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Re: Quiz - Robert Vermaat - 08-21-2012
Quote:Anyway - once more over to Jona...C'mon Jona, delve into that vast archive of yours - don't keep us waiting!!mile:
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-22-2012
I think Duncan was the first to realize it. But here's a new one, and I hope Duncan can win it. Caracalla has been building something. Partly illegible, fortunately, because otherwise you would be able to read the place name.
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Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-22-2012
Quote:... I hope Duncan can win it.No pressure, then.
hock: Quote:Caracalla has been building something.I suppose the short answer must be "a road", although -- being unfamiliar with the locale -- I do not know whether, in building it, Caracalla could really be said to have "threatened the mountains" (montibus inminentibus) and "vanquished the River Lycus" (caesis fluminis Lyco) ... if I have read it correctly. (It is late, and it wouldn't be the first time that a glass of wine has interfered with my Latin translation skills. :wink: )
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-22-2012
The reading is correct, so that narrows it to: where is the river?
Re: Quiz - Nathan Ross - 08-22-2012
Quote:it wouldn't be the first time that a glass of wine has interfered with my Latin translation skills.It doesn't seem to have interfered with your ability to read extremely small and blurred text though. I doubt I could have deciphered that if it'd been written in plain English!
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-22-2012
Quote:where is the river?The inscription calls it flumen Lycus, the River Lycus ("wolf river"). Dessau (ILS 5865) places it prope Berytum, Byblum versus, ad ostia fluvii Nahr-el-Kelb, in rupe ad viam, "near Beirut, opposite Byblus, at the mouth of the River Nahr-el-Kelb, on the cliff by the road". I shall have to take his word for it!
Quote:It doesn't seem to have interfered with your ability to read extremely small and blurred textSometimes wine helps with small and blurred text! :wink:
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-22-2012
Yep. Duncan is right. The Nahr al-Kalb has some twenty inscription of armies passing along. You can see them here.
Over to you Duncan.
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-23-2012
Quote:Over to you Duncan.How well do you know your famous ancient sculptures? Here's a detail. Who is it?
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Re: Quiz - Thersites - 08-23-2012
Talking about Caracalla and Commodus...
Now the second one posing as Hercules
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-23-2012
You seem to be right Fernando.
If you look at a detail like that, you can see how exquisite it is.
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-23-2012
Quote:Commodus ... posing as HerculesThat was fast, Fernando. I thought you might need a second detail of his curly beard! Now ... what tricky Iberian photo do you have for us? :wink:
Re: Quiz - Thersites - 08-23-2012
An easy one, I believe, when you identify the iconography... but fact is I -almost- found it!
BTW, Close to lifesize
Re: Quiz - Jona Lendering - 08-24-2012
It looks like the god Hypnos or Morpheus, but where it's been excavated? I don't know.
Re: Quiz - Thersites - 08-24-2012
Indeed it's Hypnos. Very few have been found in bronze that are almost life-size. This one is almost complete and comes from Hispania. I dug part of that site some decades ago, I left because of other commitments at University... and the sculpture was found in a rescue excavation the following year... pity!
Re: Quiz - D B Campbell - 08-24-2012
Quote:An easy one, I believe, ...Er, no!
Quote:It looks like the god Hypnos ...Well done, Jona -- I would never have guessed that. :oops: