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A Roman scale armor portion of the type called “lorica squamata” in a rather decent state of preservation. Roman soldiers had several types of armor, with various advantages and disadvantages. This was found at Kastel Pfünz, set up during the reign of Domitian for Cohors I Breucorum and destroyed by Germanic tribes in the mid 3rd century AD. It is on display in the Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte in Eichstätt, Germany.

A Roman clay oil lamp with a menorah. It along with a few others found locally in Ostia was dated to the 2nd-5th centuries AD and is on display in the on-sight museum within the ruins of Ostia. That ancient river port city on the Tiber, near Rome, is an excellent places to see art and architecture from different centuries and religions as people & goods from all over the empire and beyond travelled to there.

A Roman marble portait found locally. "It was unearthed from Columned Street Excavation of the 2018 Season in Soloi-Pompeiopolis ancient city. Portrait wears roman dress (Toga) and depicts a middle-aged person with voluminous curly hair and a full beard. The bust with its forelooking and gaze is a depiction of ruler or philosopher who lived in Soloi-Pompeiopolis" per the Mersin Archaeological Museum in Mersin, Turkey where this is on display.

"The passers-by through the Archaeological Underpass in central Plovdiv step on a well preserved Roman road. They also go by the home of a wealthy Roman and can enter it to see some of the most remarkable Roman mosaics preserved in the eastern Balkans. Eirene, the goddess of peace, is elegant. Her face was composed of fine tiles and smalt in white, black, red, ochre, yellow, green and cyan, and looks as fresh as it did to the owners of this sumptuous home 1,600 years ago. The sensation of vivacity in her beautiful face was achieved by using the opus vermiculatum technique. It involves the utilization of small stone tiles that are smaller than those used in the classic opus tesselatum method and whose irregular shape helps to achieve better similarity to real-life images. The mosaics in this sumptuous townhouse preserved not only the name of the goddess but also the name of its owner, Desiderius. The opulent mosaics in the Eirene Building take up 160 square meters and decorate the four representative rooms in the building's eastern area. The house also has a peristyle (an open, colonnaded courtyard), one the favorite pastime locations for every well-to-do Roman. The Eirene Building took up a whole insula (the block between four grid streets) in the town thus asserting both architecturally and visually the social status of its owners. The Erene Building probably dates back to the 3rd century. Its sumptuous mosaics were produced in the second half of the 4th and the early 5th centuries. The residential building was abandoned in the 6th century. Its remains were discovered in the 1980s when the modern underpass was under construction." Per the archaeological site in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

A video of a Roman Boxer aka the “Pugilist at Rest” statue showing the man naked after a fight. One of the most famous statues ever found in Rome due to its extreme realism using the lost wax technique in which various parts were cast and then welded together. It is mostly made of bronze although copper inserts were used for the blood, lips, nipples and parts of the glove. Note the sweaty mustache, combat wounds on the right eye, swollen ears, broken nose from previous fights, and cuts on the face. Although some people deem the statue to be an old Greek one, the official museum book states "the statue can be dated to the 1st century BC...Even the gloves, although similar to those of the Hellenistic era, are of the type worn by boxers of the imperial (Roman) era." On display in the Palazzo Massimo - National Roman Museum in Rome.

The Church of the Acheiropoietos in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece is a three aisled Christian basilica from the early Byzantine era (built around 450-470 AD) although it has some Roman mosaics below the floor level. This remained a church until 1430 when the Ottomans converted it into a mosque, and it became the main mosque of the city for centuries until 1912. After the area became part of the Greek state, this building had several humanitarian uses such as housing victims of the great fire as well as Greek speaking people forced to leave Asia Minor after the population exchange until it was reconsecrated as a church in 1930. It is now a UNESCO world heritage site.

Mummy masks and a portrait all from Roman-Egypt that are now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA.

A Roman mosaic with a lot of marine life and fishing nets on the floor of the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia over which tourists walk. I didn’t see a description for this one.

