October 2010
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This one’s a bit more interesting than the one which follows, and has quite a bit more detail. It details recent finds at the Etruscan site at Montereggi/Limite sull’Arno (not sure what the actual town is called), including this: … which is a roof detail dating to the mid-sixth century B.C. or thereabouts, possibly depicting…
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Not a lot of detail in this one … here’s the incipit: Un importantissimo scavo archeologico è stato eseguito in queste settimane a Senigallia. Durante i lavori di ristrutturazione, eseguiti dalla Società Berta Costruzioni s.r.l. all’interno delle cantine di uno stabile sito in via Cavallotti, in un punto “strategico” della topografia urbana di Senigallia, sono…
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Image via Wikipedia idus octobres festival of Jupiter — all ides were sacred to Jupiter Rite of the ‘October Horse’ — one of the many rituals which makes the study of Roman religion so fascinating. On this day a race between two-horse chariots would be held in the Campus Martius, and the right hand horse…
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Nice to see this sort of thing still going on: Hundreds of college students around the San Diego area showed up at JT’s Pub and Grill on Saturday to represent their university pride. Home of the San Diego Red Bull Chariot Races, JT’s hosted teams of “Roman gladiators” from USD, San Diego State and UCSD.…
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pridie idus octobres rites in honour of the Penates Dei — the Penates Dei were originally the penates who watched over the storehouse of the king (when Rome had such, obviously); at some point, the Penates Dei came to be identified with Castor and Pollux, but they still had a temple under their own name on…
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