Epanokalimafho: Ceremonial head cover, with the main cloth reaching to about the waist, and with two strips hanging on each side. These symbolize an angel’s wings. Katounakia: One of the places that make up the “desert of Athos,” 1000 feet above sea level, where the narrative takes...
Holy Land. Roman period, 1st - 3rd Century AD. Large terracotta plaque with a facing bull's head. Depicted filleted, with the noseband from the harness visible. Nicely detailed with suspension hole at top. 2 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in (6 x 5.4 cm). Light deposits. Ex David Liebert, Ti...
Earlier the Roman emperor Hadrian erected a large platform of earth over the whole area for the construction of a temple to Venus. Jerome adds to Eusebius’s statement that a statue of Jupiter was on the site for 180 years (AD 140–320). When Constantine converted the empire to Christianity...
It is Owned by the National Trust, the house is financed and administered by Staffordshire County Council.In 1624, 8 acres of land together with a Manor House were purchased at the time by William Anson, a local lawyer, for the princely sum of £1000.The story of Shugborough really begi...
By some additional miracle, that alleged Temple compound, the Haram esh-Sharif on which now stands the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, fits the standard design and size of the Roman forts scattered throughout the empire, and built after the pattern of the Praet...