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The graffiti left by the Romans working on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland
ChronicleLive ^ | March 2020 | unattributed

Posted on 03/08/2020 9:50:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Dangling from an abseil rope 30ft up a river gorge rock face, archaeologist Jon Allison certainly felt close to the Romans who had worked on that same spot 1,800 years ago.

They left their mark in the shape of graffiti composed of inscriptions and carved faces, and studying the messages produced the sensation of the quarry work gang communicating across the centuries.

The carvings reveal that soldiers of the Second and 20th legions were detailed to operate in the quarry as part of the major repairing and re-building of Hadrian's Wall.

And as a serving soldier himself for 22 years, Jon imagined how the Roman troopers would have felt about being assigned to a task which was both hard graft and risky...

Jon, a former Army rock climbing instructor, took photographs of the inscriptions, which were used to create a 3D record of the writings near Gelt Wood, 5.5km south of the Wall near Brampton.

"...the inscriptions had not been inspected in detail since the early 1980s, when the path that led to them dropped into the river below.

(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclelive.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; graffiti; hadrianswall; romanempire; romans; vindolanda
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To: lee martell

:^) I’ve got Robin WIlliamson’s “Scotland Yet” streaming right this sec. :^)


21 posted on 03/08/2020 11:28:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: faithhopecharity

:^)

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22 posted on 03/08/2020 11:30:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

SAVE & READ


23 posted on 03/09/2020 1:22:26 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer (The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
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To: Nachoman
I'll second that lol
24 posted on 03/09/2020 1:36:10 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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For a good time call DVII-DXXXIII-MMXXVII


25 posted on 03/09/2020 1:49:55 AM PDT by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: SunkenCiv
“ Nihil expectore in omnibus “

And “Call Jenny Cenna at VIII VI VII V III O IX”

26 posted on 03/09/2020 2:03:57 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: SunkenCiv
Thank u 😊
27 posted on 03/09/2020 2:14:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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To: oldvirginian

Thanks.


28 posted on 03/09/2020 2:14:27 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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To: SunkenCiv

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29 posted on 03/09/2020 2:20:01 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: SunkenCiv

Can you feel the bern


30 posted on 03/09/2020 2:30:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

CENTURION: What’s this, then? ‘Romanes Eunt Domus’? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?

BRIAN: It— it says, ‘Romans, go home’.

CENTURION: No, it doesn’t. What’s Latin for ‘Roman’? Come on!

BRIAN: Aah!

CENTURION: Come on!

BRIAN: ‘R— Romanus’?

CENTURION: Goes like...?

BRIAN: ‘Annus’?

CENTURION: Vocative plural of ‘annus’ is...?

BRIAN: Eh. ‘Anni’?

CENTURION: ‘Romani’. ‘Eunt’? What is ‘eunt’?

BRIAN: ‘Go’. Let—

CENTURION: Conjugate the verb ‘to go’.

BRIAN: Uh. ‘Ire’. Uh, ‘eo’. ‘Is’. ‘It’. ‘Imus’. ‘Itis’. ‘Eunt’.

CENTURION: So ‘eunt’ is...?

BRIAN: Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, ‘they go’.

CENTURION: But ‘Romans, go home’ is an order, so you must use the...?

BRIAN: The... imperative!

CENTURION: Which is...?

BRIAN: Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, ‘i’. ‘I’!

CENTURION: How many Romans?

BRIAN: Ah! ‘I’— Plural. Plural. ‘Ite’. ‘Ite’.

CENTURION: ‘Ite’.

BRIAN: Ah. Eh.

CENTURION: ‘Domus’?

BRIAN: Eh.

CENTURION: Nominative?

BRIAN: Oh.

CENTURION: ‘Go home’? This is motion towards. Isn’t it, boy?

BRIAN: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the... accusative! Accusative! Ah! ‘Domum’, sir! ‘Ad domum’! Ah! Oooh! Ah!

CENTURION: Except that ‘domus’ takes the...?

BRIAN: The locative, sir!

CENTURION: Which is...?!

BRIAN: ‘Domum’.

CENTURION: ‘Domum’.

BRIAN: Aaah! Ah.

CENTURION: ‘Um’. Understand?

BRIAN: Yes, sir.

CENTURION: Now, write it out a hundred times.

BRIAN: Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.

CENTURION: Hail Caesar. If it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off.

BRIAN: Oh, thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar and everything, sir! Oh. Mmm!

Finished!

ROMAN SOLDIER STIG: Right. Now don’t do it again.


31 posted on 03/09/2020 3:16:22 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: pricilla

LOL!!!!!!


32 posted on 03/09/2020 3:58:22 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Couldn't they be more modern than one might first surmises?

What real indication is there to believe they were made by the workers who built the walls?

33 posted on 03/09/2020 4:14:49 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: FirstFlaBn

LOL!


34 posted on 03/09/2020 4:42:12 AM PDT by golux
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To: Lockbox

35 posted on 03/09/2020 4:46:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bush Fecit IX/XI


36 posted on 03/09/2020 5:01:14 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: SunkenCiv

“Trumpatus’s Fault”


37 posted on 03/09/2020 5:26:32 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: SunkenCiv

Claudius was here!


38 posted on 03/09/2020 5:34:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: SunkenCiv

Aedificare murum


39 posted on 03/09/2020 6:16:59 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: SunkenCiv

Romulus is my Centurion, only 4380 days and a wake up.

Short Timer


40 posted on 03/09/2020 6:19:33 AM PDT by centurion316 (.)
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