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Funeral Scene:Terracotta lid
of a sarcophagus showing a corpse being carried to the pyre; found near Torre dei Conti (near Rome). Larger. 3rd century CE
Rome: Capitoline Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: relief sculpture; funerary rites
Soldier's Footwear: This half-boot (caliga)
is made of leather; its sole shows evidence of the hobnails that it once contained; found in Mainz. 1/2nd century CE
Munich: Archaeological Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: military; clothing
Chariot race in the Circus: Fragment of a sarcophagus relief
showing the spina, a fallen charioteer, and the crowd
(small). 3rd century CE
Berlin: Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: races; circus; relief sculpture; death
Silver Tetradrachm: minted in Antioch (Syria).
Obverse: head of Trajan with short sword and legionary eagle below, inscription AYTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOC CEB GEPM DAK; Reverse: Tyche of Antioch supported by the god of the river Orontes with inscription DHMARX EZIGYPATE. 1/2nd century CE
Berlin: Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: coin; relief sculpture; empire
Julius Caesar: bronze statue overlooking his forum
on the Ides of March.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; Forum of Caesar; politics
Colosseum: view from Capitoline
(zoom)
, overlooking Imperial Fora. 1st century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; games
Colosseum: marble papal edicts
of Clement X (1675) and Benedict XIV (1750), making the amphitheater a holy site dedicated to the Christian martyrs to stop vandalism.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; Christianity
Roman Forum:
view from (southwest) Via di Monte Tarpeio on Capitoline; left: Temple of Vespasian; center: Arch of Septimius Severus (Curia in background); right: Temple of Saturn.View from (northwest) top of stair to the Capitoline; left to right:
Temple of Saturn (showing inscription), Temple of Vespasian (architrave detail), Sacra Via, Portico of the Dii Consentes, Tabularium. View from (northwest) bottom of stair to the Capitoline.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Roman Forum (west): view from Via di Monte Tarpeio
on Capitoline; foreground: Portico of the Dii Consentes; center: columns of Temple of Saturn, Sacra Via, remains of Basilica Julia; in distance: columns of the Temple of Vesta and Temple of Castor.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics; religion
Roman Forum (west): view east from clivus capitolinus;
left: columns of Temple of Saturn; center: Sacra Via, remains of Basilica Julia, columns of Temple of Vesta and Temple of Castor.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics; religion
Roman Forum:
view to the west from the Via Sacra, toward Arch of Septimius Severus and Tabularium;
view to the
east from the Via Sacra as it begins the incline to the Capitoline.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics; religion
Roman Forum (west): view from clivus capitolinus
showing original paving; left: columns of Temple of Saturn; center: column of Phocas; right: Basilica Julia.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics; religion
Capitoline Hill (north): stairs beside Musei Capitolini
leading to S Maria Aracoeli and Vittorio Emanuele II Monument, on the site of the ancient Roman Arx (citadel).
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Capitoline Hill (north): view from Arx
of the side of the Tabularium and the Roman Forum.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Capitoline Hill (north): view of via San Pietro in Carcere
(leading to the Mammertine Prison) and the Museo di Risorgimento from the terrace of the Victor Emmanuel II monument.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Trajan's Forum and Market: view from the Capitoline.
1st century CE.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Forum of Caesar: view from terrace
of the Victor Emmanuel II monument; standing columns of Temple of Venus Genetrix. 45 BCE.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; Rome; politics
Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine: view from Palatine,
overlooking Roman Forum East. Early 4th century CE.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; emperors; law
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina: view from Palatine,
overlooking the Roman Forum East; background Forum of Peace, then Forum of Augustus. 141 CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; emperors; religion
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina: steps, columns of pronaos
(another view), inscription: DIVO ANTONINO/ DIVAE FAUSTINAE EX S.C. 141 CE
Roman Forum East, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; emperors; religion
Temple of Vesta: view from Palatine,
overlooking the Roman Forum East; background Regia; foreground House of the Vestals. late 2nd century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; women
Temple of Vesta beside Temple of Castor (another view).
