Local donates thousands of antiques to Ho Chi Minh City Museum

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A local collector donates a collection of over 3,300 antiques to the Ho Chi Minh City Museum.

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Local donates more than 3000 antiques to HCMC museum
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Museum happy for antique gifts
Viet Nam News, 17 October 2012

The Ho Chi Minh City History Museum on October 15 received a large collection including 3,360 antiques donated by local resident Huynh Van Nghi.

The collection, named “Duong Ha” was gathered by Duong Minh Thoi and Ha Thi Ngoc, Nghi’s parents-in-law. In 2006, after the death of his wife, Duong Quynh Hoa, who was the Minister of Health under the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, Nghi decided to donate all the objects to the government at his parents-in-law’s desire.

In February 2011, the HCMC People’s Committee agreed to receive Nghi’s donation. After that, the city’s Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism established a council to appraise the collection.

Full story here and here.

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October 17, 2012, 9:59 pm

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What looks like a fantastic exhibition in Milan from 25 October - Constantine 313, to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. It is at the Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo 12 - 20122 Milan.

There is a good trailer for the exhibition below. The site has a great gallery of photos here. Thanks to ArcheoMolise for the hat tip.

 

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October 17, 2012, 11:50 pm

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On This Day in Ancient History - October 18:

On this day in A.D. 31, Sejanus, the stand-in for Tiberius, Rome's second emperor, was executed. After he was killed, his disgraced body was tossed onto the Scalae Gemoniae and torn to pieces. Then came riots in which the mob hunted for people who were associated with Sejanus. The Senate issued a damnatio memoriae, a futile, but symbolic attempt to erase the memory of such a despised individual.

When Tiberius came to the throne, he appointed the equestrian Sejanus praetorian prefect. Sejanus began to manipulate the praetorian guard into a personal guard for the emperor for efficiency and power. When Tiberius' son Drusus died in 23, Sejanus tried to marry his widow Livilla. Even without the marriage, he continued to amass power, and when Tiberius retired to Capri in 27, Sejanus was left as regent. Sejanus became co-consul with Tiberius in 31.

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October 18, 2012, 1:19 am

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Review of Michel Fattal, Paroles et actes chez Héraclite: sur les fondements théoriques de l'action morale. Ouverture philosophique. Paris: 2011. Pp. 71. €11.50 (pb). ISBN 9782296556669.

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Review of Gabriel Herman, Stability and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy. Historia Einzelschriften 220. Stuttgart: 2011. Pp. 164. €46.00. ISBN 9783515098670.

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Review of Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Condensing texts - condensed texts. Palingenesia, Bd 98. Stuttgart: 2010. Pp. x, 764. €99.00. ISBN 9783515093958.

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Mediterranean Quiver [Object of the Day #87]

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Quiver

 

Today’s object is only a fragment of a quiver that has been broken at the top. It is coated in a very dark green patina with a lighter, rough interior. The upper right hand corner of the inside has an area of red corrosion. This hints that a metal object may have come in contact with the quiver. The object’s frieze shows several figures wearing square, horned headdresses and and fringed robes. Each figure appears to be holding a small bucket.

Penn Museum Object #67-39-26

See this and other objects like it on Penn Museum’s Online Collection Database

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The temple of Debod, now in Madrid, Spain.

This week’s photo is courtesy of Aegyptus.

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A Don’s Life by Mary Beard: Did Roman girls giggle?.

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Laudator Temporis Acti: The Excitement of the Subjunctive Mood.

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October 18, 2012, 2:12 am

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Bread and Circuses: Constantine 313.

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October 18, 2012, 2:13 am

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lizgloyn: The Shield of Achilles.

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ante diem xv kalendas novembres

• 48 B.C. — Octavian dons his toga virilis
• 17 A.D. — restoration of the Temple of Janus at the Theatre of Marcellus (and associated rites thereafter)
• 31 A.D. — Execution of the commander of the Praetorian Guard, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, after revelation of his activities against the emperor Tiberius.
• 33 A.D. — Death of Vipsania Agrippina (Agrippina ‘the elder’), wife of Germanicus and mother of the emperor Gaius (Caligula), among others.
• 84 A.D. — martyrdom of Luke

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preposition: sub , + accusative/ablative => under, beneath bit.ly/IKAclf #Latin #Vocab #LatinVocab—
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mors: death: noun. Example sentence:Vita est brevis; mors longa.Translation:Life is short; death long. bit.ly/U6oKFF—
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