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A Silver Statue and a Golden Mouth
A statue base with two inscriptions carved on opposite sides, one in Greek, one in Latin, stands in the courtyard[...]
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1 fragmentary epigraph, 1 anonymous relief fragment, and 2 gods
This is the story of a document and of many people. The document is a red stone in the vault of a small church in Sinsheim (Germany) that no one would look at really; to the expert eye of the epigraphist, however, even this apparently unimportant stone with a small cluster of scattered letters ("RIO / SION / L") is sufficient to raise intriguing questions and open up a window on the Ancient World.
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Herculanus, Auggustorum nostrorum verna
This is the story of Herculanus, an important imperial slave attested at Sarmizegetusa (the capital of Roman Dacia, today a[...]
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Where are the Dacians?
In 106, Trajan won the war against the Dacian king Decebalus and created the province of Dacia. The capital was[...]
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