Hello from Ravenna!

[JRSCline]

I'm in Ravenna now at the Notturni mosaic school. Some really lovely (mostly Byzantine) mosaics here.<br>
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Jasper, I stopped in Brugg (Vindonissa) on the way down here and took a couple of photos of two illustrated (but fragmentary) tombstones.<br>
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I am now earnestly looking for any tombstones I can find for Ravenna fleet veterans, but hmmm, there's only one illustrated one (and it isn't that good) in the National Museum here.<br>
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Any ideas where the Ravennese keep their surely-numerous Roman naval gravestones?<br>
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Do any of our Italian friends want to meet in Ravenna for an evening?<br>
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I have no plans after Friday but thought I would probably head back north for more quality time hiking in the Alps! God, I thought I died and went to heaven when I ascended in the train from Lauterbrunnen and beheld the trio of Jungfrau, Moench, and the Eiger laid before me...<br>
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Cheers<br>
Jenny <p></p><i></i>

[Praefectusclassis]

Coolness! I know for sure there are more naval tombstones on display in Ravenna, cause my parents photographed some, but without images on them. As far as I know there are only about 6 naval tombstones with depictions on them from the entire period, over the entire empire.<br>
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The Archiepiscopal Museum apparently contains 'pagan funerary inscriptions'.<br>
Other options:<br>
Le Cappuccine Multivalent Cultural Centre Bagnacavallo (Ravenna)<br>
via Vittorio Veneto, 1<br>
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Municipal Museum<br>
Castel Bolognese (Ravenna)<br>
viale Umberto I, 50<br>
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But these are not in Ravenna itself.<br>
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<p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>

[JRSCline]

Jasper, the photos of the Vindonissa tombstones will be posted to you next week. You may have to play with the contrast when you scan them; my film camera's not the greatest.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Jenny <p></p><i></i>

[Praefectusclassis]

No problem. Playing and fiddling, love it!<br>
Are the pictures from the outside tombstone display? On their site I saw there's one heavily decorated dude there. Enough phalerae, armillae and torques to fill a few chests. Did you photograph that one? <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jasperoorthuys>Jasper Oorthuys</A> at: 9/3/03 5:37 pm<br></i>

[JRSCline]

I only stopped for about 1/2 an hour and I only looked around inside. Didn't know there was an outdoor display. The two I sent you were set into wall of a small room in the back and had no captions.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Jenny <p></p><i></i>

[Praefectusclassis]

Never mind. Gotta have an excuse to go there! The ones you sent me are already in the imagebase. <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>