#roman furniture

[archaeologs]

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Romanca. 50–40 BCE. Image by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Learn more / Daha fazlası https://www.archaeologs.com/w/cubiculum/

[uncleclaudius]

The base of a table with lion paws and heads. The top was probably made of wood and decayed over time. The inscription bears the name of the original owner whom archaeologists identify as Publius Servilius Casca Longus, the first of Caesar's assassins to strike him. Casca died in the Battle of Phillipi and his property was auctioned off by Octavian which is how the table ended up in a luxurious villa in Pompeii. It might also have been considered a historical curiosity at that time, just as it is now.

[vintagehomecollection]

The bath in the New Orleans Junior League Decorator Showcase, designed by Ann Holden and Ann Dupuy in 1987.

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

[sforzesco]

CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS

this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson

[ancientrome]

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays. Roman 1st–2nd century CE. x

These pieces of furniture have been reassembled from fragments, some of which may come from the imperial villa of Lucius Verus (co-emperor, A.D. 161–169), on the Via Cassia outside Rome. It is not certain that the square glass panels are original to the bed frame and stool, but the carved bone inlays are paralleled on other Roman couches. On the couch legs are friezes of huntsmen, horses, and hounds flanking Ganymede, the handsome Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus in the guise of an eagle to serve as his wine steward; on the footstool are scenes of winged cupids and leopards; and on the sides of the bed frame, the striking lion protomes have eyes inlaid with glass.

[vigilskeep]

sorry for answering that ask half asleep. the REAL thing you need to know about dragon age is that it’s not one of those fantasy worlds that’s built really deeply fixed into real history with deep knowledge. it borrows shallowly. it’s built first and foremost to set a videogame in and i love that about it, that it’s built so quickly you can still see the scaffolding went up and how they got there. they decide on a worldbuilding principle—“uhhh what if our jesus figure was [spins wheel] joan of arc?”—and they go for it because they are on a schedule. you should absolutely never be intimidated by dragon age lore it does not know more than you. all i’m doing is being able to make good guesses at what they’re borrowing from and make leaps from there

[blueiscoool]

The Getty Museum Returns 2,500-Year-Old Bronze Kline to Turkey

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that the bronze kline, dating back to approximately 530 BC, was returned to the Republic of Turkey.

The work was purchased by the Museum in 1982 from a Swiss art dealer who presented false evidence that it had been in European collections since the 1920s. Investigations conducted by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the J. Paul Getty Museum revealed that this claim was false and that the work had been obtained from a tomb near Manisa in the early 1980s through illegal excavations and taken out of the country illegally.

As a result of scientific research, the pieces of linen stuck to the kline were matched with other pieces left in the tomb, including pieces of wood and bronze plates found by Turkish archaeologists during excavations at the site, and remains of marble and ceramic vessels, which helped date the tomb.

The piece called a divan or a kline was a piece of furniture that was used to rest and eat during the day. The returned piece is considered to be a very rare example of this type of furniture that has survived to the present day, as seen in the depictions on other pieces of art such as archaeological wall paintings and pots and pans with painted pictures. The metal divan, which consists of cast bronze legs and rails on an iron frame, perforated copper sheets riveted together and wrapped around iron rail cores, is understood to have been made by taking the example of divans commonly produced from wood at the time, with its lathed legs, protruding tenons at the corners and a latticed surface that once supported cushions.

[valend]

When the museum has 18th-19th century dresses

[trashpoppaea]

They have a ton of amazing ancient Roman artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a table and a bed! An actual bed! So if you’ve ever imagined time traveling back to Ancient Rome, imagine sleeping in a very high and narrow bed that is 18” wide at the most. Imagine falling out of that thing…ow!

[astrohaute]

does anyone else think about the scene in the s3 shareholder meeting where gerri’s busy with something and greg’s trying to talk to her so roman installs himself as her dumb little bodyguard and goes “business or pleasure” to keep him away from her...........just wondering

[romegreeceart]

Roman furniture ornament

Oplontis

British Museum

London, July 2022

[I may have posted this before, but I love tiny ancient things :) ]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Roman Plyus Furniture

[thesilicontribesman]

Pieces Of A Metal Grille From An Ornate Wooden Cabinet, Roman, 1st to 2nd Century CE, Newstead, The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

[charlesreeza]

Confessionals - Cathedral of Sant’Agata, Catania, Sicily

Photos by Charles Reeza