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The evidence for Gauls in London comes from a tablet ~100ce records the sale of a woman from northern Gaul to a man called Vegetus for 600 denarii. This is a standard price, equivalent to 2y salary for a legionary soldier; what is more interesting is that he is the slave of a slave belonging to the emperor himself. The document says that the woman was handed over in a healthy condition&has no history of running away.
— Jun 02, 2026 08:02AM
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With raiding no longer an option in home territory, Caliph Umar 644took the Levant, inclJerusalem.The new rulers didn’t care what religion their subjects practised, as long as they paid their taxes; Christians, Jews and Muslims all worshipped the same God of Abraham, as far as Muslims were concerned;Jews were now allowed to live in Jerusalem for the 1st time since the Roman destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70 ce.
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Syrian Elagabalus, became emperor at the age of fourteen. The young man brought w him to Rome the Syrian god Elagabal, a black meteorite, to replace Jupiter at the head of the Rom pantheon. This was not his only outrage against local taste: he was said to have married several men&a Vestal Virgin, eaten parrots and fed them to pet lions.He was assassinated by soldiers in a latrine @eighteen and thrown into the Tiber.
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Jun 02, 2026 08:19AM
I read about that slave sale document too, in a book about a month ago!
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Which book was that, Jann? I am enjoying this one but it is a bit light-weighted. There is some new stuff but so far I’ve known already about 70% by osmosis. Having said that i did not know about the woman.
Katia wrote: "Which book was that, Jann? I am enjoying this one but it is a bit light-weighted. There is some new stuff but so far I’ve known already about 70% by osmosis. Having said that i did not know about t..."It was a book about slaves in the roman empire who had been emancipated, with a focus on women. The little gaulish girlor teenager is known about from the remains of writing tablet found in Roman London - and I don't think any of those were found, or identified as such begore the late 1980s, possibly more recently than that so she is a relative newcomer to history.
Oh thank you. As far as remember (from a few hours ago- sorry old age:-)) the author here says that these tablets were found in 2014 when they were rebuilding a European HQ of some American bank here in London.
Ok, yes well, not many chances to dig in the waterlogged soils of the city of london
