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Lex Oppia (215 B.C) was an effect of Cannae. It was limiting womens clothes and jewelery, it was not proper to show luxury wile the state was at the brink of destruction/in crisis. The law was annulled in 194 B.C.

An archeology student struck lucky when he began digging the garden of his new home - and discovered ancient Roman remains. Chris Bevan had no idea that a historic find was lurking inches beneath his feet when he moved into the house at Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Now he and his fellow University of York students are using their spare time to carry out a survey of the garden in High Street and a neighbouring field where the ancient pottery was unearthed. Read more here.

Haha good one

Wow I like how that one's looking!

My Latin is just about non-existent. I can go through really easy texts with a good dictinary. However I know some words now and then and when reading about architecture or water tech I can mostly find quite a deal of words I know.

Ah no it's no way near confusing, thanks a lot gentlemen! Actually it's making perfect sense now! The quotations you posted ASC are most excellent. Don't we all love ancient technical descriptions Melvadius?

New excavations conducted by the University of Tübingen (Germany) and the Onsekiz Mart University of Çanakkale (Turkey) at the site of Sirkeli Höyük near Adana (southern Turkey) have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification dating to the Hittite Imperial Period (ca. 1300 BC). Sirkeli Höyük, one of the largest settlement mounds in Cilicia during the Bronze- and Iron Ages, was already known to archaeologists and historians because of two Hittite rock reliefs located at the site. The better preserved rock relief of the two shows the Hittite King Muwatalli II (ca. 1290 - 1272 BC), opponent of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the famous Battle of Qadesh in Syria and is thus the oldest Hittite rock relief known so far. There's some problem with the letters I don't know why. Read more here.

Are you sure ASC? I've been trough several translations, all of them go with water-men, vandmestrene (watermaster) and such. I guess it could be an object but what object could expand a pipe like that?

Happy birthday!

And even as I've been stressed until my limits I must say it's been a really good one. So far I've handed in one paper (that I'm at the moment translating for anyone who's interested. It's on dating methods and survey techniques.). I've received a new paper to write 10-12 pages in ancient mill techs (Yes I enjoy ancient technology a lot ) that are to be handed in the 16th. It's quite a pain in the ass but I've been a good boy and so far I've got 8 pages. My big essay is also, more slowly admittedly, progressing 10-11 out of 25 written. I'm currently working on what the hell Frontinus is talking about. It seems like I run into all the strange, dubious parts. Actually I've even had time to work yesterday, moving furniture for a company. I really need the extra money so it's kinda good. Beside that I've been watching the movie Flood, it was rather much a rip-off from The day after tomorrow. B-movie, not very good but the beginning was really funny. - The waves must be 50 feet tall sir. - That's impossible! - Arghhh blub blub blub (HUGE wave drowning them) Oh yeah that too, we've had this years first snow now. I guess I'm finally really writing from the land of ice and snow now

Yet another very wet topic to your delight. This is a quote from Frontinus text De Aquis (Yes the title is not certain as we don't know the original it's never really the same depending on where you find it) I.63. Now my problem is rather simple. What the heck is a this "With the water-men it had a diameter of 16 digits"? In modern measurements (European) the pipe is going from 22.8 cm to 29.6 cm in diameter, a rather large expansion. J

Well this is hardly a translation issue, I've been through it myself, I've asked my professor to take a look at it (and he's reading Latin classical literature not very much unlike I read English.) and I've been through two other translations. Anyway I've written this part now and I stand firm in my belief that Vitruvius is writing in theory.

I can read runes Anyway: 1. It means that your blog is at the very famous UNRV site. When googling on phrases that does exist here you will get hits. That's how search engines work. I tried to see (for fun) what I'd get by google my own name and nick two months ago. I got hits on the first page on both leading to UNRV. 2. Well yes, in one way. I guess it means more hits at some level. Depending on the goal of the admins here more hits might be considered good. At least i think that would be the anwsers. Was a while since I worked with runes

I've never noticed it before. It's showing up every time I check the blogs tonight though. It's hardly visible before you put your mouse over it. Edit: Correction - It's not there now. I am clueless.

I found a bug, actually I don't know if it's with the homepage or the forum. Anyway check it out. As you may see there's a really weird link at the top left corner.

Ouch the pain, the pain. I just can't take it seeing this sort of things happening, even if I know that it's bound to sooner or later.

Indiana Jones aka Indy He's such a wimp thou, as far from the "real" Indiana Jones as you can get

Well it's been one hell of a week this one. Halloween is indeed a dangerous time of the year. The essays are to progress at the same time as I am to attend to party's this year it was two of them. Nope, I'm very much not complaining about that! I went dressed as an evil druid hopefully I'll find a decent picture when my friends send them and I'll show you how evil I can be. Had a really great time! Actually I've also had the privilege to be able to make some extra cash, helping a company move. Getting more work from there next Friday, I guess I can't say that I'm looking forward too it however it does feel good to do something but study all the time! Anyway to the subject at hand, I've finally updated my avatar and profile picture have fun with them everyone! I just thought I might let you all know and see what you think about the new avatar. I'm so used to the old that I can hardly say if I like the new one or not.

Well obviously Vitruvius is not of the opinion that the lacus have priority as we know from the text I quoted in the first post, that is one of the only things that makes real sense. It's also a fact that Frontinus tells us that only 9% of the Urbus water supply went to the public fountains (13% intra Urbus). I would say that it's all but clear that the public supply had very much of a priority. Just beacuse we today can't even imagine to cut the supply to the general population to supply a smaller number of rich and high status people doesn't mean for certain that they would even hesitate to do so in the empire? If you have anything that would show that the lacus et salientes do have a clear priority please show us. And as you say we do not know that if my illustration or any other is more correct, since we do not have the original one left if there ever were any. A good part of the original that was found was badly damaged and is very difficult to read too. Actually I do believe that Vitruvius is talking in theory, as there are no archaeological remains that resembles his description. As some examples; it's very far from both N

Ohh great a reconstruction of Pompeiis castellum!!! Finally a decent picture of the inside of it too. All the pictures I've got are quite blurry. And all those water towers! Damn, I've been looking for them for weeks! I was almost giving up. Anyway from what I've seen of the Pompeii water system I'm quite sure it's not following Vitruvius model. It would be practically impossible in the slope of the city, not to mention the three times larger use of led pipes. Do you believe that Vitruvius is writing about a practical or theoretical model?

Ah the part with the pipes on different levels would explain some parts. However I am curious what does Rowland base his illustration on? I'll do my best to find the book thou. How do you mean that there is only one in-pipe? is it one wide pipe?

Gotta love Wierd Al! Anyone who's seen his other videos? I've got a collection and was watching some of them as lately as last night. Really great stuff, highly recommended!

Wow this is truly exciting news. I wish I had known this when I had my lecture 2 weeks back, I could have made a far more exciting part on ancients ships then. Anyway for you who noticed it they're talking about a Swedish ship that was preserved, this is it: It actually sank after just 20 minutes into her first voyage 1628! It was recovered in 1961.

Wow... Indians are indeed a strange people. Here is one of the most popular popular misheard lyrics videos I know of, with over 4.6 million views and 10.000 comments. It's been out on the web for quite a while now.

Ah I love that painting. It's been a while since I last saw it. Good choice MPC!