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The Wash-Solent Limes

John — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:22:47 +0000

The naming of the Saxon Shore with its associated fortifications is an example of how archaeology is ignored when it does not fit the historical framework. My first 'own' dig was in one of these forts during the autumn of 1968, when I was a mere lad and chosen for that very reason so [...]

Resurrection in the second century

John — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:43:30 +0000

In describing how statues were made and used in the first centuries of this era, we have been using terms such as resurrection, Greek magic and ritual, and related them to the Antinous cult of Hadrian and the concept of the messiah.

Pygmalion and Galatea, oil on canvas by François Boucher [...]

Lifting the Vaults of Heavenly and Earthly Peace

Lancelotto — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:19:09 +0000

Lifting the Vaults of Heavenly and Earthly Peace

The Zodiac of Dendera, Ptolemaic Period, reign of Cleopatra VII, 50 BCE. Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Bas-relief, sandstone (Louvre, France)

This sandstone slab comes from the domain dedicated to the goddesses Hathor and Isis at Dendera. It was part of the [...]

Aulus Pudens in the Chichester inscription

John — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:41:20 +0000

Aerial view looking north-west across Fishbourne palace. Near Chichester in the south of Britain, it is approximately equivalent in size to Nero's Golden House in Rome. The palace outlasted the original British owner and was extensively re-planned early in the 2nd century.

The correct identification of Aulus Pudens is important. [...]

Mauretanian glassmakers in Roman Britain

John — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:00:07 +0000

There was no word in Latin for glass at the beginning of the first century of this era 1, though glassware had been made and admired in the panhellenic world for a very long time.

Right: Glass found at Begram, Afghanistan, then part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom we at HHI describe as [...]

The Gospels According to Hadrian, Part III: The Aelian Canon and the Main Hand of God

Lancelotto — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:39:47 +0000

The Gospels According to Hadrian, Part III: The Aelian Canon and the Main Hand of God

Archaeologist photographed unearthing a statue of the Emperor Hadrian juxtaposed with an image of the crowning piece among several neo-Surealist paintings executed by Cadiz artist Manuel Caballero on the theme of Aelia Capitolina (2008). The painting [...]

Manimekalai: Dancer with Magic Bowl

ArputhaRani Sengupta — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:25:48 +0000

Manimekalai Dancer with Magic Bowl

Narrative in Tamil Epic (Second Century AD) Arputhrani Sengupta (Associate Professor, Dept. of History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India) [BIO]

ABSTRACT

The question for us today is, how we can produce reproductions of knowledge that will guarantee optimal knowledge and, as a [...]

The Gospels of Hadrian Part II: Death on the Nile

Lancelotto — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:46:49 +0000

The death of Antinous by drowning in the sacred waters of the Nile was pregnant with religious significance for a very large cross-section of the culture within which the event occurred. Too often modern and ancient historiography has treated the death of Antinous and the establishment of a cult around his persona [...]

The God-Idea of the Ancients Or Sex In Religion

John — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:27:43 +0000

In The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one), Lancelotto began:

As an intellectual product of the twentieth century, I am often haunted by the long shadows cast in the gloaming of the Victorian age prior to the outbreak of WWI and that era’s legacy of biblical scholarship. With all their perceived bias and assumptions, [...]

The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one)

Lancelotto — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:44:16 +0000