adventures in my head
Translations are machine assisted with heavy human editing. From Marchi as quoted in Coloni 1967/8: “I made the decision to create baths for “ten to twelve of the patients” in pools that received the water “from below up … at the distance of just over half a meter from the source …, the primitive manhole… Continue reading Accounts of the discovery of the Vicarello votive deposit (hoard)
Of 1366 Cast Coins found at Vicarello: The chart just visualizes what you already know. If you’re going to make a coin offering you’re most likely to leave a little coin. However, as my joking chart title suggests, this habit could clearly have been a drain on Roman small change supplies. Does the lower count… Continue reading Data Dumping Blackletter Find List, Vicarello 1854
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
Fernique 1878 : “In the peperino sarcophagi some aes rude were recovered, ten of them also containing toilet articles…” “In the second trench, at a depth of 250 cm, there is a layer composed of amphorae debris, bricks and calcareous stones, below which was a layer of peperino blocks regularly cut, but which were not… Continue reading Praeneste Aes Rude in Funerary and Ritual Deposits
Sometimes when I map data it feels like I learn something radical and new. Sometimes it feels like I spent a lot of time to see for myself what every catalogue entry summarizes…. This was a case of the latter. Still, let no work be wasted so here it is. The first map shows all… Continue reading Mapping Oval Aes Grave
From: Pulcinelli, Luca. “MONETE E CIRCOLAZIONE MONETARIA IN ETRURIA MERIDIONALE NEL III SECOLO A.C.” Archeologia Classica 66 (2015): 481-92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26364293. The author kindly made the paper available online, but the open access version does not have legible maps. These below are slightly more readable and are screenshots from Jstor. [Don’t get eye strain!] Stuff to… Continue reading Maps of Coins Finds in Etruria (From Pulcinelli 2015)
Just some notes… Bomarzo (CHRR 6) single find Haeberlin photo link. Vulci (CHRR 10) fragment of RRC 6/1 (not in CHRR, unlless recorded as fragment of ‘non Roman bars’) Haeberlin photo: Fragment – RRC 12/1 N. B. Garrucci labels the Paris RRC 12/1 whole bar as from Vulci. This appears to be an error. “Fragments… Continue reading Garrucci’s Testimony on Finds
Clearly CHRR 8 “In the midst of the ancient Cere that today is called Cerveteri, Mr. Filippo Calabresi digging a ditch at great depth came across a beautiful deposit of aes rude and signatum mentioned above. There were a hundred and sixty-seven pieces of various sizes which all together totaled one hundred and fifty pounds… Continue reading Garrucci on the Cerveteri Finds (CHRR 8, 53 and more?)
Notes on L. AMBROSINI – L. M. MICHETTI, L’ultima frequentazione del santuario meridionale: testimonianze dai contesti, in M.P. Baglione – M.D. Gentili (a cura di), Riflessioni su Pyrgi. Scavi e ricerche nelle aree del santuario, Suppl. e Mon. Archeologia Classica 11, Roma 2013, pp. 123-166. “Un ulteriore motivo di interesse è la provenienza, sia dal… Continue reading RRC 10, 14, and 18 finds at Pyrgi (with vernice nera with petites estampilles!)
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