A statue of a Roman holding the busts of his ancestors, the so-called The Barberini statue is one of the main examples of Roman portrait sculpture mastery of the ancient period.jpeg (233.16 КБ) 136 просмотров
Lidded cinerary urn. Blown, tooled and applied glass. Roman empire, probably Cologne, Germany, late 1st to early 2nd c AD. Toledo Museum of Art collection.jpeg (7.68 МБ) 125 просмотров
Alexander the Great on a Roman medallion from the 3rd century CE, found in Abu Qir, northern Egypt. Alexander is wearing an Attic helmet with his head raised, suggesting his divinity.jpeg (251.42 КБ) 96 просмотров
The remains of a Zoroastrian fire temple in Iran. Its believed to have dated to the time of the Sassanian Empire (which lasted from 224 - 651AD).jpeg (4.39 МБ) 96 просмотров
Insula Ara Coeli in Rome. The photos were taken from the level of a modern pavement; underground is a high ground floor and a mezzanine. The photos perfectly show how the ground level has risen over the centuries.jpeg (683.59 КБ) 93 просмотра
Cameo depicting Philemon, a Greek comedy writer who lived in the 4th-3rd centuries BCE. The artifact is located in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.jpeg (208.96 КБ) 93 просмотра
