Notably, the existing fragments of Aristotle's Poetics describe three genres of poetry — the epic, the comic, and the tragic — and develop rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre, based on the underlying purposes of the genre.

Exagoge 60-65 by Ezekiel the Tragedian ( fragments reproduced in Eusebius ) has Zipporah describe herself to Moses as a stranger in the land of Midian, and proceeds to describe the inhabitants of her ancestral lands in North Africa:

These fragments do not contain tables, but describe the phonological analysis that underlies them.

Book 1 fragments are preserved in Eusebius and Syncellus above, and describe the Babylonian creation account and establishment of order, including the defeat of Thalatth ( Tiamat ) by Bel ( Marduk ).

However, now the term tends to be used loosely to describe any fracture of the distal radius, with or without involvement of the ulna, that has dorsal displacement of the fracture fragments.

The term gets its name from scud, which is used to describe small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base, and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts.

It is also used to describe a technique in poetry in which two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar images or fragments, are juxtaposed without a clear connection.

Oxyrhynchus 654 had a heading which seems to describe the work as a collection of " sayings " addressed to Thomas and some other disciple, and when the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945, it was identified as a Coptic version of the Greek work of which these two were fragments.

There is no visible action in the play or the film ; the three characters describe their memories in separate fragments of monologue ( as in Samuel Beckett's Play ), with brief scenes of dialogue between them.

It is impossible to describe in full Aristo's philosophical system because none of his writings survived intact, but from the fragments preserved by later writers, it is clear that Aristo was heavily influenced by earlier Cynic philosophy:

Tablet fragments from the Neo-Babylonian period describe a series of festival days celebrating the New Year.

Apart from Legends of the Jews, perhaps his best known scholarly work was his Geonica ( 1909 ), an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.

The later Babylonian and Assyrian king lists, preserved the earliest portions of the list well into the 3rd century BC, when Berossus ' Babyloniaca popularized fragments of the list in the Hellenic world.

Other examples might include the wars of the Æsir with the Vanir and Jotuns in Scandinavian mythology, the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, the Hittite " Kingship in Heaven " Kumarbi narrative, the struggle between the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Fomorians in Celtic mythology, and the obscure generational conflict in Ugaritic fragments.

Under the Seleucids, Greek was introduced into Babylon, and fragments of tablets have been found with Sumerian and Assyrian ( i. e. Semitic Babylonian ) words transcribed into Greek letters.

At an early stage, a distinction was established between the Babylonian ritual and that used in Palestine, as these were the two main centres of religious authority: there is no complete text of the Palestinian rite, though some fragments have been found in the Cairo Genizah.

Other collections include Babylonian cuneiform tablet from Ur ( 1789 BC ), 36 Egyptian papyrus manuscript fragments ( 245 BC ), and Catholicon ( 1460 ).

In 1498, a monk named Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as " Pseudo-Berossus ", now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown that Tuiscon or Tuisto, the fourth son of Noah, had been the first ruler of Scythia and Germany following the dispersion of peoples, with him being succeeded by his son Mannus as the second king.

In 1498 Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as Pseudo-Berossus, now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown a son of Japheth called Samothes had begun settling what later became Gaul in the 13th year of Nimrod.

The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis can be dated by colophon ( scribal identification ) to the reign of Hammurabi ’ s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa ( 1646 – 1626 BCE ), but various Old Babylonian fragments exist ; it continued to be copied into the first millennium BCE.

In 1498 Annio da Viterbo published fragments known as Pseudo-Berossus, now considered a forgery, claiming that Babylonian records had shown that Comerus Gallus, i. e. Gomer son of Japheth, had first settled in Comera ( now Italy ) in the 10th year of Nimrod following the dispersion of peoples.

This historical epic is extant in four fragments and concerns the conflict between Adad-nārārī and his Babylonian contemporary Nazi-Maruttash, with whom he clashes and ultimately vanquishes in battle.

In The Greek Myths the mythographer and poet, Robert Graves, translates and interprets the legends and myth fragments about Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Orestes, as suggesting a ritual killing of a " king " ( Agamemnon ) in very early religious ceremonies that were suppressed when patriarchy replaced the matriarchies of very ancient Greece.

The philosopher quoted two fragments as examples of an author speaking in somebody else's voice: in one, an unnamed father commenting on a recent eclipse of the sun and, in the other, a carpenter named Charon, expressing his indifference to the wealth of Gyges, the king of Lydia.

In the 21st century, fragments remain of the first 36 books, including considerable portions of both the 35th ( on the war of Lucullus against Mithridates VI of Pontus ) and 36th ( on the war with the pirates and the expedition of Pompey against the king of Pontus ) books.

Although Mesrob Mashtots provided the Albanian king with an alphabet, shortly after inventing a script for his fellow Armenians in 406 AD, the main “ Albanian ” language, Gargarean, disappeared, with only a few fragments of inscriptions dated from the 6th and 7th centuries.

One of the fragments, that of a small seating statue, shows feet of a seating king from their knuckles downward.

Interestingly, none of the numerous relief fragments shows king Khufu offering to a god.

Summer 2005 .</ ref > The bone fragments found in Tutankhamun's skull were most likely the result of post-mortem damage caused by Howard Carter's initial examination of the boy king " because they show no evidence of being inundated with the embalming fluid used to preserve the pharaoh for the afterlife.

