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Yellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint
The stylite saints depicted on tall glass vessels made in Syria were men who renounced the world and lived atop pillars (styloi). Most renowned was Saint Symeon the Stylite the Elder (389–459), whose pillar on the mountain of Qal‘at Sem‘an, near…
Woman at Her Toilet
This mosaic is one of those discovered at the archeological site of Sidi Ghrib in Tunisia, some 40 km southwest of Carthage. The site, a former Roman villa, was excavated in 1975. The scene depicts the matron of the house as she gets ready. She is…
West side of the Arch of Constantine
Showing the attic with spolia, a tondo with the moon deity, and the frieze of Constantine's troops departing Milan
Weight (Neo-Assyrian, 726-722 BCE, Copper alloy, British Museum 91230; Inscribed with Assyrian and Aramaic)
Copper alloy lion-shaped measuring-weight; cast; inscribed in Assyrian and in Aramaic. A cross, perhaps intended to represent 'two-thirds', is engraved on the flank of the lion.