🪔 For eyes pleasure: Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo. It was built between 134 and 139 AD, and #Hadrian's ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138 AD, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who died in 138. 📸 me. No filters, no photo editing.
🪔 On this frieze from the Trajan's Column one can see two scenes from the 1st Dacian war: above one can see #Trajan and his troops traveling by ship, then reaching shore and disembarking. Below Trajan is giving his second adlocutio - a speech addressed to his legions. 📸 me
🪔 For #FrescoFriday: Fresco fragment of a Calendar with Children bearing offerings to the goddess Diana. Beginning of the 3rd century A.D. Ostia, from an edifice near Porta Laurentina. Now in Musei Vaticani. 📸 me
🪔 For the #RuinOftheDay: remains of the Temple of Rome and Augustus right behind the Parthenon of Acropolis in Athens. It was likely built between 19 and 17 BC and it is the only Athenian temple dedicated to the cult of the Emperor. 📸 me
🪔 For #FrescoFriday: a wall-painting with a reclining Naiad, drinking from a horn. Dated to AD 30-50, it was found at a Roman villa at Campo Varano, #Stabiae. Now in the BM. 📸 me
🪔 #OnThisDay Septimius Severus was born in 145 AD at Lepcis Magna. In this post – the only preserved ancient painting of #Severus’ family showing himself, his wife Julia Domna and sons Caracalla and Geta. After the murder of Geta his face was scratched out. In Altes Museum, Berlin. 📸 me.
🪔 #OnThisDay in 47 BC, at the battle of the Nile, 15 years old Ptolemy VIII, trying to escape, drowned after his boat capsized. After his death, Egypt was left to #Cleopatra, and Caesar entered Alexandria. Cleopatra tetradrachm in the post was minted in Ashkelon in 50-49 BC, now in the BM. 📸 me
🪔 On the slope of the #Halberg hill, overlooking the #Saar (Germany), was once located a roman Vicus Saravus – it stood on the Roman road linking Divodurum (Metz) to Borbitomagus (Wörms). During the Late Roman Empire this place was home to a Roman legion camp and legionnaires were using he Halberg grotto as a sanctuary to the god #Mithras. #romanarchaeology#archaeology#antiquity#ancientart#ancientrome#ancienthistory @archaeodons@histodons @antiquidons
🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: an inscription "FVLGVR DIVOM CONDITVM" - or "Buried Jupiter lightning". In antiquity, the places where lightning struck the ground were sacred and an inscription recalling the event was placed there. Romanité Museum, Nîmes. 📸 me
🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian sailor after 26 years of service in the imperial fleet. 📸 me
🪔 For eyes pleasure: three roman glass vessels dated to the 1st-3rd cc AD, now on dispay in the Romanité Museum of Nîmes. 📸 me
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🪔 For #ReliefWednesday: depiction of Helios from the ceiling coffer of the Captives Facade, formerly part of the northern Basilica in Ancient Corinth. 2nd half of the 2nd c. AD. 📸 me
🪔 For #ReliefWednesay: a funerary stele with the insignia of a centurion from #Burnum, #Croatia. Dated to the 1st quarter of the 1st c. AD, it depicts a set of nine phalerae connected by a belt. 👉 It is now in the Archaeological Museum of #Zadar, Croatia. 📸 me
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#OnThisDay in 58 B was born Livia Drusilla, Augustus’s devoted and influential wife who stayed with him for over fifty years, from 38 BC until his death in AD 14. She bore him no child, but after Augustus death, she secured the imperial succession for her son Tiberius. #OTD #romanarchaeology#archaeology#antiquity#ancientart#ancientrome#ancienthistory @archaeodons@histodons @antiquidons