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February 1, 2011

‎2005 = 118

2006 = 113

2007 = 106

2008 = 86

2009 = 63

2010 = 57

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January 30, 2011

I'm looking for a good book on Roman Egypt that at least mentions the following:

*What happened at Luxor Temple and the West Bank.

*The Roman frontier (at Aswan?)

*Roman forts, including the foundation of Cairo (Babylon)

*Trade with India

Does such a book exist? If so, please can you suggest one?

January 26, 2011

In the last 30 years, have any places been newly identified to their Latin name in the Ravenna Cosmography or Antonine Itineraries perhaps by a newly discovered inscription, etc.?

January 24, 2011

Rochester is only slightly smaller than Caistor!

Here is roughly the site where they found the Roman bastion in 2008.

Photo of the NW Roman bastion.

This is how the Roman brickwork looks like from excavations.

Hmmm...?

Some info....

January 24, 2011

Thanks for sharing your interpretations!

Unfortunately, there is no book for Roman Rochester, but I can tell you what there is out there on the subject (not much besides a leaflet).

In 2008 archaeologists uncovered a Roman bastion in the northwest part of the city wall, and as far as I'm aware that was the last excavation and it was meant to appear in the following year's Archaeoligia Cantiana, but so far no mention of it has appeared anywhere:

2008 Britannia

2008 Archaeoligia Cantiana

2009 Britannia

2009 Archaeoligia Cantiana

2010 Britannia

2010 Archaeoligia Cantiana

The web

Nothing!

During the same year they also found part of the wall near the castle keep, and this has been reported in an issue of Fortified England (available online in PDF albeit very brief with no photos). There was also a BBC news article, but the 2-3 pics were very tiny.

January 23, 2011

For me one of the biggest mysteries of Roman Britain is whether Rochester was a major Roman town or simply a village/small-town? What is so significant is that after the armies had been withdrawn from Britain at the end of the Roman occupation, Rochester immediately became one of the most important early Saxon centres in the whole of Britain, for Kent was converted to Christianity in 597, Rochester Cathedral built in 601 and the Diocese of Rochester founded in 604 with minster churches and parishes across half of Kent under its jurisdiction!

What was Rochester like during the Roman period and was the fact it become so important during the early Saxon period based on it's Roman foundation? I like to think so, and that it would have had a Forum-Basilica at it's center, but lack of archaeological investigations means it's not yet possible to know one way or another.

Identifying the Roman remains at Rochester has always puzzled me...

Directly behind where I am standing in the above photo is the River Medway that once apparently came right up close to the town defences before the esplanade was laid out. Old ground level is about halfway up the walls where the shrubs are sticking out, and the visible Roman remains are meant to be where the bricks are sandwiched between later Medieval brickwork above and underpinning below. However, I think more than those 3 layers are claimed to be Roman?

This section in the northwest is also claimed to be Roman, but is it!?

This section is also claimed to be Roman, but I have no idea...

Even the above section is claimed to be mixed Roman/Medieval.

This does not appear to be accurate at all.

January 19, 2011

The obvious ones are from the late 3rd century split of Britain into four provinces:

Flavia Caesariensis

Britannia Secunda

Maxima Caesariensis

Britannia Prima

Plus the rarely mentioned:

Velantia added beyond Hadrian's Wall from the second half of the fourth century

http://www.roman-britain.org/history/province.htm

Those are all after Diocletian.

January 19, 2011

Do you have the UNRV wall map. There are a number of unlisted provinces on there. Africa Tripolitana for one, though there appears not be be a main entry on Wikipedia, either.

Is that not the same as this one; no?

146 BC

January 19, 2011

That example inscription is very moving, and I am touched by it, but to me (and probably most scholars) the most important ones are those that identify the status of towns within various provinces of the Roman Empire, i.e. vici, civitates, municipia and colonia; translations of those is what I'm mainly seeking, but of course, anything translated that makes sense and is informative is worth me reading. Thanks.

January 19, 2011

gray : civitates dissolved before the Notitia Galliarum

black : civitates dissolved after the Notitia Galliarum

---- : civitates with change of capital before the Notitia Galliarum

- - - : civitates with change of capital after the Notitia Galliarum

Note that this map only shows late empire situation in the area and is based upon the work of Beaujard and Pr

January 19, 2011

Here's a guide on how to use CIL and ILS efficiently.

Many thanks for everyone's informative responses! I guess most of the important inscriptions must be translated, so I guess I would like to know if there are translated volumes available anywhere online or in book form?

January 17, 2011

I'm convinced Wiki's list of Roman Provinces is incomplete and would like help on expanding it:

241 BC

January 17, 2011

It's extremely frustrating not knowing which Roman towns held the elevated status of Municipium/Coloniae within provinces of the Roman Empire, such as Gaul, which are hinted at in certain publications without ever presenting a full set of data.

