A new slab of the Fasti Ostienses, an ancient Roman marble calendar (extant in fragmentary form) recording imperial news, magistrates and events related to the city of Ostia, the harbour city of ancient Rome, emerged during the second excavation campaign at the Forum of Porta Marina in Ostia Antica, as part of the Ostia Post…

Following Hadrian

13.10.2023

The only known copy of Hadrian’s lost autobiography in the Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures FOLLOWING HADRIAN

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago possesses a papyrus with the inventory number E8349, which contains the only surviving copy of Hadrian's lost autobiography. Written toward the close of his life, Hadrian's autobiography appears to have taken the form of a series of letters to Antoninus Pius. Its…

Following Hadrian

13.10.2023

Remembering the Sycamore Gap Tree FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Standing tall for nearly three hundred years, the lone Sycamore tree that grew within a dramatic dip in Hadrian's Wall was cut down in the early morning of 28 September 2023 in a mindless act of vandalism and violence. Having survived all sorts of storms and extremes of weather that often batter its remote setting,…

Following Hadrian

21.10.2023

Autumn AD 123 – Hadrian reaches Trapezus and sails westwards along the Pontic coast (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

After his inspection tour of the eastern frontier provinces (see here), Hadrian travelled through the Pontic mountains to the Black Sea port of Trapezus (present-day Trabzon), the northernmost end of the Cappadocian limes. Trapezus was one of the furthest points reached by Hadrian, and in the AD 130s, his friend L. Flavius Arrianus, as governor of…

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A new fragment of the Fasti Ostienses dated to AD 128 found at Ostia Antica FOLLOWING HADRIAN

The only known copy of Hadrian’s lost autobiography in the Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Remembering the Sycamore Gap Tree FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Autumn AD 123 – Hadrian reaches Trapezus and sails westwards along the Pontic coast (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

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