NY Times review out today of interest. It doesn't really cover what is in the book very well. Steve http://tinyurl.com/223zhs Another review from the San...
Thank you, Rodo, for our detailed response. Your comments in (c) and (d), which I've copied below, support points that I had made in my original post on this...
Victor H. Mair
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Aug 1, 2007 6:01 pm
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... Huh? No maatr.kaa sculptures before the ninth century? Who said that? Descriptions of a band of ill-giving goddesses termed as maatr.kaas are found in the...
Dear LM, ... Here is a pic of the Hirapur yoginii in question (dated to the 9th century CE): http://www.shrifreedom.com/yoginis/2/pages/033%20Sarpasi.htm Also...
Dear Robert, ... There is more than one set of matrkas with animal heads in the Kushana examples from Mathura llustrated in Shivaji K. Panikkar's book ...
Thank you very much for this information, Francesco! White writes at length on the matrkas, so I am reasonably well informed about them, but he doesn't give a...
Dear List, Chinese archaeologists have found textiles in a tomb at Lijia village of Jing'an county in eastern Jiangxi Province that is said to date back nearly...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 1, 2007 7:02 pm
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Deat listmembers, The link to the page on vermillion from the website of Sewanee: The University of the South which Victor provided in his message archived at ...
Victor, I would be surprised if the red dye was vermillion. This mineral pigment usually needs a binder or adhesive to stick; it's more commonly found as a...
Thanks for remember the purple thread, Francesco. It certainly was a long (and exciting) one! And it was also one in which our Beijing colleague, Duan Qing,...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:23 pm
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Trudy, You're undoubtedly right! I just received this from Richard Laursen, a chemist at Boston University who specializes in the chemistry of dyes: === The...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:54 pm
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The Center for Research Libraries in Chicago endeavors to get as many non-USA dissertations as possible, but a large percentage are not cataloged. One should...
For those of you who have taken an interest in such creatures, I found an article in the Orissa Review from September 2004. S. S. Panda: Sakti Cult in Upper...
Dear All! Does anybody know where I may get the second edition of Vishva Bandhu's Vedic word concordance? Apparently, the online shops mainly offer the first...
Eystein Dahl
eystein.dahl@...
Aug 2, 2007 8:45 am
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Now that Victor, Francisco and Trudy have made the case that the red pigment isn't vermillion, I'll stick my neck out on the "Rare green crystals found in the...
Overview of a collection of John Baines' important articles, passed on from the Agade List. Note Oxford University Press's skyrocketing prices -- this for...
Dear List, More illuminating comments from Richard Laursen, including information about the use of vermillion and ochre on the Shroud of Turin, copied here...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 2, 2007 11:38 pm
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Call for papers for an archaeological conference of cross-cultural interest: International Conference: Call for Papers. Challenging Frontiers: Mobility,...
[Mod. note. Book announcement of interest. - SF.] THE RAMAYANA OF VALMIKI An Epic of Ancient India Introduction, English translation and annotation By Prof....
Dear all, re Rodo's question in d) below, here's at least the abstract: ... Abstract: Chinese alchemy is briefly but effectively revealed by three terms all ...
Dear List, There has been a lot of discussion elsewhere and off-List over the weekend on another news story by Andrew Lawler in _Science_ on Jiroft and Middle...
Dear List, Now that Lawler's article on Jiroft has led to a new round of discussions about Jiroft "writing", it might be fruitful to forget about the writing...
From the BBC 7th August 2007: http://tinyurl.com/2jvvh2 "Alexander's Gulf outpost uncovered [...] Greek government experts are going to Failaka - a Gulf...
Bjarte & Sudha are right on course. By the end of the 3rd mill BCE there was a "trade" route that linked southern Mesopotamia with eastern Iran (& the Indus)...
Joanna, That was most enjoyable, especially the blazing color! I loved the creative geography, either Kazakhstan (Kyrgystan on the map) or Scandinavia. I...
Thanks for sending this, Agnes. Well, apart from the problem of poorness of phonological fit I mentioned in an earlier message, none of these three terms is...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 7, 2007 8:34 pm
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Dear List, I've been discovering that a common word for "tea" in both Austro-Asiatic languages and Tibeto-Burman languages is LA, which seems originally to...
Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Aug 7, 2007 11:53 pm
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Dear List, A sad history of illegal digging in Iran: http://lexicorient.com/e.o/marlik.htm Best wishes, Bjarte Kaldhol [Non-text portions of this message have...
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