The Temporal Allegory of the Tazza Farnese

Dwyer, Eugene

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“…Recently Eugene Dwyer argued against the traditional view that it depicts an allegory of the Nile, contending that the figures represent constellations positioned for Macrobius's ascent of the soul. 73 John Pollini believes the Tazza was made for Augustus as a ritual object to summon and celebrate his Golden Age: at the return of Saturn's bountiful era, fertile Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Gaul would fill the empty horn of plenty. Pollini confidently places the work in the Augustan age because the ''stylized, arcuated mantle billowing out behind one of the figures in the upper zone of the composition .…”

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Astral Magic in the Renaissance: Gems, Poetry, and Patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici

Aakhus¹

2008

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Astral Magic in the Renaissance: Gems, Poetry, and Patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici

Aakhus¹

2008

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Apsidal advance in SS 433?

Bowler¹

2010

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Context. The Galactic microquasar SS 433 launches oppositely-directed jets at speeds approximately a quarter of the speed of light. Both the speed and direction of the jets exhibit small fluctuations. A component of the speed variation has 13 day periodicity and the orbital phase at which its maximum speed occurs has advanced approximately 90 • in 25 years. Aims. To examine the possibility that these variations are associated with a mildly eccentric orbit and conditions necessary to achieve this apsidal advance. Methods. The advance of the orbital phase for maximum speed is taken to be advance of the apses of the putative elliptical orbit. It is compared with calculations of the effects of tides induced in the companion and also with gravitational perturbations from the circumbinary disc. These calculations are made in the light of recent results on the SS 433 system. Results. The 13-day periodicity in the speed of the jets of SS 433 might be attributed to a mildly elliptical orbit, through periodic approaches of the donor and the compact object. Advance of the apses of such an elliptical orbit due to tidal effects induced in a normal companion looks to be too small; if caused by the circumbinary disc the mass of the inner regions of that disc is ∼0.15 M .

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Ptolemaic Cameos of the Second and First Centuries Bc

Plantzos

1996

Oxford J Archaeology

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Cameos were devised some time in the Hellenistic period, and they were used in a decorative manner. ln terms of style and subject matter they follow developments in the making of intaglios and other glyptic products as well as coinage. This paper examines two related series of carnos which seem to have been produced in Alexandria of the later Hellenistic period, and under direct Ptolemaic patronage. Their study is held in view of a reappraisal of the Taua Farnese, and the presentation here of a further argument in support of this Grand Cameo's dating in the first century BC.

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The Temporal Allegory of the Tazza Farnese

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Astral Magic in the Renaissance: Gems, Poetry, and Patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici

Astral Magic in the Renaissance: Gems, Poetry, and Patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici

Apsidal advance in SS 433?

Ptolemaic Cameos of the Second and First Centuries Bc

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