Roman Coins found in Ceylon

Universit at Augsburg Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database

The combination of digital libraries and applications from humanities is an important emerging eld that still faces great challenges. In this paper we investigate the science of numismatics and analyse how to digitize current manual practice for the classiication of ancient coins from the 4th century A.C. Our contributions are twofold. From the application's point of view we develop an improved...

Investigation of roman age pigments found on pottery fragments

This work deals with the study of the physico-chemical characteristics of pigments found on pottery fragments from an excavation in Vicenza (Contrà Pedemuro S. Biagio). The examined pigments were: a blue colour on a terracotta fragment; an olive green on a black pot bottom; yellow traces on a red depurated terracotta; an olive green plate bottom with an amaranth “a fresco” test; a deep red on a...

Prehistoric Archreology in Ceylon

Pterygium in Ceylon.

The geographical situation of Ceylon led Cameron (I965) to suggest that the pterygium rate there would range from 5-5 to over io per cent., but the actual incidence appears to be much less for reasons which are discussed below. The incidence of pterygium has not been closely studied, first perhaps because it rarely causes blindness, secondly because the world's earliest eye hospitals were situa...

Childhood in Ceylon

Lead poisoning in childhood has been reported mainly from Japan, France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Attention is drawn in this paper to the incidence of lead intoxication in childhood in Ceylon, seen and diagnosed within the past three years. Whereas in past reports the principal mode of lead intoxication in childhood has been from ingestion, in the present series inhalati...