Klingan

Yep, I saw it when I counted and was like, ehm, uh, oh (keep on looking for correct answers). Sort of unexpected- Too bad most of/almost all of the old pictures are gone by now.

Holy [censored by legatii, don't use that kind of word, bad Klingon]! That easy? Correct, your turn.

Pass! Well, a little less then an hour. Not too long. Or the temple of Venus at Baalbek? I was thinking about figuring out some other stats, like most guesses (I think that might be the bridge in Spain or one of Asclepiades tricky ones), percent of correct guesses per member, correct guesses between member groups and so on but, well, going to Naples for a dig Monday. Had to pack.

Well, since we are hitting page number 100 quite soon (and I won't be home so I've got to do this now): Correct answers: Maladict: IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII Bryaxis Hecatee: IIIII IIIII IIIII Klingan: IIIII IIIII IIII Asclepiades: IIIII IIIII IIII WotWotius: IIIII IIIII II Ummidia Quadratilla: IIIII II G-Manicus: IIIII I Kosmo: IIIII I Nephele: IIIII I Northern Neil: IIIII Melvadius: IIIII GhostOfClayton: IIII Miguel: III Aurelia: III M. Porcius Cato: II Viggen: II Noricum: II Auris Arrectibus: II Mosquito: II Gaius Paulinus Maximus: II Marcus Silanus: I Sylla: I The Augusta: I Gaius Octavius: I Caldrail: I Pantagathus: I Traianus: I Vibius Tiberius Costa: I Posts: 1,469 Guesses: 1,324 Pictures posted: 145 Guesses per picture: 9.13 Banned participants: 3

Oh, well done! All of these are on my phone now

Send me a pm, you're making me curious Edit: and I'm not quite sure you're right.

Italy indeed, but it's a large country

Yes . . it sort of is. I'm going to rule out Britannia, or I would have seen it, so I'll say France. Unfortunately not correct.

http://www.mainz.de/WGAPublisher/online/html/default/hthn-5ttj3j.de.html The remains of the real thing are in the museum, apparently. Oh well, I've been meaning to visit that part of Germany anyway. Seems like west Germany would be worth a detour when I'm moving to Berlin.

So it was fake...I was wondering about that. Do you have any proper references? Everything on the net is sort of sketchy. Anyway, it was completely unknown to me but the special iconography caught my interest so I looked it up on the net. I hope that this should be sort of a challenge.

Very curious about this one. I really wonder if it is comparable to the Colosseum, or if the paper blew up the news.

The villa of Boscoreale was closed a month ago (but I could go there and take another look in a week or two when my field work begin) but the museum is open (to a hefty over price). Stabia is nice, but exceedingly difficult to get to. Make sure to bring a map, anti-goat spray and good shoes. Took me well over 45 min to find the first villa there (in a farmers backyard).

Mainz?

Remember that prostitution did not work the same way in ancient Italy as it does in most modern, western, countries. One example can be found in waitresses who would commonly be expected to be involved in the business. Another is where you could preform the service, it was far more widespread and diverse than in nowadays - cemeteries were popular hold outs. This makes it very difficult to decide what can be called a brothel and what is something else (a problem which we have for most activities in the ancient world). Are paintings of sex scenes to be expected? Beds? Many small rooms? Or perhaps just one small room? Do we count large funeral monument? Not to mention hostel rooms and dark alleys? Would a room with paintings of a very strong character in a wealthy villa be considered brothels? Or were they simply "entertaining rooms" where the rich owner let his friend abuse the house hold slaves? The problems are many. To summarize my point: Some researchers have "found" more than 60 brothels in Pompeii, others no more than one. Defining something as a brothel is very difficult, borderline impossible. Here are some other useful links for you: The Swedish Pompeii Project (Reg. IV.1) Pompeian Households: An online comparison

Very interesting as always Guy. I especially like the Anno Millesimos coin.

I would very much like to see the inside color - the perforated surface is commonly connected to heating (stuffing a vessel such as this one full with glowing coal and you have a nice radiator). The outer surface would, however, probably have been slightly burned as well, especially around the holes.

I'm sorry to say it but Castor wasn't an equestrian god, neither were Pollux one of boxing; they were simply famous as skilled in these arts during their lifetime. The brothers were instead worshiped rather as the saviors and helpers of man, especially at the sea. It's also important to remember that they were never gods proper in the sense of the Olympians. Pollux was born immortal, Castor subject to death and they decided to share their fates, one being divine the first day, the second the next.

I had completely missed that it was there it took place. Would you have a picture of the mentioned altar?

No problems! You can find a picture here, the link goes to my blog.

It's the dedication inscription on one of the gates/aqueducts of Rome.

Yes, and what is important here is that you referred to a year by naming who ever ruled, not by a standardized year system: in the empire this had to do primarily with the ruling emperors tribun and consulship, as it had been the consuls (and probably military tribunes in the early years?) during the republic. It worked in the same way in the Greek world where they had eponym Archons (basically "giving name consul" to provide a very rought translation into Roman terms). Here is an example of the dating, from Porta Maggiore in Rome: Ti(berius) Claudius Drusi f(ilius) Caisar Augustus Germanicus pontif(ex) maxim(us) / tribunicia potestate XII co(n)s(ul) V imperator XXVII pater patriae / aquas Claudiam ex fontibus qui vocabantur Caeruleus et Curtius a milliario XXXXV / item Anienem novam a milliario LXII sua impensa in urbem perducendas curavit (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of Drusus, Pontefix Maximus, with tribune power for the twelfth time, consul for the fifth, imperator for the twenty seventh, father of the country, undertook, on his own expense, the leading of aqua Claudius from the springs called Caeruleus and Curtus at the 45th milestone and in the same manner the leading of Anio Novus at the 62nd milestone to the city) (My own translation) CIL 1256 = ILS 218a, 52/53 AD.

I nearly got 'bottled' while I was in the States, because I told a patron of a bar that we Brits refer to American football as "colonial football"! This is all I know about the fans of sport... Haha, I love the term, certainly going to use that the next time the topic pops up.

It is alive! Hey, good to see you around and good luck with the fund raising!

An enigmatic message on a Roman gladiator's 1,800-year-old tombstone has finally been decoded, telling a treacherous tale. The epitaph and art on the tombstone suggest the gladiator, named Diodorus, lost the battle (and his life) due to a referee's error, according to Michael Carter, a professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Carter studies gladiator contests and other spectacles in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Read more here: Swedish English