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The rose had long enjoyed a position as a numismatic marker of Rhodes (see below); while the diadem had long been a symbol of Hellenic kingship, i.e. sole power.
Image: Rhodian didrachm: ANS 1944.100.48620. Link - https://t.co/5Z0E4JRBVq
#FrescoFriday - a bright start to the morning with this fresco of wide-eyed faces from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42). They are sometimes interpreted as theatrical masks, but the mouths do not suggest that to me.
Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei (40693)
@RitaEsposito22 I'm afraid I can't say. It may be intended as some form of aegis, but all I see is...
Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me. #Roman #Egypt
Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s
#LatinForTheDay - 14 April
"Coacto vero in curiam senatu arduus rerum omnium modus, ne contumax silentium, ne suspecta libertas; et privato Othoni nuper atque eadem dicenti nota adulatio. Igitur versare sententias et huc atque illuc torquere...
#LatinForTheDay - 12 April
"Nam post conditam urbem octingentos et viginti prioris aevi annos multi auctores rettulerunt, dum res populi Romani memorabantur pari eloquentia ac libertate: postquam bellatum apud Actium atque omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit,..."