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Acilius Severus - consul and urban prefect [11] Acilius Severus - Christian writer [12] [13] [14] Gaius Acilius - senator and historian [15] Acilius Rufus - suffect consul in 107 [16] Anicius Acilius Aginantius Faustus - urban prefect and consul [17] [18] [19] Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus - urban prefect and praetorian prefect [20] [21] [22]
In tarot, Roman numerals (with zero) are often used to denote the cards of the Major Arcana. In Ireland, Roman numerals were used until the late 1980s to indicate the month on postage Franking. In documents, Roman numerals are sometimes still used to indicate the month to avoid confusion over day/month/year or month/day/year formats.
Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD [1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand. [2] It is housed in the Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy (formerly in the Capitoline Museums). [1]
Roman portraiture is characterized by its "warts and all" realism; bust of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, a cast from the original in bronze, found in Pompeii, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum. Roman portraiture was one of the most significant periods in the development of portrait art. The surviving portraits of individuals are ...
Early Roman art was influenced by the art of Greece and that of the neighbouring Etruscans, themselves greatly influenced by their Greek trading partners.An Etruscan speciality was near life size tomb effigies in terracotta, usually lying on top of a sarcophagus lid propped up on one elbow in the pose of a diner in that period.
Title page of the 1645 edition of Icones Imperatorum Romanorum.The figures depicted are Constantine the Great (left), Julius Caesar (center) and Rudolf I (right).. Icones Imperatorum Romanorum ('Images of the Emperors of the Romans'), originally published under the title Vivae omnium fere imperatorum imagines, is a 1557 originally Latin-language numismatic and historical work by the Dutch ...
Modern estimates of the libra range from 322 to 329 g (11.4 to 11.6 oz) with 5076 grains or 328.9 g (11.60 oz) an accepted figure. [3] [15] [17] The as was reduced from 12 ounces to 2 after the First Punic War, to 1 during the Second Punic War, and to half an ounce by the 131 BC Lex Papiria. [18] [19] The divisions of the libra were:
The figure's torso strongly echoes the Belvedere Torso. The model is thought to be Pietro Aretino . The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall (5.2 ft) fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on the front of the base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ...