Asklepios. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC. The inscription on the plinth indicates the statuette to be a votive gift.
Courtesy & currently located at the Vatican Museums, Italy. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen
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Wounded Amazon, Roman copy of Greek original by Phidias with head a replica from Polykleitos, 440-430 BC, Marble.
Courtesy & currently located at the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy. Photo taken by mharrsch.
Ancient Roman relief from Trajan’s Column, 113AD
Ancient Roman marble Portrait of Antinous (AD 112–130) as a priest of the imperial cult. Found in Cyrene, Libya.
Striding sphinx. Phoenician, 899–700 B.C. From Nimrud, Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 11/12. Ivory.
Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Colossal bust of Zeus known as Jupiter of Versailles. Found in 1525 near the Porta del Popolo in Rome. Given in 1623 to Louis XIV, who asked Jacques Drouilly to transform it into a herm pillar. Marble, 2nd century CE.
Photo taken by Jastrow at the Louvre, Paris, France.
The Ancient Roman Vestal Virgins. Photo taken from the House of the Vestal Virgins in the Roman Forum, Rome.
The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta in charge of maintaining the sacred fire within the Temple of Vesta on the Forum Romanum. They were the only female priests within the roman religious system.
The vestal virgins were selected at an age from three to ten, and served thirty years. Only after these 30 years could they marry. The average life expectancy of a high class Roman of the era was about 40 years.
The vestals vowed to live in chastity for the thirty years their term lasted. The punishment for breaking the vow of chastity was death by burial alive—the only way to kill a vestal without shedding her blood. Their lover would be flogged to death on the Comitium. The execution of one or more vestal virgins were carried out several times, but very infrequently.
The vestal virgins lived in the House of the Vestal Virgins on the Forum Romanum, near the Temple of Vesta. The order of the vestals was disbanded in 394 AD, when non-Christian cults were banned.
Photo credit: myworldmybook
The Ancient Egyptian Temple of Philae, photo taken by Reiner Martin
Denarius of Caesar Augustus Celebrating His Triumph at Actium. Rome: Imperial, 28 BC, Silver, 2cm wide.
This silver coin features a portrait of Gaius Octavius, better known as Caesar Augustus, the first citizen of Rome. The reverse of the coin depicts a crocodile, the symbol of Egypt, with the text “Egypto Capta.” This inscription refers to Augustus’s recent victory over Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium.
