[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Graymatter]

Makes sense. The archaeologists are not looking at the good china.

[HitmanLV]

Here in Las Vegas yesterday I was at the Venitian and had the chance to see a tv show as part of audience research.

It's cool - they give you popcorn and stuff like mugs, t-shirts, anywhere from $2 to $15, etc, for about an hour of your time to sit there, watch the show, rate the content by a dial 'boring to interesting,' and answer some questions.

Anyway yesterday I saw a show called 'Supervolcano,' from the looks of it to be seen on Discovery channel. It was a new idea they have - dramatazations of disasters etc peppered with a lot of scientific info, a new 'dramatic' way to do a documentary, I guess.

It was hideously bad - about the volcano under old faithful erupting and causing the end of the world. Just poorly done.

Anyway, they ran a trailer for a show, "Pompeii: The Last Day' based on some new info and research. It was a drama also but it looked AWESOME! I was bummed that they didn't show us that, instead!

Keep an eye out on cable for the 'Pompeii' special!

[farmfriend]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. Sounds like the alleged scientists involved are just getting started and wanna grab some headlines and some grants. All over the ancient world, fine ceramics typically were made locally, because they had a poor markup for their weight (ships were not as large as today's, although some were a lot bigger than we might think) and a lot of breakage in transport. Amphorae were roughly made jars used to ship olive oil, wine, and a variety of other things, but were not a cargo in and of themselves. Among other things found at Pompeii is an ivory figurine of a god, from India (all, see the "Tamil Trade" topic under the GGG keyword). One of the farms buried by the same eruption made liquamen for export as well as the local market. Garum (what we would call a name brand of liquamen; the name is analogous to "Kleenex" or "Xerox" or "Frigidaire") containers from Italy have been found all over the empire. If someone did a dig in my house (and believe me, it ain't that farfetched) they'd find many things made perhaps just a few dozen miles from here, as well as from around the country, or around the world, and the only foreign country I've ever visited is Canada.

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[SunkenCiv]

Another thing that bothers me about this -- the Romans (and even the Etruscans) had a lot of sculpture that was knocked off from Greek originals. Sooo, the styles were imported (of the dishes and other stuff) via the importation of craftsmen, or via the copying of a single example that was imported.

[r9etb]

"Heather Catchpole"

A name for the ages....

Cute, too....

[Ptarmigan]

Doesn't surprise me about Pompeii doing trade with Eastern Roman empire and North Africa.

[SunkenCiv]

Tamil Trade
INTAMM ^ | 1997 | Xavier S. Thani Nayagam
Posted on 09/11/2004 8:07:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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