This subtle colourisation of the Ara Pacis’ ‘Tellus panel’ remains one of my favourites. The colours were likely much more vibrant in the original painting, but the details revealed by the use of any colouring is jaw dropping.

📸 Damian Entwistle

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For #ReliefWednesday the so-called Jupiter Cameo, carved in a sardonyx, showing Jupiter and Juno. They were identified as Marcus Aurelius and his wife. The cameo was made during they reign of the emperor. The depiction does not imply that he and Faustina Minor were regarded as deities. The intention was rather to emphasise the sacral legitimacy of the imperial authority.
Dating 160/175 AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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A #Roman terracotta tintinnabulum (wind chime) found in Merida, Spain: A bell-shaped humanoid figure with legs providing the clapper and the hooded cloak providing the bell. The words TYDIDES are inscribed (the owner’s name?). 2nd c. AD.

📷Museo Nacional Arte Romana, Merida

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February 6th, 149 CE— Thaesis and her sons borrow 1200 drachmae from Herakleia, daughter of Dioscorus #OnThisDay #OTD. The money is to be returned with interest and is secured against land in Herakleia and two enslaved people

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/chr.mitt;;237

A fancy #Roman leather #shoe, a so-called carbatina. It's made of a single piece of leather and decorated with openwork and carefully arrangements of loops.
The size (lenght 28 cm) suggests that it was worn by a tall person (or by a short person with very large feet).

Found in civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating 2nd century AD.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

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🪔 For #FrescoFriday: just a little cupid on a roman #fresco found at the site of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near modern Vienne, in southern France. The museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal is famous for its mosaics , but it exhibits some frescoes too.📸 me

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#FindsFriday: A #Roman iron dagger (pugio). The iron sheath is decorated with brass and enamel inlays.
Found in the river Rhein at Mainz (Roman Mogontiacum), dating 1st c. AD. Mogontiacum was an important military base, two legions were stationed there until the late 1st c. AD, before the garrison was reduced to one legion. Mogontiacum was the capital of the province of Germania Superior.

Photo: Landesmuseum Mainz

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