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A cargo worker at Ostia

The relief is currently a part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), inv. number 56425.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Harbors, Inscription, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, roman empire, Trade, Urbanism

(Further Reading) Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople, Short History

(Further Reading) Theophanes' Chronographia

Marcantonio Raimondi, A 16th Century Artist's Sketch of the Column of Theodosius, Wikimedia Commons, 16th century

Cornelius Gurlitt, A Reconstructive Sketch of the Column of Justinian, Wikimedia Commons, 1912

SEIER+SEIER, Interior of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Flickr, April 2, 2004

An interior shot of the Great Mosque of Damascus (or Umayyad Mosque), in modern-day Syria, with the Shrine of St. John the Baptist visible in the…

Tags: Damascus, Islam, Mosque, Shrine, St. John the Baptist, Syria, Umayyad

Guy Le Strange, The Round City in the Time of Mansur, Oxford University Press, 1900

A depiction of Baghdad shortly after its foundation in the eighth century CE, when it was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. An interior cutaway of…

Tags: Abbasid, Baghdad, Iraq, Mansur, Palace, Walls

Simon Mannweiler, The Dome of the Rock, Wikimedia Commons, 11 December 2007

Exterior shot of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.

Tags: Islam, Jerusalem, Temple Mount, Umayyad

Laura & Alessandro, Insula Dianae in Ostia, Italy, Flickr, 16 February 2009

An image of the Insula Dianae, an example of insula construction dating to the second century CE within Ostia.

Ana Munk, Staircase Martyrium in Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

This image is the front-facing view of the martyrium built in the late 4th century by Pammachius and Paulina at the top of a renovated landing of…