No Direction Home I saw one of the best correctives I’ve come across in a while to academic extravagance in mountain-out-of-a-molehill-making (often in evidence in my o Continue Reading →
M-W’s Word of the Day for All Y’all Late Antique and Numismatic Types solidus SAH-luh-dus noun 1 : an ancient Roman gold coin introduced by Constantine and used to the fall of the Byzantine Empire *2 : a mark / used ty Continue Reading →
More on ‘d.d.’ Caelestis suggests below that the abbreviation stands for ‘donum dat/dedit’. I was looking through the epigraphy book mentioned below and have found s Continue Reading →
