Europe Image Library

URBAN

• Street scene in Pompeii; fountain and tavern at a crossroads.
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• Interior of atrium style house at Herculaneum; note the wooden screen in background.
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• Coliseum at Rome
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• Trajan's Market at Rome; retail shops and perhaps small scale production of finished goods. Note that the window allows light to enter the rear of shop
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• Hellenistic theater at Epidaurus.
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• Street scene at Herculaneum. Note shops, porticoes, fountains, paved streets. Two story buildings.
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• Typical oppidum site; this one is Orvieto.
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• Peristyle court of the House of the Vettii at Pompeii.
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• Augustan theater at Arausio (Orange, France.)
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• Augustan theater at Emerita (Merida, Spain).
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• View of a Spanish town with distinctly ancient town plan.
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• Via Appia: modern asphalt over the ancient paving stones. Funerary monuments left and right of the road.
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• Forum at Rome: Note mixture of the ancient and medieval/renaissance.
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• Forum at Rome: Basilica Julia in foreground; Severan arch in middleground; Capitoline Hill beyond.
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• Roman theater at Vaison les Romains, France.
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• Street scene at Pompeii; note retail shops, entries to house, elevated sidewalk; sewers underneath sidewalk (not shown) carried off rainwater.
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• Walls of Tiryns, sally port.
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• Bakery at Pompeii; note oven and hand-mills.
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• Table of standard weights and measures from the forum of Pompeii.
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• Street scene at the Roman town of Glanum (St. Remy, France).
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• Roman theater at Taurominium (Taormina, Italy).
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• Forum at Pompeii, looking north to Vesuvius. Note portico, statue bases, altars and temples.
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• San Gimignano, Italy. Not Roman, but suggests how a Roman toman may have looked.
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• Near Taurominium in Sicily. Not Greek, but suggests the coastal configuration favored by Greeks for their colonies. Note double harbor, arcopolis, etc.
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• Enna, Sicily. Note the defensible position of the town on the crest of the hill; note also the vinyards, olives, fields.
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• Not ancient, but medieval Tuscany. Suggests, however, how Roman towns may have appeared.
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ECONOMY

• Northwestern Spain. Suggests the difficulties of transportation.
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• Transportation as depicted on relief from central Italy.
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• The farm of Cincinnatus? Modern homestead in central Sicily. Note sheep and grain.
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• Transhumance in Sicily.
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WATER

• Stabian baths at Pompeii, interior.
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• Not ancient, but suggestive of the importance of water as a social phenomemon. Fontana de Trevi at Rome.
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• Augustan aqueduct, the Pont du Gard
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• Fresh water spring of Arethusa in the harbor of Syracuse, Sicily. Papyrus grows in the protected basin.
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• Roman (style) bridge over the Guadiana river at Merida, Spain.
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• Roman bridge (at least the lower structure), from NW Spain.
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• Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating calcium deposits in water channel.
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• Roman aqueduct (Pont du Gard) illustrating the levels of contruction.
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• Lead water pipes set in cement.
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• Nemausus (Nimes), end of the pont du Gard
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RELIGION

• Interior of the Pantheon at Rome.
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• Exterior of the Pantheon with the inscription of the builder, M. Agrippa (the friend and colleague of Augustus). Note the Egyptian obelisk brought to Rome as part of Augustus
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• Temple at Segesta.
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• Interior of the baths of Diocletian at Rome.
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• Graffiti dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul from the catacombs at Rome.
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• Cathedral at Syracuse, built in and around the older Doric temple.
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• Christian church constructed within the confines of the temple of the deified emperor Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina.
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LANDSCAPE

• Walls of Bronze Age Tiryns.
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• Mediterranean coastal landscape: southern Sicily.
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• Southern Spain, the road to Munigua.
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• Mediterranean landscape: NW Spain.
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• Mediterranean landscape: illustrating the small size of fields and the often rocky soil.
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• Conditions favoring the development of city-states: Mountains that isolated fertile valleys. Note village middle left; the small size of fields.
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• Via Appia near Rome
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• Conditions favoring development of city-states. The view from Delphi to the south; note the dense olive tree plantations in the valley floor.
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• Conditions favoring development of city-states. NW Spain. Note village in lower left; small size of fields; surrounding mountains.
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MISCELLANEOUS

• A collection of inscriptions in the Epigraphical Museum at Rome. Hundreds and thousands of such inscriptions survive documenting all aspects of ancient life.
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• Revitalizing the past; new applications for classical works of art. Seen in southern Italy.
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• Stone relief from the house of Caecilius Jucundus at Pompeii illustrating the earthquake that struck the city under Nero.
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• Epitaph/relief now in the Epigraphical Museum at Rome. Here a memorial to Julia Capriola from her husband.
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• Stone relief celebrating a successful family of freedmen/-women. Now in the Epigraphical Museum at Rome.
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• One of the most important of all inscriptions, the so-called lex de imperio Vespasiani that conferred imperial power on him. Now in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.
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• A votive offering in Latin by a Vallius Aper but to a Keltic deity, Reve. Vallius is presumably of Keltic extraction, had adopted a Latin name, but still worships the traditional deity of his origin. From NW Spain near Orense.
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• Not all inscriptions are easily read. More typical is this one dedicated to Antoninus Pius (mid 2nd Cent., CE). Note the stress on his names, descent and titles.
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