A historical laboratory; how the expert historian does his . ues of Roman emperors, and thename of the Roman officer com-manding the fort was duly in-serted in the painting before hisfigure. It reads: IVL. TERENTIVS. TRIB Unfortunately we have not yetbeen able to discover who this5 Julius Terence, Tribune worship of the Roman Em-peror was expected of every Ro- Certificate showing that a Roman Citizen had sacrificed to the Emperor as a God In the middle of the speci-men here shown we see theheavy black signature of thepresiding official, and atthe bottom in four lines thedate, c
A historical laboratory; how the expert historian does his . ues of Roman emperors, and thename of the Roman officer com-manding the fort was duly in-serted in the painting before hisfigure. It reads: IVL. TERENTIVS. TRIB Unfortunately we have not yetbeen able to discover who this5 Julius Terence, Tribune worship of the Roman Em-peror was expected of every Ro- Certificate showing that a Roman Citizen had sacrificed to the Emperor as a God In the middle of the speci-men here shown we see theheavy black signature of thepresiding official, and atthe bottom in four lines thedate, corresponding to our 250. Every Roman citizen at this time, no matterwhat his religion might be, was obliged to possess such a certificate and to showit on demand. A Christian who possessed one was safe from all persecution. A HISTORICAL LABORATORY man citizen as an evidence of loyalty, and, curiouslyenough, we find surviving in the ruins of Egypt officialcertificates written on papyrus proving that a citizenhad so worshiped in the presence of the Professor Breasted studying the Monumentsof Archaic Greece at Mycenae We have in these paintings a new historical mon-ument on the Euphrates frontier of the Roman Empirenot long before its official acceptance of works of art, too, the paintings are an importantaddition to our body of such materials, which have thusfar been very scanty, and they will aid us greatly in A HISTORICAL LABORATORY studying this period. The sacred building containingthe paintings is without a doubt a temple, standing ina bastion of the Roman stronghold. The British com-mandant allowed me to use his East Indian troops forexcavating the ground plan and determining the shapeand size of this temple. The fortress itself is of vastextent with enormous bastions, gates, and walls. Itsancient name is unknown. I shall later be issuing anaccount of the place. I have already sent in a briefreport concerning it to the British Government at
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