Curiosities of ancient Rome (Artifact)

Roman bronze bell (tintinnabulum) found in a tomb was associated with funeral rites. This artifact is in the collection of the Civic Museum of Crema (northern Italy).

The funerary relief of Publius Aiedius Amphion and his wife Aiedia Faustra Melior is a moving example of Roman funerary art from the turn of the ages – dating to around 30 BCE. It comes from Rome, from the area of ​​the famous Via Appia, one of the most important arteries of the ancient world, along which the tombs of elites and freedmen were built.

A depiction of preparations for an animal sacrifice, preserved in the form of a marble fragment of an architectural relief. The work comes from Rome and dates to the first quarter of the 2nd century CE.

Roman sculpture depicting a man. Dated to approximately 130-145 CE. The object is located at the Dallas Museum of Art (USA).

Bronze bust of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Dating to the 2nd century CE, located in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt.

Woman with short hair in the Fayum portrait. The painting dates from the Hadrianic period, dating to approximately the 2nd century CE.

The painting depicts a young man. It is a so-called Fayum portrait—a unique type of portrait created in Egypt during the Roman period, roughly from the 1st to the 3rd century CE. These portraits were painted on wooden panels using the encaustic technique (paint with wax).

Marble bust of Roman. The artifact is located at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Beautiful Roman fresco that decorated the cubiculum (bedroom) of the Villa Synistora in Boscoreale (southern Italy), dating to the mid-1st century BCE.

Roman fresco depicting a woman wearing a tragic mask. The painting was executed in the Third Pompeian style (focusing on aesthetic effects rather than the illusion of space); it was found in the triclinium of the so-called House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii. The object dates to the 1st century CE.