ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ December 15, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Remains of ancient king’s temple dedicated to sun god discovered in Egypt – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-kings-temple-dedicated-sun-god-discovered-egypt/

Roman-era marble bathtub, male statue unearthed at ancient Ephesus in Turkish Aegean region
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/roman-era-marble-bathtub-male-statue-unearthed-at-ancient-ephesus-in-turkish-aegean-region/3772011

Hanukkah and Apamea: how Jews thrived under Hellenistic rule
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/r1hx5dpf11e

Italy arrests dozens for robbing archaeological sites | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-880241

Among the founders of the city of Valencia were the Italic tribe of the Peligni, who lived in the heart of the Apennines, researchers reveal

Among the founders of the city of Valencia were the Italic tribe of the Peligni, who lived in the heart of the Apennines, researchers reveal

Rare oil lamp, Second Temple stylus found in Jerusalem | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-880345

Rare Discovery: Menorah Amulet From Byzantine Period Found in Jerusalem – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-12-15/ty-article/menorah-amulet-from-byzantine-time-found-in-ancient-jerusalem/0000019b-2137-d0fb-a9df-6fff06e80000

Magna Roman Fort reports amazing year of discoveries in Northumberland | Hexham Courant
https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/25684978.magna-roman-fort-reports-amazing-year-discoveries-northumberland/

Roman urbanism was bad for Brits health – University of Reading
https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Research-News/Roman-urbanism-was-bad-for-Brits-health

The Blogs: Masada: New Evidence | David Ramati | The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/masada-new-evidence/

‘This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture’: Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/this-has-re-written-our-understanding-of-roman-concrete-manufacture-abandoned-pompeii-worksite-reveal-how-self-healing-concrete-was-made

Magdala stone: 2,000-year-old carving from Jerusalem is world’s oldest known depiction of a menorah | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/magdala-stone-2-000-year-old-carving-from-jerusalem-is-worlds-oldest-known-depiction-of-a-menorah

Spencer Alley: Dieux
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2025/12/dieux_01969642977.html

Looting Matters: A head of Hermes from a genuinely old Italian collection
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-head-of-hermes-from-genuinely-old.html

Looting Matters: Further returns to Italy from the San Antonio Museum of Art
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/12/further-returns-to-italy-from-san.html

Weekly Varia no. 160, 12/14/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 160, 12/14/25

On My Love of the Classics – CANE
https://caneweb.org/on-my-love-of-the-classics/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Ceremonial Defecation
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/ceremonial-defecation.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Yet Another British Museum Theft
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/12/yet-another-british-museum-theft.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukrainian Border Guards Foil Coin Smuggling to Bulgaria
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/12/ukrainian-border-guards-foil-coin.html

Give Helen Back! Trojan Politics in Iliad 7 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Give Helen Back! Trojan Politics in Iliad 7

PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeological evidence for a Maccabean battle?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/archaeological-evidence-for-maccabean.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The “degraded Hasmonean coins”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-degraded-hasmonean-coins.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Byzantine-era menorah amulet excavated near Temple Mount
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/byzantine-era-menorah-amulet-excavated.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE: An Edition of the Textual Sources
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/womens-healthcare-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Neo-Sumerian barley allotment rolls from the Umma region
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/neo-sumerian-barley-allotment-rolls.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Studies in Sumerian Civilization. Selected writings of Miguel Civil
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/studies-in-sumerian-civilization.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: «Sentido de un empeño». Homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/sentido-de-un-empeno-homenatge-gregorio.html

The Stoic cosmos: conflagration, cosmogony, and recurrence in early Stoicism – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12.18/

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AUDIENDA
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Ancient History Hound: Exploring Place in Regal Rome (Part 1).
https://ancientblogger.libsyn.com/exploring-place-in-regal-rome-part-1

All I Want for Chanukah is a New Hasmonean Wall in Jerusalem, or, Shameless Holiday Tie In Edition | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/all-i-want-for-chanukah-is-a-new-hasmonean-wall-in-jerusalem-or-shameless-holiday-tie-in-edition/

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VIDENDA
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(286) Greece before the Acropolis – YouTube

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xviii kalendas januarias

  • Consualia — a festival in honour of Consus which likely involved a similar celebration held on August 21 (i.e. horse races, chariot races, and garlanding of the steeds)
  • 337 B.C. — death of Timoleon (according to one reckoning)
  • 215 B.C. — assassination of Hieronymus, one of the tyrants of Syracuse (by one reckoning)
  • 19 B.C. — dedication of the Ara Fortunae Reducis
  • 37 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Nero
  • 130 A.D. — birth of the future co-emperor Lucius Verus