Curiosities of ancient Rome (Artifact)

Roman hair net, dated to the 1st century CE. It is made of braided golden wires.

Roman gold bracelets, found in a tomb near the remains of the Roman city of Viminacium, near Kostolac, in eastern Serbia. Dated to the 3rd century CE; they are made of thin gold sheet filled with resin. Currently, the objects are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Austria).

Roman fresco depicting a basket of figs. The object was discovered in the villa of Poppei Sabina in Oplontis – a city that was destroyed – along with, among others Pompeii and Herculaneum – by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE.

Exhibited horse (or donkey) skeleton in Pompeii. An interesting object is located in the stables in section I.8.12. The horse is located in the place where it was supposedly found.

A pair of woolen socks from Roman Egypt. Dated 250-420 CE.

Among buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE ancient artifacts, we can find i.e. charred wooden Roman piece of furniture. Object found in Herculaneum.

Interesting conclusions from research conducted on one of the preserved remains of a Herculaneum inhabitant from almost 2,000 years ago have been published recently.

Roman frieze showing representatives of carpentry (ars fabri tignarii) at work. The carpenter’s college built the roof of the Jupiter Temple on the Capitoline Hill in the 6th century BCE and was responsible for its maintenance and conservation until the imperial times.

An antique Roman ring with an embossed phallus (a symbol of fertility and good fortune). The find dated to the first century CE.

The tombstone of Marcus Caelius, the first centurion of the 18th legion who fell in the Varus’ war – an uprising that broke out in the year 4 BCE in Judea.