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The Goddess of Victory driving a two-horse chariot (so-called biga), a tomb fresco from Paestum, Lucania.
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Everyone I know in Gaza is messaging me saying they can't find internet anymore and are barely able to connect using esims that are running out. Please don't stop donating esims.
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holy fuck, do not go to the vatican museums in jubilee year 😭😭
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Terracotta figure of two women sitting on a couch, from Asia Minor, now in the British Museum.
One of the women is older than the other and it has been speculated it could be Demeter and Persephone.
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i hate to break this to some of u but this is a CofE church 😭
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instagram | photos are my own, reblogs fine, do not repost/reuse
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repeat after me: people in the past were not stupid. people in the past were not dirty. people in the past were people like you. you are not inherently better than our ancestors simply for being born in the modern age.
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girl help i am running out of concepts for my escapist imaginary scenarios
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ever since i was a little girl i wanted to experience being taken away by my fated vampire lover
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The Triumph of Bacchus, 1875 - oil on canvas.
— Gustave Moreau (France, 1826–1898)
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André Gide, from a journal entry featured in The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. 2: 1914-1927
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Veiled heads of the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. So-called capite velato (usually fold of the toga draped over the top of the head) was a show of piety during religious sacrifice, and in art it underlines the individual's role as a priest, in the case of the emperors that of the pontifex maximus.
During the Republic, the office of the pontifex maximus, Rome's highest priest, was elective. Augustus became pontifex maximus in 12 BC and from then on the position was automatically assumed by each successive emperor upon their ascension.
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert (1847-1935, French) ~ Jeune femme lisant, n/d
[Source: Christie’s]
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The statue of Emperor Claudius discovered in Gabii near Rome at the end of the 18th century, now in the Louvre.
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