Curiosities of ancient Rome (Artifact)

A beautiful Roman fresco showing the nature. The painting was in Livia’s villa in Prima Porta, near Rome.

Roman mosaic showing duck. Object is located in Beiteddine Palace Museum, in Beiteddine (Lebanon).

A single Roman mother Petronia Hedone with her son Lucius Petronius Philemon on a Roman marble tombstone. The object is dated 110-120 CE and was created in Campania (Italia).

Beautiful Roman glass vessel with the image of gladiators. The facility is located in the Metropolitan Museum.

Skeleton of a Persian warrior from the 3rd century CE. The soldier is still wearing his extended chain mail. The man died in the tunnel that the Sassan army wanted to get under the tower to the besieged city of Dura Europos (Syria) in 256 CE.

Roman glass bowl with six medallions showing female faces. Probably the object served as a lamp. Subject dated mid-4th century CE; discovered in the Rhine Valley.

Roman cavalry helmet from the Lower Rhine. Object dated to around 1st century CE. Currently located in The Tullie House Museum (England).

The skull of a cow that was used as a target for ballists and archers. Found in the Roman camp – Vindolanda – in Britannia.

Stele of the Roman archer Caius Iulius Andromachus, who belonged to the Cohors II Cyrrestarum cohort. According to the inscription, he was 42 years-old once died. The object is dated from 40-82 CE and is located in Split.

The photo shows Roman pedestrian crossings in Pompeii – stone blocks arranged across the street. These are the prototypes of today’s “zebra crossing”.