ROME

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Diversity of Cultures in Ancient City of Dura-Europos Explored in Special Exhibition at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Ancient Roman Scutum, mid-3rd century CE from Dura Europos
Roman parade helmet (recreation) with horsehair plume and goose feathers, silvered, with brass applique, and matching greaves.
Byzantine Cavalryman 6th C. AD by Fall3NAiRBoRnE on DeviantArt
Roman archer, VI cent. AD.
Late Roman Comitatensian Infantryman, 451 AD (306) , from a recent issue of Desperta Ferro Magazine.
Statue of Juno Sospita. Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Round Room, 19 (Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala rotonda)
Juno (Hera) Sospita, Roman statue (marble), c. 2nd century AD, (Musei Vaticani, Vatican City).
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain
The Art of Power Bartolomeo Campi, Italian, died 1573, Roman-Style Armor Given to Philip II, Pesaro, 1546, embossed and gold- and silver-damascened steel; brass and fabric, Patrimonio Nacional, Real Armería, Madrid,
"Centurión, época de la dinastía Julio-Claudia"
Legio VI - Bellegarde 2011 (Photo by D. Freschet)
Herculaneum: College of Augustales: view of wall paintings
*HOUSE OF THE VETTII: Pompeii, date: 79 AD destroyed. Current location: Pompeii, Napoli, Campania, Italy. The House of Vetti preserves exceptional examples of pompeian wall-paintings. It is one of the few Pomeian house to have all of the wall paintings, furniture, + artifacts discovered there remain in place, rather than removed (+often sold) as in earlier centuries.
Mercury | A.Currell
Mercury rules the signs Gemini & Virgo. It rules cold thinking and has no gender. It shows the style in which you speak, the rhythm of your thoughts (fast? slow? intuitive? superficial?)