Coperchio di sepolcro muliebre

Coperchio di sepolcro muliebre da Tuscania, terracotta con tracce di policromia, III sec. d.C. Museo archeologico di Firenze, museum in Florence

A fresco of a young man

A fresco of a young man from the Villa di Arianna, Stabiae, 1st century AD

Maenad

: A Roman fresco from Pompeii showing a Maenad in silk dress, 1st century AD Right image: A fresco of a young man from the Villa di Arianna, Stabiae, 1st century AD.

Iphigeneia

Iphigeneia carried to the sacrifice (centre) while the seer Calchas (on the right) watches on and Agamemnon (on the left) covers his head in sign of deploration. In the sky, Artemis appears with a hind which will be substituted to the young girl.

CLOTH/SHROUD ?

CLOTH/SHROUD

This piece of painted material, which dates from the Graeco-Roman Period, depicts two divinities in the form of a serpent. They are without any doubt Agathos Daimon, the good genie protector of the town of Alexandria, and Isis-Uraeus. They are respectively wearing pshent head-dresses, the pharaonic double crown of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, and a crown composed of a solar disk and cow's horns. The bodies are marked with black and reddish colours. The two divine serpents, creations of religious syncretism of the Graeco-Roman Period, often decorate stelae, coins and the walls of tombs.

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GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD

GREEK GOD: AGATHOS DAIMON

Van dieren en mensen. Getuigenissen uit Prehistorie en Oudheid - Des animaux et des hommes. Témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1988, 179 nº 179

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fresco

Fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries. Pompeii, 80 BC