#sestertii

[witekspicsbanknotes]

Fancy banknote of Italia - Roman 8 sesterces, octo sestertii.

#Roma #roman #italian #for collectors #banknote #banknot #fantasy #fancy #not circulated #kolekcjonerski #nieobiegowy #fantazyjny #note #sestertii #sestercje

[anarchywoofwoof]

so today i learned that there’s a piece of graffiti written on the wall of a brothel in Pompeii that reads, “Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”

this lead me down a rabbit hole of Pompeii graffiti, in which i found the following:

From Herculaneum (a bar/inn joined to the maritime baths): "Two friends were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores."

From just outside the Vesuvius gate: "Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place."

From the peristyle of the Tavern of Verecundus: "Restitutus says: 'Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.'"

From Herculaneum (a bar/inn joined to the maritime baths): "Apelles the chamberlain with Dexter, a slave of Caesar, ate here most agreeably and had a screw at the same time."

From the basilica: "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin."

that lead me down a rabbit hole of obscene ancient Roman graffiti such as the following:

Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.

Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they ever have before!

Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here

Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates

I was fucking with the bartender

Secundus likes to screw boys

Phileros is a eunuch!

Cruel Lalagus, why do you not love me?

I made bread on April 19th

Gaius Sabinus says a fond hello to Statius. Traveler, you eat bread in Pompeii but you go to Nuceria to drink. At Nuceria, the drinking is better

Anyone who wants to defecate in this place is advised to move along. If you act contrary to this warning, you will have to pay a penalty. Children must pay [number missing] silver coins. Slaves will be beaten on their behinds.

Epaphra doesn’t play football well

You can ride your maid whenever you want. It’s your right

Pyrrhus to his colleague Chius: I grieve because I hear you have died; and so farewell

O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin

My lusty son, with how many women have you had sexual relations?

If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.

Samius to Cornelius: go hang yourself!

If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend

To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy

We have wet the bed, host. I confess we have done wrong. If you want to know why, there was no chamber pot

What a lot of tricks you use to deceive, innkeeper. You sell water but drink unmixed wine

The finance officer of the emperor Nero says the food here is poison

Gaius was here – the oldest graffiti, dated 78 BCE; found in Pompeii.

Vote for Isidorus for aedile, he licks cunts the best

i fucking love human beings.

#history #ancient history #ancient rome #text #pompeii

[headcanonsandmore]

Seventh Doctor: Well, that was a fine day of sightseeing in Ancient Rome, Ace. Here's our lodging house for the night, but it appears they've already closed. How can we alert them to let us in? Ace McShane: *rooting through her bag* Hang on, professor; I've got this. *ten minutes later* Landlord: So that's ten sestertii for two rooms, and twenty sestertii for the door-

#doctor who incorrect quotes #incorrect doctor who quotes #source: asterix the gladiator by renee goscinny and albert underzo #seventh doctor #ace mcshane #doctor who

[corporialus]

Hadrian Sestertius engraved by the "Alphaeus Master"

Sestertius of the Emperor Hadrian, struck 132 (?). (i swear to god every time these coins go up for auction these coins have a different date attributed to their striking on the listing). Obverse legend reads "HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP Reverse legend reads "PAX AVG" Among all Roman portraiture of the second century, the coins and medallions attributed to the "Alphaeus Master" stand out as being the best. The engraver is also thought to be a certain "Antoninianos of Aphrodisias" and was possibly a part of Hadrian's inner circle, as Hadrian was a notorious lover of Greek culture.

As far as I know there are only other 4 coins known from these same dies, here are photos of two of the other examples that I was able to find.

I've taken an interest in the coins attributed to him, and recently been drawing original Sestertii of the other Nerva-Antonine emperors in an attempt to try and replicate the Alphaeus Master's style. I'll be posting those at some point soon.

#ancient coins #ancient rome #ancient art #roman history #ancient history #roman art #roman empire

[elucubrare]

if i had a sestertius for every time someone tripped and told everyone it was a good omen, i'd have two sestertii, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

#a shitpost

[writinginthesecrettrees]

So I read all the graffiti from this link (from the kosher garum post I reblogged) and here are some of my favorites:

This man, who has had a bisexual awakening and decided men are better.

Weep, you girls.  My penis has given you up.  Now it penetrates men’s behinds.  Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

Gaius and Aulus, who I really hope got out before the eruption and went on to live their best lives.

We two dear men, friends forever, were here.  If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.

The absolute legend Theophilus. May he still be performing oral sex in his afterlife.

Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

This scathing review of an inn.

What a lot of tricks you use to deceive, innkeeper. You sell water but drink unmixed wine

This person who is just so in love.

If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend

This absolutely savage curse. Chie, I hope you deserved it.

Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!

