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Pergamon Acropolis: model
showing palaces on the upper slope and temple of Dionysus, stoa, theater, altar (close-up
front,
side)on lower slope. The altar sat on a squarish platform 36.44 meters by 34.2 meters.
Pergamon, 2nd century BCE.
Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: architecture, city, theater, temple
The Great Altar at Pergamon:
view from north side,
south side;
Eastern frieze (view from top of the 20 meter wide altar stair)--Zeus and Athena panels; northern projection beside the stair(close-up of relief,
detail,
view from above);
southern projection. The marble frieze, 2.3 meters high, surrounded the altar (120 meters); it tells the story of the Battle of the Gods and Giants.
Pergamon, 2nd century BCE.
Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture, religion
Telephus Frieze:
Building of Auge's Boat, part of the marble relief 1.58 meters high belonging to the sacrificial altar in the upper court of the great
; it narrated the story of the life of Telephus, son of Herakles and founder of the city of Pergamon.
Pergamon, 2nd century BCE.
Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005
Keywords: sculpture, religion
Portus: Reconstruction
Two miles north of Ostia Claudius (following a plan of Julius Caesar's to replace the silted harbor of Ostia) excavated and built two long moles and a lighthouse to serve as a harbor for merchant and military ships. Because the moles were insufficient protection, Trajan added a deeper, larger internal
hexagonal harbor. Sketch of the marble
Torlonia Relief, showing ships docking in the harbor at Portus. In time, a town, complete with theater grew up around the
double harbor on the canal connecting
to the Tiber. Warehouses along the
canal. View of the Via Ostiensis
connecting Rome to Ostia, showing Portus, sitting on the Fiumicino river, a branch of the Tiber. See
Ostia: Harbour City of Ancient Rome.
Mid-1st-early 2nd century CE.
Rome, Museo di Via Ostiense. Credits: Ann Raia, 2004
Keywords: navy, commerce, transportation, engineering, empire
Roman Theater Ticket: drawing of both sides
Obverse: the structure resembles the Theater of Pompey, with a curved seating area/steps and a shrine at the top in the center. Reverse: XI HMIKYKLIA [semicircle] I^[LAMBDA]. (Bibliotheque Nationale)
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. 1898. Keywords: theater, stage
Etruscan Alabaster Cinerary Urn: relief on front
A couple recline in a covered wagon (carpentum) on their way to the underworld, surrounded by mourners.
From Volterra, 100-50 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: death, sculpture, marriage
Marble Bust of Julia Agrippina, wearing an imperial crown
The daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius (49), mother of Nero.
Rome, mid 1 century CE. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: empire, sculpture, women
Bronze Parade mask of a woman, an Amazon(?)
smaller. Parade masks were used for cavalry displays and worn by soldiers.
Found on a skeleton's face in a tomb at Nola, So. Italy, 2 century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: military, women, funerary
Bronze Genius figurine.
A man's protective spirit sacrificing; he holds an acerra (lost incense box)in his left hand and a ball of incense in his right.
Roman, 70-100 CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice
Bronze Lar figurine.
Gody of the larder, he pours wine from a dolphin shaped drinking horn into a patera, a libation dish.
Roman, 1st century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice, home
Bronze Lar figurine.
God of the success of the house, he holds symbols of fertility.
Roman, 1st-4th century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice, home
Painted Terracotta statuette of an elderly nurse holding a child.
Greek. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: child, slave, home
Painted Terracotta bust of Cupid embracing Psyche.
Centuripe, South Italy. 200-100 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: myth, religion, love
Painted Terracotta statuette of a winged female eros clinging to the back of a woman. Left
view, Right view.
Centuripe, South
Italy. 200-100 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: women, love
Seated women, painted terracotta mold statuette
Elegantly dressed seated ladies(perhaps Demeter with her daughter Persephone) conversing intimately (plain background).
. Myrina (Asia Minor). 100 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006, 2008.
Keywords: domestic, women, dress, religion
Bronze Penates figurine.
One of the Penates, the protective spirits in the Roman house particularly concerned with the larder. This figure holds a cornucopia and patera, insuring that the family is well provided with life's necessities.
Roman, 1st-3rd century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice
Bronze Lictor figurine.
Wearing a toga, he carries the fasces, symbol of imperium.
Roman, 20 BCE-20 CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: politics, office, republic
Bronze Hygeia figurine.
Sacrificing, the goddess of health wears a headdress with fillets; she holds a snake on her right arm and in her left hand a libation dish.
Roman, 1st century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice, health
Terracotta Votive Models of 1. Eye, 2. Uterus, 3. Ear, 4. Breast, 5. Intestines.
In Greece and Rome replicas of body parts were often dedicated in shrines of healing gods in thanks for or hopes of a cure.
Roman, 3-1st century BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, health, body
Game of Knucklebones: painted terracotta group.
Two women crouch on the ground playing with knucklebones they hold in their hands.
Capua, 340-330 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: women, entertainment, sculpture
Mosaic: Leda and the swan.
