Pompeii + Herculaneum
79 CE
Mt Vesuvius erupted in... (year)
Who said:
Those who buried a dead person were not permitted to inscribe the name on a grave except in the case of a man who had died on campaign or a woman who had died in labour.
Plutarch in his biography of Lycurgus
The Punt Relief
What depicts the trading mission?
What relief is in the middle colonnade at DEB?
Amun
Who was the Theban god?
Rekhmire
Giuseppe Fiorelli
Who implemented the method of using plaster to capture the forms of objects/people buried by the eruption?
The Spartan Constitution, attributed to Lycurgus (although this is perhaps a later invention).
What was the Great Rhetra?
Divine Birth Scene
What inscription from tells us about Hatshepsuts' unusual succession?
Battle of Megiddo
Which battle is Thutmose III most known for?
Which battle was important for gaining control over Syria-Palestine?
Jupiter, Minerva and Juno.What deities were part of the Capitoline Triad?
What deities were part of the Capitoline Triad?
30
How many bakeries in Pompeii?
Zeus (according to Herodotus)
What priesthood did the Spartan kings each hold priesthood of...
Speos Artemdios
What was a temple of
Where did H record having a standing army?
Where did H record rebuilding what the Hyksos destroyed?
Smiting
What is it called when a pharaoh is seen to be crushing his opponents?
Terentius Neo
Who was the person in the painting with a pen and his wife in PH?
Eumachia
Who had a statue in the forum?
Who was a woman who engaged in trade in P?
Who was a priestess in P?
Helot
Who were enslaved Greeks from Messenia?
Hatshepsut was destined to play a role no greater than that of a queen
What did Tyledesly say about Hatshepsut?
Ideology needs architecture for its fullest expression?
Who was Kemp?
The Two Ladies
What is one of Hatshepsut's throne names?
Via the Pompeiian branch of the great Augustan aqueduct – the Aqua Augusta – from the springs of Acquaro 26 km away.
Where did the water for Pompeiian public (fountains and bath complexes) and private needs (well-to-do houses) come from?
The Hyakinthia
What religious festival was held over three days in July at the Amyklaion, south of Sparta. (Hint: the festival had two phases - grief and celebration)
Senenmut
Who was her architect?
Who might of been her lover?
Collected taxes and had a Vizier
How was Nubia controlled?
Aulus Umbricius Scarus
Owned the garum business in Pompeii