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Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, Palestra Floor Mosaic, Adjoining a Villa Bathhouse
Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, Palestra Floor Mosaic, Adjoining a Villa Bathhouse, 2011
This mosaic adorned the floor of the palestra, or rectangular court meant for exercise or bathing, adjoining the bathhouse of a villa in Sicily. The…
Peripitus, Circus in Tyre, Lebanon
Peripitus, Circus in Tyre, Lebanon, 2009
This circus, or hippodrome, in Tyre, Lebanon was built in the late second to early third century CE. It represents one of the best preserved examples…
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Athletics, Byzantium, Circus, Cities, City, Competition, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Fall of Rome, Hippodrome, Horse Racing, late antique, Late Antiquity, Lebanon, Medieval, Near East, Race Track, Racing, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Sports, Track, Tyre, Urbanism
Petar Milosevic, Detail of Mosaic of Justinian and Theodora
Petar Milosevic, Detail of Mosaic of Justinian and Theodora, 27 April 2015
This image is a side by side detailed comparison of the mosaics of Justinianus I and Theodora from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Itlay.
Peter Brown, Map of Known Villas in the Roman World, c. 400 CE
Peter Brown, Map of Known Villas in the Roman World, c. 400 CE, 2012
This map shows the villas, archaeologically attested thus far, across the late antique Roman world around 400 CE.
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Europe, Fall of Rome, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Mappa, Medieval, roman empire, Society, Urbanism, Villa
Photography by Douglas Boin (2017) with didactic material located on-site., The late Roman amphitheater at Pollentia (Pollenzo), Italy, with a plan of the excavated town.
Photography by Douglas Boin (2017) with didactic material located on-site., The late Roman amphitheater at Pollentia (Pollenzo), Italy, with a plan of the excavated town., May 2017
Remains of the late Roman amphitheater at Pollentia (Pollenzo), Italy, on the outskirts of the modern village, with reconstruction drawings and plans…
Tags: Amphitheater, Entertainment, Goths, Italy, Northern Italy, Pollentia
plotted by Doug Boin; based on map of Ostia from Archivio Disegni, Ostia Antica 11689, Distribution of Mithraea in Ostia, Third Century
plotted by Doug Boin; based on map of Ostia from Archivio Disegni, Ostia Antica 11689, Distribution of Mithraea in Ostia, Third Century, 2016
This map shows all fifteen Mithraea, archaeologically attested thus far. Eight date to the third century, four early in that century and four late. …
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Cultural, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Map, Medieval, Mithraea, Ostia, Pagans, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism
Pradigue, The Forum of Bullia Regia in Tunisia
Pradigue, The Forum of Bullia Regia in Tunisia, Wikimedia Commons
Ra Boe, Portus (Aerial)
Ra Boe, Portus (Aerial), 2008
An aerial shot of Rome's artificial harbor. Note the hexagonal shape.
Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Portus, roman empire, Rome, Trade, Urbanism, water
Rabax63, Theatre at Ostia
Rabax63, Theatre at Ostia, 16 November 2016
Tags: Ancient, Culture, Entertainment, late antique, Ostia, Performance, Performance Space, Roman City, roman empire, Theater, Theatre