August 8, 2011
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Somewhat peripheral to our purview, but this is one of the basilicas one often is presented with in art history classes … from Rome Reports comes coverage of an interesting annual ritual: It’s also noteworthy (if you’re relic-obsessed, as I am) as one of the places to find relics of St Jerome and the manger…
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Just became aware of this excellent article by Dr Yannis Galanakis of the Ashmolean on some spearheads purportedly from Marathon: Rethinking Pitt-Rivers | Marathon Spearheads. … adds quite a bit of detail (and an excellent bibliography) to our own post in a similar vein on the helmet from the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Laval Hunsucker mentioned this one on the Classics list last month, and it doesn’t appear to have received any English attention (or much French attention, for that matter)… from Ouest France: Une découverte archéologique majeure, tous les chercheurs en rêvent. Le rêve s’est concrétisé, mi-juin, quand un quai de Loire datant du Ier siècle de…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Barnea Levi Selavan who sent this to me a while ago and it was lost (as often) among the myriad emails I wade through. Heddy Abramowitz is blogging the nine days of the destruction of Jerusalem. Scroll to the first post to go ‘day by day’: Golden Ochre: Art and…
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This might end up being a daily thing: explorator 14.16 August 7, 2011 david meadows The Hippodrome in Constantinople August 7, 2011 Dorothy King Power Lunches in the Eastern Roman Empire August 7, 2011 History of the Ancient World Latin? What are you going to do with that? August 7, 2011 Mark A. Keith Trichoepithelioma…
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