Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brothers in 1965 beneath the shop basement. Exposing a large limestone block, they dug around it and discovered the perfectly preserved figure of a satyr chiseled in bas-relief on one side. Beneath the first block, they found a second, also carved. They called officials of Cologne's Roman-Germanic museum, who immediately bought the stones for $2,000 but explained that archaeological teams could not be spared at the moment to in vestigate the site. In the meantime, the museum officials, who have authority over Roman archaeological sites in Cologne, ordered the digging stopped...
Proud of their accomplishment, they recently threw secrecy to the wind, opened their basement display room to visitors. Among them was Professor Otto Doppelfeld of the Roman-Germanic museum, who forgave the youths for disobeying orders. "Indeed, I'm quite pleased the young people made the dig themselves," he says. "We would have excavated, of course, but just the planning would have taken years...
...Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of the Dutch original to make sure that it contained no errors. Then Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Burlington, Vt., withdrew his imprimatur (permission to publish) from the American edition, and Holland's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink complained that the book was going to press with an unauthorized use of his original imprimatur...
There are fertility idols from 6000 years ago, Trojan jewelry predating the Trojan War by a millennium, Hittite art, and works done under Assyrian, Greek, and Roman domination. Religious objects, ceremonial paraphernalia, pottery and tableware are as much documents of Anatolian civilization as portraits of Trajan and exquisite manuscript illustrations...
...provides some excellent aids for appreciating the exhibit. A catalogue includes four readable introductions by scholars on "The Art of Anatolia Until 1200 B.C.," "Early Iron Age, Classical and Roman Empire," "The Byzantine Period," and "The Islamic." A lecture series during December includes discussions of rugs and textiles, architecture, and painting. Topkapi, a film set in an Istanbul palace-museum, will be shown over the next two weekends. Five concerts of native Turkish music will be performed on traditional instruments during December, and recorded tours are available...