[ATTACH] As, Q. Marcius Libo, 148 BC. Reverse : Q.MARC / LIBO, ROMA in exergue. Next up: a ship's stern.
There were many different Aramaic scripts. Why not a "B"?
The L just means "year". I don't know why. Coins minted in Roman Egypt always have this L for the date. Some cities in south Palestine did the...
The representations of Mount Argaeus on coins seem to have evolved. Under Archelaos (3-4 AD) the mountain looked like a small pile of [ATTACH]....
[ATTACH] Constantius Gallus, centenionalis from Antioch [ATTACH] Constantius II (he wears a pearl-diadem). Does the barbarian horseman have...
I don't know what it is supposed to be, but it is surely not a rhino. The Indians know very well what rhinos look like because they have plenty of...
The ancient Greeks rarely mentioned a city by its name, they more often mentioned it by the name of its citizens. Thucydides did not say "Athens"...
[ATTACH]
[ATTACH] C. Cassius, Libertas driving quadriga Next up : A Roman provincial quadriga
At what level of tooling does a coin become a mere fake? This 27 mm AE obol just looks like a modern fake, not at all like an EF ancient coin.
Nobody knows what happened, why the town was abandoned. There are traditions about Muhammed declaring the place and its wells forbidden. Haram!...
In medieval Europe the intellectuals were mostly priests and monks, all people who must take vows of poverty. Teachers, professors, scholars are...
In our Western civilization, academics never made much money... In Goethe's Faust, Dr Faust makes a lucid assessment of his life and career:...
Well, in fact it's not a Lihyanite temple, these are Nabataean tombs in Mada'in Salih, Saudi Arabia, ancient Hegra. Hegra is only 20 km north of...
[ATTACH] GLOR-IA EXER-CITVS / SMKA: I think this Constantine Jr small follis was minted in Cyzicus... Next up: a coin with the late Latin...
It is not in my collection, it is in a museum in Gaza! In my collection I have an intermediate owl but with a Phoenician countermark like yours:...
This intermediate owl (not mine) has visited Cyprus! [ATTACH] The countermark on the reverse has 3 Cypriot syllabic characters. I am not sure of...
NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS... Bingo ! [ATTACH] Next up: GERMANICVS (in full script!)
The term "altar" is very ambiguous, because it is used for very different things. An altar can be a simple cubic or cylindric stone block, not...
Separate names with a comma.
