Images

Portrait of Pompey the Great, Augustean copy of a 70-60 BCE original (Venice National Archaeological Museum).

Portrait of Pompey the Great, c. 30—50 CE (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen).

Portrait of young Caracalla, from Rome, c. 203-204 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Roman emperor Tiberius and his mother Livia, CE 14-19, from Paestum. (National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid)

Portrait of Roman Emperor Tiberius (reigned 18 September 14 CE – 16 March 37 CE) in Altes Museum, Berlin.

Seated statue of Tiberius, 41-54 CE, from Privernum. (Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican Museums) The sculpture dates after 37 CE, the year in which the emperor died, and together with other imperial portraits, was part of an iconic cycle set up...

Territory occupied by the Franks in 555 after the conquest of northern Italy.

Bearded Pictish warrior from the Bullion Stone, Angus, now in the National Museum of Scotland.

Pictish Burghead Bull, 7th century CE, found in Burghead, Morayshire, Scotland; now in the British Museum.

Avar belt mount, 8th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.