Citanda: When Roman Statues Play Pranks
Image via Wikipedia Souren Melikian writes in the New York Times on the unbelievable prices reached by a couple of antiquities with interesting stories at Sotheby’s latest (including that Serpents and Satyrs piece we pondered for a while): via When Roman Statues Play Pranks – NYTimes.com.
Digging Idalion
A press release from Cyprus’ Press and Information Office: The Ministry of Communications and Works (Department of Antiquities) announces the completion of the twentieth excavation season of the Department of Antiquities’ systematic excavations at the site of ancient Idalion. Excavations at the site began in 1991 and continue until today under the direction of the [...]
Roman Post Hole in Jersey
A few days ago it was Berkeley, now it’s Jersey … still not in North America, though. Brief item from the BBC: Excavations were made at Grouville Church as part of work to extend the building, when archaeologists were called in to monitor the work. The Reverend Mike Lange-Smith, rector of the church, said a [...]
Roman Remains in Sofia
AFP seems to be the only one covering this … I can’t find that we’ve mentioned anything about this before either: The remains of an ancient Roman town were on Thursday unveiled to the public in the centre of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Excavation of the site — which currently includes a Roman palace, baths [...]
Citanda: New Ancient World Content in JSTOR
Chuck Jones of Ancient World Online fame alerts us to L’Annee Epigraphique now being available in JSTOR: AWOL – New Ancient World Content in JSTOR. (woohoo!)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas quinctilias
ante diem xiii kalendas quinctilias 240 B.C. – Eratosthenes calculates the circumference of the earth (I have no idea what the source for this is) rites at the Temple of Minerva on the Aventine ca. 165 (?) — martyrdom of Protase 325 A.D. – Hosius announces the Nicene Creed during the First Council of Nicaea
