Pretty marginal notes with dates:

b. DXXXV (219 BCE)
c. BELLVM PVNVIC II (218 BCE)
d. DXXXV (but note the D is formed from I and a transposed C, so were they short of letters D? Or was it decorative as this format is often used on title page dates?)
e. DXXXXVI (also 218 BCE but different format)

Broughton Magistrates is important and 1st c BCE vol is rare in print so great to see online. I've the 3 vols. I ALSO have versions of what became Broughton printed 1500s when Consular Fasti were dug up eg Sigonius, Fasti, 1567. Today by post I got De.Gentib.Et Familiis Romanorum by Strein 1591

I wish 😐

A reminder that the writer who shares beautiful book covers with us daily has beautiful covers to her books!

Less mud more logic. How a chain of knowledge of pots and a chain of location info shows that shard X at location Y suggests occupation by Z in ABC era. My sense of books on archaeology (& by inference, degrees) contain not enough about objects & their logic & evidence and too much mud and strata.

2. Austin's second swan encounter. Fake bravado, teeny little woofs and yelps but ready to run back to me.

Jetbridge aka AeroGangPlank. Since 1936.

My every visit to Dulles is a wtf moment. Note text below last image: "Jet bridges have yet to reach some airports, like Margate in South Africa". They might have added Washington DC, in USA

Very luxurious, nice paper. I'm not a fanatic either but bought it as a semi autobiographical look at an author's life through several months of letters received (and then written on the reverse side). It's a totally novel format.