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61. TOREUTICS. Rome. Personification of Africa. Phiale from Boscoreale. Gold, silver. 1st century CE. Paris, Louvre Museum. | |
62. APPLIED ART. Rome. Bust of a Syrian (anthropomorphous vase). Bronze. 2nd-3rd cent. CE. Inv. No. Br 2947. Paris, Louvre Museum. | |
63. APPLIED ART. Rome. Bust of a Syrian (anthropomorphous vase). Bronze. 2nd—3rd cent. CE. Inv. No. Br 2947. Paris, Louvre Museum. | |
64. APPLIED ART. Egypt. Vessel with inscription of Nebneteru and epitaph of P. Claudius Pulcher. Alabaster. Manufactured in Egypt ca. 9th or 8th cent. BCE; imported to Rome and reinscribed late 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE. CIL VI 1282 = ILS 882. Inv. Nos. N 386 / D 34 / MR 889. Paris, Louvre Museum. | |
65. ADORNMENTS. Greece. Skull of a girl with a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers. Guilded ceramics, enamel. Hellenistic period, late 4th — 3rd cent. BCE. Patras, New Archaeological Museum. | |
66. ADORNMENTS. Greece. Skull of a girl with a wreath of fruits and myrtle flowers. Guilded ceramics, enamel. Hellenistic period, late 4th — 3rd cent. BCE. Patras, New Archaeological Museum. | |
67. ADORNMENTS. Greece. Skull of a girl with golden earrings and a wreath of myrtle fruits. Guilded ceramics. Hellenistic period, 300—275 BCE. Patras, New Archaeological Museum. | |
68. ADORNMENTS. Greece. Skull of a girl with golden earrings and a wreath of myrtle fruits. Guilded ceramics. Hellenistic period, 300—275 BCE. Patras, New Archaeological Museum. | |
69. APPLIED ART. Rome. Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum). Marble. First half of the 1st cent. BCE Inv. No. 3921. Pompeii, I. 6. 11. | |
70. APPLIED ART. Rome. Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum). A close-up. Marble.First half of the 1st cent. BCE Inv. No. 3921. Pompeii, I. 6. 11. | |
71. APPLIED ART. Rome. Tripod base of a table with lion heads and paws (trapezophorum). Detail. Marble. First half of the 1st cent. BCE Inv. No. 3921. Pompeii, I. 6. 11. | |
72. APPLIED ART. Rome. Chest. Pompeii, the granary market, now used as a deposit store for supplies and artifacts. Pompeii, Archaeological Park, Granary market (VII, 7, 29). | |
73. APPLIED ART. Rome. Cathedra of Maximianus. Ivory. 6th century. Ravenna, Archiepiscopal Museum. | |
74. APPLIED ART. Rome. The game of the “kings”. Inv. No. NCE 117. Rome, Capitoline Museums. | |
75. APPLIED ART. Etruria. Lion with an Etruscan inscription, scratched on its back. Ivory. 7th century BCE. Inv. No. AntCom 27876. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum. | |
76. APPLIED ART. Etruria. Lion with an Etruscan inscription, scratched on its back. Ivory. 7th century BCE. Inv. No. AntCom27876. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum. | |
77. SCULPTURE. Rome. Globe from atop the Vatican Obelisk, thought in Medieval times to contain Julius Caesar’s ashes. Gilded bronze. First half of the 1st cent. CE. Inv. No. S 1066. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Medieval Room. | |
78. APPLIED ART. Rome. Calendar with removable pins. (Saturn, Sun, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus). From the stone plate of the 3rd—4th centuries CE, found in Rome. Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization. | |
79. APPLIED ART. Etruria. Handle of a cista lid from Palestrina (Praeneste). Bronze. 4th century BCE. Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia. | |
80. APPLIED ART. Etruria. The Ficoroni Cista. Bronze. 3rd century BCE. Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia. | |