In a quiet corner of the #CapitolineMuseums is this column, which once marked the limit of the huge estate of #AnniaRegilla , named in this #Greek and #Latin #inscription , just outside #Rome . Her horrific murder was one of the ancient world's most famous scandals.
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For #EpigraphyTuesday , this #inscription in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome is a model of C1 CE letterforms, beautifully carved and spaced. It reminds us of an imperial freedman whose job was to remind the emperor of favours he'd promised.
For #EpigraphyTuesday we're in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome , looking at an #inscription found near Porta Maggiore. Ti. Julius Xanthus was a tractator or masseur who really rubbed #Tiberius and #Claudius the right way.
This very poorly labelled #relief in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome is just described as 'funerary relief, #Flavian era', but it's certainly #Trajanic . We have a little family tragedy here for #ReliefWednesday , a mother who has lost her businessman son as well as her husband.
For both #EpigraphyTuesday and #ReliefWednesday this week, I offer you a splendid altar to the god of woods and fields, #Silvanus , with a somewhat scattered #inscription that nonetheless has a good semi-cursive script. This is in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome .
A crude scratch on the bottom of a wine jug is my offering for #EpigraphyTuesday this week. But it's an astonishing one, which I saw today at the #CapitolineMuseums in an exhibition. It is amazing to find this in a museum in #Rome , even temporarily.
For #SpoliaSunday we're glancing down in the Hall of the Doves in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome to see a strange little marble disc dedicated to #Isis venerated in the #MiddleAges as a relic of the #angel who gave his name to the #CastelSantAngelo .
For #EpigraphyTuesday , in an acceptably classicising script, we have possibly the most momentous piece of #classicalreception in #Rome , #SixtusIV 's foundation of what would become the #CapitolineMuseums . No #Christian triumph, but a hope that we might learn from the ancient past.
For #SpoliaSunday we're at the #CapitolineMuseums to look at a lovely altar carved with bulls' skulls, garlands, and ribbons. It was turned into a unit of measurement in the #MiddleAges , a useful bit of #spolia that thereby escaped the lime kilns.
WHO is this woman? Perhaps a member of the Roman imperial family? The one on the right is a very old pic from the #BritishMuseum , when she was labeled as Anonymous, Faustina Minor or Lucilla. The one on the left, in the #CapitolineMuseums is anonymous (ca. 200 AD). But ... 1/
#Rome is working on multiple projects to bring back the #Eternal City in its ancient form. One of the projects was a copy of the 13-meter-high statue of #Constantine the Great, located behind the #CapitolineMuseums , which is definitely worth a visit!
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Terrace of the Capitoline Museums /
Forum Romanum seen from the Tabularium, A.D. 2019
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A rush of blood to the head is the last thing this #Priapic figure wants this #PhallusThursday , with this #ithyphallic bronze #lamp from the storerooms of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli but now on show in the #CapitolineMuseums - an ongoing fascination with the #fascinus in #Rome . LJ Trafford
Flapping phalli, Batman! This #PhallusThursday we're looking at a creature of the night from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli on display at the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome , as it recoils back from the lamp it's resting on, revealing a strangely human #phallus . LJ Trafford
🇬🇧 Near the #CapitolineMuseums , you can now find a colossal statue of #Constantine , the famous Roman Emperor.
In Villa Caffarelli, there is now a statue 13 meters high, which recalls the original #Colossus found in the Massenzio’s #Basilica during the Fifteenth Century.
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#mercatocircomassimo is the perfect place to enjoy an open-air Saturday or Sunday immersed in a beautiful setting of Rome.
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Steve Llewellyn Alison Fisk I think the colossal head below is a good match. Alexander the Great as the sun god Helios, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original. There are holes in the back of his head where a metal radiate crown would have been attached. #CapitolineMuseums
