Browse Items (78 total)

Dave & Margie Hill, Relief of Poet & Comedy Masks

Relief_with_Menander_and_New_Comedy_Masks_-_Princeton_Art_Museum.jpg

Dave & Margie Hill, Relief of Poet & Comedy Masks, 27 December 2010

Different performances had various costumes and masks associated with them. This relief shows the comic masks.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

IssamBarhoumi, The Forum of Thuburbo Majus in Northern Tunisia.

MajusForum.png

IssamBarhoumi, The Forum of Thuburbo Majus in Northern Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, September 28th 2014

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ISMAILOVE, The Forum of Meninx in Tunisia.

FMeninx.png

ISMAILOVE, The Forum of Meninx in Tunisia., Wikimedia Commons, March 28 2013

Meninx was an important center for the production of purple dye. This forum likely played a significant role in the production and sale of such a…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan.

FTSketch.png

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, 18th-19th Century

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius

Shrine of Hortensius.tiff

Doug Boin, Shrine at the Horrea (Granary) of Hortensius, 2016

This private shrine once existed within a busy granary in the port city of Ostia. According to the mosaic below the altar, Hortensius served as a…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jan Hazevoet, Detail of the Forum of Trajan.

FTrajan1.png

Jan Hazevoet, Detail of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, April 15 2007

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Doug Boin, Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines

Pagan Workplace Shrines.tiff

Doug Boin, Map of Ostia Showing Late Antique Domestic and Work-Place Shrines, 2016

This map of Ostia details seventeen identified household and work-place shrines, all datable to the third century, meant for private devotion. These…

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Amphipolis, Forum of Trajan

Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue

Synagogue 2.tiff

Doug Boin, Lulav, Ethrog, Menorah, and Shofar on the Corbel of the Ostia Synagogue, 2016

Close-Up of a corbel from the remaining structure of the Ostia synagogue, with a clearly discernible menorah

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome.

FT.png

Amphipolis, The Forum of Trajan in Rome., Wikimedia Commons, June 20th 2014

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2