crucifixion
George Ronald Watson and Andrew Lintott
Crucifixion seems to have been a form of punishment borrowed by the Romans from elsewhere, probably *Carthage. As a Roman penalty it is first certainly attested in the *Punic Wars. It was normally ...
More
Saepta Iulia
Donald Emrys Strong and Janet DeLaine
The voting enclosure for the *comitia
tributa, between the Pantheon and the temple of Isis in the *Campus Martius; it was planned and possibly begun by C. *Iulius Caesar (2) ...
More
sella curulis
Piero Treves and Tim Cornell
Sella curulis ('curule chair') was an ivory folding seat, without back or arms, used by the higher Roman magistrates (hence the title ‘curule’ magistrates; see magistracy, ...
More
tabula Bantina
Andrew Lintott
Fragments of a bronze tablet deriving from near *Bantia in *Lucania. One large group of fragments was discovered in the 18th cent. and a third piece in 1967. They are engraved on both sides, having ...
More