“MARBLE STATUE OF EIRENE”
(THE PERSONIFICATION OF PEACE)
ROMAN | CIRCA A.D. 14–68 | MARBLE | H: 69 3/4”
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Capriccio with Monuments of the City of Nîmes by Hubert Robert
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Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/
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Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use.
Date: Roman 1st–2nd century AD.
Collection: British Museum.
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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)
Birth of Venus, 1879
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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~ Circus cup decorated with flowers and birds
Place of origin: Varpelev, Denmark
Period: Roman
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A Roman Lady (1858) by Frederic Leighton
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babygirl you are going to get SO audited by the securities and exchange commission
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An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London
More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/
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