Curiosities of ancient Rome

A marble bust of an elderly Roman woman with a characteristic hairstyle – the so-called nodus. Object dated at the end of the 1st century BCE.

Roman iron hammer; found in Pompeii. The object is dated to the 1st century CE.

Roman square piece of glass – white, green, brown and black. Interestingly, the small object shows the figure of a bearded man with a wreath on his head. The artefact has the dimensions: 3.6×1, 1×1 cm.

An ancient sculpture depicting a young man from Africa. Dated to the 2nd century CE. The object is 26 cm high and is located in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome.

Roman fresco from Pompeii showing girls probably in the process of learning. The person in the front holds a stylus and a wax tablet. It is worth noting the position of the stylus on the lips, which appears quite often in other ancient works.

A very interesting Roman portrait of an elderly man. The object is dated to the beginning of the 2nd-century CE. from the reign of Emperor Trajan. The object is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The beautifully preserved marble head of the Roman goddess that was part of the Venus’ or Minerva’s statue. The object was found on Esquiline in Rome. You can still see traces of polychrome – stone painting. Currently, the artifact can be admired at The British Museum.

Roman tombstone with an interesting inscription: “To Helena, foster child, soul without comparison and deserving of praise”. Interestingly, the bas-relief shows a dog, so it’s not entirely clear whether the inscription refers to a dead dog or a child. The object is located in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Roman brick tomb in Serbia, built in the 2nd-3rd century CE. The object was discovered in a necropolis at an excavation site in Gomolava (Hrtkovci village) in northern Serbia. This place is one of the “richest” in terms of archaeological finds in Serbia.