adventures in my head
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
…Without trying to decide which of these interpretations is the best, I have stuck to the oldest and most poetic. original: “Sans chercher à décider laquelle de ces interprétations est la meilleure, je m’en suis tenu à la plus ancienne et la plus poétique.” This line made me giggle. This name logic was not only… Continue reading 8 out of 234 days
Grueber 1910 (repr. 1970): 569-570 has deliciously erudite footnotes! And yet, like so often he doesn’t explain the theories he’s dismissing. I know they are wrong and so does he, but what a lot of work to make others dig through. It makes me slightly more fond of Crawford’s dismissive asides as he condemns his… Continue reading Day 4 of 234: More on RRC 486/1
I love that I can use the Berlin catalogue as a digital index for Woytek. The pages here discuss the college of moneyers and why 41 BCE is a better date for them. It does not engage with typology, but rather mint structure. Smyth 1856: 2 describes two specimens of RRC 486/1. He discounts an… Continue reading 3 of 234 Days: Triple Diana or Three Nymphs?
Creating this blog was such a life-changing experience when I first set it up in June 2013 to trace where the time went. I had deep fears that writing wouldn’t happen and that I couldn’t accomplish what I set out to do. More and different work was accomplished, all of which made the work between… Continue reading 1 of 234 Days: the work ahead
I’m mostly interested in how the plaques can help us better understand the material world of the late republic, so the themes below are architecture, statues, rituals, spectacles, etc… But also a little of the iconography of gods that appear on coins. Parade Scene Plaque ; very similar; fragment of similar Signed Circus plaque Circus… Continue reading Round up of Campana Iconography
So I like the sense of completion of hitting publish on a blog post, its a trivial little boost to mark a bit of work and the end of a thought unit. So I’m breaking my previous long post and starting a new one. There is no logic to my breaking spot maybe even some… Continue reading More late unciae (293/3)
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