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Uthina Potharamensis
:''Uthina'' is also a spider genus (Pholcidae) Uthina or Oudna ( ar, أوذنة) was an ancient Roman-Berber city located near Tunis, Tunisia. History Uthina was a town in the province of Africa Proconsularis, now northern Tunisia. Uthina became a Roman colony of veterans of Legio XIII Gemina during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Hence, it was mentioned by Ptolemy (IV, 3, 34), Pliny the Elder, and the ''Tabula Peutingeriana''. From the accounts given by geographers the site seems to be the ruins that form the archeological site of Oudna, near a station on the railway from Tunis to Kef and not far from what was the World War II Oudna Airfield. These ruins occupy a surface nearly three miles in circumference, covering a hilly plateau, and commanding the left bank of the Milian wady; there are remains of a fortress, cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal arch, a theatre, an amphitheater, a basilica with a circular crypt, and a bridge. Many mosaics are to be found there as well. Uthin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uthina (spider)
''Uthina'' is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893. Species it contains seventeen species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Australia: *'' Uthina huahinensis'' Yao & Li, 2016 – Thailand *'' Uthina huifengi'' Yao & Li, 2016 – Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra) *'' Uthina hylobatea'' Huber, Caspar & Eberle, 2019 – Indonesia (Bali, Java) *'' Uthina javaensis'' Yao & Li, 2016 – Indonesia (Java) *'' Uthina khaosokensis'' Yao, Li & Jäger, 2014 – Thailand *'' Uthina luzonica'' Simon, 1893 ( type) – Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, northern Australia, Pacific Is. Introduced to Seychelles, Réunion, Taiwan *'' Uthina maya'' Huber, Caspar & Eberle, 2019 – Indonesia (Bali) *'' Uthina mimpi'' Huber, Caspar & Eberle, 2019 – Indonesia (Sulawesi) *'' Uthina muangensis'' Yao & Li, 2016 – Thailand *'' Uthina potharamensis'' Yao & Li, 2016 – Thailand *'' Uthina ratchaburi'' Huber, 2011 – Thailand *'' Ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruins
Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate destruction by humans, or uncontrollable destruction by natural phenomena. The most common root causes that yield ruins in their wake are natural disasters, armed conflict, and population decline, with many structures becoming progressively derelict over time due to long-term weathering and scavenging. There are famous ruins all over the world, with notable sites originating from ancient China, the Indus Valley and other regions of ancient India, ancient Iran, ancient Israel and Judea, ancient Iraq, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Roman sites throughout the Mediterranean Basin, and Incan and Mayan sites in the Americas. Ruins are of great importance to historians, archaeologists and anthropologists, whether they were once individual f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosaics
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world. Mosaic today includes not just murals and pavements, but also artwork, hobby crafts, and industrial and construction forms. Mosaics have a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC. Pebble mosaics were made in Tiryns in Mycenean Greece; mosaics with patterns and pictures became widespread in classical times, both in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Early Christian basilicas from the 4th century onwards were decorated with wall and ceiling mosaics. Mosaic art flourished in the Byzantine Empire from the 6th to the 15th centuries; that tradition was adopted by the Norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th century, by the eastern-influenced Republic of Venice, and among the Rus. Mosaic fell ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crypt (architecture)
A crypt (from Latin ''crypta'' "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics. Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church, such as at the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre, but were later located beneath chancel, naves and transepts as well. Occasionally churches were raised high to accommodate a crypt at the ground level, such as St Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany. Etymology The word "Crypt" developed as an alternative form of the Latin "vault" as it was carried over into Late Latin, and came to refer to the ritual rooms found underneath church buildings. It also served as a vault for storing important and/or sacred items. The word "Crypta", however, is also the female form of ''crypto'' "hidden". The earliest known origin of both is in the Ancient Greek '' κρύπτω'' (krupto/krypto), the first person singular indicative of the verb "to conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
