January 5, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia I love when my spiders bring back things which are completely unexpected, in this case, the text of a speech given last year to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Marhoom Al Haj Dr Tuan Branudeen Jayah, whom I confess to have never heard of before, but is clearly a…
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The University of Cincinnati is doing a nice job hyping its AIA/APA powow participants … in addition to the item from yesterday (scroll down a bit), we have a nice feature on Kathryn Gutzwiller’s work with mosaics which appear to depict hitherto unnoticed scenes from Menander. Here’s PhysOrg‘s version: At the Jan. 6-9 meeting of…
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Interesting idea from the Hexham Courant: A CONTROVERSIAL archaeologist has turned received wisdom on its head to explain the purpose of the 112km vallum running the length of Hadrian’s Wall. The trench – 6m wide and up to 3m deep – is unique in Roman construction and has long been the source of debate. Located…
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From a Polish source: Roman legionary quarters have been discovered on the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea by Polish archeologists. A team of Polish archeologists supervised by Radoslaw Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski from the Archeology Institute at the University of Warsaw have discovered a house of a Roman legionary consisting of several spacious rooms in Balaklava in…
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nonae januariae ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of…
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