A TILE FROM ROMAN VIENNA IN JOHANNESBURG

Recently Mr W.H. Grimm, who grew up in Vienna, asked me to decipher the letters on a fragment of a tile which he had found as a boy at Carnuntum. Apparently it was lying on the roadside having been thrown there by a farmer ploughing an adjacent field

A ROMAN INSCRIPTION IN CAPE TOWN

The South African Cultural History Museum in Cape Town is well known for its fine collections, not least those of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 On my last visit to Cape Town I was surprised to see something in the museum which I had not noticed before, a Latin inscription attached to the wall. There are of course very few ancient Latin inscriptions in South Africa

SOME ROMAN COINS FROM REGENSBURG IN JOHANNESBURG

Last year Mr. R. Faltermeier, a student in the Department of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand, brought me nine Roman coins which he asked me to identify. He said that they had been brought to South Africa when his father had emigrated here from Regensburg in Germany

Roman Warfare

ROTH, Jonathan P 2009. Roman Warfare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pbk. R250. ISBN 978-0-521-53726-1.Jonathan Roth of San Jose State University, known as an expert on military logistics, has written this attractive Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization volume on Roman Warfare. The series is designed for students with no prior knowledge of Roman antiquity. The book comprises an Introduction on Sources and Methods (pp. 1-6) and 15 chapters on Roman warfare from the beginnings to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476, using a chronological approach. There are 68 illustrations and maps, a Timeline, a Glossary, a Glossary of People, a Bibliography (which includes several websites) and an Index

A FURTHER LATIN INSCRIPTION AND AN AMPHORA IN CAPE TOWN

In a former volume of this journal I described a Latin inscription in the Cape Town Museum (Akroterion XLVI [2001] 99f.). On a subsequent visit to the city, I went to the Wine Museum on the Groot Constantia estate.2 I was interested to find two Roman objects there, an inscription and an amphora