Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
Back at work after two weeks illness, and I find myself suffering from the tiredness that goes with being less than fully fit after illness. But I’m still busy with this and that. I’ve been reading a little red hardback Loeb edition of Horace, and enjoying it more than I thought that I might. I’ve […]
From time to time I find myself in uncharted waters. The waters are always German, one finds; and the shouts that drift over the waters tend to things like “Hande hoch!” and “Internet Schwein!” and “Give us your money now, pig-dog”. These melancholy reflections were brought on by my discovery that the artefacts of the […]
Antiochus of Commagene built a strange, syncretistic temple on the hill at Nemrud Dag, in which he depicted various Greek and Persian gods as identical. Since one of the latter was Mithra, the monument appears in Vermaseren’s corpus of Mithraic monuments, under the impression that Persian Mithra is the same as Roman Mithras (which it […]
The Mithraeum at Sidon is lost. Indeed it was never discovered. Our knowledge of it rests on two things; a small collection of exquisite statuettes in Parian marble, now in the Louvre; and a letter by their finder, a certain Edmond Durighello. Durighello’s letter was published in the obscure journal, le Bosphorus egyptien. A year […]
I’m still working on the Roman cult of Mithras site. The what’s new page indicates roughly what I’ve been doing. The list of artefacts – monuments and inscriptions -(with photographs) is growing ever longer. The various scripts that I use to manage the site are getting more stable, and adding extra tweaks is getting easier too. The […]
I have just stumbled upon a couple of very nice photographs of some very, very nice sculptures in the Louvre. Here’s one: The image is on Picasa, here. Blessedly the photographer, Julianna Lees, has also photographed the notice boards that went with the images, and written a note: Louvre, New Galleries, The Roman Empire in […]
I found a picture of Mithras killing the bull online today. There’s loads of photos on the web, of various monuments, all slightly different. Identifying them is fun! Anyway, using the lettering “Alexander”, that I could see on the photo, I did a search in the PDF’s I have of Vermaseren’s CIMRM– collection of all […]
Just busy working on the Roman cult of Mithras pages. Adding comments using Discus is easy. Adding “like” buttons for Facebook or Google+, etc, is much harder than you might think! I spent a little time today on Picasa, the online photo sharing site. I searched for “Mithras” and added a comment with the CIMRM […]