Could be. I always sort of got the impression that maybe there was some water sprinkling near them?
MA Shops is definitely best for people who live in Continental Europe. It's my impression that the substantial majority of dealers are located...
I added a photo of my mother at the house, to make the connection more direct. Speaking of history and continuity: the remnants of a Roman wall...
That sort of continuity wasn't really so uncommon in Europe. My maternal grandmother was born in a house in a village in the Black Forest where...
@Finn235, those are wonderful portraits. Whether or not they actually resemble the people they portray, they certainly look like they could! My...
Well, you seem to think you can drag those flags with you and post them whenever you say anything, anywhere, subjecting other people to them. I...
Is that supposed to be a griffin wing on Roma's helmet, with some sort of stylized representation of the griffin's head above it? I've seen other...
Thanks. I read your earlier post. I knew that Ovid was exiled to a town on the Black Sea, but had no idea that it was Tomis. I'm familiar with...
I find it interesting that the characteristics of Pax and Nemesis were combined in one deity, apparently on more than this occasion. I wonder what...
Thank you!
Thanks. Interesting. Of course, the identification of the figure with Sulla is also implicit, despite his name being on the reverse.
Wow. These are great, and the kouros is particularly amazing, especially as a complete figure. How tall is it? (I'm hoping that you're going to...
Until @Sulla80 pointed it out in another thread a while back, in commenting on a coin that @Al Kowsky had posted, I had no idea that when a...
Indeed it is. When my son was little, he used to refer to all my antiquities (together with some of my other little collections) as the "[our last...
I think they all look fascinating! I wish you had labels on them, so I could see what they are.
@Ryro, these are great. I'm curious: in the bottom photo, what's the little terracotta (I assume) figure of a woman in the far right corner? It...
These are fantastic coins , and I really love both the Claudius and the Trajan. I like the presentation, too!
Coincidentally, I was just looking through the antiquities section in the current Harlan J. Berk 214th Buy or Bid Sale, and notice that there's a...
I am very much not an expert, but as I understand it, grotesque terracotta figures like mine, often portraying old men, were very popular in...
So quadrigas couldn't travel on Roman roads? They were the all-terrain vehicles of the day? A biga: [ATTACH] A quadriga: [ATTACH]
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