RomanArmyTalk

More here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/...-construc/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36311156
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/16/...round.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/05/....html?_r=0
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/42211
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4462-160...n-barracks
...I will need time to fully digest that (which I dont have right now) --especially to assess the exact whereabouts of that site on the map.

Greez

Simplex

(05-19-2016, 07:05 PM)Simplex Wrote: [ -> ]the exact whereabouts of that site on the map.

Seems the site lies beneath what will be Amba Aradam Station, shown here on Google - the location looks about right, just outside the line of Aurelian's Wall.

I wonder why this has been so quickly identified as a 'military' site. The Lateran barracks of the Equites Singulares is nearby, but the closest remains (as far as I know) are the large residential district excavated less than 200 metres away, beneath the INPS building on Via dell'Amba Aradam itself - several large aristocratic domus dated between the 2nd and 4th centures.

The mosaics may indicate 'officers' quarters', but it seems to me that without additional evidence this could just as well be the offices of some civilian body or other, or part of a large private house. But that wouldn't be as dramatic, of course!

And the Guardian has this: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016...s-barracks

How do they know it's Hadrianic?  

(05-21-2016, 03:58 PM)D B Campbell Wrote: [ -> ]How do they know it's Hadrianic?  

Based on the stamps on the bricks.

(05-21-2016, 04:38 PM)Frank Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-21-2016, 03:58 PM)D B Campbell Wrote: [ -> ]How do they know it's Hadrianic?  

Based on the stamps on the bricks.

Thanks! (I see it's all here -- http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/42211 -- the only one of Siggi's links I didn't follow -- mea culpa!)