Central Roman Forum, late 2nd century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; women
Temple of Vesta, view toward Tabularium
and Arch of Septimius Severus. Central Roman Forum, late 2nd century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; women
House of the Vestals (Atrium Vestae): view from Palatine
of the eastern courtyard and rooms; background: Via Sacra and Temple of Romulus. late 2nd century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; women
House of the Vestals (Atrium Vestae): view from Palatine
of the western courtyard and rooms; background: Via Sacra and (l.)Temples of Antoninus and Faustina and (r.)Romulus. late 2nd century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; women
Aedicula at the entrance to the House of the Vestals
(Atrium Vestae);
inscription on the architrave notes that it was built with public money by the Senate and the Roman people; possibly a compitum, a cross-road sanctuary at the nexus of the Via Sacra and the Vicus Vestae.
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion
Temple of Romulus: view from Palatine,
overlooking the Roman Forum East; foreground Via Sacra. The back wall of the temple held the Forma Urbis. 1st century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; emperors
Temple of Romulus in Roman Forum
with the Via Sacra in front. The back wall of the temple held the Forma Urbis. 1st century CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; religion; emperors
Arch of Titus: view from Palatine;
view of inscription and Titus' triumphal chariot in relief on the inside of the arch. 81 CE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; emperors; triumph
Arch of Augustus: footings of the arches
with paved portion of Via Sacra; left: Puteal Libonis; view toward Tabularium. 20 BCE
Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture; emperors; triumph
Mars: from Foro Transitorio.
End 1st century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; gods; war
Priestess: Villa Adriana, Tivoli.
Small. From a 2nd century BCE original.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; sacrifice
Pudicitia Pose: female statue with a portrait head.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; clothing
Pudicitia Pose 2: female statue with a fringed cloak.
From a Hellenistic original.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; clothing
Neo-Classical Group by Giovanni Ceccarini
"Rome Between the Tiber and the Anio"; also figured is the wolf suckling the twins; two bronze columns flank the group, each containing rostra (ship prows) and topped by a tropaeum. 1824.
Piazza del Populo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; fountain; state
Isis: Egyptian goddess holding a sistrum.
From Tivoli, 117-138 CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; clothing
Flora From Tivoli,
Imperial period.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; women
Apollo with a cithara and griffin.
Copy of Apollo Liceo. From Tivoli, Imperial period.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; arts
Laughing Centaur, bronze,
signed by Aristeas and Papias of Aphrodesias, from a Hellenistic Greek original. From Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, 117-138 CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; myth
Faun in red marble, holding a bunch of grapes.
From Tivoli, 2nd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion
Dying Gaul Roman copy in marble
of the bronze statue dedicated at Pergamon by Attalos I to commenorate his victory over the Gauls (239 BCE).
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; warrior
Homer: bust.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; epic; poet
Trajan: bust,
in breastplate and civic crown. 16th century.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; politics
Titus: bust, in military cloak.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; clothing
Vespasian: bust, in military cloak.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; clothing
Septimius Severus: bust.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor
Cicero bust.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; orator; politics
Young Female: sideview of a Flavian hairdo.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; clothing
Young Matrona with Son:
she wears the stola; he wears the bulla. 1st century BCE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; children; clothing
Cupid & Psyche kissing.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; myth; gods
Masks: comic slave and female with flute.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: mosaic; masks; theater; comedy
Girl with a dove. Roman work of the 2nd century CE, from a Hellenistic original.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; children; clothing
Zeus della Valle: bust of Zeus.
2nd century CE copy of a Greek original from the 4th Century BCE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; gods; religion
Sarcophagus relief: with domestic scenes (childhood of Dionysos?).
Nepi, Church of San Biagio, 2nd century CE from Hellenistic original.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; home; women; children; death
Muses: terracotta sarcophagus lid relief. 3rd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; women
Battle of the Amazons and the Greeks: marble sarcophagus relief.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; women; war
Rape of Persephone: marble sarcophagus relief. 1st half 3rd century CE
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; gods;women; religion
Child's sarcophagus:
on cover a sleeping boy with pet and toy; side relief of Prometheus creating humans with Athena watching. Found at Doria Pamphili, Porta Aurelia. 3rd century CE
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; children; gods; religion
Funerary relief, marble "Testamentum Relief" (see D'Ambra, AJA 99.4 (1995)
The deceased semi-reclines on a kline holding a money purse and an unrolled scroll; his mother/wife?, her hair in a Flavian arrangement covered by a mourning veil, sits beside him with her right arm around his shoulders, her feet on a stool. On the wall behind is a clipeus bust of the father/ancestor?; a slave/child? stands at his feet holding an abacus (small). Probably from an Ostian freedman's family tomb. Early 2nd century CE. Rome, Palazzo Nuovo (Capitoline Museums). Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: tomb, family, women, dress
Diana-Selene:
the goddess wears a crescent-moon ornament in her hair
(detail).
