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All views (but none of the poetry!) my own.
2. It seems very difficult to exclude the exogenous impact of increased Mediterranean connectivity and resource availability. But we know we cannot think of ‘orientalizing’ in the old sense, esp after Riva and Vella. (PS Naso et al edited vol on this due 2021).
Feb 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
So here is the best account I have seen of the (latest) tomb of Romulus
Roma, straordinaria scoperta al Foro: torna alla luce un ipogeo con sarcofago legato a culto di Rom… roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/0… via @repubblica
Location is said to be under the stairs which Alfonso Bartoli constructed in front of the surviving Curia Julia, and here are some before and afters. Bartoli described his work in his book Curia Senatus: Lo scavo e il restauro