Images

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...

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.

East Roman Empire, 6th century CE, showing the territories of the Avars, Goths, Franks, Lombards, Saxons, Thuringians, Slavs.

A marble eye which was once attached to the prow of a trireme in order to ward off evil. Traces of the original paint can still be seen. (Archaeological Museum of Piraeus)

Stone kleroteria; a device that randomly dispensed black or white tokens which the Athenians used to select citizens for jury service. (Agora Museum of Athens)