A Marble Slab at Hadrian’s Villa Records a Lightning Strike Romans Believed Came From a God
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The Independent
The Independent (US)Ancient marble engravings show how Romans revered lightning strikes
Findings shed light on ‘meticulous ritual procedures of time’, researchers say
Italian archaeologists led by Fabio Giorgio Cavallero (Fabio Giorgio Cavallero) from the University of Urbin described an unusual discovery that they discovered during the excavations of Adrian's villa in Tivoli, built in the second century A.C. Researchers identified a marble plate on which the Latin inscription, FVLGVR SVBMANIUM, was embedded. This ancient artifact appears to indicate that one night a lightning struck the imperial residence. I…
A recent archaeological discovery in Villa Adriana, Italy, brought out an inscription of 1,900 years that reveals Roman religious practices related to the worship of the god of lightning, Summanus. The...
In a corner of Villa Adriana, between the so-called Amphitheatre and a toba bench, there is a marble slab of just 40 by 35 centimeters that follows exactly where they left it about 1,900 years ago. Two capital letter lines suffice to explain why the finding interests archaeologists so much: FVLGVR SVBMANIVM, [...]
AGI - At Villa Adriana (Tivoli) archaeological investigations have brought to light the testimony of an ancient sacred ritual on lightning, as well as other traces of Roman civilization capable of enriching the places of the imperial residence with new meanings. In the area of the so-called Amphitheatre, within the framework of the investigations that the Department of Humanistic Studies (DISTUM) of the University of Urbino 'Carlo Bo' leads, by …
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