Images

Mask of the Gorgon Medusa dating from c. 130 CE and found in the Forum Romanum in Rome. It is exhibited at the Romisch-Germanisches Museum in Cologne (Germany).

Statue of Emperor Hadrian, 117-138 CE (Roman period), found at Troy, now in Canakkale Archaeological Museum, Canakkale, Turkey

Mixed portraiture type: Baiae & Imperatori 32. From c. 128 CE (Carthage) The photograph was taken during the exhibition “L’image et le pouvoir. Le siècle des Antonins” (Image and power. The age of the Antonines) at the Musée Saint-Raymond...

Marble, colossal portrait head of the emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE), found in Athens. From the Imperatori 32 portrait sculptural type. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens).

The head of the colossal marble statue of Hadrian was found at the Sagalassos Roman Baths complex in 2007 and is now exhibited at the Burdur Museum.

The temple of Baachus at Baalbek (Modern Lebanon), ca. 150 CE.

An illustration of the Propylaea or monumental gateway of the Athenian acropolis, 5th century BCE.

Fluted column drums from the Propylaea of the Athenian acropolis, 5th century BCE.

The Tholos temple of Delphi, c. 580 BCE and originally with 20 columns.

A reconstruction of the peristyle from the house of the Vetti, Pompeii.