From a Roman house in Paphos, Cyprus, late 2nd century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: myth, women, gods
Votive Bronze Plaque
Inscription dedicated to the goddess Feronia, worshipped particularly by freedpersons, by Hedone, Greek maid of M. Crassus: HEDONE/ M. CRASSI ANCILLA/ FERONIAE V[otum]S[olvit] L[ibens] M[erito]. Roman, 2nd century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: women, gods, slave
Silver Distaff
Implement for holding wool or flax to spin into thread. Roman. From a tomb at Bursa, Asia Minor, early 1 century CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: women, work, funeral, clothing
Bucchero tray in form of brazier
From a tomb at Chiusi. Etruscan. 550-500 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: funeral, domestic, women, home
Bronze Priestess.
A votive statuette of a priestess wearing a headdress and pouring a libation from a phiale.
Found near Sanctuary of Diana Nemi. Etrusco-Latin, 200-100 BCE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sacrifice, women
Fortuna: silver statuette with gilt traces.
The crowned goddess holds a cornucopia in her left hand; her right arm is lost. Roman (probably made in Gaul) 200-225 CE. London, British Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: myth, women, gods
Gold Stater: head of Pan.
From Pantiliapaion on the Black Sea, 370-50 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, myth, gods
Marble Statuette of Cybele, the Mother Goddess
(side view) Roman, 1-2 century CE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, myth, gods
Marble Statuette of the triple-bodied Hekate,
framed by torches, encircled by the 3 Graces. Roman, 1-2 century CE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, myth, gods
Silver Stater: Nike sitting on a cippus holding a bird on one hand.
From Terina, Bruttium, 400-356 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, victory, gods
Silver Stater: Nike striding.
From Elis, 471-460 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, victory, gods
Silver Tetradrachm: head of Hermes facing out.
From Ainos, Thrace, 405-357 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, Mercury, gods
Silver Tetradrachm: wreathed head of Dionysus.
From Naxos, Sicily, 461-450 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, myth, gods
Silver Stater: crowned head of Hera (name inscribed over her crown.
From Elis, 410-390 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, goddess, gods
Terracotta plaque: Odysseus takes hold of the wrist of dejected Penelope upon his return; Laertes, Telemachos, Eumaios watch on left.
Greek Melian, 450 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Odyssey, relief sculpture, myth, epic
Marble relief: two goddesses sacrificing.
Their heads are missing but their clothes have the appearance of Demeter & Persephone; the goddess on the right throws incense on the burner shaped like an altar. From Eleusis, Roman, 1-2 century CE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: sculpture, goddess, religion.
Terracotta head of a woman, perhaps a sphinx akroterion of a small building.
Greek, 1st quarter 5th century BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: woman, sculpture, myth
Terracotta statuette of a woman kneading bread in a tall bowl.
Greek. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: domestic, sculpture
Relief fragment, terracotta: Hades snatching Persephone.
Wonderful expressions. Greek, South Italian, Locrian 470-60 BCE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: goddess, sculpture, myth.
Terracotta votive statuette of the syncretic Isis-Aphrodite.
Painted, crowned, nude. Egyptian Greco-Roman, 2nd century CE. NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: goddess, sculpture, religion.
Bust of Marius (?)
c. 50-40 BCE.
Munich, Glyptothek. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: army, sculpture, Republic, dictator, politics.
Bust of Sulla (?)
c. 50-40 BCE.
Munich, Glyptothek. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: army, sculpture, Republic, dictator, politics.
Mosaic
fragment of lovers on the Nile. Praeneste. Late Hellenistic. Berlin, Altes Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: Egypt, Hellenistic.
Agrippa
marble head from the Prytneion of Magnesia. Imperial Rome, early. Berlin, Altes Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: army, Principate, Augustus, sculpture, politics, portrait.
Bust of Julius Caesar of green basanite
Berlin, Altes Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: army, sculpture, Republic, dictator, politics.
Bust of Menander marble
Roman copy of the Greek comic playwright wearing an ivy wreath; from a Greek original of the late 4th century BCE.Oxford, Ashmolean. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: comedy, portrait, theater.
Head of Cleopatra VII (51-30 BCE: obverse of a bronze coin
Oxford, Ashmolean. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: coin, Egypt, woman.
Standing Female marble funerary sculpture
The woman is dressed in a tunic, stola, and is partially draped in a palla; she wears a veil with a diadem, signifying deification (common in women's grave statues). Hellenizing influence; 2nd quarter of the 2nd century CE. Found at Porto d'Anzio. Oxford, Ashmolean. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: woman, dress, funerary
Antonia Minor, marble, full-length statue
Crowned, holding a scroll (?), carrying a cornucopia, she is depicted as a 5th century BCE Hera. From the theater in Falerii, mid 1st century CE. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: imperial, woman, sculpture
Unknown woman, marble, full-length statue
Modestly wrapped in a mantle, she was found in the Prytaneion of Magnesia. Beginning 1st century BCE. Berlin, Pergamon Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: woman, eastern, dress, sculpture
Haliphat. Limestone funerary relief bust
Aramaic inscription identifies this fashionable bejeweled woman of Palmyra's prosperous merchant class. The busts covered the openings of burial compartments in family tombs located in the desert outside the city that flourished during the Roman Empire as a caravan oasis on the trade route linking the Mediterranean with West and Central Asia.
