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Coins with laureate, radiate, or diademed heads of emperors (obverse) and the goddess Roma (reverse): copper sestertius of Galba, copper dupondius of Vespasian, copper dupondius of Titus, silver denarius of Hadrian, copper sestertius of Antoninus Pius, copper sestertius of Severus Alexander, and silver siliqua of Valens

Roman (all minted at Rome, except Valens, minted at Trier), A.D. 68 to 364-378

British Museum

Source: didoofcarthage
#numismatics#ancient coin#Ancient Rome#Roman Empire#British Museum#(The British Museum's website isn't working terribly well right now or I would have searched more for earlier emperors.#A lot of the examples they have are from very late emperors like Gratian.)#emperor#Imperial Period#Imperial Rome#coin#silver#copper#copper alloy#dupondius#denarius#siliqua#sestertius#Roma#goddess#personification#Galba#Vespasian#Titus#Hadrian#Antoninus Pius#Severus Alexander#Valens#Roman emperor
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Plaques with reliefs of the hero Pelops and Hippodamia (top) and her father King Oinomaos mounting a chariot with the help of charioteer Myrtilos (bottom) 

Roman, Augustan or Julio-Claudian Period, 27 B.C.-A.D. 68

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art x x

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#ancient art#Ancient Rome#Imperial Rome#mythology#Pelops#Hippodamia#Oinomaos#Myrtilos#art#relief#plaque#sculpture#chariot#chariot race#terracotta#Augustan Period#Julio-Claudian Period#hero#Metropolitan Museum of Art#Roman#Imperial Period
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“Interno del Colosseo” by Giovanni Battista Altadonna

Italian, 1850s

albumen silver print from glass negative

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source: metmuseum.org
#This is from when all the Christian monuments were still there.#If you look closely you can see the cross with INRI.#Colosseum#Ancient Rome#archaeology#history#Rome#Imperial Period#Imperial Rome#photography#photograph#Italian#albumen silver print#albumen print#Metropolitan Museum of Art#amphitheater#Flavian Amphitheater#Flavian dynasty
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Sarcophagus with revelers gathering grapes. Roman, c. 225. Pentelic marble. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 

Description by Cornelis C. Vermeule from Eye of the Beholder: 

In terms of antiquarian fame—marbles copied in sketchbooks, paintings, or sculptures from the Renaissance on—the most important work of art in the Gardner collection, and perhaps of its type in America, is the sarcophagus with satyrs and maenads gathering grapes. This large, rectangular coffin of Pentelic marble with one long side and both ends elaborately carved and polished (the second long side left in a less finished state because it stood against a wall in the funerary chamber), was exported from Athens to the area of Rome in the late Severan period, between circa 222 to 235 AD. The occupants of the monument are unknown, since the lid was lost or destroyed some time around 1500. The groups of reveling couples on all sides, combined with the type of lid found on other examples of this Attic imperial sarcophagus, suggest a husband and wife were shown on top, as if reclining at a symposium on an elaborate couch.
Source: gardnermuseum.org
#art history#ancient art#Ancient Rome#sacrophagus#marble#satyr#maenad#mythology#art#sculpture#relief#Roman#Roman Empire#Imperial Period#Imperial Rome#Severan Period#Severan dynasty#coffin#funerary monument#Pentelic marble#Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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