Showing posts with label Rome: City to Empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rome: City to Empire. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2018

Rome: City to Empire Exhibition Part Five




Ivory and copper part of a Pyxis (Cylindrical Box), probably Alexandria, Egypt, 6th century CE
Glass and Gold Vessel Base of Saint Peter and Paul, Rome, Italy, 4th century CE
 Glass and Gold Vessel Base of A Scribe, Rome, Italy, 4th century CE


Glass Goblet with Biblical Scenes, Cologne, Germany, 4th century CE


Fragment of Gilded Wall Painting, Nero's Golden House, Rome Italy. 54-65 CE



Terracotta Amphora, made in Spain, excavated in the Baths of Titus, Rome, Italy, 1st-2nd century CE
Terracotta Amphora, probably made in Italy, 75-25 BCE

Silver Wine Cup, Chaourse, France, about 220-270 CE
Glass Rhyton, Syria or Palestine, 50-100 CE


Terracotta Plaque of Satyrs Making Wine, probably Italy, 50 BCE-100 CE


Wall Painting Fragment of A Man Drinking, Pompei, Italy, 50-79CE


Terracotta Plaque of Bacchus, Rome, Italy, 1-25 CE



Silver Ibis Toothpick from the Hoxne Treasure, Hoxne, England, late 4th-early 5th century CE



Pottery Oinochoe (Wine Jug), Smyrna (modern Izmir), Turkey, 50-25 BCE
Glass Jug, Kerch, Crimea, modern Ukraine, 4th century CE
Silver Wine Cup, Chaourse, France, about 220-270 CE


Funerary Monument, Italy, about 100-110 CE


Marble Sarcophagus of the Wedding of Bacchus and Ariadne, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE














Marble Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Life of Moses, found in Bedoin, France, late 4th century CE



Marble Burial Chest, probably Italy, 1st-early 2nd century CE


Mummy portraits of a Woman and a Man, Rubaiyat, Egypt, 160-170 CE


Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Rome: City to Empire Exhibition Part Four






Statue of Horus Seated, Egypt, 1st-3rd century CE


Gold Aureus of Hadrian, minted in Rome, 134-138 CE

Bronze Statuette of Horus, Egypt, 1st-3rd century CE


Bronze Statuette of Isis, Italy 1st century BCE,
Bronze Decorative Fitting of Harpocrates, probably Egypt, 1st-3rd century CE


Basanite Bust of Zeus Serapis, probably Istanbul, Turkey, 2nd century CE


Lapis Lazuli Bust of Serapis, probably Egypt, about 300 CE


Portrait Head of Antinous, probably Rome, Italy, about 130 CE


Gold Fragment of a Diadem, Naukratis, Egypt, 67-98 CE


Glass Cosmetic Phial, Nazareth, Israel, 400-500 CE


Portrait Bust of Faustina the Younger, Pozzuoli, Italy about 152-160 CE


Female Statue Head, Villa Casali, Italy, 55-65 CE


Female Portrait Head, Carthage, Tunisia, about 100 CE


Portrait Bust of a Young Woman, Cyrene, Libya, about 140-160 CE


Female Statue Head, Possibly of Artemis, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, 2nd century CE


Articles of Adornment Relief, Sklavochori, Greece, about 170 CE


Mosaic Panel of Phobus, Halicarnassus, Turkey, 4th century CE


Silver Medallion of Constans, minted in Thessalonica, Greece, 340-347 CE


Gold Medallion of Constantius II, minted in Nicomedia, Turkey, 355-361 CE


Copper Alloy Medallion Honouring the City of Rome, minted in Rome, Italy, about 340-347 CE

Copper Alloy Medallion Honouring the City of Constantinople, minted in Rome, Italy, about 340-347 CE

Silver Horse-Trappings from the Esquiline Treasure, Rome, Italy, 4th century CE
Gold Medallion of Constantine the Great, minted in Thessalonica, Greece, 335 CE
Silver Christian Plaque, Water Newton, England, 4th century CE

Silver Round and Square Dish from the Esquiline Treasure, Rome, Italy, 4th century CE





Wall Painting of a Jay and a Cricket, Boscoreale, Italy, about 30 BCE


Wall Painting of a Swallow and a Sparrow, Boscoreale, Italy, about 30 BCE


Wall Painting of Apollo, Pompei, Italy, about 50-79 CE


Glass Floor Tile, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE
Bronze, Silver and Copper Decorative Fittings for a Couch, Campania, Italy, 20-60 CE
Bronze Lamp, Rome, Italy, 3rd-4th century CE


Statue Head of Dionysus, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy, 117-118 CE


Bust of Bacchus, Porta Latina, Rome, Italy, 50-100 CE

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Rome: City to Empire Exhibition Part Three










Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure, Hoxne, England, late 4th-early 5th century CE

Selby Coin Hoard, Selby, England, about 180-181 CE












Gold Votive Plaque for the Goddess Senuna, Ashwell, England, 2nd-3rd century CE, Statuette of  a Horse and Rider, Stapleford, England, 2nd-3rd century CE, Lead Curse Tablet, Uley, England, 4th century CE,
Gold Amulet to Assist with Childbirth, England, 100-300 CE


Glass Armlet, Cologne, Germany, 1st-4th century CE, Bone Hairpin
with the Bust of a Woman, Gloucestershire, England, late 1st century CE



Chatelaine Brooch, England, 2nd-3rd century CE, Horse Brooch, England, 1st-4th century CE,
Silver Snake Bracelet, Snettisham, England, 2nd century CE



Copper Alloy Cosmetic Set, Hockwold, England, 1st-3rd century CE


Gold Bracelets from the Hoxne Treasure, Hoxne, England, late 4th-early 5th century CE


Copper Alloy and Enamel Armlet, Drumond Castle, Scotland, about 50-200 CE


Gold Ring Showing Clasped Hands, Mileham, England


Copper Alloy and Enamel Dragonesque Brooch, England, 1st-2nd century CE


Punic Funerary Stele, Carthage, Tunisia, 1st-2nd century  CE


Mosaics of Cupids on Dolphins, Acholla, Tunisia, 150-170 CE


Statue of the Nymph Cyrene Fighting a Lion, Cyrene, Libya, about 120-150 CE


Religious Relief Stele with the Emperor Tiberius Making an Offering, Egypt, early 1st century CE


Child's Sandal, Sheikh Ibada, Antinoupolis, Egypt, 1st-10th century CE






Bust of a Woman Wearing Persian Headdress, probably Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE


Funerary Relief of a Man, Palmyra, Syria, 150-200 CE


Funerary Relief of a Woman, Palmyra, Syria, 200-273 CE


Head from a Statuette of a Roman Emperor, probably Claudius, probably Italy, 1st century CE


2 - Coin of Hadrian, minted in Rome, Italy, 119-120 CE, 3 - Coins of Antoninus Pius, minted in Rome, Italy, 154-155 CE, 4 - Silver Denarius of Carausius, probably minted in London, England, about 287-288 CE, 5 - Gold Medallion of Constantius I, minted in Trier, Germany, 297 CE


Gold, Garnet and Glass Earrings, Italy, 2nd-1st century BCE

Gold, Sapphire, Garnet and Glass Earrings, probably Italy, 2nd-3rd centuries CE


Emerald and Gold Necklace, probably Italy, 2nd-3rd century CE


Amethyst Cameo of Medusa, Rome, Italy, 1st-2nd century CE

Trojan Wooden Horse and Later Mycenaean Chariots

  Here's a Trojan Wooden Horse and two later Mycenaean chariots I've just finished painting. The horse is a resin model and the char...