Considering Britannia is most familiar to me out of all the provinces and the most researched, I was reading up on how scholars have constructed their town maps of Roman Britain, which seems to be based on painful research into the Iron Age tribes, for the Romans founded a civitas capital in the heart of former tribal areas, and these were sometimes promoted to Municipia/Colonia (or some Colonia were newly founded in areas encroaching on civitates).

Using Britannia as an example, the single best source for identifying the Municipia/Colonia is from epigraphic evidence; inscriptions identifying important towns in Britain were found in places other than Britain: Rome (x 2), Mainz, and south of France.

http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/townsevidence.htm

Is there any good publications for important Roman inscriptions found throughout the world? Obviously, books like the Roman Insciptions of Britain or Roman Britain: A Sourcebook only feature inscriptions that were found locally and not necessarily ones that were important to Britannia, i.e. none of the 4 inscriptions above are featured in those publications as they were found overseas. Therefore, what would be nice would be a general database with inscriptions from all over.

January 17, 2011

Is anyone able to interpret this map? What is significance of the shaded areas? What are the dotted lines? Does it indicate any Municipia or Colonia? (click for larger image)

Source: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/galia_0016-4119_2006_num_63_1_3280#

January 11, 2011

Iron Age 'style' farmhouses continued throughout most of the Romano-British period and in some cases are found almost side-by-side with forts used for similarly extensive periods.

I only know about a couple that were at Vindolanda. Chysauster was an entire settlement (same with Carn Euny). These villages would look very out of place in a Roman Civitas (post 2nd Century) IMO.

January 11, 2011

Thanks for your reply. To me, 3 forts means the Romans must have been fighting the natives, but I don't actually know what the historical sources say about this region.

Yep--the pic is from Chycauster.

That part of the Peutinger Table would appear to be a fake reconstruction from the end of the 19th century and not from the original (lost) sheet.

If SW England was properly conquered and assimilated then no way would a settlement in the style of Chycauster have remained standing during the later Roman period (that's my theory). I believe the tribes in this region must have remained independent of Roman rule.

January 10, 2011

I don't have the time to carry out the necessary research - especially as I suspect you do not wish to wait another three years for an answer however have you considered the wealth of possibly related detail in the Tabula Peutingeriana?

I do wonder if the towns indicated by more complex designs on the various leaves of the map may provide a visual clue as to how large or at least how important the ancient cartographers considered them to be even if their possible use as an indication of 'status' may be more problematical.

I've been searching online for that map, but hadn't found the complete set of sheets; many thanks!

January 10, 2011

Besides a milestones, a fort, and single Roman villa that the Roman Britain website presents in their layered maps, hardly anything substantially Roman is to be found in the southwest of England beyond Exeter. In fact, I visited 2 Romano-British settlements in Cornwall called Chycauster and Carn Euny as recommended by my books on Romano-British sites with visible remains, and to my horror, they were actually Iron-Age/Celtic style!

1) Has anyone seen an archaeological report of the Roman villa in Cornwall? I've searched the 'net for a plan or pic without success.

2) Has much Roman pottery and coins been found in southwest England?

3) Is there any proof that the Romans actually properly annexed Cornwall and not just the Exeter part of the former tribal area? Did it even have Client king status?

4) Besides Wales and Scotland, were the Romans constantly faced with revolts from the SW of England?

5) Could the fact that 3 unlocated settlements named in Ptolemy's geography as several in Scotland mean that they were actually native non-Roman settlements?

6) Has any Roman roads been discovered past Exeter?

January 9, 2011

Here's the best I can do... (anyone like to have a go at finishing Italy?)

BRITANNIA

Londinium/Augusta

Noviomagus

Vagniacis

Durobrivae (probably a town but unconfirmed)

Durolevum

Durovernum

Portus Dubris

GALLIA BELGICA

Gesoriacum/Bononia (supposedly a town based on what evidence?)

Tarvenna

Nemetacum/Arras

Augusta Viromanduorum/St. Quentin

Chatillon-sur-Oise

Mesbrecourt-Richecourt

Durocortorum/Civitas Remorum

Durocatalaunum

Corobilium?

GALLIA LUGDUNENSIS

Brienne-la-Veille

GERMANY SUPERIOR

Segessera

Andemantunnum

Segobodium

Vesontio

Arlorica

Irba

Lousonna

Vivisco/Viviscus (unconfirmed and possibly in the next province)

ALPES POENINAE

Penne Locos

Tarnaias?

