Fragment of a painted terracotta plaque with two- and three-horse chariots in relief. Here, we can see a horse’s torso, and he’s yoked and reined to pull a chariot. A long-haired charioteer or groom stands by him with a whip or … ?
Excavated on the Palatine Hill in Rome, from the area of the Temple of Victory.
Etruscan
ca. 530-520 BCE
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Fragment of a louterion, a large basin vessel with two handles and sometimes a spouted lip. Used for holding water for washing or perhaps mixing wine and water. A third function may have been connected with funerary rites such as washing the body. This particular louterion must have been quite large, big enough for large ablutions.
On the inner surface of this fragment is an unclothed young man with his head in profile; behind him is a curved object, probably a strigil. Is he an athlete (as the strigil would suggest), or a banqueter, engaged in conversation?
Etruscan
ca. 475-450 BCE
From an early Republican sanctuary on the north-eastern slopes of the Palatine hill, Rome
Palatine Museum, Rome
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The frescoes in this cubiculum - bedroom - feature complex perspective architecture and theater masks. The painting in the center of this wall, framed by an aedicule, shows a rustic landscape, featuring a rocket-shaped baetyl. A baetyl is a aniconic (symbolic, rather than literal) representation of Apollo, the patron deity of Augustus. This very same motif recurs on one of the terracotta plaques from the Temple of Apollo, part of the Augustan compound on the Palatine. Decoration throughout the house depict themes related to the cult of Apollo, a god that stood for discipline and morality, important values to Augustus.
House of Augustus
1st century BCE
Palatine Hill, Rome
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Bath a city with a population of nearly 100.000, is named after its Roman-built baths. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis around 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon.
Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century.
Claims were made for the curative properties of water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town. In the 16th and 17th centuries, aristocrats and even monarchs came here for a cure and made the place famous. The Queen of England was a guest in 1702. The steep rise as a fashionable spa resort of world renown began. By 1800, the population had grown to 34,000 thanks to the spa, making Bath the eighth largest city in England.
The former abbey church of Bath was originally the church of a Benedictine monastery, but has since become the episcopal see of the diocese of Bath and Wells and is now a parish church. In 1088, 22 years after the Norman conquest of England, it was decided to build a representative bishop's church in the Anglo-Norman style. This was badly damaged in the 13th century and rebuilt in the Perpendicular style from 1499. The cathedral of the diocese of Bath and Wells went to the English royal family after the Act of Supremacy and the subsequent separation of the English Church from Rome. In 1574, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered a restoration, which lasted until 1611. During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled
Sir William Baker was Director of the East India Company (1741 - 1753) and Governor of the Hudson Bay Company (1760 - 1770).
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Bath a city with a population of nearly 100.000, is named after its Roman-built baths. The city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis around 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon.
Bath Abbey was founded in the 7th century.
Claims were made for the curative properties of water from the springs, and Bath became popular as a spa town. In the 16th and 17th centuries, aristocrats and even monarchs came here for a cure and made the place famous. The Queen of England was a guest in 1702. The steep rise as a fashionable spa resort of world renown began. By 1800, the population had grown to 34,000 thanks to the spa, making Bath the eighth largest city in England.
The former abbey church of Bath was originally the church of a Benedictine monastery, but has since become the episcopal see of the diocese of Bath and Wells and is now a parish church. In 1088, 22 years after the Norman conquest of England, it was decided to build a representative bishop's church in the Anglo-Norman style. This was badly damaged in the 13th century and rebuilt in the Perpendicular style from 1499. The cathedral of the diocese of Bath and Wells went to the English royal family after the Act of Supremacy and the subsequent separation of the English Church from Rome. In 1574, Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered a restoration, which lasted until 1611. During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled
Tags: Bath UNESCO Aquae Sulis spa resort Bath - Abbey Perpendicular Gothic Somerset England United Kingdom
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