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Ancient Roman portrait head found at Amman Citadel, Jordan.  Artist unknown; 2nd or 3rd cent. CE.  N

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A victorious charioteer and his team.  Fresco from the “House of the Charioteers” at Ostia Antica (t

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Marble portrait bust of the Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE).  Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE.  Fo

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Bust of Lucius Verus (co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, 161-169 CE).  Artist unknown; after 160 CE. 

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Fragment of an ancient Roman wall fresco depicting a winged Victory.  Artist unknown; late 2nd or ea

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The Wine Shop (Interior of an Ancient Roman Wine Shop as Excavated at Pompeii), Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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The Three Graces.  Mosaic from the House of Apollo, Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Muse

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Glass intaglio of a member of the Julio-Claudian imperial family.  Artist unknown; 1st or 2nd cent.

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The Banquet of Cleopatra, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1743-44

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Bronze portrait bust of a Roman matron, possibly Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother

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Roman ivory statue of Apollo, shown holding a lyre.  Artist and date unknown.  Photo credit: Wellcom

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Denarius of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 CE), found in Suffolk, England.  Now in

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Bronze portrait head of the Roman emperor Gaius, aka Caligula (r. 37-41 CE).  Now in the Metropolita

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[Vergil],Catalepton 15Note: This epigram was appended to the end of theCatalepton by an unknown edit

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Ancient Roman marble head, from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of Vesta.  Artist unknown; c

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The Emperor Honorius, Jean-Paul Laurens, 1880

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Standing cast bronze statuette of Jupiter, from the lararium (household shrine) of a Roman villa at

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Cameo glass medallion of the Roman emperor Augustus.  Artist unknown; early 1st cent. CE.  Now in th

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Death of Lucretia, Bartholomeus Spranger, 2nd half of 16th century

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Tribune of the plebs - Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (d. December 100 BCE)A three times tribune of the

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