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unusual facts about Hadrian's Villa


Hadrian's Villa

However, many were also excavated in the 18th century by antiquities dealers such as Piranesi and Gavin Hamilton to sell to Grand Tourists and antiquarians such as Charles Towneley, and so are in major antiquities collections elsewhere in Europe and North America.


A Pele do Ogro

Lydia, after telling his origin, saying he was born in ancient Rome at the time of Emperor Hadrian, reveals that he was the reincarnation of Antinous, his only love!

Aballava

Aballava or Aballaba (with the modern name of Burgh by Sands) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Petriana (Stanwix) to the east and Coggabata (Drumburgh) to the west.

Aelia Capitolina

As was standard for new Roman cities, Hadrian placed the city's main Forum at the junction of the main cardo and decumanus, now the location for the (smaller) Muristan.

Ammonius Grammaticus

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

Appius Annius Atilius Bradua

Through his paternal grandfather, Annius Bradua was related to the Roman Senator Marcus Annius Verus, who was a brother-in-law of Roman Emperor Hadrian and father of the Roman Empress Faustina the Elder, wife of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius.

Capua

Outside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded.

Champlevé

The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan is a 2nd-century trulla with large enamel roundels in four colours of enamel, commissioned by or for Draco, a soldier, possibly a Greek, as a souvenir of his service on Hadrian's Wall.

Claudia Capitolina

Her daughter became a prominent poet and became a travelling friend to the Roman Emperor Hadrian and wife Roman Empress Vibia Sabina.

Coggabata

Coggabata, or Congavata / Concavata, (with the modern name of Drumburgh) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, between Aballava (Burgh by Sands) to the east and Mais (Bowness on Solway) to the west.

Cohors I Aelia Dacorum

According to Holder, the regiment was transferred to Britain immediately after it was recruited, in accordance with a general imperial policy of deploying auxiliary units from recently conquered (or pacified) regions to other parts of the Empire in order to assure their loyalty (e.g. 7 British regiments, raised during the Flavian period (71-96), are attested as deployed in Dacia in the reign of Hadrian).

The regiment was transferred from Dacia to Britain not later than 125, when it was stationed briefly at Fort Fanum Cocidi (Bewcastle, Cumbria) and appears to have participated in the excavation of the so-called Vallum, a huge ditch running along the near side of Hadrian's Wall (constructed 122-8).

Dark Age of Camelot

Albion is based on Arthurian legend, with such notable real-world places as Hadrian's Wall, Stonehenge, and other locations in Great Britain.

David Breeze

David John Breeze, OBE, BA (Dunelm), PhD (Dunelm), Hon DLitt (Glasgow), FSA, FRSE, Hon FSA Scot, Hon MIFA (born 25 July 1944) is a British archaeologist, teacher and scholar of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall and the Roman Army.

Featherstone Castle

The earliest recorded history of this area derives from the Roman occupation period; in 122 AD, the Romans erected Hadrian's Wall, the course of which lies about 5 kilometres to the north of Featherstone Castle.

Fontaine du Fellah

The title refers to an Egyptian fellah, or peasant, but statue appears to be a copy of a Roman statue of Antinous, a favorite of the Emperor Hadrian, which was discovered in the excavation of Hadrian's villa in Tivoli in 1739.

Gaius Julius Archelaus Antiochus Epiphanes

His daughter Julia Balbilla became a prominent poet and became a travelling friend to the Roman Emperor Hadrian and wife Roman Empress Vibia Sabina.

Gaius Julius Marcus

His name is recorded on a milestone on the Military Way at Hadrian's Wall although it has been partially erased, suggesting that he had brought disfavour on himself sometime later.

Griffis Sculpture Park

While watching his children play on the ruins of Emperor Hadrian’s villa, Griffis realized the value of interactive art.

Historical Jewish population comparisons

In the Hadrianic war of 132-135 AD 580,000 Jews were slain, according to Cassius Dio (lxix. 14).

Horti Tauriani

From this area come numerous attributable sculptures from the Gardens's different phases : statues of deities, decorative reliefs, two large marble craters and three splendid portraits of Hadrian, Vibia Sabina and Salonina Matidia.

Jadranko

Therefore it is closely related to Adrian and its variants (such as Adriaan, Adriano, Adrien, etc.) and Hadrian.

