Nephele Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Marcus Ulpius Traianus? Another clue ... The letters in the name he's known by can be rearranged to spell a type of bird (and NFL team) Hahaha! You're giving me an anagram clue? It's Nerva! (Raven, Baltimore Ravens) -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Okay, since I know I'm right with my Nerva guess, I'll take the next turn: This lady's husband mourned her When she died age twenty-seven; Her silhouette is at the Met (Dunno if she's in heaven). -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Diocletian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Marcus Ulpius Traianus? Another clue ... The letters in the name he's known by can be rearranged to spell a type of bird (and NFL team) Hahaha! You're giving me an anagram clue? It's Nerva! (Raven, Baltimore Ravens) -- Nephele Raven = Ravens? Messalina? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Hahaha! You're giving me an anagram clue? It's Nerva! (Raven, Baltimore Ravens) -- Nephele Ding! Ding! Ding! No more calls ... we have a winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Augusta Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 (edited) Neph - your lady is Flavian - I can tell by her hairstyle - but I'll need a bit longer to root her out. Watch this space - unless we have an expert of the Flavian period in the game... As for you, G-Man - that was a sneaky statue of our Nerva! His features are committed to my memory, and that particular portrait totally threw me. Well done! I like this game... Edited September 18, 2007 by The Augusta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Paulinus Maximus Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 With the little clue from Augusta (Flavian), I'm going to go for Domitia Longina, the wife of Domitian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 This lady's husband mourned herWhen she died age twenty-seven; Her silhouette is at the Met (Dunno if she's in heaven). -- Nephele I think GO is right and the Lady would be Valeria Messalina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Augusta Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 (edited) This lady's husband mourned herWhen she died age twenty-seven; Her silhouette is at the Met (Dunno if she's in heaven). -- Nephele I think GO is right and the Lady would be Valeria Messalina. With that hairstyle!!!! Never!! Let's do some digging on the clue about the Met. Gods - I've even been to the Met (twice!) and I've missed this! Is it Domitilla? Edited September 18, 2007 by The Augusta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 (edited) With that hairstyle!!!! Never!! Let's do some digging on the clue about the Met. Gods - I've even been to the Met (twice!) and I've missed this! Is it Domitilla? Excellent point, Lady A! It's the marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, the most chaste and loving wife of Lucius Annius Festus, who died at the age of twenty-seven years, eleven months, twenty-eight days (circa 90-100 AD). At the Roman Naming Practices section of UNRV, Lady N tell us that: "Cominia" being the name of a Roman plebian gens, indicating that the lady's father's name may have been "Cominius", while "Tyche" is the name of the Greek goddess of good fortune. Alternately, Cominia Tyche may have been a freedwoman of Cominius, having adopted his nomen gentilicium for her own and having retained her original name of Tyche for her cognomen, as was the custom of male freed slaves. .. In the past such a lady might have been known simply as Cominia Festi (taking her husband's cognomen in the genitive form and often followed by the word uxor, to show her relationship to him)." Edited September 18, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephele Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Excellent point, Lady A! It's the marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, the most chaste and loving wife of Lucius Annius Festus, who died at the age of twenty-seven years, eleven months, twenty-eight days (circa 90-100 AD). At the Roman Naming Practices section of UNRV, Lady N tell us that: "Cominia" being the name of a Roman plebian gens, indicating that the lady's father's name may have been "Cominius", while "Tyche" is the name of the Greek goddess of good fortune. Alternately, Cominia Tyche may have been a freedwoman of Cominius, having adopted his nomen gentilicium for her own and having retained her original name of Tyche for her cognomen, as was the custom of male freed slaves. .. In the past such a lady might have been known simply as Cominia Festi (taking her husband's cognomen in the genitive form and often followed by the word uxor, to show her relationship to him)." You found her, Asclepiades! The dear Cominia Tyche, who has been at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for many a year. I've seen her so many times, I almost feel as though I know her. -- Nephele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 (edited) Now try this one: Edited September 18, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 As for you, G-Man - that was a sneaky statue of our Nerva! His features are committed to my memory, and that particular portrait totally threw me. Well done! I like this game... The Augusta: First off, I'd hate to be so familiar as to call you by your first name "The," what with my being new and all. Perhaps some day? I honestly had no idea what Nerva looked like. I just thought it was a cool picture of him. And yes, it is a fun game! G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted September 19, 2007 Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Now try this one: Hmm ... youthful with a slight jawline ... Caligula? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2007 Now try this one: Hmm ... youthful with a slight jawline ... Caligula? Nope, but they were relatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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