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  2. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of ancient Romans - Wikipedia

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    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 [17] [18] [19] Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus - urban prefect and praetorian prefect [20] [21] [22]

  4. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Modern estimates of the libra range from 322 to 329 g (11.4 to 11.6 oz) with 5076 grains or 328.9 g (11.60 oz) an accepted figure. [3] [15] [17] The as was reduced from 12 ounces to 2 after the First Punic War, to 1 during the Second Punic War, and to half an ounce by the 131 BC Lex Papiria. [18] [19] The divisions of the libra were:

  5. Icones Imperatorum Romanorum - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the 1645 edition of Icones Imperatorum Romanorum.The figures depicted are Constantine the Great (left), Julius Caesar (center) and Rudolf I (right).. Icones Imperatorum Romanorum ('Images of the Emperors of the Romans'), originally published under the title Vivae omnium fere imperatorum imagines, is a 1557 originally Latin-language numismatic and historical work by the Dutch ...

  6. Roman sculpture - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Roman portraiture - Wikipedia

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    Roman portraiture is characterized by its "warts and all" realism; bust of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, a cast from the original in bronze, found in Pompeii, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Roman portraiture was one of the most significant periods in the development of portrait art. The surviving portraits of individuals are ...

  8. Aquila (Roman) - Wikipedia

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    Roman ornament with an aquila (100–200 AD) from the Cleveland Museum of Art A modern reconstruction of an aquila. An aquila (Classical Latin: [ˈakᶣɪla]; lit. ' eagle ') was a prominent symbol used in ancient Rome, especially as the standard of a Roman legion. A legionary known as an aquilifer, the "eagle-bearer", carried this standard.

  9. Sleeping Ariadne - Wikipedia

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    Castings of Sleeping Ariadne vs Nymph from Fontaine des Innocents.. Michelangelo drew from the sculpture's wrapping of the arms around the head in his Night and Dawn. [17]The Cleopatra, as it was then known, was set upon a Roman sarcophagus and fitted as a fountain in a niche at one end of the uppermost terrace of the Cortile del Belvidere, embodying in its setting the description of a ...