January 26, 2009
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Rather amazing how much press coverage there is for this already. A small figurine, dating from the second or third century, depicting what is believed to be a boxer or at least an athlete, has been found during the course of a dig in the City of David. Dixit Dr. Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets…
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Not sure why this is in the news again; we heard about it last September and even back in January, to some extent. Dixit David Romano: “What’s new is this mountaintop altar had cult activity that’s continuous from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods.” … which is what we were told a year ago. Some…
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Yesterday I was wading through a pile of Roman glass etc. (none of which was very interesting) and decided I wasn’t going to cover auctions any more. Then, of course, something interesting came up from the Ventura County Collection again, via Bonham’s. Here’s an item at Live Auctioneers officially described as Roman, c. 100-300AD., a…
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ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which…
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ex libris (Wordsmith) vacuous (Dictionary.com) implacable (Merriam-Webster)
rogue classicism 