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  • Make Haste Slowly

    For similar and rarer coins from Domitian, who finished the top level of the Colosseum, see this blog and the slowness of careful reflection." - Erasmus Adagia II.1.1 (translated in English) "From the ancient investigators of literary antiquities in his time." - Erasmus Adagia II.1.8 (translated in English)​ The ancient Aldus as he made the image his printers mark - and subsequent publishers followed in the use of this ancient

  • Hadrian's statue of Osiris Hydreios

    Following Hadrian" that explains: "The vase represents a form of the Egyptian god Osiris depicted as a jar topped description of the Canopic jar at the Egypt Museum which explains: "Osiris-Canopus was named after the ancient Egypt, Alexandria, Hadrian, AD 117-138, BI Tetradrachm, dated RY 10 (AD 125/6) Obv: Laureate, draped,

  • Phillip II and the Perrhaiboi

    Thessaly was also inhabited by several ancient peoples who inhabited the Balkan Peninsula before the More information can be found in Rogers, Thessaly , published in 1935: "The Perrhaebi were one of the ancient References CNG Triton XV Catalog 3-Jan-2012 (BCD Thessaly II) Nomos Auction 4 10-May-2011 (BCD Thessaly

  • The Battle of Karbala

    The battle occurred on 10 Muharram 61 AH (9 or 10 October 680 AD), during the year in which these coins In the miniature, Husayn (top left quadrant) is depicted with a veil and a flaming halo, watches his On 10 October 680 (10 Muḥarram 61 AH), at Karbala, Ḥusayn’s small group was surrounded by roughly 4,000

  • Zeus-Serapis?

    BI Tetradrachm, Dated RY 10 (AD 63/64). Ptolemy leveraged both ancient pharaonic traditions and Greek traditions to establish legitimacy in the Alexandria, dated RY 10 = 108/7 BC . Among the royal titles accepted by Alexander were ancient names like “beloved by Amun” and “chosen by statues of Zeus, but they were also often wearing an object on their heads which was a common feature of ancient

  • Petillius and the Capitoline Temple

    Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra of Paris, France, taken 10 June 2011, image used under CC BY 2.0 license As you would expect from this set of " Notes on Ancient Coins " - there is a connection to a Roman Republican Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, was the most important temple in Ancient It was located on the Capitoline Hill, which was the site of an ancient village and the center of Roman Pomponius Porphyrio, is one of the earliest and most important sources of ancient interpretations of

  • Acorn Eaters to Melting Pot

    Where did the people of ancient Rome originate? These are the questions we take on in today's notes, inspired by some relatively recent analysis of ancient solicitation; and now they plucked the living grass from the turf, and now the tender leaves of tree-tops -Claudian, The Rape of Proserpine p295 (I.27) The ancient theater of Dodona, Epirus, Greece. Ancient Rome: a genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean , Ancient Rome Data Explorer Nathan

  • Gallienus Regnal Year 8

    the end of Regnal Year 8: Egypt, Alexandria, Gallienus, 253-268 AD, BI Tetradrachm (23mm, 10.35g (top "Rhakotis" means 'construction site' in ancient Egyptian, and is thought to be an older name for the Milne, pp. 152-161, 1917 in Ancient Egypt vol. 4 by Peter Flinders, MacMillan and Company.

  • Saeculum Frugiferum

    See the 10 coins with this deity that are found in Roman Imperial Coins . Hadrumetum was an ancient Phoenician colony about 100 miles (160 km) south of Carthage.

  • Concordia in 62 BC

    Sallust writing ( Bellum Catalinae Ch. 10 ) in the middle of the 1st century BCE saw the end of Carthage The Concordia temple was rebuilt under Tiberius (in AD 10) but later urban development and the Tabularium Aemilia & Scribonia Paullus belonged to the ancient patrician gens Aemilia, one of Rome’s most distinguished The Scribonii were traditionally connected to the Puteal Libonis – ancient sources suggest a Scribonius

  • Tears of Chios

    -Herodotus, The Persian Wars, III.107 Ancient Medicine Pliny in book XII.XXXVI of Natural History discusses this mastic: "the kind most highly praised is the white mastich of Chios, which fetches a price of 10 Mylasa was located about 300km south east of Chios in ancient Caria (modern Turkiye). Entertained by the thought of ancient chewing gum - I tried another brand that had larger "tears" and

  • The 3rd Punic War

    Dio credits Julius Caesar: "But in the case of Corinth and Carthage, those ancient, brilliant, and distinguished , but also restored them in memory of their former inhabitants, in that he honoured them with their ancient built the present Carthage, not on the site of the old one, but very near it, in order to avoid the ancient This coin from AD 10 from the Colonia Julia Carthago. Struck ~AD 10.

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