honorthegods:June Fragment of a mosaic with the months of the year. First half third century CE. Dis
honorthegods:June Fragment of a mosaic with the months of the year. First half third century CE. Discovered in the city of Thysdrus, Roman province of Byzacena, (modern El Djem, Tunisia). Archaeological Museum of Sousse. Photo: © Ad Meskens, 2012 via Wikimedia Commons (X). License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 UnportedThe image in this panel depicts three figures in a small structure. June was the end of the wheat harvest in much of the Romanworld, so perhaps the trio represent workers taking a break at a taberna vinaria (tavern selling wine) or a thermopolium (shop selling hot food). However, since this calendar seems to depict the most important religious festival in each month, this scene for June may depict our theoretical harvesters purchasing torches at a booth for the Dies Lamparadum, the Day of the Torches, a festival on 24 June dedicated to Ceres and Proserpina, celebrating the end of the wheat harvest with a night-time torchlit procession.Read More:Shaw, Brent D. Bringing in the Sheaves: Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2013. pp. 173-176 and 240-241.MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan. The north African stones speak. University of North Carolina Press, 1980, p. 79. -- source link
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