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Athena counseling Diomedes shortly before he enters the battle. Schlossbrücke, Berlin.

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 440–430 BCE, attributed to Kresilas. Glyptothek (room 3), in Munich.

A building inscription from Milecastle 38 which gives evidence for the building of Hadrian's Wall in Britain that bears his name. The text also mentions Aulus Platorius Nepos, who arrived with the emperor in the province of Britannia in 122...

Corbridge (Coria) was a fort and town in the Roman province of Britannia immediately south of Hadrian's Wall, on the east-west road stretching from Corbridge to Carlisle (Luguvalium) and now known as the Stanegate. Corbridge was the northernmost...

During Roman times, three bridges were built successively over the River Irthing to maintain continuity along Hadrian's Wall. The remains visible today in the Willowford sector of Hadrian's Wall represent various stages of abutments on the...

The Cawfields Milecastle (42) was one of the 81 milecastles along the length of Hadrian's Wall. These guardposts (or fortlets) were built at intervals of one Roman mile to control movement across the Wall. This milecastle at Cawfields clings...

The external baths at Chesters Roman Fort are one of Britain's best-preserved Roman military buildings. They are located outside the fort close to the River Tyne and are of Hadrianic date (117-138 CE) with many later additions and alterations...

The remains of the central headquarters building (principia) of Chesters Roman Fort dating from the reign of Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE). The headquarter building occupied the central place in the fort. It was built around a paved courtyard surrounded...

Vindolanda was one of the Stanegate forts that pre-dated Hadrian's Wall. Constructed in about 85 CE and occupied until the end of Roman Britain, Vindolanda was the longest-occupied fort on the line of the Wall.

Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) had at least ten barrack blocks that provided adequate accommodation for the milliary cohorts. Two such buildings are still visible in the northeast quarter of the fort. The barracks were long and narrow...