January 16, 2009
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Dorothy King beat me to the punch on this one (as many people do) … Some engineering types from the University of Warwick teamed up with some archaeologist types from the University of Southampton and the Herculaneum Conservation Project to digitally ‘restore’ a head from Herculaneum which is believed to depict a fallen Amazon warrior.…
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This is one of those things that I’ve long wondered about, but never managed to check out. A piece — apparently aimed at kids — in the Christian Science Monitor yaks about assorted origins of the names of elements and their symbols. Inter alia, the symbol for mercury is glossed thusly: But my favorite symbol…
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From the Plain Dealer: The Rev. Frank Lihvar, 81, who died Thursday, taught Latin and Greek at John Carroll University for the past 38 years, eight of them after officially retiring. The Cleveland native and 60-year Jesuit graduated from Benedictine High School, West Baden College of Indiana and the University of Chicago, where he earned…
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From the Independent: Jill Braithwaite established a European reputation in archaeology for her study and interpretation of Roman face pots. Before she started her research, these strange pots had turned up singly or in very small groups throughout the Roman Empire but, with a few exceptions, they had remained isolated and uninterpreted finds. After 15…
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… again, without any information about origins. This time, it’s a Roman dagger (pugio) and spear tip: This is lot 901 and is the only Roman item with a photo in this section of the online catalog. Interestingly/suspiciously, it is flanked by A Collection of Roman Glass Artifacts (898), A Roman Earthenware Patera (899), A…
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