Gareth Harneyさんのイラストまとめ

The Crawford and Barber cups, found together in a Roman tomb in ancient Cilicia (modern Turkey) dating to 50-100 AD. Both are made of rare fluorspar (latin. "murra"), a mineral highly prized by wealthy Romans - Pliny wrote that Nero paid a million sesterces for one fluorspar cup.

Beautiful funerary portrait of a woman who lived and died in Roman Egypt c.150 AD. She has been painted in pigments mixed with melted wax but her jewellery has been gilded providing a striking effect. She wears gold and pearl earrings and a pendant necklace set with a Roman coin.

These CT scans of Egyptian mummies are so detailed they can now image the hardened cholesterol plaque preserved in the arteries of the neck, heart, arms and legs - showing arteriosclerosis was very present in the ancient world. (Source: British Museum)

“The last objects a Roman beheld when he left the city and the first that greeted him on his coming back, were the tombs of his ancestors and friends; and their silent admonition did not deepen sadness of farewell or cast shadow on his return.”

(Hugh MacMillan, ‘Roman Mosaics’)

2) In the harbourside home of an Iberian merchant, confusion reigns. Workers stand perplexed among the smashed remnants of ceramic amphora vessels. Yet again, a large amount of their valuable cargo: prime pickled fish imported from southern Hispania, has vanished overnight..

Parthian cataphract camel units in combat against Roman legionaries at the Battle of Nisibis, 217 AD. Cataphract riders and mounts were almost completely covered in armour, with the smell of the camels also known to panic the horses of Roman cavalry. (Image: Creative Assembly)

"..He was a man who could, with equal skill, pretend to be what he was not, and not be what he really was."

Sallust describing Catiline, 'Conspiracy of Catiline', 5.3

"That day, which you fear as being your last, is the birthday of eternity."

(Dies iste, quem tamquam extremum reformidas, aeterni natalis est)

- Seneca, Moral Letters, 102

5) Incredibly, the statue appears to have been found in-situ at the entrance to the Cittadella (citadel of Victoria on the island of Gozo, Malta) during rebuilding of the fortifications in the 16th century - seen still in place in this painting by Jean-Pierre Houël c.1776.

4) Control marks can provide evidence towards intriguing questions: How many coins were struck within a series? How long did coin dies last? Did obverse or reverse die wear out more rapidly? How many engravers were employed at the mint and how much artistic variation was allowed?