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Capitoline Museums - Old drunken woman

A 2nd-century Roman copy after a Hellenistic original (late 3rd century BCE).

This statue was perhaps the main reason I decided to visit Capitoline museums during my last day in Rome (had seen it 10+ years ago, but didn’t have a photo of it)

Rome, August 2, 2019

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~ Roman shoe or calceus of leather.

Place of origin: Roman site at Newstead

Date: Late 1st - early 2nd century (ca. A.D. 90-110)

Culture: Romano-British

Medium: Leather

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~Statue of a Pouring Satyr.

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Castel Gandolfo, Italy

Date: A.D. 81 - 96

Medium: Marble

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~ Gold Band Alabastron.

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean or Italy

Date: 100 B.C.–A.D. 100

Medium: Glass

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~ Narcissus.

Date: 1st century

Place of origin: Pompeii, House of D. Octavius Quartio, or House of Loreius Tiburtinus, II, 2, 2 (Pompei, Casa di D. Ottavio Quartione o Casa di Loreio Tiburtino, II, 2, 2)

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~ Finger Ring.

Date: A.D. 2nd century (probably)

Period:  Roman Period

Medium: Gold

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I know we haven’t been super active around here but like...

Listen. 

I do check who follows this blog. If you are some kind of bigoted right-wing fuckwad thinking that a blog that started as a RP for a gay ship from a piece of media that’s a fucking metaphor for marginalized groups is a place for you?????

I will block your disgusting, ignorant ass. Get the fuck off my blog. 

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Hadrian’s Wall was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun in AD 122 during the rule of emperor Hadrian. In addition to its military role, gates through the wall served as customs posts.

photo by gms

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Parthian gold and garnet earrings, dated to the 2nd century CE. Source: Gorny & Mosch Auctions.

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~ Necklace with Pendant. Date: A.D. 2nd-3rd century Culture: Roman Place of origin: probably Egypt Medium: Gold, garnet, and emerald.

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Ancient Roman gold ring, the bezel engraved with an image of a lion, a crescent moon, and two stars, dated to the 2nd century CE. Source: Christie’s. 

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“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. Even to men whose lives were a blaze of glory, this comes to pass; as to the rest, the breath is hardly out of them before, in Homer’s words, they are “lost to sight alike and hearsay”. What, after all, is immortal fame? An empty, hollow thing. To what, then, must we aspire? This, and this alone: the just thought, the unselfish act, the tongue that utters no falsehood, the temper that greets each passing event as something predestined, expected and emanating from the One source and origin.”

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Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, born on this date, April 26, in 121 CE.  

Marcus Aurelius, fragment of a bronze portrait. Roman artwork, after 170 CE. Collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris. Photo by: Marie-Lan Nguyen (2007) via Wikimeida Commons (X). License: Public Domain.

Marcus Aurelius took up the age and attire of a philosopher at the age of 11. He began to keep a record of his thoughts in the year 170, for his own benefit and guidance, never intending for it to be published. A single copy in Greek survived, and was first published, with a Latin translation, in 1559.  You can read his Meditations here.

Read the Eulogium on Marcus Aurelius by Antoine Léonard Thomas here.

(via honorthegods)

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Ancient Roman serpent bracelet, made of gold and green glass eyes, dated to the 1st century CE. The snake was believed to protect against evil. Found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

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Roman Chalcedony Statuette of Hercules (with Modern Base), 2nd c CE [Source]

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Crouching mouse holding a Papposeilenos mask. Grip of a circular bronze lamp lid, 1st century C.E. Probably made in Italy; said to have been found in Konya province, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Papposilenus is a stock character in satyr plays. He is the oldest, wisest, and most drunken of the followers of Dionysus, and was the young god’s teacher. 

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~ Bracelet. Place of origin: Eastern Mediterranean Culture: Roman Date: ca. A.D. 1st-2nd century Medium: Gold-mounted crystal and sardonyx.

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Cameo gem with Minerva set into a hollow ring

Roman, 1st cent. A.D.

chrome chalcedony and gold

Getty Museum