On this 900th anniversary of the founding of Reading Abbey, UoR Classics takes the opportunity to highlight one of many connections between Classics and medieval Britain, with this guest blog…Read More >
Rome
4. Casts of the Ludovisi and Boston Thrones
(Ca. 1896–1906) While the marble sculptures that these casts represent are somtimes called ‘thrones’ (of colossal gods?), they may have been altar fronts, tops of shrines, fences, stone chariots, or…Read More >
3. Cast of a column capital
Brucciani & Co. (before 1900) This cast is of a capital that crowned a column of the Ionic order or style. The band of lotus and palmettes—as found on the…Read More >
8. Aphrodite and Eros
(1st century BC or later) This statue of Aphrodite, goddess of love, was dedicated to the goddess near her temple at Cyrene (Libya). This statue, on loan from the British…Read More >
12. Tombstone of Domita Rogata
(2nd century AD) The inscription on this tombstone from Leptis Magna (in modern Libya) remembers ‘‘Domitia Rogata. She lived twenty-three years. M. Iulius Cethegus Phyllissam made this for his dearest…Read More >