as bothepic and history express some stories of the past, their existing similaritiesand dissimilarities and their relation have attracted the attention of scholars.these two kinds of stories have been so similar that previous experts could notdistinguish the historical events from epics. in shāhnāme, as an excellent samplewhich iranians consider as their pre-islamic history until the last qaja...

APPENDIX D TABLES 94 APPENDIX E FIGURES 100 BIBLIOGRAPHY 137 iii LIST OF TABLES Table D1. Frequency of portrait types by geographic region. 94 Table D2. Frequency of portraits of Livia in context by portrait type. 95 Table D3. Frequency of the portrait types of Livia by date. 96 Table D4. Type of city with portraits of Livia by region of the Roman Empire. 97 Table D5. Architectural context of t...

In the architecture of Iranian traditional houses, the ornamentations available in the inscriptions of houses entrance portal express the identity of architects and personality of houses owners and are rooted in their religious and national beliefs and faiths. The main hypothesis of this research is changing the physique and application of religious contents in compliance with the thoughts and ...

This study explores seventh graders’ use of inscriptions in a teacher-designed project-based science unit. To investigate students’ learning practices during the 8-month water quality unit, we collected multiple sources of data (e.g., classroom video recordings, student artifacts, and teacher interviews) and employed analytical methods that drew from a naturalistic approach. The findings showed...

Buddhistic stone inscriptions (8th-12th centuries) are important cultural assets of China which need to be documented, analyzed, interpreted and visualized archaeologically, art-historically and text-scientifically. On one hand such buddhistic stone inscriptions have to be conserved for future generations but on the other hand further possibilities for analyzing the data could be enabled when t...

Stereotypically, computation involves intrinsic changes to the medium of representation: writing new symbols, erasing old symbols, turning ears, flipping switches, sliding abacus beads. Perspectival computation leaves the original inscriptions untouched. The problem solver obtains the output by merely alters his orientation toward the input. There is no rewriting or copying of the input inscrip...

calligraphy, as a prominent art incorporated into persian and islamic architecture, supplys messages and brings beauty to the eyes of the beholder. the most important messages in architecture are directly expressed by inscriptions. different types of inscriptions are shaped in the form of mosaic works, multiple painted patterns, tiles, bricks or plaster techniques. although in qajar period trad...