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Marble head of Germanicus, carved in about 10 CE to commemorate the journey of the Emperor Augustus with his adoptive grandson Germanicus to Pannonia (today Hungary). Now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Marble head of Germanicus, found in 1844 in the heart of the city of Beziers (France) where the ancient Forum of Colonia Julia Baeterrae Septimanorum stood. Ca. 14-23 CE. Now in Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse.

Basalt bust of the great Roman general Germanicus, from Egypt, about 14-20 CE. In late antiquity Christians broke the nose of the bust and carved a cross on the forehead. Now in British Museum, London.

Second-style Pompeian fresco in the House of Augustus (Domus Augusti) on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The vividly-coloured fresco depicts a two-storey architectural facade in blue, white, yellow and red with perspective rendition of colonnades...

Drusus Julius Caesar (Drusus the Younger) was was the only child of Roman Emperor Tiberius and his first wife, Vipsania Agrippina. He was also a maternal cousin of the Caligula, a paternal cousin of Claudius and a second cousin of Nero...

Roman mosaic with white tesserae featuring a central panel (emblema) in opus vermiculatum (micro tesserae), Floor of the triclinium of a Roman villa in Via Ardeatina in Rome, first quarter of the 1st century BCE. The above panel depicts...

An image of the wine pithos at Tel Kabri's Area D-West in situ during the 2013 excavation. The pithos were excavated out after the photo and this storage room is now covered over for conservation purposes. For purposes of the excavation...

Statue in red marble depicting the punishment of Marsyas, a satyr who dared challenge Apollo to a music contest. Marsyas lost and Apollo had him tied to a tree and flayed him alive. The statue was found at the Villa Vignacce in southeastern...

Tauroctony relief in white marble depicting Mithras slaying the bull in a grotto. It was found South of Monastero near Aquileia (Italy). Now in Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria. From the 2nd half of 2nd century CE.

The Great Cameo of France is a five-layered sardonyx cameo divided into three levels which depicts members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, circa 23 CE. The Great Cameo of France is the largest cameo to survive from the ancient world. It...