Exedra "p" (Mau's floorplan) in the House of the Vettii is one of the most ornately decorated rooms in the residence. Its copious Fourth Style frescos include depictions of the myths of Ixion, Pa...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-house-of-vettiis-exedra.html
The article entitled Last Stone Age hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding: (https://cosmosmagazine.com/.../stone-age-genetic-inbreeding/ made me curious about the development of sibling marria...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/03/was-sibling-marriage-really-royal.html
Today I noticed the Thracian tomb of Kazanlak is set for inclusion in the National Atlas of Immovable Culture of Bulgaria. (See https://gazettengr.com/thracian-tomb-of-kazanlak-set-for.../ ) ...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/03/were-thracian-tholos-tombs-distant.html
Beautiful image of the recently restored atrium in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii taken just last year by Professor Johannes Eber as displayed by pompeiiinpictures.com. The Vettii brothers' ...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/03/strongboxes-and-banks-in-roman-empire.html
I've been working on more images from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii and here are some of those images from contributors to pompeiiinpictures.com. I've been using the latest version of Topaz...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/03/possible-interpretations-of-depictions.html
The Ara Pacis seems to be the target of local Roman politicians who apparently don't appreciate the structure that was erected around it. The article points out that the Ara Pacis was not origi...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-ara-pacis-and-local-roman-politics.html
I watched Netflix's docudrama and, like Professor Paul Cartledge in his recent interview (https://www.thecollector.com/paul-cartledge-alexander-the-great-interview/ ) , I thought Netflix overem...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/modern-misconceptions-of-alexander.html
Another beautiful artifact from the collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. photographed by my good friend Allan Gluck - a fourth century CE fragmented gold necklace studded...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/roman-jewelry-of-fourth-century-ce.html
Today's artwork is a mosaic depicting three erotes collaboratively fishing with a net. It was originally discovered in the House of Menander in Pompeii in front of a fountain. It is now installed...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/fishing-as-symbolic-act-of-capture-in.html
These Roman treasures, solid gold medallions dated between 370-390 CE (I'm a little dubious about the dating as both of these sons of Constantine were already dead and had been subjected to damna...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-precarious-existence-of-constantine.html
I had never heard of basternas - a litter-like mode of transportation carried by two mules instead of slaves - before reading this article: https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-02-04/the-car...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/basternas-and-litters-evolution-of.html
This morning I was reading an article on a history of Roman toilets and the author made a claim that raised my eyebrow. She first attributed the idea for Roman toilets to the Greeks via the Minoa...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/02/which-civilization-influenced-design-of.html
While reading a research paper on interpretations of Roman wall paintings of Narcissus, I learned forty different paintings of Narcissus have been found in the Campanian region testifying to the ...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/ovids-metamorphoses-and-popularity-of.html
My good friend Allan Gluck has been back to the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. and sent us some more images from their ancient Roman collection. His images included this early 7th cen...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/aphrodite-anadyomenes-special-symbolism.html
More interesting artifacts from the collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. photographed by my friend Allan Gluck - seventh century eastern Roman gold coin bracelets with each...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/seventh-century-ce-roman-coin-jewelry.html
Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. has an interesting collection of Roman marriage rings that began to appear in the 4th century CE. The curators point out, "Marriage rings, embellished wit...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-emergence-of-roman-marriage-rings.html
I have been working on images of frescos from the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii (V 4,a) and this morning I finished uploading the images to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wiki...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2024/01/frescos-in-house-of-marcus-lucretius.html
Another artifact from Dumbarton Oaks photographed by my good friend Allan Gluck - a knife, with an iron blade inserted into an ivory or bone handle carved with an image of Dionysos, or a youthf...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/decorative-roman-knives-of-4th-century.html
My Facebook friend David McLane sent me a picture of the remains of a Roman shipwreck dubbed "De Meern 1" dated to about 190 CE that was found in a tributary of the Rhine and is now on display at...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-de-meern-1-and-2nd-century.html
Another fascinating artifact from the collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. photographed by my good friend Allan Gluck - a 2nd century - 3rd century CE Roman lead sarcophagu...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/roman-lead-sarcophagi-and-funerary.html
Another interesting Late Roman artifact from the Dumbarton Oaks Museum - an ivory carving of a maenad that is thought to have come from the corner of a box photographed by my good friend Allan Gl...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-evolution-of-maenads-from-early.html
I found this small ivory figurine of a warrior or deity, possibly Ares (or a gladiator?), that my good friend Allan Gluck photographed at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington D.C. quite intere...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/gladiators-in-4th-and-5th-century-roman.html
Professor Steven Tuck's lecture on Etruscan sacred spaces (part of The Great Courses' The Mysterious Etruscans series) points out that Etruscan temples were constructed of wood then covered with ...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/rarity-of-narrative-in-etruscan-art.html
While researching additional information for one of the objects my friend Allan Gluck photographed at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, I came across an image of this intriguing solid gold statuette of ...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/male-votive-figurines-from-late-4th-to.html
For today's special treat from my good friend Allan Gluck, here is a marvelous gold bracelet dated to the 7th century CE that would have cost the equivalent of 14 gold coins (a working person's e...
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2023/12/continued-worship-of-dionysos-dionysus.html