Perhaps not a Ph.D. in Vedic Astrolology but how about one in applied statistics? I do wonder (1) what is our knowledge about standardized brick sizes (before ...
Hello Dagmar, I am unable to answer your questions, but perhaps it would help you to know the context of this List's interest in bricks. Bricks have an...
I find this discussion of IVC brick sizes peculiar, and a little maddening. Steve seems to suggest that the commonly cited standard brick size ratio of the IVC...
Hello Bob, I cannot give a full reply now, because I must teach today, and I'm already late. But, briefly, the words for brick in old Indo-Iranian: Skt....
... Dear Bob, Lal for sure, but not Kenoyer, who as I noted cites the common 1:2:4 figure but doesn't make much of it -- and he certainly does not claim any...
Dear Bob, I can't follow up on this after this note, since I'm getting ready to leave for Japan, but to get a sense of how mystical/numerological brick making...
A comment on Bricks: I do not read much in this area of study, so I cannot comment on excavators who have taken this approach. However, I have a substantial ...
To fill out my brief and hasty post to Bob Simpkins: First, I meant that the variation in *stems* suggests that this term is not native to Indo-Iranian....
Hello George, I am trying to make sense of this discussion. George, if as you and Michael point out, the word for brick "entered entered into Indo- Iranian...
Hello Madhav, I don't think that the relatively late attestations of the word for brick are really that much of a problem, because the numerous Iranian...
I should clarify a sentence in my last post, in order to avoid creating confusion: I said: "He then proceeds to show why the old view of H.S. Converse [which,...
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Sandy Wills
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Jun 2, 2005 3:55 pm
Disclaimer: While I am interested in the field, I am not a archaeologist, a historian, or even a college graduate. I have been, on the other hand, a...
... You're right: the standard ratios aren't true. I just looked back at the pages of Marshall in question, which I posted yesterday, and the size of the most...
[Mod. note. 'Harappan' here was used in the general sense, Artur -- as a label for the whole society, as it is commonly used, not just for that one site....
... With a similar disclaimer, let me say that the discussion on bricks took me back in time to the days when I was building my house in India. It was a time...
Dear List, Sometime in the next month we plan to return to the Gandharan thread, which we will not let drop, and also take up the issue of different types of...
Just came across this. Sparse, but very interesting. Joanna ================================ http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/babylon.php Commodity Prices in Babylon 384...
Hi George, ... Wouldn't you see an indirect reference to bricks in RV 2.35.6 (AmAsu pUrSu, "unbaked/uncooked cities/citadels")? Best, Luis [Non-text portions...
Hello Luis, Yes, of course I would. I guess that I was too much focused on iSTakA, etc. In my marginalia to Geldner ad loc. I have written "unbaked bricks?" ...
[Moderator note: Claus is right, of course. To remedy this, we can recommend as an introduction *Oral Epics in India* edited by S. Blackburn, P. Claus et...
... I can do that If I can have a little time. Claus ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB...
Dear Claus, Look on the URL under "Non-Western Epic." There are S. Asian materials there, including links to downloadable texts; follow the links on ...
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Michele Thompson
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Jun 3, 2005 7:00 pm
[Mod. note. Thanks much, Michele. Just about to board a plane for Japan, so no time to discuss now. George said that he plans to promote a thread on epic,...
Another element to keep in mind when considering bricks is the material (clay/mud & filler or chaff or grog or??) from which they are made. Clays vary in their...
Dear Dagmar, ... snip -------------------------- this kind of standardisation is easily achieved by using a kind of a mould for brick production, using four...
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Victor Mair
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Jun 3, 2005 10:57 pm
I don't know if it has been mentioned on this list before, but there is a very nice (though brief) section on "Horse Marks" in Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen's...
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Jun 3, 2005 11:59 pm
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