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Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]
Aquae Sulis (Latin for Waters of Sulis) was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is the English city of Bath, Somerset . The Antonine Itinerary register of Roman roads lists the town as Aquis Sulis. [ 1 ]
In 1979/1980, the Bath curse tablets were found at the site of Aquae Sulis (now Bath in England). [12] All but one of the 130 tablets concerned the restitution of stolen goods. [ 13 ] Over 80 similar tablets have been discovered in and about the remains of a temple to Mercury nearby, at West Hill, Uley , [ 14 ] making south-western Britain one ...
Aquae Arnemetiae and Aquae Sulis (modern town of Bath in Somerset) were the only two Roman bath towns in Britain. The Romans built a bath at the location of the main thermal spring. In the late 17th-century Cornelius White operated bathing facilities at the hot spring at the site of the Buxton Old Hall. In 1695 he discovered an ancient smooth ...
The tablets were meant to call upon the gods for assistance in seeking justice and were popular throughout the Roman world. [13] In the case of the Bath curse tablets the written formulae inscribed on the tablets were addressed to the goddess Sulis, who had the power to identify the thief and exact punishment. [14]
Aquae Calidae, Latin for "hot waters", may refer to: Aquae Calidae, ancient name of Caldas de Reis, Spain; Aquae Calidae, ancient name of Çiftehan, Turkey; Aquae Calidae, ancient name of Vichy, France; Aquae Calidae, Algeria; Aquae Calidae, Bulgaria; Aquae Calidae Neapolitanorum, Italy; Aquae Sulis, called "Aquae Calidae" in Ptolemy's Geographia
As the Gods Will (Japanese: 神さまの言うとおり, Hepburn: Kami-sama no Iu Tōri) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Akeji Fujimura. It was serialized in Kodansha 's shōnen manga magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from February 2011 to October 2012, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon ...
Written and illustrated by Takao Saito, Golgo 13 has been serialized in the semimonthly manga magazine Big Comic since its January 1969 issue, published in October 1968. [1] The chapters have been collected into tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan and Leed Publishing, a spinoff of the author's own Saito Production, [2] since June 21, 1973. [3]