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The Smithsonian American Art Museum owns a Roman mosaic glass bowl made sometime between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE. It’s about 17 centimetres wide, patterned in translucent blue and opaque glass, with a marbled ring for a foot. When conservators studied it …
Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s design museum, has a late 18th-century watercolour of a Roman altar dedicated to Apollo. It’s carved all over with …
A carved marble box sits in the middle of the antiquities hall at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, roped off, lit from above, with a bust on a …
A blacksmith, a stable boy, a soldier, a slave. These are the sort of people who almost never survive in the historical record — no monuments, no …
