September 22, 2012

  • I’m sure most folks have seen all the ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ coverage in the morning Blogosphere posts and perhaps some people were wondering why I hadn’t commented yet. It was mostly a matter of lack of time, but it’s kind of interesting that I couldn’t respond because the story took a couple of interesting…

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  • Peter Thonemann  announced the following on the Classicists list: This is a message to announce the online publication of a new corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions, Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia and Lykaonia.  MAMA XI is a corpus of 387 inscriptions and other ancient monuments, 292 of which are unpublished, from…

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  • Brief item from ANSA: Monasterace (Reggio Calabria), September 20 – A large mosaic, likely of ancient Greek origins, has been discovered in the southern Italian town of Monasterace. The discovery was announced Thursday by Mayor Maria Carmela Lanzetta. The polychrome mosaic, said to be well-preserved, measures 25 square meters and covers the entire floor of…

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  • Some additional coverage to add to our previous post: Nice Mosaic from Antiochia ad Cragam (which we also corrected spellingwise to Cragum) First, a video from the UNebraska folks themselves: Alia (derived from the UNebraska release we mentioned in our previous post): Crews uncover massive Roman mosaic in southern Turkey (PhysOrg) Crews uncover massive Roman…

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  • Video: The Ancient Greek World

    Interesting 20 minuteish thing put out by the UPenn Museum back in 1998 … not sure if I can embed it, but it appears you can download it: The Ancient Greek World

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