I hope it was a happy B-day and is for the next hour or so (CDT). What a kick being able to add a special coin just in time.
Here she is from Siscia on a bad hair day, or when she was trying to fend off the advances of Maximinus (who mercilessly hated and haunted her...
The lowly little campgate can sometimes surprise you. This one is a kind of companion to the three turret gate from Rome that Brian showed. This...
Always have been partial to the VIRTVS trophy reverse types, especially the earlier ones. Trier had some nice ones. [ATTACH] The shield and...
Just so the dog alone bites his tail with finality. o_O
I like the diversity of the responses in this thread and the rich combination of options for image handling you are suggesting. So far I have...
Bing, is that a proprietary database or one of your own devising? Somehow you are able to get your images into it?
I appreciate the variety of the responses and am beginning to get a glimpse of what it takes to be quick on a response. But some of you are...
Obviously I need to have somebody explain to me the facts of life in the world of short attention spans. I have consistently noticed that in any...
I think you'd be safe cleaning it out, because when you flip the coin about the vertical and line up the two protrusions (obv 1 and 8; rev 10-11...
Fair enough. He didn't say he was new to coins, just new to ancients. So to yossi schnitzer I say - welcome to the world of ancients. It may...
We got that, and we're here to help. But tell him the truth. So-called "desert patina" is not true patina. It is merely a well conformed...
Not at the sacrifice of patina. Patina is not a coating. It is a conversion of coin metal at the surface into a non-metallic salt. This...
I'm sorry, but I have to be honest. The coin in the "after" picture is already overcleaned. I'm sure we've all done it. However, looking ahead,...
Not sure about scale of size, but here goes: on the left a simply decorated Apulian skyphos (I'd be dubious if you said it is Gnathian), and on...
Nice lamp. If from Israel the round body shape for this type of lamp is typical of first century Roman. Not entirely limited to the Levant...
Cypriote bichrome ware and Cypriot "Milkbowl" ware are two of my favorite ceramic types for the Ancient Near East. This juglet is a good example...
If you are looking for a Biblical parallel, the flask dates roughly to the last part of the period of the Judges; during the time of King Saul and...
Your pilgrim flask is characteristically Israelite. I cannot tell the size of the vessel nor the thickness of its body in relation to the neck,...
Actually, it's a pilgrim flask, not an amphora.
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