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This man wears a "toga", a garment that was only worn by holders of the Roman citizenship. His shoes reflect his aristocratic social rank (equestrian). Behind him, was a basket of scrolls (rotuli); possibly, he held one of them in his left...

Roman sculpture of an elderly woman, c. 14-68 CE, a copy of a 2nd-century BCE Hellenistic original. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hadrian, like most Roman emperors, used statues to diffuse his image across the Roman World. Statues often showed the emperor as a general or priest. This bust shows Hadrian naked. This nakedness, originally a Greek style, showed that the...

Apollo was the god of music, light, truth, and healing in Graeco-Roman mythology, but this statue was found in a temple dedicated to "Kore", the goddess of the underworld and vegetation. The back of the statue was not polished, suggesting...

Head of Lucius Verus (reign: 161 – 169 CE), from a colossal statue found in the north gallery of the palaestra of the South Baths in Perge, Turkey. (Antalya Museum)

This is the most complete of the surviving lions from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, also known as the Tomb of Mausolus. The lions probably stood at the base of the stepped-pyramid roof, acting as both protective and royal symbols. There...

The woman may be a member of the imperial family. She is known from other portraits, but can not be individually identified. Roman, circa 160-170 CE. From the Pourtalès Collection. (The British Museum, London).

"The peristyle courtyards and gardens of the villas belonging to wealthy Romans were filled with fountains, sculpture, and monumental ornaments such as this vase. Many of these decorative works were eclectic combinations of shapes and motifs...

"The deities Athena, Zeus, and Hera, assembled at the far left, preside over a musical contest between the Muses and Sirens. The Muses, associated with the highest intellectual and artistic aspirations, are defeating the Sirens, creatures...

Mixed portraiture type: Baiae & Imperatori 32. From c. 128 CE (Carthage) The photograph was taken during the exhibition “L’image et le pouvoir. Le siècle des Antonins” (Image and power. The age of the Antonines) at the Musée Saint-Raymond...