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A recently-revealed mosaic from Adramytteion includes, among its fifteen panels, depictions of a cat labelled ‘Emerald’ (ΖΜΑΡΑΓΔΙΝ) and a dog named ‘Ocean’ (ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ) which sre naturally presumed to be pets of whoever commissioned the mosaic. The work is dated to the late second/early third cnturies CE. RANDOM NOTES measures 5 x 3.6m and located in…
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ludi Romani (day 10 ) equorum probatio — the official cavalry parade of the equites (in conjunction with the above) 23 A.D. — death of Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus the Younger), son of the emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina 81 A.D. — official dies imperii of Domitian (recognition by the senate) 208 A.D. — birth…
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ludi Romani (day 9) epulum in honour of Minerva and others (connected to the ludi Romani) ritual of the ‘driving of a nail’ by the Pontifex Maximus/Rex Sacrorum into the Temple of Jupiter (likely connected to the above and below entries) 509 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (and associated rites thereafter; also incorporated…