" Other vessels which bore the names and titles of Thutmose I had also been inscribed by his son and successor, Thutmose II, as well as fragments of stone vessels made for Hatshepsut before she herself became king as well as other vessels which bore her royal name of ' Maatkare ' which would have been made only after she took the throne in her own right.

The extant fragments make no reference to Lugalbanda's succession as king following Enmerkar.

From the large size of his mortuary complex at Abusir, he was an important king, but since the Palermo stone fragments after his rule, little is actually known about his reign.

Although the play survived only in brief fragments, the myth of Charnabon and Triptolemus is preserved in the Poetical Astronomy by Hyginus ( who refers to the king as " Carnabon "), and runs as follows.

In this respect particular mention should be made of the main altar of St. Elizabeth, a hanged sculpture of Immaculata, the Late Gothic altar Visit of Virgin Mary, a stone epitaph of the Reiner family, a wooden sculpture of Virgin Mary, fragments of the wall painting The Last Trial, the side altar of St. Anton Paduansky, a wall painting The Resurrection, the bronze font, the altar painting of St. Anna Metercia, Gothic Calvary, the lantern of the king Matthew, wooden polychrome sculptures, the side altar Worship of Three Kings, Neo-Gothic stone pulpit.

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, is a collection of thousands of clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC.

The Cyrus Cylinder () is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.

Monte Testaccio ( alternatively spelled Monte Testaceo ; also known as Monte dei cocci ) is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (), fragments of broken amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire, some of which were labelled with tituli picti.

The author Julian Symons has commented on writers who see this as a detective story, arguing that " those who search for fragments of detection in the Bible and Herodotus are looking only for puzzles " and that these puzzles are not detective stories.

The fragments of the work " On the Resurrection " begin with the assertion that the truth, and God the author of truth, need no witness, but that as a concession to the weakness of men it is necessary to give arguments to convince those who gainsay it.

:" Anyone who studies Bahá ' ísm learns very soon of the volume sacred to those who profess this religion and known as " The Most Holy Book ... Yet, strange to say, although the teachings of Bahá have been widely proclaimed in Great Britain and America, only fragments of al-Kitab al-Aqdas have been translated previously into English.

The poem remained buried in obscurity until a 10 April 1816 meeting between Coleridge and George Gordon Byron, a younger poet, who persuaded Coleridge to publish Christabel and Kubla Khan as fragments.

In 1948, the keeper Bernard Ashmole received thirty-seven fragments in a box from Mr. Croker of Putney, who did not know what they were.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

The action of Stoppard's play takes place mainly " in the wings " of Shakespeare's, with brief appearances of major characters from Hamlet who enact fragments of the original's scenes.

Fragment 132 reads in full: " I have a beautiful child who looks like golden flowers, my darling Cleis, for whom I would not ( take ) all Lydia or lovely ..." These fragments have often been interpreted as referring to Sappho's daughter, or as confirming that Sappho had a daughter with this name.

Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...

Al-Qasim gained the confidence of the townsmen by organizing a successful resistance to the Berber soldiers of fortune who had grasped at the fragments of the caliphate.

Set in the late 1960s and 1970s, the story describes the efforts of Episcopal Bishop Timothy Archer, who must cope with the theological and philosophical implications of the newly-discovered Gnostic Zadokite scroll fragments.

Each of its three ten-minute sections features a Spreschstimme soprano who sings fragments of Schoenberg's 21 selections accompanied by flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano.

In Norse mythology, Brokkr ( Old Norse " the one who works with metal fragments ; blacksmith ", anglicized Brokk ) is a dwarf, and the brother of Eitri or Sindri.

The work preserves fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today.

He is famous for his Attic Nights, a commonplace book, or compilation of notes on grammar, philosophy, history, antiquarianism and other subjects, preserving fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today.

It was not until 1956 that Bernhard Bischoff identified a third manuscript ( consisting of a single leaf ) that contained fragments of Fronto's correspondence with Verus, which overlapped the Milan palimpsest ; however, the actual manuscript had been first published in 1750 by Dom Tassin, who conjectured that it might have been the work of Fronto.

The Aluzinnu (“ trickster ,” a jester, clown or buffoon ) text, extant in five fragments from the neo-Assyrian period concerns an individual, dābibu, ākil karṣi, “ character assassin ,” who made a living entertaining others with parodies, mimicry, and scatological songs.

It is now agreed that the fragments of the Elements of Ethics preserved in Stobaeus are from a work by a Stoic named Hierocles, contemporary of Epictetus, who has been identified with the " Hierocles Stoicus vir sanctus et gravis " in Aulus Gellius ( ix.

We also have fragments of the writings of the early philosopher Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century ) who devised a myth or legend in which powers known as Zas and Chronos ' Time ' and Chthonie ' Of the Earth ' existed from the beginning and in which Chronos creates the universe.

" This strange work contained some fragments from Ximénez and a confused account of Votan, culture hero of the Tzeltal people, who, according to Ordoñez, had built Palenque.

The group was taken to a pre-emptied barn, killed and buried along with fragments of the monument, while most of the remaining Jews, estimated at around 250 to 300 ( IPN final findings ), including many women and children, were led to the same barn later that day, locked inside and burned alive using kerosene from the former Soviet supplies ( or German gasoline, by different accounts ) in the presence of eight German gendarmes, who shot those who tried to escape.