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number and terracotta
In the early times only the art of pottery and terracotta developed, but from the seventh century onwards, a large number of temples and images were also built on account of the intensified religious passions and the accumulation of wealth in cities.
Soon after his death an auction sale of the contents of his studio was held, 12 – 15 May 1762, from which Dr Matthew Maty purchased a number of his plaster and terracotta models, which he presented to the newly-founded British Museum.
Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s.
Sculpture: A 5th century Buddha stone sculpture recovered from Vasu Vihara, a Lokesvara stone sculpture showing blending of Visnu and Avalokitsvara, salvaged from neighbouring Namuja village, a number sand stone door-frames, pillars and lintels ( datable to 5th-12th century ), numerous Buddha bronze sculpture datable to 10th-11th century, a terracotta Surya discovered at Mankalir Bhita, and numerous other pieces.
Terracotta Plaques: A number of terracotta plaques have been discovered.

number and warriors
Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.
Messengers were sent to " Scythia ", where " a number " of warriors were selected, and, with sixteen ships, the messengers returned.
in order that they might increase the number of their warriors, Lombards confer liberty upon many whom they deliver from the yoke of bondage, and that the freedom of these may be regarded as established, they confirm it in their accustomed way by an arrow, uttering certain words of their country in confirmation of the fact.
Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.
Varying accounts circa 1708-1710 estimated the number of Tuscarora warriors as from 1200-2000.
He keeps himself busy by fighting powerful warriors throughout the universe, and has even fought a number of assorted Earth superheroes, including The Thing, both the Incredible Hulk and the She-Hulk, Colossus, Sasquatch, Thor, Doc Samson, and Wonder Man.
* King Vortigern invites a number of Germanic warriors to aid him in consolidating his position in Britain according to the Historia Brittonum.
The fief was expected to have sent around two thousand warriors to Minas Tirith before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but because of the threat of the Corsairs of Umbar a far smaller number arrived ; these are described in the text as " well-armed and bearing great battle-axes ".
Seeing that this was impossible, he resolved to die fighting his enemy, and succeeded in killing one of Savannah Jack's bravest warriors, and after severely wounding several others who attacked him, was overcome by the number of Native Americans who were present.
Diomedes then slays a number of Trojan warriors including Phegeus ( whose brother was spirited away by Hera ’ s son before being slain by Diomedes ) until Pandarus wounds him with an arrow.
As a result, Achilles kills a great number of Trojan warriors, culminating in a duel with Hector in which the latter is killed.
A number of tales describe enmity between the two warriors, and some allude to a lost story of its origin.
Ten thousand Hōjō clan warriors were dispatched to take the castle, and Itagaki led her troops out of the castle, killing a significant number of the attackers before being overpowered.
White eye-witness John S. Smith reported that 70 – 80 Indians were killed, including 20 – 30 warriors, which agrees with Brinkley's figure as to the number of men killed.
A large number of warriors confronted the Spaniards on a level plain.
Also, there are 36 generals and a group of Devine warriors under his dominion ; anyhow, as is depicted in myth of Chinese Taoism, he is the commander of a huge deity system in the Northern Pole, in which a great number of valiant deity generals and warriors who all controlled by the Emperor Zi-Wei.
They owned a large number of Kalaripayattu training centers and the Rajas of Travancore and Cochin, including the renowned Marthanda Varma, recruited trained Christian warriors to defend their kingdom.
During the latter half of the 8th century, a large number of songs and poems were composed and performed by various ranked people from warriors to the Emperor.
Warriors are commonly divided into a number of broad categories, although actual warriors may often combine the behavior of two or more of these.
Between 1815-1817 he created a number of book illustrations for yomihon, kokkeibon, gokan and hanashibon, and printed his stand-alone full color prints of " kabuki " actors and warriors.
As the last of the men left the encampment, a war whoop sounded, and warriors seized a number of men at the rear of the column.
In the Bible, the number 60 occurs several times, for example as the age of Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born, and the number of warriors escorting King Solomon.

number and other
There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.
This apparatus will also be used to measure transition probabilities of a large number of other elements.
In the daytime, on the other hand, since skywave transmission is relatively inefficient, it is possible to assign a substantially larger number of stations on these channels.
Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.
A constant is a number that remains the same regardless of the other numbers used in the formula and the resultant equation.
If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.
But even if that other plant employs the same number of workers and makes the same product, there are other facts to consider.
For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.
A binomial experiment can produce random variables other than the number of successes.
He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.
Often, therefore, there are a number of rules having the same effect, and commonly other sets of rules as well, having the opposite effect.
For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.
A number of other nineteenth-century developments contributed to the transmutation of the law of nations into international law ; ;
We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.
A number of adjustment features are included in the Hesiometer to facilitate measurement and permit ready removal of coatings deposited on such substrates as iron and other metals, glass, wood, and plastic surfaces.
The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.
The job also covers a number of other items.
It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.
Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.
Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; ;
Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.
Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.
Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.
Later experiments are often designed to test a hypothesis that a treatment effect has an important magnitude ; in this case, the number of experimental units is chosen so that the experiment is within budget and has adequate power, among other goals.

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