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Found: Earliest Roman plaque of London
CNN.com ^ | October 11, 2002

Posted on 10/15/2002 9:40:04 AM PDT by Korth

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Archaeologists excavating an ancient site in London said on Friday they had unearthed the oldest known plaque inscribed with the city's Roman name.

"This is hugely important," Francis Grew, curator of archaeology at the Museum of London told reporters. "It is the first real monumental inscription with the word Londinium on it.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; archeology; britain; england; europe; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; london; romanempire; rome
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There is a photo of the plaque with the original article. If anyone knows how to post a picture here, please post a picture of the plaque on this thread.
1 posted on 10/15/2002 9:40:04 AM PDT by Korth
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2 posted on 10/15/2002 9:41:44 AM PDT by Sloth
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To: Korth; blam

The approximately 2000-year-old Italian marble plaque is dedicated to the Roman emperors and the god Mars.
3 posted on 10/15/2002 9:43:18 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Sloth
Oops... you beat me! :)
4 posted on 10/15/2002 9:44:56 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Korth
"Ah, Julius Caesar, Thou art mighty, yet."

Southwark and Shakespeare's Globe bump.

5 posted on 10/15/2002 9:46:18 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Korth
The marble is 2000 years old. The inscription could be 20 years old.
6 posted on 10/15/2002 9:47:25 AM PDT by Consort
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"Spitutus et Caesar - Smooth like buttah!"

Barbbrara Streisand

7 posted on 10/15/2002 9:50:01 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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"...the importance of the man who [in] Rome would have been treated as a yokel but who had made it in London"

From Rome to England, from England to America...the story of our struggle for freedom and individual expression! What an exciting and fascinating discovery, and thank God they got to this before the "housing project" covered it up for another couple hundred years

8 posted on 10/15/2002 10:07:41 AM PDT by Eowyn-of-Rohan
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"'This is hugely important,' Francis Grew, curator of archaeology at the Museum of London told reporters. 'It is the first real monumental inscription with the word Londinium on it.'"

Londinium? Quick, someone call Venerable Ireland Yard!

Can Lord Marmaduke Fogg and Lady Penelope Pea Soup be far behind?
9 posted on 10/15/2002 10:11:49 AM PDT by Fides et Ratio
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The marble is millions of years old (geologic time)- neither the cutting of the stone nor the inscription can be dated - no carbon to measure decay rates.
10 posted on 10/15/2002 10:17:52 AM PDT by FormerRep
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...neither the cutting of the stone nor the inscription can be dated...

That was my point. It doesn't matter how old the marble it. The inscription could be very recent.

11 posted on 10/15/2002 10:28:48 AM PDT by Consort
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Carbon-dating is hardly the only way of dating objects, especially objects only a couple of thousand years old -- was it located under an ancient building foundation or road that had clearly lain undisturbed for centuries? was there build-up of mineral and/or organic residue on the surface (including the indentations of the inscriptions) that would have taken centuries to reach its current condition? etc., etc.
12 posted on 10/15/2002 10:29:15 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Constitution Day
Thanks for the ping. Didn't we cover this last week without the picture? (BTW, thanks for the picture.)
13 posted on 10/15/2002 10:35:08 AM PDT by blam
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To: Korth
Existing thread with the Same Topic
14 posted on 10/15/2002 10:36:14 AM PDT by LostTribe
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To: FormerRep
The marble is millions of years old (geologic time)- neither the cutting of the stone nor the inscription can be dated - no carbon to measure decay rates.

No, but you can get a pretty good idea of the age of a surface by how deeply oxidation and staining penetrate the rock...

15 posted on 10/15/2002 10:40:10 AM PDT by null and void
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To: blam
You're welcome.
I must have missed it... had just back from out of town.

CD

16 posted on 10/15/2002 10:42:52 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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"Existing thread with the Same Topic"

Strange. I did a search on 'London' and it did not pick up that title. Hmmmm

17 posted on 10/15/2002 10:45:43 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
>Strange. I did a search on 'London' and it did not pick up that title.

That's the problem with the current search engine. It does not seem to cover all posts, just those in a single specific category at a time. Bummer.

18 posted on 10/15/2002 11:15:40 AM PDT by LostTribe
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To: Korth
Bookmark bump
19 posted on 10/15/2002 11:30:27 AM PDT by lepton
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To: Sloth
Thank you, Sloth.
20 posted on 10/15/2002 7:47:34 PM PDT by Korth
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