July 22, 2009
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I’m kind of surprised this hasn’t received a lot more media attention: an ongoing dig at Silchester (ancient Calleva Atrebatum) reveals evidence of a planned city with a possible population of 10,000 or more prior to the arrival of the Romans. Mike Fulford — who has been digging at the site for years — dixit…
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Very interesting find at Vindolanda of a large shrine to Jupiter Dolichenus with a Latin inscription; quotes from Andrew Birley have appeared in a number of newspapers: What should have been part of the rampart mound near to the north gate of the fort has turned out to be an amazing religious shrine …There is…
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Reports are just starting to come out of the discovery of 17 Hellenistic-period tombs from a site near Ohrid, FYROM/Macedonia. Plenty of items were found, of course (including some in amber), but the most interesting seems to be the burial of a young girl of apparently noble status. Pasko Kuzman, head of the Macedonian Department…
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Discovery News’ Rossella Lorenzi is reporting on the rediscovery of 15 life-size theatre masks from Pompeii which were originally excavated in 1749, then stored and forgotten in a Bourbon palace storage room. Mariarosaria Borriello, who made the rediscovery dixit: “They ended up being totally forgotten, and indeed we do not have much information about them.…
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ante diem xi kalendas sextilias 367 B.C. (?)– dedication of a Temple of Concord (and associated rites thereafter) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 5)
rogue classicism 