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This Marriage Scene is on the front of a Roman Sarcophagus (circa 150-200 AD).
Museo Civico Archeologico, Orvieto; March 2017
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A painting from the beginning of the first century A.D. a musician and two dancing men. From the great columbarium close to Villa Doria Pamphili. A columbarium has niches to place urns with ashes of the dead - in this case mostly freedmen (and -women).
Now at Museo Nazionale Romano.
The Capitoline Temple at Dougga overlooks the Roman forum. Dougga was the capital of ancient Punic and Roman Tunisian states.
Arch of Septimius Severus (Arco di Settimio Severo) at Roman Forum in Rome, Italy
Info: 'Starting in 66 BC, the Romans engaged in a series of battles with the Parthian Empire (ancient Iran) known as the Roman-Parthian Wars. When peace was declared in 202, this triumphal arch was erected at the Roman Forum the following year. Its namesake was Septimius Severus. He was a Roman emperor from 193 until 211. The monument measures 75.5 feet tall and 82 feet wide. Years later, the conflicts with Parthia were renewed until the empire was finally destroyed in 226.'
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These articulated skeletons were excavated beneath the debris of a Late Roman house at Kourion, destroyed in the 4th century AD by an earthquake. A man in his mid 20s attempts to protect a young woman, who in turn clutches an infant in her arms. A chi-rho ring identifies the man as a Christian.
So this might be one of my last few builds for the next months,
My wife is on the end of her pregnancy so life is really knocking on the door.
I have been sick this week, so as the saying goes in Holland "for every disadvantage there is an advantage."
I actually had time to tear a few mocs apart and build a new one. So that's lucky.
As for the tree, I partially used Ralf's technique, but I made the construction inside more sturdy as it was way too fragile to let the tree stay up.
So here is my latest unexpected moc,
Roman Ambush :)
The Roman Cistern in Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 6th century by Justinian for underground water storage. The columns were taken from other old roman era buildings, and so do not match. It still holds water, which reflects the light and the people at the opposite end.
I had every opportunity in Jamaica to rent a car, or take a trip and go and explore the island. To go see Dunn River Falls, or explore Negril or an unexplored part of the island. I could have researched places to photograph and exploit their natural beauty for both sunrise, and sunset, and then some star-trails at night…
But instead I took Saturday off. I laid out at the pool, ate some Jerk chicken, read my bible on the beach, played beach volleyball, and did some people watching. All alone. No internet. No TV. Just lived a Corona commercial for hours on end.
To quote Office Space, “I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I hoped it’d be”
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The old Roman Harbour; This shot is taken with Lukeys in the Regional Natural Park Of Gianola and Scauri - (Lazio; Italy)
Nikon d90 Tamron 70 200 - lee gnd + hitech pro stop
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The Roman architecture is simply amazing. The Colosseum and forum is so full of history can't be missed when you visit Rome. I took this HDR shot there during my visit a while back.
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.
The Roman Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century (Wikipedia).
Photo details: Exposure 1/45 sec at f/5.6 (ISO 200), Camera E-M10 with a Zoom 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lens at 14mm.
Photo by: Jerold Paterson, copyright ©2015 all rights reserved.
What was once part of a tombstone to a Roman centurion that stood beside a road... once broken, it has now been joined together, but the split still remains.
Make-believe Romantic Roman baths in Park Sans Souci. Postdam, Brandeburg. Germany.
Sans Souci is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. (2/26/2019)
A Roman bridge in Vaison la Romaine
This version was made on the road with my old laptop. An improved version made from 6 RAW images can be found here.
3-shot HDR from JPEGs
The Roman Baths are a well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60-70CE in the first few decades of Roman Britain. Its presence led to the development of the small Roman urban settlement known as Aquae Sulis around the site. The Roman baths—designed for public bathing—were used until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th Century CE. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the original Roman baths were in ruins a century later. The area around the natural springs was redeveloped several times during the Early and Late Middle Ages.
The Roman Baths are preserved in four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House, and a museum which holds artefacts from Aquae Sulis. However, all buildings at street level date from the 19th century. It is a major tourist attraction in the UK, and together with the Grand Pump Room, receives more than 1.3 million visitors annually. Visitors can tour the baths and museum but cannot enter the water.
Hot spring
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath falls as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft) where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and 204.8 °F). Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. This process is similar to an enhanced geothermal system, which also makes use of the high pressures and temperatures below the earth's crust. Hot water at a temperature of 46 °C (114.8 °F) rises here at the rate of 1,170,000 litres (257,364 imp gal) every day, from a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault). In 1982 a new spa water bore-hole was sunk, providing a clean and safe supply of spa water for drinking in the Pump Room.
