Roman art and artifacts, vessels, amphoras, decorative items, and aesthetic principles.
Stories in Stone:
Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa
is a collection of mosaics from the Getty Villa's exhibition of Roman mosaics from Tunisia from the Roman period.
A selection of images from the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of Roman mosaics from a Jewish synagogue in Nara, Tunisia in the later Roman Empire.
The artistic painting technique of making frescoes on ancient Roman walls.
Romans painted wall scenes on wet plaster. Such paintings are called frescoes.
Following Trajan's expansionist policy, Hadrian tried to consolidate the Roman empire and strengthen it by such means as a great fortified walls.
The Little House in Pompeii is a uest feature, by Judith Geary, about a house in Pompeii filled with oddities and illusions. The Little House in Pompeii was a brothel.
Guest writer Judith Geary explains what happened to ancient Republican Roman construction, the masses of crumbling stone blocks, like a giantīs building blocks, their featureless faces mysteriously pockmarked.
The curia was the senate house where Roman senators met during the Republic. The original curia was built before the Republic, around the mid-6th c. B.C., by Tullus Hostilius, who built it to house the ten elected representatives known as curiae.
From About's Architecture Guide, links to a wide range of topics in Roman architecture.
Guest feature, by Judith Geary, about the use of concrete by the ancient Romans who discovered a special ingredient that made their concrete withstand time and the elements.
University of Pennsylvania webiste and exhibit on Roman glass.
From the Petris Museum in London, an online look at 11 objects from Roman Egypt: Ceramic jug, Ceramic Bowl, Plaster mould, Faience waster, Ceramic oil lamp, Steatite dish, Bone hairpin, Terracotta figurine, Glass bead, Glass inlay, and Bronze figure of Bastet.
Line drawings representing Roman amphoras throughout the ages. Dating is from Heinrich Dressel's 1899
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
University of Evansville essay on Rome with links to Mithraism, Roman emperors quiz, chronology, museum images, Aeneid, religious writing, Plotinus on Beauty, and more.
University of Mississippi's University Museum collection of classical artifacts includes coins, inscriptions, sculpture, bronze medical instruments, and household items.
The history of glass-making based on an exhibit at the Kelsey Museum. Most of the glass is from Egypt which, because of the desert conditions, preserved the glass intact.
Short lectures on aspects of Roman portraits originally from Fayyum. Topics include the materials and techniques, the rituals of death and
imagines, and the large eyes.
