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Chapel in the Neo-Classical style built the first part of the 19th century. The chapel is named after the family buried here, the Torlonia, a banking family in Rome which took care of the finances of the Vatican in the late 18th and 19th century.
To be found in San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.
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This was once the pediment over the temple - the temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva. It was discovered when the Pump Room was built in 1790, and an additional piece was found in 1982. It has now been pieced together to give a good idea of how it looked like. It was not made by local artists but craftsmen from Gaul, and it dates to the first century A.D. It is most often identified as a Gorgon's head (the goddess Sulis was identified with the Roman Minerva, who in turn was identified with the Greek Athena, hence the connection), and that it is clearly a male head (where the classical Gorgon was female) has been explained with local Celtic traditions got mixed with the Roman/Greek ones. But it has also been suggested that this is not a Gorgon head at all, but the face of a water god (not an unknown concept in British art, see for example the great plate in the Mildenhall treasure).
The temple housed the cult statue of Sulis Minerva, and is only one of two truly classical temples known in Britian.
The waters at Bath were very popular already in Roman times, and they in their turn took after the Celts who had built a shrine dedicated to the goddess Sulis. The Romans built both temples and baths and called the town Aquae Sulis (the water of Sulis).
According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle the baths were destroyed in the 6th century. But not totally - the spring continued to draw attention to its healing powers, and it is now housed in a 18th century building, one of the central features of Bath. And extensive archaeological research to the Roman remains has also been made.
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This Romano-Celtic mask is made out of tin, found in 1878 in a Roman drain. Its exact function is unknown. There are nail-holes in the mask suggesting it was attached to something, and has been suggested both that it was a mask worn by priests at the sacred spring of Sulis Minerva, or it was made as an offering to the goddess.
The waters at Bath were very popular already in Roman times, and they in their turn took after the Celts who had built a shrine dedicated to the goddess Sulis. The Romans built both temples and baths and called the town Aquae Sulis (the water of Sulis).
According to the Anglo-Saxon chronicle the baths were destroyed in the 6th century. But not totally - the spring continued to draw attention to its healing powers, and it is now housed in a 18th century building, one of the central features of Bath. And extensive archaeological research to the Roman remains has also been made.
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If I can't go to the other side of the Earth right now (as I had planned), I can at least enjoy the beauty at home.
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It was raining. I was cold and wet. My umbrella had turned inside out. But it was a quite atmospheric wandering through the smaller streets in the area of Shiba Daimon and Shiba Koen in Tokoyo.
The red light is a restaurant - and if the white sign above is to be believed, they sell tonkatsu (the Japanese take on a schnitzel).
The signs on the ground spells out STOP - or in Japanese 止まる, where the upside-down まる is the only thing you can see here. It is something you will se quite often written on the streets of Tokyo - even on streets so small you wonder how anyone could ever drive anything there.
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