[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. Sounds like the alleged scientists involved are just getting started and wanna grab some headlines and some grants. All over the ancient world, fine ceramics typically were made locally, because they had a poor markup for their weight (ships were not as large as today's, although some were a lot bigger than we might think) and a lot of breakage in transport. Amphorae were roughly made jars used to ship olive oil, wine, and a variety of other things, but were not a cargo in and of themselves. Among other things found at Pompeii is an ivory figurine of a god, from India (all, see the "Tamil Trade" topic under the GGG keyword). One of the farms buried by the same eruption made liquamen for export as well as the local market. Garum (what we would call a name brand of liquamen; the name is analogous to "Kleenex" or "Xerox" or "Frigidaire") containers from Italy have been found all over the empire. If someone did a dig in my house (and believe me, it ain't that farfetched) they'd find many things made perhaps just a few dozen miles from here, as well as from around the country, or around the world, and the only foreign country I've ever visited is Canada.

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[Carry_Okie]

I do a variety of archaeology at my house. There's an old garbage pile at the bottom of a drainage that silted up over the years. I deflect winter runoff through it in various ways to expose the stuff. It's mostly bottles from the '40s so far, but the place has been occupied for about 100 years, so I'm hoping for more interesting stuff as the pile wears down.

[SunkenCiv]

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Hershel Shanks, the editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, has recently published findings indicating that Jews living in the Roman Empire in 79 AD when the southwestern Italian city of Pompeii was destroyed by a massive eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano, believed that it was Divine retribution for the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Roman general Titus nine years earlier. Citing archeological evidence in a paper entitled "The Destruction of Pompeii -- God's revenge?" in the July/August edition of the magazine, Shanks told the Jerusalem Post that Book 4 of the Sibylline Oracles, an ancient mystical text, includes a passage which says in part; "When a firebrand, turned away from a cleft in the earth [Vesuvius] In the land of Italy, reaches to broad heaven It will burn many cities and destroy men. Much smoking ashes will fill the great sky And showers will fall from heaven like red earth. Know then the wrath of the heavenly God." He also points to ancient graffiti scrawled on the walls near Pompeii which includes references to "Sodom and Gomorra." The eruption of Vesuvius "attacked the core of Roman society," Shanks concluded. "There's very good reason to conclude there was a perceived connection and in the eyes of some, God was clearly at work."

Jews saw Pompeii as retribution for destruction of the Temple

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YouTube: Evidence of Christianity in First Century Pompeii

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In 1939, Italian archeologist Prof Maiuri, discovered an artifact in the ruins of ancient Pompeii, that had a very Indian origin. This ivory statuette which survived the disaster and lasted all these 2000 years was identified by Prof Maiuri as that of the Goddess Lakshmi and dated to around 1AD. It has since then been quoted as the ‘Goddess Lakshmi statue in Pompeii' in many books & articles... in terms of iconography and technique, the closest comparisons can be made with ivory figurines recovered from the central and northwestern parts of the sub-continent and datable to the 1st century A.D. Two of these examples were found at the sites of Bhokardan and Ter in central India and a third was excavated in Begram, Afghanistan along with a large cache of ivory, bone, glass, and metal objects. Although these four figurines are not perfect matches, their shared iconographic and compositional features suggest that they may have been produced in the same region (probably central India) before being distributed to other regions. This small, rare sculpture, found in a modest dwelling in Pompeii, represents nonetheless an important indication of a trade relations that existed already by the 1st century A.D. between the Roman Empire and India.

Goddess Lakshmi statue in Pompeii | The Mysterious India | 2015-03-19



Goddess Lakshmi statue in Pompeii | The Mysterious India | 2015-03-19

Roman gold coins excavated in Pudukottai India

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