adventures in my head
So Crawford’s listing of the contents this hoard in CHRR doesn’t emphasize enough that it was incomplete. Notice here in Cesano 1942, her point no. 3: large rectangular pieces of bronze were removed by unknown passing workers and could not be retrieved by E. Cocozza. This strongly suggests that Roman Currency Bars (so-called aes signatum)… Continue reading Ardea 1940 (CHRR 20)
It’s an ANS day. I’m spending some time with the SNGs from Italian Collections this from Firenze (vol 3.) Umbria-Bruttium. I also battled the scanning technology to make a high quality copy of the Divo, Coins Stolen from Naples (1977). I’ve been frustrated with not having it on file. But at long last I’ve a… Continue reading 20 of 234 days: 5th Bull/Prow Praeneste find (?)
Let’s get geographically oriented: On the Goddess of this sanctuary I’m reading: Carroll, M. (2019). MATER MATUTA, ‘FERTILITY CULTS’ AND THE INTEGRATION OF WOMEN IN RELIGIOUS LIFE IN ITALY IN THE FOURTH TO FIRST CENTURIES BC. Papers of the British School at Rome, 87, 1-45. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246218000399 The article is very good at problematizing the whole… Continue reading Satricum
“When I mapped findspots for #NotAllElephants I used “Find spots taken from Vecchi 2014, pp. 29-31 with the addition of Lavinium, Sutri, Viterbo, and the region north of Naples.” A draft map of Vecchi’s list appeared on this blog. I’m worried I might have missed the following find spots from Garrucci’s list, but they could… Continue reading Currency Bar Finds known in 1882
The first time I saw an image of this mosaic I thought the spellings of the names very odd. PWMYΛΛΟC and PWΔC, except the delta looks like it has a tail like a funny iota script. So perhaps its reads PWAiC, but that doesn’t make much sense either. At with point I stopped worrying about… Continue reading Rhodios, founder of Rome
Liv Mariah Yarrow 