Water quality
Bath was charged with responsibility for the hot springs in a Royal Charter of 1591 granted by Elizabeth I. This duty has now passed to Bath and North East Somerset Council, who carry out monitoring of pressure, temperature and flow rates. The thermal waters contain sodium, calcium, chloride and sulphate ions in high concentrations.
The Roman Baths are no longer used for bathing. In October 1978, a young girl swimming in the restored Roman Bath with the Bath Dolphins, a local swimming club, contracted meningitis and died, leading to the closure of the bath for several years. Tests showed Naegleria fowleri, a deadly pathogen, in the water. The newly constructed Thermae Bath Spa nearby, and the refurbished Cross Bath, allow modern-day bathers to experience the waters via a series of more recently drilled boreholes.
History
Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts;[10] the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how the spring was discovered by the pre-Roman British king Bladud who built the baths there. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
Roman Britain
The name Suliis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (lukewarm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath).[15] After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
About 130 curse tablets have been found. Many of the curses are related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing.
Post-Roman use
The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century, when John of Tours built a curative bath over the King's Spring reservoir, and the 16th century, when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the spring. The court physician Théodore de Mayerne bathed Anne of Denmark in the King's Bath on 19 May 1613. She returned in August 1615. Anne of Denmark was surprised by a flame caused by natural gas in King's Bath, and thereafter used the New Bath or Queen's Bath where a column with a crown and the inscription "Anna Regnum Sacrum" was added in her honour.
The spring is now housed in 18th-century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810 the hot springs failed and William Smith opened up the Hot Bath Spring to the bottom, where he found that the spring had not failed but had flowed into a new channel. Smith restored the water to its original course.
The visitor entrance is via an 1897 concert hall by J. M. Brydon. It is an eastward continuation of the Grand Pump Room, with a glass-domed centre and single-storey radiused corner. The Grand Pump Room was begun in 1789 by Thomas Baldwin. He resigned in 1791 and John Palmer continued the scheme through to completion in 1799. The elevation on to Abbey Church Yard has a centre piece of four engaged Corinthian columns with entablatures and pediment. It has been designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building. The north colonnade was also designed by Thomas Baldwin. The south colonnade is similar but had an upper floor added in the late 19th century. The museum and Queen's Bath including the "Bridge" spanning York Street to the City Laundry were by Charles Edward Davis in 1889. It comprises a southward extension to the Grand Pump Room, within which some parts of the 17th-century Queen's Bath remain.
Volubilis was a prosperous Roman provincial capital of about 20,000 people. Much of the grain and olive oil that fed the city of Rome -- 1 million people strong at its height -- came from North Africa, and the main street of Volubilis was lined with the homes of wealthy landowners.
The two large columns, which date from the early 19th century and are replicas of the 2,400 year old Athena Polias, were salvaged from the old Grosvenor Hotel (demolished in 1988) having originally adorned a building in London
Porte Auguste in Nimes France is one of two remaining gateways into what once was a walled city. The six kilometer ramparts that surrounded the city were built by Augustus some two thousand years ago. nimesfrance.ca/attractions/porte-auguste.html
Nîmes, a city in the Occitanie region of southern France, was an important outpost of the Roman Empire. It’s known for well-preserved Roman monuments such as the Arena of Nîmes, a double-tiered circa-70 A.D. amphitheater still in use for concerts and bullfights. Both the Pont du Gard tri-level aqueduct and the Maison Carrée white limestone Roman temple are around 2,000 years old.
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Lyon, formerly known as Lugdunum, shows signs of occupation as far back as the 4th century BCE.
The city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 BCE on the Fourvière Hill, atop what is today known as Vieux Lyon. In fact, the name Fourvière comes from the Roman Forum, located on this site.
The Roman Forum, (Forum Romanum), was the central area of the city around which ancient Rome developed. It was designed by the architect Vitruvius with proportions 3:2 (length to width).
From left to right are the remains of the Temple of
Castor & Pollux, the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Temple of Saturn.
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The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history. Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
(Wikipedia)
Das Forum Romanum (Römischer Marktplatz) in Rom ist das älteste römische Forum und war Mittelpunkt des politischen, wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen und religiösen Lebens. Es liegt in einer Senke zwischen den drei Stadthügeln Kapitol, Palatin und Esquilin und war der Ort vieler öffentlicher Gebäude und Denkmäler.
Ursprünglich ein von einem Bach durchzogenes, sumpfiges Tal, wurde es laut der antiken Überlieferung, die nicht mit dem bis wohl ins 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. zurückreichenden archäologischen Befund übereinstimmt, erst unter dem legendären etruskischen König Lucius Tarquinius Priscus zu Beginn des 6. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. in die Stadt einbezogen. Den Höhepunkt seines prachtvollen Ausbaus erlebte es in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Es ist heute eine der wichtigsten Ausgrabungsstätten des antiken Roms.
(Wikipedia)