Klingan

This is the same grotto as the one presented 2007 (see this post, also posted here).

I can't read the source article in the Biblical Archaeology Society, but the head line is really not what the article is about, unless the source is very different from the one linked to here. Thanks for the post though!

From Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

Yeah right.... He must have confused April 1st and October 21st.

Grattis!

First of all, thanks for a very good post on an interesting topic. I am curious, however, where these different outcomes have been proposed? Are they to be found in the ancient literature or in the works of modern scholars?

Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint....Read more hear.

Damnit, I'm late again. Anyway, Tibi congratulator!

I would, unfortunately, discourage from studies regarding Roman sex trade. It is simply too difficult to identify anything archaeologically as an brothel and the primary sources are, as far as I know, not very extensive. But you might find these two topics of interest if you still decide to pursue the topic: From this thread Roman dead baby 'brothel' mystery deepens from archaeological news.

Works fins with Android, I tested it a couple of weeks ago (although I never tried to post anything). Edit: too early in the morning. I didn't use an app, just a browser, got to try that later.

I'm working in Pompeii right now and I've talked to some people there who are dealing with paintings. It seems, from what I hear, as if this report was based primarily on evidence from Herculaneum (which was exposed to much higher temperatures during the eruption of 79). So far everything seems good, you can actually see how some walls have changed color there. Pompeii is, however, another matter and most, the overwhelming majority actually, of the red walls there are, and have always been, red. We are, even in Herculaneum, dealing with a relatively small sample (I heard a figure of 50 walls, but I'm not sure where it came from) out of the many hundreds found. Summa summarum; the reports title is rather catchy than correct. Yes, some red walls were yellow, especially in Herculaneum, but most were red.

I'm quite sure that Plato mentions that a book (philosophical) would cost around one drachma (which was about one days wager for an unskilled worker) around 400 BC. You could also take a look at Diocletianus price edict, a topic discussed numerous times on these boards.

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Would love to help but it seems as if I didn't take any photo of that piece since I bought my new camera (and the old ones are too poor for publishing anyway). Do you happen to know if they have any copy of the statue, say in Naples (where I can visit the national museum at any point)?

Which fits very well into the general time frame, if you take vase paintings into consideration.

Wow, certainly unexpected. Do you know what else they found with it? The villa itself must have been something to hold a piece like that!

Are you kidding me? It's fantastic. Like the chariot piece from Palazzo Massimo? It's dreadful! I will give you that there are some nice ones, I kind of like the tiger one they're having in the Capitoline museum, but even that isn't even close to a mosaic. The abstract, geometric, ones are, of course, much better.

Lucky you, I'd like to know how you find excavating through pumice, etc compares to normal excavation. BTW If the 'grockles' get too much you could always try only speaking to them in Swedish Haha, that is a dangerous sport. The last time I did that - to a street merchant in Naples - he replied in Swedish. Scary shit.

Yeah, I also read that somewhere (and I reckon that I pointed out that they were wrong); the project is, however, very close to its completion. Most work in the coming years will be on documentation and publication as far as I know. Then again, you never know with a project like this. But on the late antique part, must admit I'm not a fan of it. Most stuff after 235 makes me sleepy (in relative terms). We've got plenty of early 4th century BC at the Basilicata dig I'm working at and that is about as far as I can go by free will. Opus Sectile... Brrr....

Pompeii V.I. I know that we are to do some work in Casa di Caecilius Iucundus (for digital documentation), possibly something in Casa del Torello and excavations in some taverns around the block. Should be fun, although I' not quite sure how to face it. I have a feeling, in one way, that fieldwork in Pompeii might be overrated. Now, don't get me wrong, it'll be great, but it's also a messy site with shit loads of tourists. I kind of try to do it as any other excavation I've been to.

Bloody hell, I've been there and I don't recognize it. Dementia must be setting in Klingan, what site are you going to be working on? You don't even want to know, trust me

It's Asclepiades and Mosquito (both damnatio). Well, M. has sort of an advantage as I leave a message in the mod section every time I go to a dig, telling them where I'm going. Looking in the area around such sites might be very profitable.