The one Neil Gaiman pointed out in the kosher garum post.

The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

This hilarious admission.

We have wet the bed, host.  I confess we have done wrong.  If you want to know why, there was no chamber pot

These men who had bad service but a great time.

Two friends were here.  While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus.  They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.

And a whole lot of defecating.

#history #i've loved pompeii graffiti for so long #i remember reading all these when the site was live #and not just a relic on the wayback machine

[mascula-sappho]

can we just talk about how many times in ancient Greece and Rome two men (a couple) marry off their female relatives to each other so they can be related?? how many sestertii or drachmas would I have at the end if I got one per incident???

#tagamemnon #ancient rome #ancient greece

[mawofthemagnetar]

*slams money on the stand* 💵💵💵

TELL ME ABOUT ISKALLS PLUTONIUM PACEMAKER

oh and lemonade too

I carefully fill a red solo cup with lemonade and slide it across the table. I take the American bills and put them in my cash box alongside a giant Rai from the island of Yap, three Turkish Lira, and two Sestertii.

Back in the 1970's, various medical technology companies were experimenting with ways to make pacemakers longer lasting. Batteries, you see, need to be replaced, and when the device in question is implanted into the human body, the resulting "replacement" means surgery. This is generally a bad thing, because every time someone has to be sedated it introduces risks to their health and wellbeing, alongside surgery just being somewhat risky in general.

So, a longer lasting battery was very attractive to both doctors and patients alike. Enter stage right: Plutonium.

A plutonium-powered pacemaker uses the radioactive decay to generate heat, which is captured in a thermocouple and used to generate the electricity that stimulates the heart. The reason it's so interesting is that there are plutonium pacemakers implanted in the 70's that are still working. (Theoretically, all my sources are from like, 2007 and such, so that may have changed in the intervening decade.) Plutonium batteries don't need replacing because it takes decades for them to decay away. Eighty years on, by some estimates, that little device would still have enough jam to keep your ticker ticking.

There are some drawbacks. Yes, you will receive additional radiation, although no more than a dental x-ray. Yes, it's plutonium, so being incinerated in a crematory furnace or getting shot with a bullet were real, serious concerns for the manufacturers of the devices, since if the case was breached the resultant mess would be a radiological hazard. Oh, and it was FFFFFFFUCKING expensive, but who cares about that, not me.

Oh, and additionally: In the intervening time, medical technology has advanced and progressed. In the real-world, staying on standard battery tech over that entire time meant you could get upgraded to better and better sorts of pacemakers- apparently the preferred location on the heart for the wire has changed since the 70's, and modern pacemakers allow for more variable stimulation to make things a bit more natural, instead of the steady constant jolt those old plutonium pacemakers supplied. So really, the reason we don't still use them is because technology IRL marched on, and lithium became "Good enough" to do the job. It's safer, cheaper, and the risks are acceptable to doctors and patients alike.

I pause to take a drink of my own lemonade from my own cup.

To drag this spiel back around to block men, I think Iskall requires a pacemaker for whatever life-altering event took their arm and their eye. That eye is a prosthetic, fight me. Since one day in minecraft land is 20 real-life minutes, then that does imply that Mx. Skall has been alive for centuries in-universe.

And if your life expectancy is measured in the quadruple digits, suddenly a battery replacement once a decade (as you would have to do with a modern lithium battery) stops being an acceptable risk (as it is in the real world- there's a good reason we don't use plutonium pacemakers anymore!) and veers off into a VERY unacceptable risk. It's just so much more frequent for you- instead of being something that might happen four or five times in the remainder of your lifespan, it's happening dozens of times. Dozens and dozens of surgeries to replace batteries- that's going to add up, and something WILL go wrong at some point.

So, plutonium.

What do you get for the semi-guy who is mostly immortal?

A battery that'll last just as long as them.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Here's a picture of a plutonium pacemaker.

You want some more lemonade?

#Iskall85 #Medical history #mcyt headcanons #plutonium pacemaker #magnetar writes #feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes!

[cobblepotindustries]

I figured out who it is I resemble in the black sheet. Apicus, legendary Roman gourmand and cookbook author. Spent 100 million sestertii on banquets and parties, and may we all be so lucky.

[the-little-fox-in-the-box]

My dad bought a small old red car when he was younger as a spare one for when his main ones broke. After it too has broken down and was too expensive to fix we decided to clean it up and sell it for parts. After we have removed the seats I have noticed just how much coins there were under it. All different currencies from different countries. I realised it might have been a taxi in the past. Aside from the few Polish coins that I probably dropped there my me there were Ukrainian coins, Czech coins, Russian coins, British coins, Swedish coins, some Euro cents... Nothing out of the ordinary right? It seemed until I found some that just didn't make sense to me. Polish coins from the communist era, German coins from before the WWII, 10 Jewish shekels and a fucking ancient Roman sestertii, one of which was from era of Nero.