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; religion
Capitoline Venus:
marble Roman replica of a Hellenistic original.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; gods; women
Faustina the Younger: portrait bust.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; clothing
Three reliefs from an altar with dedications to Jupiter, the sun, and Serapis:
Scene 1: a hero riding a bull beside goddess Italia, with a city background; Scene 2: a priest purifies a sacrificial cow; Scene 3: Victory crowns a soldier with a tropaeum in the background. Via Appia, Rome, 3rd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion
Marcus Aurelius crowned in a chariot,
celebrating his triumph for military victories (176); relief from a triumphal arch. 2nd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; war
Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus; relief from a triumphal arch. 2nd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; religion
Personification of a province or nation
(Gaul?) subject to Rome, from the Temple of Hadrian built by Antoninus Pius. 145 CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; empire
Personification of a province or nation
(Dacia?) subject to Rome, from the Temple of Hadrian built by Antoninus Pius. 145 CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; empire
Alcibiades: head of ideal male;
inscription "Alkibiades, son of Klinios, Athenian"; replica of a Greek original of 4th century BCE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture;
Apotheosis of Sabina: relief of Hadrian
assisting at the funeral pyre as Sabina ascends to heaven on the shoulders of a Nike. From Arco di Portogallo, which until the 17th century stood at the Via Corso. 2nd century CE.
Capitoline Museums: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; funerary; emperor;
Tombstone with simple inscription:
A. CAMELIVS. A. L./ Roetvs/ IN AGR[O] P[EDES] XII/IN FRO[NTE] P[EDES] XII (indication of sepulcher boundary: width of the street (in fronte) and length back from the street (in agro). From necropolis along the consular road, late Republic/early Empire.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: monument; death; plebian
Cinerary urn with lid in kline (couch)shape:
grandmother holds patera in one hand, crown in other, a symbol of victory and immortality. Inscription: D AVRELIA VITALIS / M CVPIDINI ABIAE SUAE BENE MERENTI FEC[IT]. Found on Via Appia, Antonine period.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; women
Eulogy for Allia Potestas:
terracotta plaque with inscribed text in hexameter. Found on Via Pinciana, 2nd century CE.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: death; women
Cinerary urn of C. Iulius Hermes,
made by C. Iulius Andronicus (freedmen with the same patron;in shape of a house with Ionic columns and a garland; a couple is posed iunctio dextrarum in an aedicula below the inscription: DIS MANIBVS C IVLIVS HERMES VIX[IT] ANN[IS] XXXIIII M[ENSIBUS]V DIEB[US] XIIII C IVLIVS ANDRONICVS CONLIBERTVS FEC[IT] BENE MERENTI DE SE. Found on Via Appia, end 1st century CE.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death
Mithras: relief of the slaying of the bull,
whose blood fertilizes the earth; pictured are the sun and moon, representing day and night; the scorpion is an evil sent by the spirit of darkness. Dedicated by public slave Apronianus, who also built a Mithraeum in Nersae.172 CE.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; religion; military
Mithras: painted terracotta relief of the slaying of the bull,
whose blood fertilizes the earth; pictured are the sun and moon, representing day and night; the scorpion is an evil sent by the spirit of darkness. End 3rd century CE.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; religion; military
Venus of the Captoline type.
Imperial age copy of a Hellenistic copy of the Praxiteles Aphrodite.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women
Encomium for Turia
(identity contested; see Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia 6.7.2): two fragments of a marble plaque with inscribed text, beginning [U]XORIS, dedicated by a grateful and admiring husband. 1st century BCE.
