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The shields are identified by their distinct 'figure of eight' shape which is said to be derived from Mycenaean art. [1] As described by Plutarch , the shape of the ancile is a standard shield, neither round or oval, which has curved indentations on both sides.
Figure 8 is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, released in the year 2000, [80] an album released by Julia Darling in 1999, [81] and an album released by Outasight in 2011. [82] Ming Hao from the k-pop group Seventeen goes by the name "The8". [83] "8 (circle)" is the eighth song on the album 22, A Million by the American ...
Acerronia Polla - servant of Agrippina the Younger [8] Gnaeus Acerronius Proculus - consul [9] [10] Acilius Severus - consul and urban prefect [11] Acilius Severus - Christian writer [12] [13] [14] Gaius Acilius - senator and historian [15] Acilius Rufus - suffect consul in 107 [16] Anicius Acilius Aginantius Faustus - urban prefect and consul ...
In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.
Figure 8 racing, a category of auto racing related to the demolition derby; Figure 8 roller coaster, a track design; Figure 8, shape from which compulsory figures in ice skating are derived; Figure 8, a riding figure used in the training of horses; Figure-eight, type of noseband; Figure eight turn, man overboard rescue turn in sailing
Early Roman art was influenced by the art of Greece and that of the neighbouring Etruscans, themselves greatly influenced by their Greek trading partners.An Etruscan speciality was near life size tomb effigies in terracotta, usually lying on top of a sarcophagus lid propped up on one elbow in the pose of a diner in that period.
Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD [1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand. [2] It is housed in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy (formerly in the Capitoline Museums). [1]
Herma of Demosthenes from the Athenian Agora, work by Polyeuktos, c. 280 BC, Glyptothek. A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, plural ἑρμαῖ hermai), [1] commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height.