adventures in my head
Turns out there are two sets of the photographs of Nemi finds taken by Lord Savile, not only the ones in the BM I’ve been trying to located but also in Nottingham. These aren’t fully digitized (yet), but the internal collections database has turned up wonderfully detailed descriptions of each print AND notes on how… Continue reading 16 out of 234 days: News of the Nemi photos
associated with the recovery of the ships Good news, the Cesano pdf arrived. Bad news, no photos of republican specimens. Also, based on the lamp article I was expecting more republican material and lots more coins overall, ho hum. Still it is interesting that they are ALL asses no other denominations… does that make it… Continue reading Lake Nemi Coin Finds
The Cesano 1940 (lake?) Nemi coin catalogue has not yet arrived from ILL, but it’s less than 24 hours so I must be more patient, maybe I’ll get to blog about that in a day or two. My poking around brought to my attention that the UPenn Museum also was a major purchaser of artifacts… Continue reading 10 of 234 days: UPenn Nemi connection
Dan’s photos are always SO good! If you go to his photo stream he has a few more of this same object from different angles. The detail I wanted to record other than just the existence of this object and its location is the center image, which to my eye in this photo looks like… Continue reading The Nemi Temple
ILL delivered that article I mentioned yesterday on lamps in Lake Nemi, nothing really on coins. But, the authors notice a long period of ritual deposits in the lake itself and they consider this separate from the sanctuary of Diana which has a longer period of use (well into third century CE), whereas lamp deposits… Continue reading 9 of 234 days: Nemi lake finds
Crawford tells us that “A collection of photos donated by Lord Savile to the British Museum illustrates a number of pieces not otherwise attested, which have been included in the list below, and there may well have been more. (The photos also illustrate four tesserae: Standing figure/Standing figure, Standing figure/Standing figure, IVVEN/Blank, COR/THAL /Triple Hecate)… Continue reading 2 of 234 days: Nemi and More
I’m sick, nothing special, just old-fashioned winter cold. I keep overdoing it before I’m fully well and then backsliding. Not a good pattern. I’m trying to slowly tend to communications and other tasks and nurse this pot of tea. Anyway, I was looking at Crawford’s catalogue of the Nemi material to give the Nottingham curator… Continue reading 31 of 234 days: Quartuncia(?)
I’ve just finished up here at Rutgers and am waiting to discuss my early findings with a colleague, but I have some extra time before he arrives. I’ve wrapped my head around zinc levels to be satisfied that in a few cases I can reject specimens from my analyses when levels are far too high.… Continue reading 27 out of 234 days: surface ‘enhancements’
Schaefer archive In my Satricum post I note that Termeer and Prins 2021 observed there was found: “one Lion bronze (no. 38) with reverse lion to the left is a variety of RRC 16/1a and 1b, only known from Vicarello and Carsoli” I made a note in my copy of RRC of the new subtype… Continue reading RRC 16: Lion Left!
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
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