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Oleg Grabar, Early Islamic Art, 650-1100

Porta San Paolo (Porta Ostiense, Ostian Gate), Rome., 2016

Standing near the Porta San Paolo is the Pyramid of Cestius, built around 12 BCE. It was incorporated into the Aurelian Wall, perhaps to reduce some…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Borders, Byzantium, Cities, Defense, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Gate, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Monuments, Porta San Paolo, roman empire, Rome, Urbanism, Wall, War

Patrizio Pensabene and Enrico Gallocchio, "Great Hunt" Mosaic Depiction of Owners of Villa, 2011

In a close-up of the "Great Hunt" mosaic, placed in the corridor between the rectangular peristyle and the basilica, one can see two men, probably the…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art, Byzantium, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Mosaic, roman empire, Sicily, Society, Urbanism, Villa del Casale

(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

GentiBehramaj, A 5th-7th Century Byzantine Forum in modern day Durres, Albania possibly attributed to the Emperor Anastasius., Wikimedia Commons, August 25th 2015

A bath room at Bet Shean, ancient Scythopolis, 2009

The heating system underneath the bath floor; it was raised on brick tiles to permit warm air to circulate underneath it. The baths had an array of…

A Byzantine Gold Solidus of Leo III and Constantine V, Wikimedia Commons

A cargo worker at Ostia, 2017

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