Early Royal Research Articles

Early Modern Garden Design Concepts and Twentieth Century Royal Gardens in Romania

Early Modern Garden Design Concepts and Twentieth Century Royal Gardens in Romania

All the Queen's Clothes: Identifying Female Royalty at Early Dynastic Ur

In spite of widespread recognition of the burial of high ranking individuals, including women, in the Early Dynastic Ur Royal Cemetery, ca. 2500 B.C.E., most of the details about the nature of their social position remain obscure. This article attempts to fill this gap by identifying the possible social roles of prominent females buried in the cemetery. A reconsideration of the evidence from three royal graves reveals how high-ranking females might have attained social and political prominence and asserted profound social influence, ultimately perhaps wielding power and prestige in their own right and acting as full participants in the building and institutionalization of increasingly complex social roles and institutions in Early Dynastic Mesopotamian society.

Ars Orientalis 43, “Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits Across Asia”

Ars Orientalis 43, “Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits Across Asia”

Summaries of Scholarly Symposia 2.1

The Trans-Asia Photography Review is pleased to publish summaries and reviews of symposia, conferences, panels and workshops on topics related to photography in Asia. In addition to the symposia summarized here, summaries of the symposia on 19th Century photography in India held at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts can be found via their website at www.acparchives.com and abstracts from the Facing Asia conference (National Gallery of Australia, August 2010) can be downloaded at http://hrc.anu.edu.au/events/facing-asia. In addition, information about the Symposium "Imperial Exposure: Early Photography and Royal Portraits Across Asia" can be found at http://www.asia.si.edu/events/IESymposium/. Please send information on other meetings that could be summarized to the Editor at asianphotography@hampshire.edu. Panel organizer and Chair: Dr. Ayelet Zohar, University of Haifa Yang Fudong’s Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest Things Seen by the Camera Alone Exhibiting Family, Displaying Death: Funerary Images in Contemporary Japanese Photography Re-Staging the War: Morimura Yasumasa and the icons of WWII Photographing the Cold War in the Twenty-First Century Jointly sponsored by MIT Visualizing Cultures and Harvard University’s Asia Center, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Lee and Juliet Folger Fund. May 20-21, 2011 CLAIRE ROBERTST SAKURA CHRISTMAS AURÉLIE CHAMP R. KENJI TIERNEY KRISTIN STAPLETON ANN SHERIF AND WENDY KOZOL JINA KIM SE-MI OH HYUNG-GU LYNN ELLIE CHOI BAEK YUNG KIM HELEN HARDACRE JIE LI PAUL BARCLAY CHINGHSIN WU LI CHENU LENORE METRICK-CHEN JAMES T. ULAK FRANCOIS LACHAUD XIAOJIN WU LEE GLAZER FABIAN DRIXLER ROBERT GOREE

The effect of CCC and nitrogen on the growth and yield of the second early potato variety Craig's Royal

SUMMARYThe experiment described here is the second of a series of experiments investigating the effect of the time of application of certain plant nutrients on the growth of the potato crop. In this experiment all combinations of three rates of nitrogen (0, 0·75 and 1·50 cwts nitrogen per acre), two times of application (at planting and at the time of tuber initiation) and two rates of application of CCC (0 and 4 lb/acre applied twice, shortly after emergence) were tested and studied by the technique of growth analysis.There was a linear relationship between leaf area duration (D)and tuber dry matter yield, D accounting for 95 % of the variation in the latter. The maximum amount of nitrogen accumulated in the leaves (Nmax) was linearly related to D, and accounted for 86 % of the variation in D. This relationship was improved if separate regressions were calculated according to whether CCC had been applied or not. Calculated in this way, the regressions indicated that more nitrogen was required for a given value of D when plants were treated with CCC.Delaying the application of nitrogen resulted in a considerable improvement in the recovery of fertilizer nitrogen (ammonium nitrate). A heavy dressing of nitrogen at the time of planting did not enable the crop to take up sufficient nitrogen for maximum yield. Because of these factors, delaying the application of nitrogen significantly increased tuber yield at both rates of nitrogen tested.Increasing the rate of nitrogen and delaying its application tended to increase the proportion of stem in the total dry matter; CCC had the opposite tendency. CCC, however, reduced leaf area and the mean effect of CCC was to reduce tuber yields. While there wore no significant interactions between CCC and nitrogen treatments on final tuber yield, it was observed that CCC slightly increased yield when the highest rate of nitrogen was applied late. Ways are suggested in which CCC may be more effectively used.

The effect of the time of application of nitrogen and potassium on the growth of the second early potato, variety Craig's Royal

SUMMARYThe effect of time of application of nitrogen and potassium on the growth, development and yield of the second early variety Craig's Royal was studied by the technique of growth analysis. There was an indication that witholding nutrients led to the earlier initiation of tubers, but this was of no practical consequence and all treatments affected tuber bulking rate rather than the duration of bulking. Compared with early application, late application of nitrogen depressed tuber yield, although total drymatter yield was not affected. Late application of potassium, however, increased tuber yield; this was associated with an improvement in the recovery of applied potassium. Delaying the application of nitrogen also resulted in its more efficient recovery in the crop. Late application of potassium improved the recovery of early applied nitrogen and vice versa. Reasons are put forward to account for these effects.

Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles: A Philologic and Historical Analysis

Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles: A Philologic and Historical Analysis