If you are going to collect ancients, you are going to collect some fakes. Even if you deal only with reputable auction houses and respected...
Not quite pockets, as we know them, but Roman garments could have what they called a "Sinus" which was a hollow fold made into a garment into...
I'd have to check Tacitus to see how he phrases it in the original, but if he did use the imperative mood it was an abrupt, angry, nasty, snarky...
Thanks for that etymology. before today's postings I had no idea what a desultator did or why he was so named. I was also somewhat shaky on its...
Your coin also shows the comparative size of a modius by picturing one next to a person. At about one peck (as in a bushel and a peck) it held...
That article on Forum was a good one and it made me think more about this. I was wondering if a flowering poppy was a visible sign, an indicator,...
Now that raises an interesting question. Just why would a poppy pod be included with the stalks of grain on this coin?
I certainly hope my wife thinks that about 1943. My grandkids think 1993 is ancient.
Now that is an interesting story. Five-sixths of a copper as for a modius of grain is incredibly cheap considering that is a whole peck of wheat....
Now I hope you don't think something from 1943 is all that ancient as that was the year I was born. By the way, any chance you are from the Land...
This one had completely escaped my mind when thinking of grain on coins.
I really like that plow coin. I had not thought of that as a connection to the grain. Too bad they did not yet have a combine harvester for the...
Bing, any ideas on why Mars would have had an ear of grain behind him? WE need to conquer some more territory to get some.
Hmm. Interesting, bread money. I think I'll tell the wife we need to allocate more of our budget to "bread money". Know any ancient gold with...
Well then, let me say hello, quoting Aristophanes in his "the Frogs", Brekka kakax, koax, koax, or something like that in the Dorian dialect.
I don't think I have ever seen an ancient coin with a frog on it. I didn't know there was one.
Those of us who like to study the culture of Antiquity, in this case its food, are well aware of the importance of grains, olives and grapes in...
I think the actual word for a single coin is Assarion (Greek neuter singular) and the plural is Assaria (Greek neuter, plural).
Actually while deities like Jupiter and Juno could be very abstract, I'll bet the Romans saw the Lares et Penates as very immanent within their...
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