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  1. Statue of Asklepios, the god of medicine. 160 AD copy of a 4th CE BC Greek original. Found at Sanctuary of Asklepios, Epidaurus, . He leans on a staff with coiled snake, a symbol of still used in modern times. Archaelogical of

  2. A view of Castlecary fort, , bisected by the Glasgow to Edinburgh train line. The fort was built by Agricola in cAD80 & then abandoned cAD86. It was rebuilt in the AD140s as one of the Antonine Wall forts. The altar is from the fort, erected by the VI Legion.

  3. Ummm... & did that company just show the entire world what their “discreet packaging” looks like? 🤔🤭😉

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    A stunning owl mosaic from the bathhouse in the city of Thysdrus. The owl, wearing a toga, is surrounded by dying songbirds, & the image captioned "The birds are destroyed by envy, but the owl does not care" - it was probably intended to be a protective charm.

  5. Simple and beautiful era earrings made probably in Egypt, fashionable in 1st century Rome. We can see that kind of jewelry on Fayum mummy portraits & on funerary reliefs from Syria.

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  6. lesson fresco from Herculaneum. A young girl plays the lyre with a young man in attendance arm in arm, on a couch with griffin supports, whilst perhaps her mother (?) looks on approvingly.

  7. box-flue tiles were hidden, built into walls as conduits for hot air from a hypocaust. Most had simple comb marks to provide a key when mortaring or rendering them. This one has a lively pattern showing a confronting a - amazing, if it was never to be seen!

    The front of a long rectangular box-shaped hollow tile. A pattern, presumably applied by a roller, runs rather wonkily along it, showing a hound confronting a stag.
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    The ruins of Augusta Emerita (modern Mérida, Spain), including an amphitheatre, theatre, & temples. The city was founded as a colony under in 25BC to settle veterans who had served in the Cantabrian War; it became the capital of Lusitania.

  9. Two -era zoomorphic brooches found in Britain (but possibly made elsewhere), to mark . The depiction of the is likely to represent , the Roman goddess of love and wisdom.

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    Green basanite statue from of prince Germanicus seen as Tiberius’ rightful successor until he died in Antioch aged 33. He inherited his father Drusus’ title. He later avenged the ignominious defeat of Varus in the teutoburg forest. Father of Caligula & Agrippina.

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    Maria married the Western Emperor Honorius in February AD398. She was the daughter of the real power in the Western Roman Empire, the magister militum, Stilicho. This is her pendant, now in the Louvre, forming the names of her parents, herself & her husband as the Chi Rho.

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    The reconstructed wooden gate at Lunt auxiliary fort (Warwickshire), built in the 1970s by the Royal Engineers using Roman tools & methods; the design was based on comparable gates from Trajan's Column. The fort was occupied for a short period after the Boudican Revolt.

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    Bronze pan (trulleus) the handle is stamped with the names of the maker Maturus and that of the 1st cavalry regiment. Found in a well of an officer's house on the site

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    A military diploma awarded to an auxiliary soldier named Gaius, in AD139 under the Emperor Antoninus Pius. He served in the 2nd cohort of the Ulpia Galatarum, receiving citizenship with his retirement - probably part of a mass discharge of soldiers from Syria-Palaestina.

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    In 1867,Blackmoor House was being rebuilt, (close to the Chichester – Silchester Roman road,) finds were made, including a human cremation burial in a pottery jar. This deposit also contained this beautiful enamelled bronze vessel, the Selborne Cup. Curtis Museum.

  16. frescoes from the House of the Vettii, .

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    In myth, the Lemures were spirits of the restless, unburied dead, who haunted the houses of the living. Every year they were given offerings of black beans to persuade them to leave; if not accepted, they were chased away by clanging a bronze cooking pot.

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    Visited the today. What an amazing experience. Lots of clever lighting, mist and a sound show took me back to the rites of Mithras. Plus amazing artefact wall. Felt like I was there. Recommend! – mjesto: London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE

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    beryl intaglio with portrait of Julia Domna, wife of Emperor Septimius Severus and mother of Caracalla and Geta. c.200–210 AD.

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    A scene from the end of the First Dacian War, on 's Column in . It shows a winged Victory inscribing something on a shield (this was probably visible when the Column was painted), with 2 battlefield trophies made from the arms & armour of the defeated Dacians.

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