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The official description:
YAY! Here’s the second episode of the Drunk Archaeology podcast! In this 65-min program, Donna Yates of anonymousswisscollector.com, Meg Lambert of traffickingculture.org, and Sarah Parcak of the Laboratory for Global Observation talk about looting and the illicit trade of antiquities. While drinking “Buried Treasure” and “Tomb Raiders”. In Scotland.
Before I get the blogosphere posts up, I need to ask about an eBay auction that distracted me last night. It concerns this stone:
The text reads:
DEO SAN
CTO VITIRI
LVNARIS
VL VSLM
As of today, it’s an ebay listing at: Ancient Roman Stone Votive Altar For The God Vitris – 3rd Century AD
The official description includes all sorts of info about Vitiris, and concludes with:
Height: 9 ½ inches.
Condition: Very good, with some repair to the right cylindrical roll.
Provenance:
Reputedly found in Durham. Ex. British private collection, north-east England. Acquired 1980’s and shown to a professor at Newcastle Univeristy who provided a translation.
I can’t find this particular inscription listed in any of the online databases (did I miss it)? Is this item from Art Ancient known/published? I wonder who the Newcastle prof is/was?
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