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Pottery ink-well inscribed with the owner's name, Iucundus, from Londinium (Roman London). The ink was made up using one part of gum-water to three parts carbon black. (British Museum, London)

Wooden writing-tablet, 1st-2nd century CE, from Londinium (Roman London). British Museum, London

Gladiator helmet-shaped dropper flask decorated with "snake thread" trails, found in Cologne, Germany, dated to the 3rd century CE. Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne.

Roman gilt silver fibula in the form of a three-story tripartite gate of rusticated masonry, with a central double-arched entrance flanked by two towers and a draped bust of Sol at the top story, c. 3rd century to early 4th century CE. Römisch-Germanisches...

Terracotta flask depicting a gladiatorial scene, Roman Empire. Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne.

A votive marble offering in the style of Lysippos from the Daochos Monument at Delphi; over-life-size at 2m tall; Late Classical; c.336- 332 BCE. Agias was the grandfather of Daochos II, who dedicated the monument, and a highly successful...

A Roman theatre mask mosaic, 1st century BCE. From a private villa in the area of Villa Ruffinella, Rome. Palazzo Massimo, Rome.

The head of a statue of Jupiter in the Temple of Jupiter, Pompeii

Facade of a house in Pompeii

Ruins of the ancient city of Ephesus in Turkey