An extraordinary find: A Roman cooking pot filled with lamps and coins.Credit: Aargau canton archeology department
Posted on 02/12/2023 7:34:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...archaeologists have discovered a peculiar Roman-era earthenware pot filled with 22 oil lamps, each containing a bronze coin, in Windisch, a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland... under a street in the area as part of an archaeological investigation in order for the local authorities to proceed with the construction of an ambitious architectural project comprising apartment blocks and commercial property.
Experts believe that the pot has probably been buried there for nearly 2,000 years, dating it from the time of the Roman legion camp Vindonissa, which was located near where Windisch is now. According to most contemporary historians Vindonissa was probably established in 15 AD. The Legio XIII Gemina, also known as Legio tertia decima Gemina, was stationed at Vindonissa until 44 or 45 AD... appears to have still been in existence in the 5th century AD. With the arrival of the 21st legion (XXI Rapax), the camp was reconstructed with stone fortifications. After the 21st legion had looted the countryside in 69 AD, it was replaced by the 11th legion (XI Claudia) which remained stationed until 101 AD. After this date, Vindonissa was a civilian settlement, with a castle built in the 4th century...
Aargau cantonal archaeologist Georg Matter... "...Every single lamp is decorated with an image, including the moon goddess Luna, a gladiator, a lion, a peacock and an erotic scene."
...The pot also contained charred fragments of animal bones, ruling it out as an urn for human remains. Despite Matter not being sure about the nature of the pot and its content, he speculates that it could be a ritual burial. However, the fact that there have never been any other comparable or similar discoveries, makes things for Matter and his team even harder.
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An extraordinary find: A Roman cooking pot filled with lamps and coins.Credit: Aargau canton archeology department
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindonissa
Roman legions no doubt had funeral rites for fallen comrades. Suspect they involved a lamp and a bronze coin for the dead soldier’s safe passage to the Elysian fields.
“A gladiator, a lion, and a peacock walk into an erotic scene...” — Hennius Youngmanius
I told my wife that when I die I want to be buried in the woods in a refrigerator with a slinky, an oven mitt and two left shoes.
Let ‘em figure that out.
“Translation of the inscription on the outside of this puzzling burial indicates the man was an Admiral...”
Could also be a previously unknown board game, a sort of reverse D&D — instead of a bunch of college-aged couch potatoes imagining themselves involved in archaic warfare, a bunch of men involved in archaic warfare were imagining themselves doing something else.
Obviously a leftist as well.
;^)
Likely a lamp salesman... The coin was probably the standard change given to people buying the lamps.
An admiral in Switzerland…..
Must not have had GPS back then.
Nope, no GPS, just SPQR.
The Romans invented Swiss cheese.
Beer pong
SPQR?
Some
People
Quickly
Radish
A tried and true method of navigation.
“Which way is the radish pointing?”
“Beer pong”
Yeah, it was probably a frat party held at one of the college fraternities there and never cleaned up. Used to be called toga.
wy69
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