#eboracum

[copperbadge]

Because I've completed the Italian module I sometimes dip into the Latin module on Duolingo, which is basic but fun, and I'm delighted that they've decided that the Latin for "New York" is Novi Eboraci. That's literally new "Eboracum", which is what the Romans called the original York in England. It's totally rational and also super hilarious somehow.

[ID: A screengrab of Duolingo's latin module; a character is pointing at their own speech bubble, which reads "Ea Novi Eboraci Studet"; I have translated this correctly below as "She studies in New York."]

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Tiles From The Military Baths Showing The Hobnailed Boots Of Soldiers, York Roman Baths Museum, York

[just-wanna-travel]

York, England, UK

[mostly-history]

Roman defensive walls at York (England).

York was founded by the Ninth Legion as an operating base within the hostile territory of the Brigantes tribe.  The Romans named their fortress Eboracum, and it eventually became a civilian settlement.  The Vikings and Normans also relied upon these walls (and their improvements to them).

[adventures-in-archaeology]

Roman reenactors marching down a real Roman road (well, down a modern road that lies over top a real Roman road)

[mostly-history]

Head of Constantine the Great, York.  This part of what would have been a much larger marble statue.  It was found in Stonegate (a medieval street in York), sometime before 1823.

Stonegate ran over part of the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum, so the statue probably was originally erected there.  The fragment is 42cm high, 27cm wide, 30cm deep, and the diameter of the neck (as it is now) is 17.5cm.  The original statue would have been twice life-sized.  It was made of a coarse, crystalline marble, possibly from Italy.

The marble head may actually be a reworked version of an earlier emperor, probably Hadrian.  The original statue may have been built in the 100s AD, and then remodelled around 306 AD, when Constantine was proclaimed Emperor in York.

Constantine seems to have considered England to be one of the spiritual centres of his reign (he converted to Christianity in 312). York was refashioned in honour of his elevation, and he visited England three more times.  London may have been renamed Augusta in his honour for a while.

[mjporterauthor]

Jorvik/York at the time of the Brunanburh Series, (and before)

Jorvik/York at the time of the Brunanburh Series, (and before) #histfic #nonfiction #newrelease #KingsOfConflict

Jorvik/York at the time of the Brunanburh Series, (and before)

[sacregenesis]

Eboracum under Jorvik