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A gut-churningly ominous curse tablet from Roman London:
"I curse Tretia Maria, and her life and her mind and her memory, liver and lungs, all mingled together - so that she will not be able to speak about those secrets....."
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British Museum (RIB 7)
In 1741 the column base was raised on a plinth in Piazza Montecitorio, where the artist Piranesi engraved it soon after. The surviving section of granite column shaft was kept behind the Montecitorio Palace where it was sadly damaged by fire in 1759.
I learn there is a board game in which you have to help Trajan build his amazing Forum and Column! I also think Trajan would approve of his chiselled depiction on the box. #boardgames
GLADIATOR poster banner from Mondo, created by artist @martinansin.
"Quae in vita facimus resonat in aeternitas"
#Gladiator20
Sylvain Despretz' beautiful design for the gladiator helmet of Tigris of Gaul. The retractable facemask was inspired by the helmets of french firefighters! #Gladiator20
Filming a bloody and chaotic fight scene in the provincial arena, specially built for the production at the fortress of Aït Benhaddou, Morocco. #Gladiator20
In this legend, the term “rape” is not intended to describe a sexual assault but is a traditional translation of Livy’s use of the Latin “raptio”, meaning to seize/steal/abduct – from “raptio” we also derive English words like rapture and rapacious.
A view of the Maritime Theatre from above by Jean-Claude Golvin, just a small part of Hadrian’s enormous palatial residence at Tivoli.