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The Annales maximi of the Pontifex maximus, the annual edicts of the praetor, the lists of Roman and municipal senators (decuriones) and jurors (album indicum) were exhibited in this manner. [1] The Acta Diurna, a sort of daily government gazette, containing an officially authorized narrative of noteworthy events in Rome was also published this ...
Alessandro Torlonia acquired further property in Rome and its vicinity, including the Vigna dei Gesuiti on the Aventine Hill, which rested above the remains of the Baths of Decius. [16] Other estates acquired for excavation were at Tuscia and Sabina; at Fara Sabina (ancient Cures), the collection's bronze statue of Germanicus was discovered. [1 ...
This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy 130,000 objects [1] State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia 106,000 objects [2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast) British Museum, London, UK 100,000 ...
Ancient Roman temples were ornamented with artworks depicting events from Roman mythology and history. In the Early Roman Empire, Greek statues and sculptures were popular decorations for Roman temples. [1] Macrobius, a 5th-century Roman author, explains that objects in temples can be divided into two categories: decorations and sacred objects.
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Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum (Antiquities of Human and Divine Things) [1] was one of the chief works of Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC). The work has been lost, but having been substantially quoted by Augustine in his De Civitate Dei (published AD 426) its contents can be reconstructed in parts.
One year later, Wade dropped her first single as a solo artist titled “The Night” and released her first full-length album, Reckless, in March 2021. The album was something Wade was ...
The Staatliche Antikensammlungen (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçə anˈtiːkənˌzamlʊŋən], State Collections of Antiquities) is a museum in Munich's Kunstareal holding Bavaria's collections of antiquities from Greece, Etruria and Rome, though the sculpture collection is located in the Glyptothek opposite, and works created in Bavaria are on display in a separate museum. [1]