John Collingwood Bruce

His main interest was in the history of Britain, in particular North East England and more specifically Roman Britain and Hadrian's Wall.

King's Stables

The same name has been given to Milecastle 48 on Hadrian's Wall; in this case the layout of the walls is reminiscent of stables.

Kleinwallstadt

The watchtower is a reference to the Limes Germanicus, built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138), which once ran along the river Main between Kleinwallstadt and the town across the river, Großwallstadt (klein and groß are German for “little” and “great” respectively).

Krásný Buk Castle

In addition, not far from the castle on a field a badly weathered Roman coin, broken in two, was found dating to the rule of the Emperor Hadrian (117-138 A.D.).

Ladislav Šaloun

During this time this commission required a much larger studio so he designed Šaloun's Villa where he lived and entertained.

Lancaster Castle

In the south-west corner of the castle is a cylindrical tower named Adrian's Tower from the popular legend that it was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Lucius Bruttius Quintius Crispinus

His father’s family originally came from Volceii, Lucania, Italy and were closely associated with the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

Midrash Eser Galiyyot

Midrash Eser Galiyyot (Hebrew: מדרש עשר גליות) is one of the smaller midrashim and treats of the ten exiles which have befallen the Jews, counting four exiles under Sennacherib, four under Nebuchadnezzar, one under Vespasian, and one under Hadrian.

Monkhill, Cumbria

The village is situated on the course of a vallum associated with Hadrian's Wall and is near the narrowest point of the River Eden, the site was a crossing point for Roman troops, Scottish border raiders, and cattle drovers.

Northumberland National Park

It covers an area of more than 1030 km² between the Scottish border in the north to just south of Hadrian's Wall.

Raffaello da Montelupo

(Legend holds that in 590 the Archangel appeared atop what was then the mausoleum of Hadrian, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the Roman plague, thus lending the fortress its present name).

Sosus of Pergamon

It was discovered in 1737 during excavations at Hadrian's Villa led by Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti, who thought it was the mosaic that Pliny had described, although other scholars think it is a copy of the original that was made for Hadrian.

Stane Street

Stanegate, a Roman road running from Corbridge to Carlisle to the south of Hadrian's Wall

Swaby

Lincoln Museum acquired 162 of the coins, ranging from Marcus Antoninus and Nero to Hadrian.

Terentianus

His references to Septimius Serenus and Alphius Avitus, who belonged to the school of "new poets" (poetae neoterici or novelli) of the reign of Hadrian and later, seem to show that he was a near contemporary of those writers.

Tetrapharmacum

According to this source, the Caesar Lucius Aelius (died 138) invented the dish; his senior colleague, the Emperor Hadrian, liked it; a later emperor, Alexander Severus, liked it too.

All three mentions are credited to the now-lost biography of Hadrian by Marius Maximus.

The Ivy Tree

As she leans against Hadrian's Wall near a cliff overlooking the waters of Crag Lough, her relaxed hour becomes terrifying when a man aggressively advances on her.

Tiberianus

The Byzantine chronicler Johannes Malalas (ed. Dindorf, p. 273) speaks of him as governor of the first province of Palestine (ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πρώτου Παλαιστίνων ἔθνους), in connection with the sojourn of Hadrian in Antioch (114).

Tiberius Avidius Quietus

Quietus had a brother called Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, had two nephews a younger Gaius Avidius Nigrinus and Titus Avidius Quietus and was a great paternal uncle to Roman Emperor Hadrian's daughter-in-law Avidia Plautia.

Tsebelda culture

One layer of the site was dated to the first through third centuries via the examination of one- and two-part brooches, small glass beads, Roman silver coins with the image of the emperors Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius, and other items.

Villa delle Vignacce

Based upon markings and studies of the brickwork, the construction of the luxurious villa is attributed to Quintus Servilius Pudens, an extremely wealthy friend of the emperor Hadrian.

Wallchart

The subjects of later wallcharts included Pork and Apples, and Private Eye, perhaps doubting the usefulness of these items, satirised the growing trend with spoof advertisements for wallcharts on "Britain's Best-Loved Wasps" and "Britain's Favourite Wallcharts" as well as a cartoon depicting "Hadrian's Wallchart" (subject: Barbarians).

Wilhelm Dunker

Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege- 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist).


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