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Re: Quiz - Nathan Ross - 08-11-2012
Quote:So it was one of your holiday snaps, Nathan? Mine was too.Of course! What else are holidays for?
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-11-2012
Quote:Iskenderun?That's the correct shore of the Mediterranean: the eastern shore. In other words, this is somewhere between Issus and Gaza.
Quote:It's Tripoli beach, isn't it, Jona? I presumed you meant the military action of 1943, but you have said "from antiquity". Now you have foxed me. :?No, this is how a very famous ancient site looks today.
And if these clues weren't enough, I might as well say the name.
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-11-2012
Quote:No, this is how a very famous ancient site looks today.Doh!
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Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-11-2012
Quote:Yes, indeed, this is how Alexander's causeway at Tyre looks today. Over to you Duncan.Jona Lendering post=318187 Wrote:No, this is how a very famous ancient site looks today.Doh!
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Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-12-2012
Quote:Over to you Duncan.In the spirit of identifying things from unfamiliar views -- e.g. pars pro toto --, can you tell what famous monument this sculptural panel belongs to?
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Re: Quiz - Medicus matt - 08-12-2012
Quote:I have no idea! I was reminded of the entrance to the hippodrome of Lepcis Magna, but that was square. What is it?
It's one of the two large ceramic kilns in Gargaresh.
Re: Quiz - Ildar - 08-12-2012
Quote:can you tell what famous monument this sculptural panel belongs to?
Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome. One of the two battering rams.
Re: Quiz - Nathan Ross - 08-12-2012
Quote:can you tell what famous monument this sculptural panel belongs to?Arch of Septimius Severus?
(ah! Ildar beat me! :-) )
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-12-2012
Quote:Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome. One of the two battering rams.Ah, Ildar -- you know me too well! :wink: Now it's your turn to fox us with a Russian example!!
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-12-2012
Quote:one of the two large ceramic kilns in Gargaresh.Nice, thanks!!
Re: Quiz - Alanus - 08-12-2012
Jona,
Did by chance, Alexander walk that beach... not far from Biblos? ;-)
Re: Quiz - Ildar - 08-12-2012
Quote:Now it's your turn to fox us with a Russian example!!
A Russian? I am afraid that would take too long for you to guess.
Perhaps, something easier? Ok, not Russian, but ex-USSR.This building once contained a vеry famous graffiti. Name the ancient Greek city in which this building was located. A hint: the graffiti mentions a name of a goddess.
P.S. This is not Scythian Neapolis, Duncan.
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Re: Quiz - Manius Acilius Italicus - 08-12-2012
Was the city Helis and the goddess Helia?
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-12-2012
Quote:Name the ancient Greek city in which this building was located.Nymphaion (Kerch peninsula)? (Just a guess, really. :-? )
Re: Quiz - Nathan Ross - 08-12-2012
Quote:I was about to guess the same (the ships painting with the graffiti to Aphrodite?)Ildar post=318253 Wrote:Name the ancient Greek city in which this building was located.Nymphaion (Kerch peninsula)? (Just a guess, really. :-? )
So instead I'll guess Chersonesos...