Antica Gallery

Columns and cornices from Pompeii

Column (left) from Casa di Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt, VII.IV.48, Column (right) from Domus M. Asellini or House of Adonis, VI.VII.18, head of Oceanus from Domus M. Holconi Rufi or House of Holconius Rufus, VIII.IV.4, and decorated cornices. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn's Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei (The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii), Leipzig, 1881. Column (left) from Casa di Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt, VII.IV.48, Column (right) from Domus M. Asellini or House of Adonis, VI.VII.18, head of Oceanus from Domus M. Holconi Rufi or House of Holconius Rufus, VIII.IV.4, and decorated cornices. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn's Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei (The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii), Leipzig, 1881. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Italy. Ostia Antica. The Republican Store-building. Genera

Italy. Ostia Antica. The Republican Store-building was in reality probably a complex of shops and workshops. The walls were erected at the end of the 1st century BC in opus quasi reticulatum. General view from the south-east with the tufa piers of the original southern portico

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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Ostia Antica. Temple of Roma and Augustus

Ostia Antica. Temple of Roma and Augustus. 1st century AD. The statue of Victory and marble decoration of the rear of the temple. Italy

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