Baths of Diocletian, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: eulogy; death; women
Alcestis relief
from the sarcophagus of C. Junius Euhodus and his wife Metilia Acte, priestess of the Magna Mater (Ostia); Alcestis bids farewell to Admetus and her two children (center); the faces are thought to be portraits of the deceased; on the right Proserpina and Hades look on as Herakles brings from the Underworld a veiled woman to Admetus. Inscription. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; drama; myth; funeral; religion
Relief of Poet with muses.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; women; drama; myth
Marble Sarcophagus Relief in three sections;
2 women stand on left with girl child; 2 males, holding scroll, one holding pater, stand on right with boy; center: aedicula ( house or mausoleum) with slightly open figured doors, flanked by nude, crowned boys
(detail). Late classical.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; clothing
Sarcophagus lid:
relief of Perseus coming to the aid of Andromeda. Late classical.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; myth
Perseus with the head of Medusa:
neo-classical statue by Canova inspired by Apollo Belvedere. early 19th century.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; myth
Coastal City: terracotta relief of ships, monuments, divinities.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture
Relief of Poet with actors and masks, seated woman on the left reading;
central doorway with figured doors.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; drama
Battle of the Amazons and the Greeks: Sarcophagus relief
of pitched battle, with Achilles in the center holding the slain Penthesileia
(detail). 3rd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; war; myth
Mithras terracotta relief dedicated by Atimetus
shows the god slaying the bull in the presence of the snake and the dog, as Helios and Selene look on; inscription dedication begins: SOLI INVICTO DEO. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; war
Sarcophagus relief of a woman with a scroll;
she appears in each of three panels: in the center, in a kind of aedicula, she stands veiled,with a child at her feet holding her cloak; on either side she is grouped in conversation with the same seated male and standing woman, all holding texts.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; women
Relief panel from the Ara Pacis: procession of senators
from the north side of the altar, with many heads restored; this panel from Augustus' altar has been retained in the Vatican collections. 23 BCE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; Augustus; religion
Relief panel: this portion shows 2 robed bacchantes
dancing around the sacrificial bull; one holds a torch.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; women
Dancing Warriors: Relief of nude soldiers
with helmets and shields, turning in the Pyrrhic dance(?). Roman copy of the late Republic.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; military; chorus
Birth of Dionysus from thigh of seated Zeus:
relief portrays Mercury bending to receive the infant into a blanket while a priest and two females stand by. 2nd century CE form a Greek original of the 4th century BCE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; women
Molossian Hound
: a dog celebrated in antiquity (see Vergil, Georgics 3.405).
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; animal; myth
Melpomene: Muse of Tragedy
with ivy leaves in her hair, holding a tragic mask. Found near Tivoli. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; drama; myth
Erato: Muse of Lyric,
, crowned and seated with a lyre (the sound box is formed of tortoise shell and oxhide, with two slender curved horn side pieces). Found near Tivoli. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; poetry; myth; music
Calliope: Muse of Epic,
seated with stylus and wax tablet. Found near Tivoli. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; poetry; myth
Thalia: Muse of Comedy,
crowned and seated holding a tympanum and stick, beside a comic mask. Found near Tivoli. 2nd century CE.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; poetry; myth; music
Delphic Tripod: architectonic sculpture
with interior figures of Herakles in the Temple of Apollo, fighting with his servants as he tries to steal the tripod.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; gods; heroes; myth
Produce Mosaic:
colorful composition of chicken, fish, shrimp, olives, vegetables.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: mosaic; food; daily life
Masked Actor with cloak and boots.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; drama; mask
Bust of Masked Actor
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; drama; mask
Augustus worshipping, veiled, holding a patera.
Vatican Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; emperor; religion
Ludovisi Throne:
Relief of birth of Aphrodite from the genitals of Uranus, rising from the sea assisted by the two Horae.
Altemps Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; religion; god
Family tomb marker:
relief of mother and father, right hands clasped, beside veiled daughter. 40-30 BCE.
Altemps Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; death; women
Diana holding young animal.
Altemps Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; gods; myth
Roman Fountain basin in ophite, a rare green Egyptian marble, on a white marble stem.
Altemps Museum, Rome. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture; daily life; furniture
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