Der Polykratische Tempel im samischen Heraion zählt zu bedeutendsten Bauten der griechischen Antike. Gottfried Gruben, der Nestor der Bauforschung, hat alle Bauteile dieses Tempels erfasst, gezeichnet und analysiert und so ein überzeugendes Bild von seiner Architektur geschaffen. Der Abschluss seiner Arbeiten wurde jedoch durch seinen frühen Tod im Jahre 2003 vereitelt. Die grundlegenden Studien Grubens wurden für den Druck von Hermann J. Kienast überarbeitet und werden im vorliegenden Band veröffentlicht.

Die Bewässerungs-Landwirtschaft des Jemen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten stark verändert. Durch die Wasserübernutzung sind große Probleme entstanden. Die Ursachen dafür liegen in der fehlenden Anpassung der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen an die ökonomischen und technischen Entwicklungen im Bewässerungssektor. Der vorliegende Band zeigt auf, daß sich die traditionellen Regelungen für die Wassernutzung trotz moderner Technologie kaum verändert haben. Staatliche Institutionen konkurrieren um die Regelungen für die Wassernutzung und lähmen sich dadurch gegenseitig. Die Studie macht deutlich, daß ein Ausweg aus der Wasserkrise nur möglich ist, wenn staatliche Vorgaben an das neue Umfeld angepaßt werden und die Agrarpolitik künftig eine wassersparende Landwirtschaft begünstigt.

The volume contains 410 inscriptions of the Northeim area (Landkreis) up to the year 1650 including 79 that are originated from the Gandersheim monastery up to 1700. The precise edition of the inscriptions has been supplemented by commentaries and 10 indexes. Thus a vast stock of inscriptions on funeral monuments, on bells, buildings and church fittings is presented to research in local and regional history. Together with more than 90 volumes of the series „Die Deutschen Inschriften“ (German Inscriptions) researchers in the history of piety, erudition and mentalities, of arts, philology and other humanities will find rich and sometimes hitherto unknown materials.

The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in premodern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The ten essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of geographic, confessional, political, and theoretical liminality spanning from Early Muslim Arabia to contemporary Islamic art. In addition to art historians and archaeologists, this volume is of interest for students and scholars of Border Studies, as well as Social and Cultural Studies.

The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic relationship between Middle Persian and Classical Syriac during the Sasanian empire, a subject on which a modern systematic study was still missing. The first part of the book is a detailed study of the historical and linguistic conditions which favoured the entry of a great number of Iranian words into Syriac and the linguistic consequences of such borrowings. The second part contains, in dictionary form, hundreds of entries in which each single Iranian loanword is considered, together with its etymon, alternative forms, and derivatives. Each entry also includes a list of occurrences and the relevant bibliography. A complete index of words closes the volume. The study of the prolonged contact between such prestigious languages as Syriac and Middle Persian, that are only attested in written records, enriches our knowledge of the typologies of language interference and bilingualism in ancient society. More specifically, it allows to recover a considerable amount of otherwise unattested Middle Persian vocabulary and provides new insights into the linguistic systems of both Syriac and Middle Persian.

Achim von Arnim’s Zeitung für Einsiedler, published in Heidelberg in 1808, represents one of the most original journals of the romantic era. The Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler, the publication of the International Arnim-Society, offers an important contribution to the current discourse on romanticism. It publishes supplements and miscellanea to the historical-critical editions of the romantic Era and provides essays, notes, reports of newfound sources, and book reviews that constitute an important resource for romantic scholarship.