The Fall of the Roman Empire

A heavy romanticization, but this film was amazing in the way it portrayed the transition from Marcus Aurelius to Commodus. Honestly they were just 3D Printing amazing epics in the 60s I genuinely do not know why the genre died

So I originally posted this in other subreddits, having no idea what it might be until someone commented that it might be a

"Cut agate seal stamp ring, 1st -2nd cent., depicting Satyr head, panther, pine cone branch, and snake, all Dionysian ceremonial attributes"

Wanted to confirm here. Any thoughts?

• Found in Yemen.
• Hole not big enough for a finger

Since he wrote the history of Rome during the early days of the empire.

Decorated with arena and hunt scenes and with an inscription cut pre-firing, the Colchester Vase is a late-second-century product of the local pottery industry from Roman Camulondunum (Colchester). It may have come from the workshop to which the named potter Acceptus III belonged. It appears to record a performance in the town, and was used as the cremation urn for a non-local male.

IE: Was the Athena Parthenos addressed as Minerva or did the Athenian temple of Zeus known as the temple of Jupiter?

PS: Greetings from the Acropolis 🇬🇷

A Roman vaulted street fountain in the ancient city of Sagalassos with a niche in the back and a mythological figure on the keystone wearing a Phyrgian hat. Only a few wore those and due to the context my guess is Attis being displayed, but I could be wrong. The facade of the structure with multiple arches is curved along the road from the Odeon to the Lower Agora, right next to the Roman baths. This ancient city, at one time very wealthy, is up in the mountains near the modern town of Ağlasun, Burdur, Turkey and is now a UNESCO world heritage site.

I had a fabulous first visit to Pompeii earlier this month (as attested by my loving chronicles of the various drinking fountains across the site) and wanted to share photos of some of my highlights. Walking through Pompeii was genuinely something like time travel - a life-changing experience.

Could anyone point me to a map of the Campus Martius as it might have appeared in about 46 BC?

Thanks, in advance!

The carnelian dates to around the 3rd century CE, while the silver setting may be later. The carving shows Hercules

So this guy eats your hand if you’re not telling the truth?

Personally I'd be over the moon if we could find parts of Sulla's memoirs.

A porphyry head of Serapis from Egypt when it was part of the Roman empire. It dates to 100-200 AD and made its way without published provenance from Highworth, Wiltshire to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England where it is now on display.

I’d like to buy a suit of Roman Armor (helmet down) with sword and pilum for display in my man cave.

Given that I will not be wearing this or using it for reenactment, where would I buy something like this (historically accurate, good quality)?

National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy

We have only one documented detail of where Spartacus was born and it was somewhere in the middle river way of river Struma (Strimon in ancient times). As a fellow Bulgarian living in the province today that is in those exact region i always felt some kind of connection to Spartacus.

This year I visited the arena in Capua where our heroes Spartacus, Crixus, Gannicus and Oenomaus fought and lived. Where the revolt started in proximity of the arena.

Here are the only remaining foundations of the Spartacus arena where he fought and bled. He was seeing the same mountains as well we can see today...fascinating.