan Qing
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Aug 2, 2005 11:15 am
Si Maqian (145 or 135 BC - ?) <Shi Ji> vol. 30, the 8th chapter of Pingzhunshu: 金有三等，黄金为上，白金为中，赤金为下。 ...
... wondering > if the attractiveness of this particular metal was partly due to the > royal associations of the color. ... also > the mark of the highest...
plant-derived, natural red/purple dyes (as well as the interesting, recently confirmed medicinal effects of the plants) are reviewed in the following: ...
there seems to be an Eurasian East-West divide here: a) the East used the root of Lithospermum erythrorhizon Siebold et Zucc., purple gromwell, jap. murasaki,...
The topics of purple, red and blue gold, along with the various dies have been great fun. I am sorry I have not much to add except for the folowing: When...
Dear List, In my modest point of view Sanchi lions shown by Helenor are from first century BC from the Satavahana period, obviosly after Mauryan times,much...
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Duan Qing
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Aug 3, 2005 4:16 am
Concerning the lions, I have 2 questions: 1. In China we often see male and female lions in pair. But I miss the female one in India and Iranian cultural...
Thanks, Judith I managed to track the Rawson article, which largely reinforces the Nomad connection I'd been looking at, though I would think the Altai would...
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Aug 3, 2005 12:45 pm
Dear Michael et alii my article "Hic erant leones. Indo-European "lion" et alii", Journal of Indo-European Studies 33/1-2, 2005, 1-39 should have been...
Dear Duan Qing, Female lions do occur on Assyrian and Persian (usually Sassanian) bas reliefs and silverware. Sadly, except for the ones paraded on the ...
This was probably discussed already, but could someone tell me if bixie is the Chinese word for "lion" in general, or for a specific 'mythological' version...
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Victor Mair
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Aug 3, 2005 6:57 pm
... Dear Colleagues, Fearful of Duan Qing's hands and feet (I travel to Beijing frequently!), I thought it prudent to look at ZI3MO2JIN1 afresh. First of all,...
pixie sounds good! on the words for 'lion', which entered old chinese from other languages, you might want to consult: BEHR Wolfgang 2004 Hinc sunt leones --...
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Victor Mair
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Aug 3, 2005 8:22 pm
[Moderator note: I agree with Victor about your post, Francesco. Just one little point: couldn't 'crimson' simply be cognate with 'krmi-ja'? Best, George.] ...
Dear List, Significantly, Buddhist thrones Started being Lion thrones (simha asana) very early on (no later than 2nd Cent CE and probably before), While most...
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Victor Mair
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Aug 3, 2005 8:23 pm
Colleagues, By the way, that long string of Chinese characters (or it may have showed up as gobbledygook / gibberish on your computer screen) that preceded the...
