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Wilke D. Schram, Driek van Opstal, and Cees Passchier., Sketch of an Aqueduct Siphon

A rough drawing of a siphon, an important piece of architecture in making aqueducts function.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Aqueduct Siphon, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, late antique, Late Antiquity, Livius.org, Medieval, Plan, roman empire, Siphon, Sketch, Urbanism

Patrick-Emil Zorner, Small Theatre in Mainz, Germany, 6 September 2008

Tags: Ancient, Culture, Excavation, Germanic, Germany, Mainz, Performance, roman empire, Rubble, Ruins, Small, Theatre, Urban, Urbanism

Spectacle in the Roman World

Spectacle in the Roman World by Hazle Dodge

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

Staircase Martyrium in Caelian Hill House

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…

Jona Lendering, Statue of Ceres Augusta from Theatre Temple at Lepcis Magna, 2017

This statue of Ceres Augusta, the grain goddess, adorned the theatre temple in Lepcis Magna, Libya. She has the features of Livia Augusta, mother of…

Tags: Ceres Augusta, City, Culture, Drama, Entertainment, Female, Imperial Cult, Late Antiquity, Pagan, Paganism, Performance, Performance Space, Political, Politics, Religion, Roman Culture, roman empire, Statue, Temple, Theater, Theatre, Theatre Temple, Urbanism, Woman, Women

Studies in Late Antiquity Cover

Subterranean Passageway in Colosseum, 2014

Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Arena, Athletics, Byzantium, Chambers, Cities, City, Colosseum, Competition, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monuments, Passageways, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Rome, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Tunnels, Urbanism

Michael White, UT-Austin/Ostia Synagogue Area Project, Synagogue at Ostia, Fourth Century, 2016

While the initial creation of the synagogue in Ostia by its Jewish community remains unclear, this plan shows the synagogue in its final phase, after…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, Judaism, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Ostia, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Synagoge, Urbanism