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There are 8 objects for which Decoration contains → roman
2009.10.2.182 3 woman starring on a baby in the floor who is holding staff and is haloed. Roman inscription.
2009.8.218 Profile of a man, probably a Roman emperor with an aureole and a prominent chin, looking left. On the left side there is an eagle on a globe, probably referring to Jupiter. Cast number: 9
2009.9.61 A crocodile, either representing the Egyptian god Sobek or from the Ancient Roman perspective, representing Egypt. Cast number: 75
2009.9.67 A snake biting its own tail with what looks like Roman numbers in the circle. Cast number: 81
29.6.1 Plaster cast of the “Ludovisi Throne” (Original in Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps). Central panel: Aphrodite (Roman Venus) rises from the sea assisted by two Horae (Seasons) on the shore who clothe the lower part of her body.The scene probably represents the birth of the goddess. Alternative interpretations: Persephone’s return from the Hades or Hera emerging from the Kanathos waters (Hera Parthenos). Left panel: Seated naked female figure (hetaira?)wearing a sakkos (hairnet) plays the double aulos. Right panel: Seated crouched veiled woman with a pyxis in her left hand in front of an incense burner (thymiaterion)
E.23.1 Below a cornice, sunk within a square frame, figure of deceased (in Roman clothing), stood frontal between Anubis (stood) and Osiris (seated). Red pigment preserved on lower part of Anubis.
REDMG:1964.1154.1 The interior and the rim are coated with a black glaze. On the exterior of the lip, a band of vertical bars, interrupted in each handle zone, where the surface is reserved. Each handle is glazed black on the exterior; under each handle is a palmette with 13 leaves (14 on right side), outlined, with a dotted hemicircle at its heart. Each palmette is flanked by a tendril from which emerges a lotus blossom. On each side a female head, profile to left: stephanai with 6 white spikes, grape-cluster earring, beaded necklace; kekryphylon. The woman on A has a Roman nose; on B has a ski-jump nose.
TEMP.2007.3.58 Obverse: very ornately decorated male head with a roman helmet Reverse: owl
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