Palmyra, Syria., dated 231 CE. Washington, DC, Smithsonian: Freer-Sackler Gallery. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: woman, Empire, dress.
Etruscan Spirit Vessel. Bronze with animal decorations.
Probably served as a lamp, 1000-500 BCE. Washington, DC, Smithsonian: Natural History Museum (on loan from Hirschhorn Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, sculpture, tomb.
Fresco. Fragment of a wall/ceiling panel.
Bacchus and Ariadne with garlands and wine cups, dancing
(detail). Roman 1-75 CE. Malibu, Getty Villa. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
Keywords: religion, drama, painting.
Menander Busts: Bronze 1-25 CE,
Marble 100-150 CE
These portraits of the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BCE)were modeled after the original bronze by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (fl. 340-290 BCE)which was set up in the Theater of Dionysus after Menander's death. Roman. Malibu, Getty Villa. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
Keywords: theater, comedy, portrait.
Oil lamp. Bronze, with handle.
The top is in the shape of a comic slave mask: oil was poured in through the mouth, wick was in front spout.
Roman 75-125 CE. Malibu, Getty Villa. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
Keywords: comedy, theater.
Hanging Oil lamp, terracotta, double-spouted.
Made from a mold, the top is in the shape of a sleeping or drunken slave wearing a mask, fleecy undergarments, a short tunic.
Roman 100-200 CE. Malibu, Getty Villa. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
Keywords: comedy, theater.
Bronze Incense Burners (thymiateria)--
1. Comic Slave in Greek dress on Altar: Front view, Side view. Silver eyes; smoke from the burning incense came through the mouth.
2. Singer seated on Altar: Front view,
Side view. He holds a sistrum, an instrument associated with the rites of the goddess Isis and thus may be performing in a ritual. Incense is placed in the altar to burn; smoke rises through his mouth.
Roman 1-50 CE. Malibu, Getty Villa. Credits: Ann Raia, 2007.
Keywords: comedy, theater, figurine.
Empress Sabina Marble bust.
Detail of her
hairdo
Roman 130-40 CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
http://www.cnr.edu/home/sas/araia/Vergil_materfamilias.html. Keywords: Empire, women, dress, sculpture.
Empress Sabina Brass medallion.
Inscription: Sabina Augusta. Roman 117-30 CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, women, hair, sculpture.
Woman Marble bust.
Roman 3rd century CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, women, dress, sculpture.
Girl Marble bust.
Roman 3rd century CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, child, dress, sculpture.
Empress Faustina minor Marble bust.
Roman mid-2nd century CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, women, dress, sculpture.
Roman Wolf (lupa) with suckling twins. Silver didrachem.
269-6 BE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Republic, coin, legend, Romulus.
Altar Votive model, terracotta.
Roman. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion.
Marble Altar dedicated to Jupiter, the Sun, Serapis
All four sides bear relief scenes: Oak crown inscribed within: I[ovi] O[ptimo] M[aximo] Soli Sarapidi/ Scipio Orfitus v[ir] c[larrissimus]/ augur/voti compos redditus; Togate youth annoints a bull for sacrifice; Soldier rides a bull toward a reclining goddess(?Terra mater? Italia ?) from a walled precinct in the background (detail); Winged Victory hails the goddess Roma seated before a tropaeum (detail).
Found on Via Appia. Rome, Capitoline Museum (Nuovo). Late 3rd century CE. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005, 2009.
Keywords: religion, military, Sol Invictus, sculpture.
Bronze Sistrum (rattle) of Isis.
Egyptian. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: religion, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Mature Female Headof marble: Matrona or Vestal?
She wears a stern expression, a headband under her veil and a band around her throat
(sideview).
.
Roman, 49 BCE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: women, Republic, portrait, sculpture.
Faustina the Younger Bronze sestercius.
Empress, daughter of Antoninus Pius, wife of Marcus Aurelius. Inscribed: Faustinae Aug[ustae] Pii Aug[usti] Fil[iae].
Roman, c. 145 CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, women, coin.
Faustina the Elder Brass medallion.
Empress, daughter of M. Annius Verus, wife of Antoninus Pius. Deified after her death, it is inscribed: Diva Augusta Faustina.
Roman, c. 138-141 CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, women, coin.
Girl Headof marble.
(View of hair).
Roman, 200 CE. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2006.
Keywords: Empire, portrait, sculpture.
Aureus of Augustus
Augustus, togate, seated on folding stool on platform, extending his hand to an infant held toward him by male wearing cap and short cloak; inscription: IMP[ERATOR] XIIII (Imperator for the 14th time). 8 BCE.
Berlin, Charlottenburg Museum. Credits: Ann Raia, 2005.
Keywords: Empire, coins.
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