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McKay Savage, El Djem Tunisia Amphitheatre, 23 December 2012

Built during the first part of the third century CE, this large amphitheater features subterranean structures and limestone seating.

Mary Harrsch, Theatre Mask in Architecture at Ostia, 14 March 2009

Tags: Architecture, City, Comedy, Costume, Culture, Decoration, Italy, late antique, Mask, Ornate, Ostia, Performance, roman empire, Rome, Stone, Theatre, Tragedy, Urban

Marie-Lan Nguyen, Circus Race Marble Relief, 2009

Tags: Animal, Art, Athletics, Chariot, Circus, City, Competition, Decoration, Entertainment, Hippodrome, Horse, Horse Racing, Late Antiquity, Marble, People, Race Track, Racing, Relief, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Sports, Stone, Urbanism

Marco Prins, Lepcis Magna Theatre Inscription, 2017

As a form of patronage, theatres were often renovated in the name of emperors, their family, or other importnat officials. To commemorate this,…

Tags: City, Culture, Dedication, Drama, Emperor, Empire, Entertainment, Epigraphic, Epigraphy, Honor, Imperial Cult, Inscription, Late Antiquity, Lepcis Magna, Patronage, Performance, Performance Space, Roman Culture, roman empire, Theater, Theatre, Urbanism

Marco Prins, Caesarea Aqueduct, 2017

Front facing shot of the aqueduct in Caesarea, Israel.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Byzantium, Caesarea, Caesarea Aqueduct, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Israel, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Mediterranean, Monument, Near East, Politics, roman empire, Urbanism, water, Water management

Marco Prins, Pont du Gard Aqueduct, 2015

Sideline photograph of the Pont du Gard, one of the oldest remaining aqueducts from the Roman period.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, France, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monument, Politics, Pont du Gard, roman empire, Urbanism, water, Water management

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

Mahieddine Boumendjel, Theatre at Guelma in Algeria, 26 June 2014

This theatre in modern-day Algeria dates to the third century CE.

Tags: Algeria, City, Culture, Entertainment, late antique, Performance, roman empire, Stage, Theatre, Urban

LPLT, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo

Modern-day, outside image of the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill in Rome (Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio). The…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, San Giovanni e Paolo, Urbanism

Living Late Antiquity team, A porticoed street in Jerusalem, 2009

The colonnade and street paving seen here date to the sixth century CE, when Jerusalem was still controlled by the Roman Empire.