[Photos] UK 38 - Cilurnum IV (Chesters Roman Fort)

[moonvoice]

The last one for Carlisle!

This was also the last day we had with Silvia, and we dropped her off - after seventeen days - back to Manchester Airport as we drove down to Coventry. We were reaching the end of our trip, though we still had a bit to go.

At this point, I was starting to pull out of social commitments in London (I'd organised to see like four different groups of people), and I was also just never very hungry, and frequently wanted to sleep. The weather was getting gloomier, but me being me, I liked that. :)


Boar




Minerva and Aesculapius. (A complete stranger with a private account on Instagram tried to 'school' me over this not actually being Aesculapius, and I quietly said to them that if they felt that strongly about it, they should take it up with the museum. At which point they lost their shit and got mad that I wouldn't take a complete stranger's word with a private account over the information literally stated at the museum, lmao - I ended up needing to block them when they said I was using my 'fame' as an author to be mean instead of just treating it as 'I don't trust private accounts and strangers over the information at museums, pertaining to the information at museums, sorry.')



Altar to the Mother Goddess



Relief of Mars. This is the first thing you see as you walk into the museum, and it's pretty amazing.



Altars



Altar to Minerva (and Altars on either side).



Altar to Apollo



Statue of Juno. I really loved this one.



Obligatory dick pic!



Altar to the goddess Ratis



Altar to Mars



Altar to the Mother Goddess



Altar to the Goddess Coventina (there were a lot of these)



Altar to the Goddess Fortuna Conservatrix



Tombstone for a standard bearer



An example of some of the coins found in the well.




There was SO much more I had photos of, but honestly I can't justify posting like 10 posts just on the museum and its contents. Just know that this is really only like idk, 15% of what's there, and it's far richer than I could possibly depict.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I know Brits can be blasé with so much of this stuff around, but it never ceases to amaze me!

[moonvoice]

Same! We have nothing like it here!

[silverjackal]

The person arguing with you about the statue us just "WTF?". I mean, not that museums can't be wrong on occasion, but what are the odds that they're actually right instead? Also if I had to guess I'd guess Aesculapius as well because you can see a bit of the coiled serpent around the stave. The detail of the dress on the statue of Juno is incredible.

[moonvoice]

The person arguing with you about the statue us just "WTF?".

I was the same. I don't doubt that museums get it wrong at times, but I'm also the wrong person to take it up with. And I think their stance was 'this information is for *other* people who might see your *wrong description*' and it's like well, that description is literally in the photo from the museum, and I just don't have a policy of accepting a complete stranger's word (who has a hidden, private, US account judging from the avatar) and that turned into a total aggressive shitshow. Tbh I should've blocked them much earlier.

I think one of their 'arguments' was that the Romans certainly didn't spell Aesculapius this way anyway, and that *proves* they're wrong, but a cursory search on Wiki reveals that eh, sometimes a first year in archaeology can only get you so far up against a Roman museum that specialises in Roman artefacts, heh.