Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Mizzou

Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis,Asia Minor Met museum,ca. 300 B.C. The section of a fluted Ionic column in the center of this room stood over... fifty-eight feet high in its original location at the Temple of Artemis. The delicate foliate carving on the capital is unique among extant capitals from the temple, and the torus (foliated base), with its vegetal scale-like pattern, is also exceptionally elaborate. This capital is slightly smaller than others found at the site, indicating that it does not belong to the outer colonnade. Two similar pairs of columns (marked in red on the plan shown nearby) stood in the east and west porches. The column, displayed here with most of the shaft omitted, was probably originally from one or more of those pairs. Alternatively, it may be from the cella (inner room) or from the inner back porch. Parts of the fluted shaft are restored, and the profiled base below the torus is a copy of the original. See more

New books on ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric/oratory.

I just came across the Travel Book that my 2006 Summer Session Members made, and will share here some of its wonderful comments. I wish I could remember whose i...dea this was. [The book is 36 pages.] [It was Elizabeth Langridge-Noti's encouragement that led me me to post things from this book on this site.] See more

Marble statue of Septimius Severus in Antalya Archaeological Museum, found in Perge. Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Lepti...s Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the cursus honorum the customary succession of offices under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors. See more

This Saturnalia, impress your guests with a gingerbread Pantheon.

Provence préhistorique (51). Gobelet campaniforme à décor incisé et estampé, provenant de l'abri du Jardin du Capitaine, à Sainte-Croix du Verdon (Alpes-de-Haut...e-Provence). Néolithique final-Chalcolithique (vers 2.500 avant notre ère). Musée de Préhistoire des Gorges du Verdon, Quinson (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). "L'abri du Jardin du Capitaine, est situé à 2 km en aval de l'entrée des moyennes Gorges du Verdon et du barrage de Sainte-Croix. Le nom de cette vaste cavité provient d'un habitant du village, surnommé "le Capitaine", qui y vécut en ermite à la fin du XIXe siècle. Les fouilles y furent conduites, dans les années 1960, par les préhistoriens Jean Courtin et Charles Lagrand. Elles révélèrent des occupations du Néolithique ancien Cardial, des foyers du Néolithique moyen Chasséen, un niveau néolithique final-chalcolithique appartenant à la civilisation campaniforme et une vaste cabane de l'Âge du Bronze final."