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Monte Testaccio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmonte teˈstattʃo]) [1] or Monte Testaceo, also known as Monte dei Cocci, is an artificial mound in Rome composed almost entirely of testae (Italian: cocci), fragments of broken ancient Roman pottery, nearly all discarded amphorae dating from the time of the Roman Empire, some of which were labelled with tituli picti.
The Baratti amphora at the Archaeological Museum of Populonia. The Baratti amphora is a silver amphora, possibly from Antioch and dating to the late fourth century AD. It is a unique artistic masterpiece discovered by chance in 1968 off the coast of Baratti, Tuscany, Italy. Its origin, unique characteristics and construction method have been ...
Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles, c. 500 BC, Vassil Bojkov Collection (Sofia, Bulgaria) An amphora (/ ˈ æ m f ər ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀμφορεύς, romanized: amphoreús; English pl. amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container [1] with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and ...
Paestum, Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy: Region: Magna Graecia: Coordinates ... and a large Athenian pottery black-figure amphora of about 520–500 BC. The ...
At the same time in Cuma (southern Italy) the production of the cadii cumani type starts (Dressel 21–22). These containers were mainly used for the transportation of fruit and were used until the middle imperial times. At the same time, in central Italy, the so-called Spello amphorae, small containers, were produced for the transportation of ...
Painted around 510 BCE in the red figure pottery style, the Revelers vase was found in an Etruscan tomb in Vulci, Italy. The painting is attributed to Euthymides. The vase is an amphora (a type of vessel normally used for storage), painted with two scenes: one depicts three nude partygoers, and the other the Trojan hero Hector arming for battle.
From 1820 to 1830 he had lived in Italy, where he acquired most of his collection of over 160 ancient vases, including 52 black-figure amphorae. [1] Roughly at the same time, excavations began at the necropolis of Vulci, from where to amphorae of the group entered the Staatliche Antikensammlungen at Munich. Although Lord Northampton supported ...
For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial ...