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Quiz - D B Campbell - 10-30-2012
Quote:Mountains look like Antiochia Pisidia... ?Well done, Nathan! You'd got it before I even saw the photo! :woot:
Quote:- if the location's right, it could be inscription AE 1967, 00495Just on a point of information, it certainly seems to be part of AE 1967, 495 ...
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... although (according to AE 1999,1611) that fragment is supposedly now lost.
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Very confusing!
Quiz - D B Campbell - 11-03-2012
Quote:Where is it, and what (supposedly) did it use to be?It looks like a Roman principia, with the gates of the basilica bricked up. I don't think I've ever seen such a thing. We're probably going to need a clue. :dizzy:
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 11-03-2012
Quote:We're probably going to need a clue. :dizzy:Yup.
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 11-03-2012
OK then!
Only the central part of the structure is Roman, and it's been much altered. The two-storey wing on the left has been demolished since the photo was taken.
But it's in Italy, close to the site of a very famous battle...
Enough clues yet? ;-)
Quiz - D B Campbell - 11-03-2012
Quote:Enough clues yet? ;-)Is the (illegible) writing along the top significant? Or would that give the game away?
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 11-03-2012
Quote:Is the (illegible) writing along the top significant? Or would that give the game away?
Erm, no - unless you can somehow make it legible and it tells you the location! (I actually didn't notice it myself...)
Today's clues:
The original Roman structure was not a house, nor was it intended for accommodation...
The nearby battle was of great importance in world history...
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 11-05-2012
Still no ideas? :whistle:
OK, here's what the structure looks like today:
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And another clue - it's on a major road, close to Rome...
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 11-05-2012
That must refer to the VIa Flaminia and the battle of the Milvian Bridge, 1700 years ago when you posted that. Still, no clue about that building... :-?
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 11-05-2012
MALBORGHETTO!!!
Quiz - Nathan Ross - 11-05-2012
Quote:MALBORGHETTO!!!
Yes! Well done Jona. :-)
This is indeed the remains of the Arch of Malborghetto, a quadrifrons arch on the Via Flaminia, at the thirteenth milestone north of Rome, dating from the early 4th century. In the middle ages it was converted into a church and later a fortified farmhouse. Nowadays it houses a small museum and a park with Roman finds from the vicinity.
![[Image: 50440547.jpg]](http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/50440547.jpg)
The arch possibly commemorated the site of Constantine's last encampment before the battle of Milvian Bridge. Later Church history suggested that this was the place where he saw his vision/had his dream (depending on the version you favour) instructing him to adopt the chi-rho emblem.
Others have suggested, more prosaically, that the arch marked the boundary of the jurisdiction of the urban magistrates under the tetrarchy...
Anyway - over to you, Jona!
Quiz - D B Campbell - 11-05-2012
Quote:MALBORGHETTO!!!Hallelujah! I could see that it's a tetrapylon, but I've never even heard of Malborghetto. :dizzy: Well done, Jona.
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 11-05-2012
I now remember, I used to be often in that part of Rome; there's a camping site at Due Ponti. My girlfriend and I once walked from Malborghetto to the Milvian Bridge and beyond, and I told her everything I knew about the Roman emperors. Those were the days.
The new question will not be too difficult.
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Quiz - Vindex - 11-05-2012
Quote: ... but I've never even heard of Malborghetto. :dizzy: Well done, Jona.
Makes me feel better then... :wink:
Quiz - Jona Lendering - 11-06-2012
Hey, I thought this one was pretty simple. So let me add that it's in a city north of the Alps.
Quiz - D B Campbell - 11-06-2012
Quote:Hey, I thought this one was pretty simple.Looks a bit like Autun (Augustodunum)?