A Roman relief of Apollo and** **Marsyas in a musical contest, which turned out to be fatal for the latter. This was made of Pentelic marble; that quarry near Athens was used to build much of the Athenian Parthenon in the 5th century BC in addition to many works of art in Greek and Roman times. This dates to 120-130 AD and is on display in the Centrale Montemartini museum (a branch of the Capitoline Museums) in Rome.

Roman hipposandals made of iron to protect a horse’s hoof as horseshoes in the Roman empire apparently didn’t exist (or were not wide spread). One of the pictures shows how the hoof was wrapped in cloth before being placed in this protection that resembles a modern hoof boot. These would be ill suited in the mud or some types of surfaces, so the frequency of using them is not known. They were found on the site of a Roman farm and are now on display in the reconstructed farm house called Villa Rustica Möckenlohe in Adelschlag, Germany.

A Roman fibula in the form of a bee that dates to the 1st century AD and is on display in the Museum of Cadiz in Cadiz, Spain.

A Roman carnelian gemstone with an engraving of Serapis (a deity of Greek-Egyptian origins) in a throne as well as a small eagle and city deity. It dates to the beginning of the 1st century AD, was set into a modern gold ring and is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Inside the huge 6th century Byzantine “Basilica Cistern” underneath Istanbul, Turkey with 336 marble columns of various heights and dates. Per a sign there: “The column, known as Tear or Crying Column, has an appearance as if it were crying because it is wet, unlike other columns. This column resembles the columns of the Triumphal Arch of Theodosius I from the 4th century, erected in the 'Forum Tauri' Square. It is reported that the Crying Pillar was built for the memory of hundreds of slaves who lost their lives during the construction of the Basilica Cistern.”

A Roman "marble memorial to a soldier named Ares, who died aged 29. The two figures may represent Ares or two individuals called Ares (possibly father and son).

Inscription translation: After having ended his military service, Ares gave his arms and military appointment to Ares. After having left these things, he went on to another world that is no world, where there is nothing else except darkness. The 29th year." Per the British Museum in London, where this artifact with Greek text found presumably in Alexandria and dates to 188-189 AD is on display.

The Flavian Amphitheater aka Colosseum in Rome at night, which was inaugurated by the Emperor Titus in 80 AD and used for gladiator shows, animal hunts/killings and executions of condemned prisoners in Roman times. It never gets old looking at it...pun intended.

A section of a Roman "painted wall plinth depicting columns on a podium. From the Domus dei Bucrani (below the so-called Schola del Traiano). 40-30 BC". Per the museum in the archaeological park of Ostia, Italy where this is on display.

“This unique gold coin of the Roman emperor Vespasian is arguably the most important single coin ever found in Oxfordshire. It was struck in Judaea in AD 70 and found about 1850 at Finstock, Oxfordshire. Vespasian was in command of the Roman army putting down the Jewish Revolt. When he was proclaimed emperor he left his son Titus to continue the war. The gold for the coin almost certainly came from the Temple itself, which was destroyed when the Romans sacked Jerusalem. The stamping of 'The Justice of Titus' on gold from the Temple is chilling. In the bloody suppression of the Jewish Revolt, the Temple was burned and half a million died. The coin is a monument to Roman ruthlessness.” Per the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England where this is on display.

A Roman spearhead of a bestiarius (animal fighter in the arena) on the left and a long spearhead on the right. Both were found in the Gladiator Barracks in Pompeii from the 1st century AD, before the destruction of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD of course. They are owned by the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy, although I don’t remember ever seeing them there (I took this picture at a special exhibition).

"Ornaments for Dead. Gold wreath, blindfolds and mouth cover. Roman, 1st - 4th centuries AD, Anatolia." Per the Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum in Ankara, Turkey where this is on display.

A Roman multistory building in Ostia, Italy. I didn’t see a sign on this one although they are usually insulae with shops or bars on the ground floor and several floors of apartments above. Interestingly, the wealthy people lived on the lower floors which were typically sturdier and easier to exit the building from in case of fire.