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Colosseum Ruins Rome, Italy

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Trajan's Column Rome, Italy

[thearchaicsmile]

ὡς γὰρ ἐπεκλώσαντο θεοὶ δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσι ζώειν ἀχνυμένοις αὐτοὶ δέ τ᾽ ἀκηδέες εἰσί.

"Such is the fate the gods have spun for frail mortals, that our lives are full of suffering, while they never feel pain."

— Homer, Iliad

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Funerary  stele of Virdomarus and his sister. From Solin, Dalmatia. I century AD. Marble. Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, Verona.

myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome 

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The head of a statue ostensibly identified as Empress Messalina. It bears marks of intentional damage which would fit the decree passed by the Senate damning Messalina's memory after her execution by Emperor Claudius.

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Nicely preserved Roman coin featuring a portrait of Agrippina the Elder, the mother of Emperor Caligula. Agrippina died in exile during the reign of Tiberius. Her son retrieved her remains and had her reinterred in the Mausoleum of Augustus in a show of familial piety. The coin was minted during his reign.

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~ Portrait Head of a Woman, probably the Empress Faustina Minor.

Date: ca. A.D. 165

Place of origin/Culture: Italy, Roman

Medium: Marble

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Pompeii, Italy

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Theatre Ruins Pompeii, Italy

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Pompeii, Italy

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A portrait considered to be of Gaius Caesar, grandson of the emperor Augustus by his daughter Julia. Gaius and his younger brother Lucius were groomed as his successors and attained the highest offices in the state. In 3AD he was wounded during a campaign in Armenia and died the following year at the age of twenty-three. His passing led to Tiberius taking up the mantle of Augustus' successor.

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~ Female face.

Date: ca. 280-150 B.C.

Provinience: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Orcus (Tomb of the Ogre, Tomb of Murina) (Tarquinia, Tomba dell’Orco (Tomba dei Murina)).

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Emperor Titus (reworked portrait of Domitian). After 96 AD. Marble. Musei Vaticani. Inv. 1687

myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome 

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Ariadne

Lucanian Red Figure bell krater representing Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur, Classical period, ca.440/20 BCE.

ETRU Museo Nazionale etrusco di Villa Giulia

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House of the Faun Pompeii, Italy

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Apollo, Pompei, Napoli.

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Portrait of a woman. 160-170 AD. Marble. Musei Vaticani. Inv. 2241

myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome