Playing With Words # 2.

[Gregory Matthews]

In the following I will list words that have some application to Biblical issues to include archaeology.  Select the definitions that best fit the Biblical/archaeological definition.  In some cases, more than one of the listed definitions  is correct.

Agora:

1)         Balk:

            a)  The face of a wall that encloses an archaeological square.

            ‘b)  A walkway between archaeological squares.

c)  a newly born animal in Greece.

d)  An infection on a person’s skin.

2)         Basilica:

            a)  A Roman building used for business purposes.

            ‘b)  A type of Greek ship which sailed the ocean.

c)  A Roman Building used for legal purposes.

d)  A defending line in a military battle.

3)         Circus:

            a)  Gladiator contests were held here.

            ‘b)  The contest to chose the Queen of pagan Rome.

            c) A place  to race chariots.

            d)  High Wire artists performed here.

4)         Course:

            a)  The level of attained scholarship of Roman citizens.

            ‘b)  The direction of the tides on the coast.

            c)  A serving of food at a banquet.

            d)  A row of either bricks or stones.

5)         Dendrochronology:

            a)  The use of bones & teeth to date bodies.

            ‘b)  The use of tree Rings to determine age.

            c)  The name given to the records of the lives of the oldest citizens of Rome.

            d)  In Greece, dental science.

6)         Ekklesia:

            a)  A musical score.

            ‘b)  A region of a city where city leaders lived.

            c)  A type of Biblical manuscript.

            d)  An assembly such as a congregation.

7)         In situ:

            a)  The specific positon in which objects were found,

            ‘b)  A code of law.

            c)  The place where people would sit while at a religious service.

            d)  An infected wound on a military person.

8)         Lacuna:

            a)  A gap in the text of a manuscript.

            ‘b)  A battle injury.

            c)  A defect in a building.

            d)  A type of Greek music.                             

9)         Narthex:

a)  Where Roman priests lived.

            ‘b)  The entry leading into a church building.

c)  The entry way into a cemetery.

d)  A Roman image of Noah’s Ark.

10)       Nave:

            a)  What we call today a “belly button.”

            ‘b)  The singular form of a Roman naval ship.

            c)  A place to provide citizens with clinical care.

            d)  The central areas of the worship areas of a church building.

11)       Numismatics:

            a)  The study of postal services

            ‘b)  A cleric in a pagan cult.

            c)   The study of the origin and dating of coins.

            d) A prophetic system based upon numbers.

12)       Overburden:

            a)  The layer that covers the top of an archaeological dig.

            ‘b)  Clothing worn in the Winter.

            c)  Services required of servants beyond the normal.

d)  Services required of draft animals beyond the normal.

13)       Pollitarchs:

            a)  A political Roman Official.

            ‘b)  A cleric in the official religion of Rome.

            c)  Son of a Roman Official.

            d) A wealthy Roman citizen.

14)       Sarcophagus:

            a)  A carved image of a deceased Egyptian individual.

            ‘b)  A coffin made of stone.

            c)  A type of Egyptian god.

            d)  An image that a wealthy person might have carved of himself.

15)       Stele:

            a)  The singular form of stolen goods.

            ‘b)  Worn by a Roman military person.

            c)  An image placed in a cometary.

            d)  A vertical slab of written material.

 

Answers are given in a thread titled Answers.

 

 

[Gregory Matthews]

NOTE:  I am waiting to see if anyone thinks these two are interesting enough (and fun) to be interested in a # 3.  I have a partially developed # 3, that I would simply have to spend a bit more time on.