Octavian, grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, was hailed as the bringer of peace and prosperity to the Roman world after a long period of civil and military strife. In 27 BCE, the Roman Senate conferred on him the honorary title of Augustus. Soon after, a...
Polydeukion was one of the favorite pupils of the well-known Athenian sophist and philanthropist Herodes Atticus, who lived in Greece in the 2nd century CE. In the year 147 or 148, the young man met an untimely death, and Herodes commissioned many portraits in his...
Bacchus, or Dionysos, popularly known as the god of wine, was also a deity of fertility and vegetation–particularly of fruit trees, including the vine. His cult was one of the most widely followed in the Roman world. This head possibly once belonged to an...
This is a small marble statue base that has a Greek inscription incised on the side. The inscription, “friend of the god,” may indicate that this statue base was a votive offering to a deity. This base was also found with inscriptions 0000.00.1105 and...