Acammum

Octodurus/Forum Claudii Vallensium

ITALY (STARTING AT CISALPINE GAUL)

Augusta Pretoria

Vitricium

Eporedia

Vercellae

Cuttiae

Laumellum

Durriae

Ticinum

Lambrum

Ad Rota(s)

Ad Padum

Placentia

Florenti(ol)a

Fidentia

Ad Tarum

Parma

Regium Lepidum

Pons Seciae

Mutina

Voctoriolae

Forum Gallorum (off road slightly)

Ad Medias

Felsina/Bononia

Ad Idicem

Claterna

Ad Silarum

Forum Cornelii

Ad Sinnium

Faventia

Forum Livii

Forum Popilii

Caesena

Compitum ad Confluentes

Ariminum

Pisaurum

Fanum Fortunae

Ad Octavum

Forum Sempronii

Intercisa/Petra Pertusa

Cales

Ad Aesim

Helvillum

Tadinae

Nuceria

Forum Flaminii

Fulginiae

Mevania

Carsulae

Nequinum/Narnia

Ocriculum

Aqua Viva

Rostrata Villa

Ad Vicesismum

Ad Gallinas Albas

Pons Mulvius

Roma

January 8, 2011

I believe the information is available, but that French/German historians only provide/publish a sample of their data. For example, when I see maps inside books, no effort is ever made to comprehensively present what is known about towns. What Civitas/tribal area in Belgium is patchy or what specific town problems have you encountered with that small region due to lack of sources?

I am going to study some primary sources and see if I am able to come up with the 21 towns of Roman Britain without any help from secondary sources. If I can do it then, in theory, I should be able to apply that to any other Western province of the Roman Empire. In fact, I think the sources should be better for Gaul, Germany and especially Italy; for Britain, most of the Peutinger table is lost, yet all that is known about towns (and small-towns) is published and readily accessible: we have about 4-5 books specifically about "Towns Of Roman Britain" as well as 2-3 on the Small-towns. What's more, most general books on Roman Britain will show the 21 towns and state the ones that were Colonia and the one Municipium we know about and speculate about London; this is skeleton framework that every general book about Roman Britain worth it's salt is based on. Why don't the French or German historians attempt the same thing for their countries? All their efforts seem to have been put into the Limes.

January 8, 2011

Yep! The information should be readily available, and I just don't understand why it's not...

I was recommended one book by the author of Romans, Celts and Germans that isn't at Senate House, and I had to go to the British Library to view it, but it only lists towns and small-towns that were known up until 1994 and fails to mention status/type:

January 8, 2011

Well, I am a member of that Society based at Senate House, and I have looked through every one of their French and German books as well as the Galia journal, but haven't come across a single comprehensive map of any Gallic, Germanic, Spanish or North African province. You could even read a book like this and still have no clue as to what Roman towns were in Italy besides the obvious such as Rome, Pompeii and a few others they chose to write about...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cities-Roman-Italy-Classical-World/dp/1853997285

However, there are scores of books about Roman Britain that will provide town information at a simple glance.

Coloniae

Colchester (Camulodunum)

Gloucester (Glevem)

Lincoln (Lindum)

York (Eboracum)

Municipia

St Albans (Verulamium)

Civitates

Aldborough (Isurium Brigantium)

Brough (Petuaria)

Caerwent (Venta Silurum)

Caistor-by-Norwich (Venta Icenorum)

Canterbury (Durovernum Cantiacorum)

Carmarthen (Moridunum Demetarum)

Chelmsford (Trinovantum)

Chichester (Noviomagus Reginorum)

Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum)

Dorchester (Durnovaria)

Exeter (Isca Dumniorum)

Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum)

Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum)

Winchester (Venta Belgarum)

Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum)

Unknown Status

London (Londinium)

However, try and find out any Municipia of Gaul and Germany. After 3 years of research, I've only managed to find out 1 and 4 respectively, but certain authors/historians have hinted they know of many more, yet they don't bother mentioning or mapping them. Ok, here's another challenge... at least 10 Roman circuses are known in Gaul; simply list 5 of them!

January 8, 2011

I think that's the quickest route, but it doesn't really matter what route you take: besides listing random Roman settlements, actually identifying the important settlements, i.e. known Roman Towns--outside of Britannia--seems virtually impossible without going through hundreds of archaeological reports published in many different languages as well as consulting primary historical sources. This is only goes to show how exceptional Roman scholarship/publication is in Britain and how lousy Roman historians are in other European countries!

January 8, 2011

Maybe you should invest in the official UNRV Roman Empire map!!http://www.unrv.com/roman-map-for-sale.php

This should help you out!

Unfortunately, the UNRV map can't help with this challenge anymore than the Barrington Atlas can!

January 8, 2011

Here's the route to get you started:

Londinium/Augusta