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Sculpture inspection: The Boxer

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The two amphitheatres of Aquincum

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Aquincum architecture

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Mother and daughter - eternal love

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Kottabos, the drinking game

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Caesar's Giraffe

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The two lives of a fountain

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Bunny-fibula from Pannonia Provincia

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Cats...or something bigger

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The Roman city Savaria in Pannonia Provincia

I would like to invite you for a special journey. Today we will explore the Roman city called Savaria (later written as Sabaria). Now the city is called Szombathely. The modern city is locally identical to the Roman predecessor, so the archaeological research is not so simple. But Ottó Sosztarits, the main archaeologist in the area is tireless: he is a true lover of Roman times, history and a modern polymath. Savaria is an important station on the Amber Road, so trading have a huge tradition in the area.But first let's see where is this city! google map on Hungary As you can see, Savaria is on the left side of the Danube. This is important, because the river Danube was the border of the Roman Empire: on the right side of the river there was the great Unknown Nothing, what the Romans called Barbaricum. At the LIMES or RIPA PANNONICA (the Pannonian piece of the border) ethnically mixed tribes lived, like Celts, Pannons, some Illyrs. urther in the provinc...

Lili & Gyula Palatinus (and Miss Margaret) The Laughing Dolphins Staff

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