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For today's #EpigraphyTuesday thread here's a Romano-British tombstone, that of Titus Valerius Pudens, ca. 1st Century AD, discovered on Monson Street in Lincoln in 1849.Image: British Museum (1853,1108.1) Text:T(itus) Valerius
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#LatinForTheDay - 15 February"‘Esse quid hoc dicam vivis quod fama negatur et sua quod rarus tempora lector amat?’hi sunt invidiae nimirum, Regule, mores, praeferat antiquos semper ut illa
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Ancient Coin of the Day: One of my favourites today - the fantastic aureus of Septimius Severus from AD 202-210, showing the Stadium of Domitian. #ACOTD #SeptimiusSeverusImage: RIC IV Septimius
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Ancient Coin of the Day: A brass dupondius of Claudius, ca. AD 41-50, commemorating the deification of Livia, the wife of Augustus and grandmother of Claudius. #ACOTD #Livia Image: RIC
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For the #ReliefWednesday thread - Female Gladiator ReliefA marble relief from Halicarnassus showing two female gladiators, ca. 1st-2nd Century AD, perhaps representing the tied outcome of a bout. #Gladiator Image:
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Ancient Coin of the Day: As it's First Constitutional Settlement day, it would be rude if today's coin weren't Augustan, so let's kick off with a denarius of 19-18 BC
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Ancient Coin of the Day: As I've been reading again about him recently, here's an utterly gorgeous cistophoric tetradrachm of Mark Antony from 39 BC, struck at Ephesus. #ACOTD #Antony
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Oh, sod it... I can't stay non-ancient all day, so for an #EpigraphyTuesday thread here's a very quick little offering.So here's a bronze Etruscan helmet that was dedicated in the
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Ancient Coin of the Day: Realistically today, there could only be one topic - as a birthday present for Nero, let's look at how a young princeps can age rapidly
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Ancient Coin of the Day: A quick thread today, as I'm still sleepy! But an opportunity to look at some beautiful coins from Magna Graecia, starting with this silver stater
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Ancient Coin of the Day: Just got Hercules on my mind today, so the thread is going to look at the connection which Commodus forged with Hercules, starting with this
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For #EpigraphyTuesday today, we're going to offer up a quick thread on this distance slab of the Twentieth Legion from Hutcheson Hill near Strathclyde. Image: Cast of RIB 2198; Hunterian
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