I think that's really more of an Art Nouveau style than Art Deco.
Interestingly, if you look at the reverse of the coin I posted, both the "V's" in the SAECVLARES AVGG legend also look very much like "U's," just...
Obviously, I agree. However, even I have limits. For example, there's a Facebook group called "Ancient and Medieval Coins" that I follow. I...
I'll assume that I'm invited too! Philip I AR Antoninianus, 248 AD, Rome Mint, 5th Officina. Obv. Radiate, draped, & cuirassed bust right, IMP...
At one time, I had about 35 of the 40-medal set published by James Mudie in 1820, commemorating British Military and Naval Victories during the...
Here I go, cheating again. A head-on view of the departing horse and rider on one of my Attic black-figure lekythoi from the last quarter of the...
Do mythical horses count? Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left....
The main difference I see is that although interpretations of known historical events in modern times (covering the last few hundred years) differ...
Very interesting. If you look back at the reverse of the example I posted, and the one that @gogili1977 posted of the same type -- also RIC IV-2...
Very cool. Love the books.
Beautiful!
Speaking of Elagabalus, here's a different coin from the one I posted earlier. No horn on this one! Elagabalus AR Denarius, 218-219 AD, Antioch...
A Japanese triptych print by Toyohara Chikanobu, entitled Excursion to the Hills (Go-yûsan), from the series Chiyoda Inner Palace (Chiyoda no...
Some more maps and prints I have up on my walls. (Unfortunately, I'm out of room -- I have plenty more I can't hang up!) Some prints of Rome...
I had never heard of John Soane's house, but looked it up, and I must say that you seriously flatter me! For every object I own, he had about...
I can accept that. But that's not what most of the "scandalous" writing about him in the last few hundred years focuses upon.
OK, as long as you feel that about half of all the Roman Emperors deserved the same!
Vestal Virgin? You mean his wife? Even if the story is true, I still ask why the general condemnation by 19th and early 20th century writers...
Wow. What exactly made this teenage boy a creep worthy of "extermination" other than his unusual religion and the fact that he was gay and/or...
Perhaps this is cheating a little bit, but you did say lions! So here are two more I have, both from Egypt and both depicting Sekhmet -- one of...
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