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September 10th, 2008
06:35 pm - Ooh, a reason to check out a book written in German. . .
 Apparently, there is a Roman military belt that is fitted with gold plates depicting the deeds of Hercules, found in a Germanic cemetery at Kemnitz. And I'm pretty sure there's a picture.
I think I can find it in the following source:
Geisler, H., 1973: Ein Adelsgrab auf dem germanischen Urnengräbergeld bei Kemnitz, Kr. Potsdam-Land, Zeitschrift für Archäologie 7, 279-298. So, of course, I've ordered it from the library.
I'm really curious to see how it looks, to find out how it was done. I certainly hope that there are pictures of this thing.
Yeah, these are the kind of things that excite me.
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Current Mood:  calm
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![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/58403119/1143777) | | From: |  chronarchy |
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| Date: | September 11th, 2008 10:05 pm (UTC) |
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No, but I'm starting the look now. Do you have any more information, or perhaps remember where you heard about it? ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/47445250/524604) | | | Re: Been meaning to ask. . . | (Link) |
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Seeing it at the museum was the first I'd heard of it, and I tried to take pretty thorough pictures, including the plaque with the description (I had the feeling you might want them). ;)
| | From: | chronarchy |
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| Date: | September 12th, 2008 01:41 am (UTC) |
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I certainly do. Can you e-mail them to me? dangler dot 8 (at) osu dot edu? ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/47444730/524604) | | | Re: Been meaning to ask. . . | (Link) |
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My home computer is in bits on the floor just this moment, but I'll try to get it together and send you pics before Monday. :) | | From: | chronarchy |
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| Date: | September 12th, 2008 08:31 pm (UTC) |
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I admit to excitement. Almost uncontainable excitement. I picked up a copy of Dijon's Musée Archéologique's Sculptures Gallo-Romaines Mythologiques et Religieuses today when I was stumbling through the OSU Fine Arts library today on an entirely unrelated research project. If you remember anything about it that might help me locate it (if it's in the book), I'd be grateful :) Maybe where it was found, or what collection it was in? | | | Re: Been meaning to ask. . . | (Link) |
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Gah, they did not have that book in the museum shop, so I just don't know.
Looking at the collections they have listed on the web site I don't see an obvious choice. It was in the last room on the Celtic floor, past the sections on the Sources of the Seine and the Goddess Sequana. It was surrounded by miscellaneous funerary stelae and the like (not from any particular site). Honestly, it felt rather out-of-place, like they didn't have anywhere else it really fit.
If more description might help narrow the options in your book, I'd say it was maybe 14' tall and 3' across, divided in two vertical block sections. Two sides had Roman gods - Jupiter for sure, and I believe Mercury. The other two had Gallo-Roman syncretized gods - Esus-Mars and Sucellus-Vulcan. | | | Re: Been meaning to ask. . . | (Link) |
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Computer now together, camera battery dead. . . will do ASAP. |
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