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Classical antiquity generally covers the period in Mediterranean history from around 700 BC through the 5th or 6th centuries AD, culminating in Late antiquity (7th century AD). See also the preceding Category:Prehistoric Europe and the succeeding Category:Late antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, [1] is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD [note 1] comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
The definition of the term is not always precise, and institutional definitions such as museum "Departments of Antiquities" often cover later periods, but in normal usage Gothic objects, for example, would not now be described as antiquities, though in 1700 they might well have been, as the cut-off date for antiquities has tended to retreat since the word was first found in English in 1513.
Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "dating method".
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The Gemma Claudia is a very finely carved and detailed, five-layered, cameo in sardonyx, a type of onyx that has parallel layers of sard (shades of red) which depicts members of the Roman imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty.
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One potential example of Roman art forgery comes from the Apollo of Piombino, a bronze statue made in the 1st-century BCE that was designed to emulate the style of a 5th-century BCE Greek statue. Despite the presumed prevalence of hoaxes in the Roman art world, there is little known ancient legislation concerning the topic. [38]