"Ask, and it shall be given you"
- yesterday, the Stumblng Tumblr posted an item about the recent announcement of the finding of a bust of Julius Caesar in the Rhone river near Arles
- he mentioned then two questions that the story he linked to didn’t answer
- well, today they’re answered here
- the bust is said to be the oldest known bust of Caesar; according to the story:
Luc Long, the archaeologist who directed the excavations, said all the busts of Caesar in Rome were posthumous.
- (and presumably either no other bust has been found in the provinces or any found in the provinces were either also posthumous or at least newer than the Arles one)
- Long also said:
I suspect the bust was thrown in the river after [Caesar] was assassinated because it would not have been good at that time to be considered a follower of his….
- you will, of course, recognise the title to this post as coming from both Matthew 7:7 and Luke 11:9 of the KJV Bible; the image from here is of a denarius with Caesar on it
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