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[thatshowthingstarted]

Roman gold ring With nicolo intaglio set in gold bezel, Circa 100-300 AD,

Glass stone engraved with scene of two roosters pulling a mouse in a chariot. 

Size: D: 16.92mm / US: 6 1/2 / UK: N; 20.94g

Courtesy: Apollo Galleries & Auctions

[thefloatingstone]

The dead are gone and with them we cannot converse. The living are here and ought to have our love. Leaving the city-gate I look ahead And see before me only mounds and tombs. The old graves are ploughed up into fields, The pines and cypresses are hewn for timber. In the white aspens sad winds sing; Their long murmuring kills my heart with grief. I want to go home, to ride to my village gate. I want to go back, but there's no road back.

-- unknown Author (the Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry) somewhere around 100BC or 100AD

[gareis-archive]

[  in  response  to,  @100ad  ]  :  A  SHORT  STINT  IN  HUMANITY  TAUGHT  HIM  IT'S  LESSONS  !  people,  inhuman  or  not,  always  wanted  something.   apparently  this  vampire  was  no  fucking  different  from  the  lot  of  them,  demanding  from  the  young  man  as  each  person  before  him  had;  each  one  taking  a  little  piece  of  him  away.   "  and  what  makes  you  think  i  give  a  shit  what  you  want  from  me?  "   bared  teeth  are  not  intentional,  hunger  driving  the  fangs  from  his  gums.

[archaeologistd]

P1340788 Pantheon (24) by archaeologist_d Via Flickr: Pantheon, Rome, Italy

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P1340788 Pantheon (9) by archaeologist_d Via Flickr: Pantheon, Rome, Italy

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P1340788 Pantheon (8) by archaeologist_d Via Flickr: Pantheon, Rome, Italy

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P1340788 Pantheon (5) by archaeologist_d Via Flickr: Pantheon, Rome, Italy