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 ...
I wholeheartedly agree.
LOL, post of the day
One I read about was in Pompeii, outside the house of a local politician.
“HOC EGO CACAVI.” (Here I s*it.)
“ERRARE CDIV”
http://www.google.com/search?q=roman+empire+graffiti
e.g., “Apollinaris, medicus Titi Imperatoris hic cacavit bene.” “Apollinaris, doctor to the emperor Titus, had a good crap here.”
What Does First-century Roman Graffiti Say?:
:^)
Any emperor who names a salad after himself deserves to be stabbed
Et tu, Brute?.....................
Caesar Cardini
Legend has it that Italian-American restaurateur Caesar Cardini invented the salad in 1924 in Tijuana, Mexico.
FYI, I buy the salad dressing with his name on it.
My fav
Thanks, SunkenCiv.
My pleasure.
Latin prophecies.
“Beware Corona in year MMXX”
yes, I remember that. Sometimes it’s better to be hysterical than historical. Good Day! Butcher.
But there’s a TP shortage
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could this be their last gasp to get him, before the dominoes start falling?
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