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The frescoes were discovered in the years 1939 and 1940 in the area of Lungotevere of Pietra Papa: they decorated three halls situated in a thermal area and were part of a complex characterized by different building phases, interpreted as a suburban villa.
The Nereid, mythical protector of navigators, is represented with a red drapery fluttering around her waist, riding a seahorse with a long wavy tail, between a sea bass down in the middle, and a white bream on the right. The pictorial genre linking mythical scenes with ichthyic fauna was widely employed during the Roman age, particularly in thermal buildings.
Dated to 123 A.D.
Taken in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme, a National Museum of Rome.
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Dacian men, women, and children lament at the surrender of Decebalus who stands to the left. A Dacian father grasps a boy's arm, pulling him firmly away. The Dacians are being deported from their lands as per the terms of King Decebalus' surrender.
Museum of Roman Civilisation.
Donor: Arakan King Surya Kula (520 R.E) (222 BC) In Sitetway (Sittwe) Rakhine State,
Left palm rests on its back and the eight pointed star rests on the palm. At the centre of the star there exits a wheel that symbolizes the Dhamma Sakkra. There are uncountable minute images on its head and across the body.
"Offerings to the gods were eternal reminders of the giver or of a specific event in the sanctuary. Special offerings were suitable for specific gods: unguent bottles shaped like a young woman holding a dove or a flower were offered to goddesses of love and fertility such as Aphrodite."
Taken at the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple. Amun, holding the Ankh of life embraces a Pharaoh- possibly Thutmose III
Bronze Bar Kochba coin with palm branch on front, vine leaf with inscriptions on reverse. 132- 133 AD (1")
Arlon.
The farmer and wife depicted on the front with scenes of farming and selling produce on the sides.
Brussels Art & History Museum.
This is a perfectly terrible shot of the place they go to pick out a new hat for the day. Must be the salesman on the right.
Plliar of the Boatmen, 14-37 AD, from Paris.
It was dedicated by the Guild of Parisian Boatmen to Tiberius and Jupiter.
It then honours a range of Roman and Celtic deities.
Tib(erio) Caesare /
Aug(usto) Ioui Optum[o] /
Maxsumo /
nautae Parisiaci /
publice posierunt //
Eurises // Senan[t] U[s]e[t]lo[n][-] //
Iouis // Taruos Trigaranus //
Volcanus // Esus //
[C]ernunnos // Castor // [---] //
Smer[---] //
Fort[una] // [--]TVS[--] // D[--]
Cluny Museum.