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I'll have blind guess at it, Sagalassos.

falkor, maybe you're answering the question yourself? If you stop pirating them and buy them instead there will be more money to make new ones.

He's just playing hard to get. Thanks for moving this thread, it increased my post count by 50%

It was used on coins at least as late as the Constantinian era.

Looks like this one.

I agree, there would definitely be a demand for it. Personally, I'd be partial to a spread of Christianity or Late Antiquity/Byzantine map.

Not really. Tourists will come anyway, it doesn't really matter what you put in front of them. Most of them will mindlessly follow the hype anywhere, and doing so destroy more than these two badly reassembled houses.

I'd be surprised if Roman coins have never been found on the Axumite coast.

How about 'premedieval contraction' or 'post-roman hangover' or 'The Great Depression of somewhere between AD 400 and 1000'?

Remember that Constantinople never actually looked like this, it was already well in decline by 1200. I vaguely recall the site's author acknowledging this, but it doesn't show in the models.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11704720 6 November 2010 House of the Gladiators collapses in Pompeii

Strictly speaking the large Stone-built amphitheatre is the third at El Djem. The original amphitheatres site is actually across the railway just opposite the museum as I only found out just before we left the museum to go to the main amphithreatre thus I only got the chance for a 'very' long-distance shot of it just before we left to go to the main amphitheatre. Wikipedia does have a plan of what they term the 'small' amphitheatre although they don't seem to have realised there were two phases to its construction. The orignal amphitheatre was dug into a small hill then expanded slightly in its second phase before being abandonded for the main amphitheatre site. Here are a few pictures I took there. They're pretty bad, the rain was pouring down and I just wanted to get out of there.

El Jem. Excellent mosaics in the museum, and of course the famous amphitheater (never knew there was a second one though). Not quite convinced by the claims it is better preserved than the one in Rome. Full half of it is almost completely missing, though partly reconstructed.

It might be sufficient, if it weren't for the Camorra collecting most of it. Just wait until the Geordie mob get their hands on it..

The museum in EUR (Rome) has (finally) put their copy on display as of 2008 or so. IIRC this copy and the one in Bucharest are the only casts made from the original. The one in Romania is much better presented though, I really enjoyed it. The Roman copy is displayed in a cramped corridor and doesn't have the base and capital.

Happy belated birthday!

I've always thought of Ravenna as a great place to settle down when you're 70 or something. Calm, laid back, melancholic place but very unpretentious. Yet, if you know where to look, there are enough treasures around you to last you the rest of your life.

Bath.

It does, thanks.

Not quite, as it only displays today's posts, not all posts since the last visit. If you don't check in every day you won't notice the older ones.

That's the one I meant. It's the only button I ever use really, don't have a clue how I should navigate the fora now. Looks like you actually need to go into the folders to see new posts? (unless you check in every day and use 'today's active topics').

I have no permission to view the blogs. The 'view new posts' button seems to have gone. Also, some of the comments in the profile have a dark grey background making them hard to read.

I haven't managed more than a few pages, it's unimaginably dull. Also, my copy is in German and in Gothic script, both of which don't help.

Thanks for the heads-up. One of my favorite books for sure.