4 Small Rivers

Four Small Rivers: a chaotic ramble of notes from my travels; from my life; from my professional world; and musings on the Meaning of Life. Related website: joeinc.tv/Personal NOTE: the notes in here represent personal opinions not those of any entity I may otherwise be affiliated with (employers, customers, etc.)

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Dougga, two words



In Dougga, the bizarrely-well preserved Roman city in northwest Tunisia, near the Algerian border:
Africus ... a huge circle marked out on the paving in an old square, denoting the various winds. Africus ... the hot wind. (The arc is the horizontal line running above the word africus)
(ip)siobhon(o ... a near-word created by the Latin run-on writing in an inscribed block in Dougga.
For both ... it's hard to see these as 1,800 years old, being so clearly written and well-preserved.
|| Unknown, 9:59 AM

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