I still keep them all on my desk. I have no explanation for them. I'm just wondering what that car has been through? Was I driving a time machine to McDonalds all those years?

#personal #i still keep the Roman coin cause ut haunts me #there's no reasonable explanation #unexplainable #ancient rome #time travel

[catilinas]

plutarch, life of fabius maximus trans. scott-kilvert

if i had a sestertius for every time in latin literature disaster was indicated by A Plant Bleeding i would only have two sestertii BUT i’m sure it has happened More Than Twice

#yessssss fucked up agriculture. ungoldens your age. #plutarch #beeps

[whencyclopedfr]

Monnaie Romaine

Les pièces romaines furent produites pour la première fois à la fin du IVe siècle avant notre ère en Italie et continuèrent à être frappées pendant huit siècles dans tout l'empire. Les dénominations et les valeurs changèrent plus ou moins constamment, mais certains types de pièces, comme les sestertii et les denarii, ont persisté et figurent parmi les pièces les plus célèbres de l'histoire.

Lire la suite...

#Histoire #MonnaieRomaine #PiècesDeMonnaie #MonnaieCeltique

[automatonsintogas]

Ancient fufnacts #4: Slaves

In ancient Rome there were multiple ways of becoming a slave. You could be born as one. You could be abandonmed by your free parents and get taken in my slavers. You could be caught as war prisoners during rome's many conquests. You could be imprisoned for crimes. Finally you could be sold into slavery when you owned too much money to someone.

Therefore there was a lot slaves on the market. So they were very cheap.

Of course the market value of a slave was determined by their usefullness. Skills especially education were much valued and would grant a person better job.

But a healthy male house servant with no extra skills were worth about 2,000 sestertii. In comparison, a donkey was worth about 500 sestertii. So the average slave was worth about 4 donkeys.

Wealhy families would sometimes buy teachers for their kids, so they would have a priveate teacher in very litteral sense.

The low price of slaves was also the reason why hanwritten scrolls were cheap. You could just have a bunch of slaves make copies in great amounts.

#fnaf roman au #ancient funfacts #slavery #ancient rome

[luciacaecilia]

Personally, I think that I should be allowed to toss sestertii at gladiators' helmets, as a treat. Call it 'aggressive sponsorship' or something.

[corporialus]

Nero sestertius struck at Lugdunum in 64 CE. Reverse depicts a "congiarium" distribution scene, in which the emperor makes donations to the citizens of Rome. Two citizens can be seen in the center, one handing a tessera to the other, Minerva can be seen in the background. Nero is situated on the reverse seated to the far right, the supervisor of grain standing behind him. Reverse legend reads "CONG II DAT POP"

Nero sestertius struck at Lugdunum in 66 CE. Reverse depicts another "congiarium" scene. Nero seated in a chair to the far left with one of his officials situated on another platform to his right, handing out congiarium (a donation) to a Roman citizen. The goddesses Libertas and Minerva are seen in the background. Legend reads "CONG I DAT POP".

Nero sestertius struck at Lugdunum in 66 CE. Reverse is an ADLOCVT (addressing the cohorts) type, a reverse that pops up quite a bit on Roman sestertii throughout the years. Nero is center right on the reverse, raising his hand and addressing three soldiers. Legend reads "ADLOCVT COH".

#ancient coins #roman empire #roman history #roman art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient rome #sestertius

[steliosagapitos]

~ "Roman Rock Crystal Hydria, 1st Century AD. A carved crystal vessel with loop handles and palmette detailing; with later, probably 17th-18th century AD silver-gilt lid and chain. 256 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, mentions a number of sources for rock crystal, such as Asia Minor, Cyprus, Portugal and the Alps, though he states the best came from India. The stone was fashioned into vessels in Bronze Age Greece as well as Cyprus, Asia Minor, Egypt and Mesopotamia. The use of rock crystal for vessels fell out of fashion in Classical Greece but was revived in the Hellenistic period where it was associated with the wealthy elite in such cities as Alexandria and Antioch. In the Roman Empire rock crystal was highly valued and according to Pliny, Livia, the wife of Augustus, dedicated a block weighing one hundred and fifty pounds on the Capitol; he also mentions a wealthy Roman woman paying one hundred and fifty thousand sestertii for a single rock crystal dipper. Suetonius mentions that Nero had two crystal cups carved with Homeric scenes that he broke when he received the news that the Senate had called for his execution. The high value placed by the Romans on rock crystal can be seen in the high degree of carving that the surviving pieces have, and their relative rarity compared to other stone vessels." ~