Inscription recording the offices of Cassius Cerealis who organised games honouring the Emperor Nero at the Puteoli amphitheater, near Naples. Dating to AD 54-68, the inscription is part of the collections at the Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei. #EpigraphyTuesday 📷 My own

Marble relief depicting a procession of the gods Apollo, Diana and Latona. Dating to 30 to 20 BC, the relief is part of the collections at the Altes Museum in Berlin. #ReliefWednesday 📸 My own.

#ReliefWednesday A funerary stele was dedicated by Sossia Iusta, a freedwoman manumitted from slavery, for a murmillo-type #gladiator named Quintus Sossius Albus, 2nd C AD, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia, Aquileia, #Italy. #History #Art #Roman

#ReliefWednesday Eos was the Greek goddess of the dawn, often known as Aurora in Rome. The beauty of Eos was so great she was often compared to Aphrodite. This fragment is thought to depict Eos riding sidesaddle in a large frieze depicting the Gigantomachy.

#ReliefWednesday - The Ludovisi Sarcophagus: discovered in 1621 near Porta Tiburtina, ca. AD 250-260. The deep-cut relief decoration has been interpreted as showing Hostilian, the son of Emperor Decius, in battle. #Roman #Art Image: National Roman Museum, Palazzo Altemps (8574)

#ReliefWednesday - 'The Three Tyches' - a (restored) Roman relief panel discovered on the Appian Way showing three goddesses, each sporting a crenellated mural crown: ca. AD 160. #Roman #Art Image: Louvre Collections (Ma590). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/…

#ReliefWednesday Wounded amazon on a fragment of a sarcophagus, Attic work, late 2nd - early 3rd century AD, found in Torcello island (Venice) in 1834. On display in room 18 #Venice #museum #collection

Aventicum, Gallia Belgica - Part I - RoaminTheEmpire roamintheempire.com/index.php/2024…

A #Roman urn fragment found in Piacenza. "(VOLUMNIUS) EUHELPISIUS (DEDICATED THIS) TO THE MANI GODS OF HIS MOST WONDERFUL WIFE, FREEDWOMAN VOLUMNIA REPENTINA, WHO LIVED FOR 23 YEARS" Per the archaeological museum within the Palazzo Farnese in #Piacenza, #Italy. Dated to 50-150 AD

About 1,400 years ago, a 1-year-old girl was buried with this necklace. The beads are made of glass, the copper alloy pendant has a cross on it From Rottenburg, Sülchen Church, 1st half of the C7th On display at our Great State Exhibition THE hidden LÄND thehiddenlaend.de

New post this week, the first of two, on Aventicum (Avenches, #Switzerland), founded in the late 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE. Part one starts with the excellent museum and amphitheater. roamintheempire.com/index.php/2024… #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

#FrescoFriday asks us to sail away sail away sail away from the week days and make haste for the weekend. Let Venus show you the way to rest and recuperation from her delightful seashell.

#FrescoFriday - From the exedra of the House of the Citharist, Pompeii (I.4.25), a fresco depicting Bacchus and his entourage discovering the abandoned Ariadne on the shore of Naxos. Now faded, still gorgeous! #Pompeii #Myth Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9286)

#FrescoFriday - A fabulous harbour scene from the Villa San Marco, Stabiae - discovered 17 January 1752. There is such precision in the handling of the architecture and I love the sense of movement in the water. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9514)

#FrescoFriday - From the House of Gavius Rufus, Pompeii (VII.2.16), comes this scene from the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. Pirithous receives the homage of a Centaur... before the conflict breaks out!. #Pompeii #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9044)

#Neolithic textile production: an amazing find! A charred spindle with a charred ball of flax thread. Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition.

#FrescoFriday; from an indeterminate location in the western part of #Pompeii, a painting of Narcissus admiring his reflection in a pool as Cupid observes. First century CE. Part of an exhibition in the Grand Palaestra at Pompeii (2023). #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy

A beautiful #Roman necklace, made of plaited gold & set with garnet & sapphire, with a butterfly pendant hanging from it. It was found in #Rome, & made about 1900-2000 years ago #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology