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  2. Art collection in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Roman art collectors could satiate their needs by contracting artists, often Greek artists, [39] for commissions. [40] Aulus Gabinius, a Roman consul in 58, employed a Greek painter named Antiochus. [40] Livy, a 1st-century BCE Roman historian, stated that the Roman passion for collecting Greek artwork originated from the capture of Syracuse in ...

  3. Sigillaria (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia.Sigillaria as a proper noun was also the name for the last day of the Saturnalia, December 23, [1] and for a place where sigillaria were sold. [2]

  4. Roman jewelry - Wikipedia

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    An Ancient Roman ring made from gold with a garnet stone. Roman women collected and wore more jewelry than men. Women usually had pierced ears, in which they would wear one set of earrings. Additionally, they would adorn themselves with necklaces, bracelets, rings, and fibulae. One choker-style necklace, two bracelets, and multiple rings would ...

  5. Wreaths and crowns in antiquity - Wikipedia

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    Radiate crowns were associated with the sun, and the 3rd-century Roman emperors issued coins – antoniniani – with the imperial portrait wearing a radiate crown. [21] Soon after the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337), the radiate crown disappeared from official use. [21]

  6. Bulla (amulet) - Wikipedia

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    A Roman girl did not wear a bulla per se, [4] but another kind of amulet called a lunula, until the eve of her marriage, when it was removed along with her childhood toys and other things. She would then stop wearing child's clothes and start wearing women's Roman dress .

  7. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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    A cup, 65 mm high, made at Aswan, Egypt, in the 1st–2nd century AD, and decorated with barbotine patterns. Some of the shapes of Arretine plain wares were quite closely copied in the later 1st century BC and early 1st century AD in a class of pottery made in north-east Gaul and known as Gallo-Belgic ware. [15]

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  9. Toys and games in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Roman games influenced the leisure cultures of other civilizations. Archaeological evidence suggests that Roman gaming boards spread throughout the ancient world, reaching as far as Scandinavia. The Roman word tabula, referring to a gaming tablet or board, likely is the ancestor of Germanic or Celtic words such as *tabulā or tafl.

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