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Detail of a decorative border on a mosaic depicting the personification of a season from Rome (not...

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Uploaded on Jan 29, 2012

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The central panel of a Roman floor mosaic excavated in Rome depicts a figure rendered in black and...

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The central panel of a Roman floor mosaic excavated in Rome. A relatively simple decorative border...

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Detail of a banqueting woman, holding a cylindrical object in her left hand. She is veiled, and...

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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Veiled women, probably depictions of the Vestal Virgins, at a Banquet. Detail of a relief fragment...

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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A fragmentary relief depicting reclining veiled women at a banquet; generally considered a rare...

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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Roman marble portrait of a male whose appearance is similar to the official portraiture of Philip I...

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Roman marble portrait of the boy-emperor Alexander Severus (r. 222-235 CE).This example may come...

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Roman marble portrait of the boy-emperor Alexander Severus (r. 222-235 CE). This example may come...

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Detail of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a border of an inhabited acanthus spiral (rinceau)...

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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

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Detail of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a shell (murex?) originally part of a bath. Late second to...

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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

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Detail of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a fish, originally part of a bath. Late second to early...

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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

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Detail of a Roman floor mosaic depicting a fish, originally part of a bath. Late second to early...

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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012

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Roman Pentelic marble portrait of the emperor Domitian (r. 81-96 CE), third emperor of the Flavian...

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Uploaded on Jan 22, 2012

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Roman Pentelic marble portrait of the emperor Domitian (r. 81-96 CE), third emperor of the Flavian...

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Roman Pentelic marble portrait of the emperor Domitian (r. 81-96 CE), third emperor of the Flavian...

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Roman Pentelic marble portrait of the emperor Domitian (r. 81-96 CE), third emperor of the Flavian...

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Roman marble portrait of a Roman woman dated by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek to the late first century...

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Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012

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