About 8 km from the Roman military encampment Lopodunum (which later became Ladenburg, a town halfway between Mannheim and Heidelberg in the Upper Rhine Valley) one of the Romans decided to built a villa rustica. This is the view due south, Lopodunum would be a … Continue reading A Roman Picked the Spot
Six more words – a bonus Henry:
Six Word Saturday
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Just ignore the modern houses in the background and imagine what this villa rustica looked to the Roman family who lived here in the 3rd century AD. The pastures surrounding the villa, the temple and the stables. The rollling hills of the Odenwald in the … Continue reading Rustic Romans
These two poplars grace the site of the Roman villa rustica near Großsachsen, close to Ladenburg and Heidelberg. There are other poplars in our area but these two give the site a Mediterranean flair that is just right.
Both trees have numbers. They are 37 years old, mere babies next to the stones of the villa.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trees or Tree Parts
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For Saturday’s Ragtag Daily Prompt I posted a photo of the Roman villa rustica which was found and the foundations excavated near our town about 40 years ago. I realised that I didn’t have many photos of the site so I made the 2 km trip and took some more yesterday afternoon.
This is a view of the small temple at the back of the house. As far as I know it is not known what god or gods were worshipped here but the timeframe (first to third century AD) and artifacts found in the Roman city of Lopodunum (Ladenburg) nearby suggest that it might have been Sol invictus.
So in honour of his longest reign this year:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Midsummer
In the early 1980s the site of a Roman villa was discovered near our town. The foundations were excavated and then enlarged so that visitors would have more of an understanding of the layout of this villa rustica. The foundations were only augmented and some of the walls were built up to less than half their original height. The photo shows an outside wall with half a window in it, just to give the impression of what it kind of looked like in around 300 AD.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Incomplete
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