Roman ring with inscription
Roman ring with the inscription “ANIMA DVLCIS VIVAS MECV”, which can literally be translated: “May you live with me sweet soul”. Dated to the 4th century CE.
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Curiosities of ancient Rome
The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.
Roman earrings with inscription
Roman earrings with inscription made of gold and sardonyx.
Signed places in Colosseum
Many marble seats and their remains in the Colosseum auditorium have clues as to who they were used to. Most of the preserved seats date back to the 3rd-4th century CE and has engraved the names of Roman families and senators. In the event that the place changed ownership, the previous name was removed and the name of the new person was drilled in its place.
Antique dice container
Ivory dice container. Object of Greek or Roman origin.
Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus
The main characters of the historical television series “Rome” – Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus are authentic characters. They were both Roman centurions in probably the 11th legion Claudia1 (although Caesar does not indicate the legion number) of Quintus Cicero who fought in Gaul at the end 54 BCE, during the revolt of the Belgian Eburones tribe, under the leadership of Ambioryx and Nervii. Julius Caesar mentions them in in his “Gallic War”.
Monte Testaccio – Roman mountain of garbage
In Rome, there is an artificially built mountain, which entirely consists of fragments of about 53 million Roman amphoras, in which olive oil was stored. It is the largest Roman dump – the so-called Monte Testaccio (also called Monte Testaceo or Monte dei cocci; in English Testacio).
Domus Gai – Caligula’s palace in Forum Romanum
The Caligula Palace called “Domus Gai” or “Domus Caligolae” was actually part of the extensive imperial complex located at the foot of the Palatine, next to the Forum, at the back of the temple of Castor and Pollux. What did he look like? Only small fragments of its foundations, included in later buildings, have been preserved and examined.
Fish drug of ancient Romans
Ancient Romans taught their children how to identify and recognize which plants and animals can be useful and how to use them in everyday life and in crafts.
Bacchanalia – the first persecutions?
Dionysus’s cult already been known in the second millenium BCE in the Minoan civilization. He was a god of opposites – kind and gentle, but also savage and cruel. He was broader known in the Romans as Bacchus. In 186 BCE was, connected with him, certain act, which remains unclear until today…
