January 24, 2010
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Seen on Ostia-l (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!): salve , ti informiamo che è on-line il nuovo numero di Pomerivm, il notiziario trimestrale dell’Associazione culturale Pomerium. Lo trovi all’indirizzo Internet http://www.pomerium.org/download.asp?file=POMERIVM_Gennaio2010.zip In questo numero: – Roma, “la pittura di un impero” alle scuderie del Quirinale…
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A unique archaeological exhibition has opened in Caesarea harbor: for the first time the general public can see an extraordinary 1,700 year old sarcophagus cover that is one of the most impressive ever discovered in Caesarea. The cover, which weighs more than 4 tons, is decorated with snake-haired medusa heads and joyful and sad-faced masks.…
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… sounds suspiciously like undergrad life … Top ten passions of Ancient Rome | The Independent.
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From the BBC … I don’t think we mentioned its original discovery: A Roman skeleton, which was found in Weston-super-Mare last autumn, has been dated by archaeological experts. The find at Weston College is described as an adult male of slender build, aged between 36 and 45 and of “smaller stature than the Roman average”.…
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… judging by this headline in the reporter: Man faces charge for yelling epithets.
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