For anyone studying the Flavian emperors (Vespasian, Titus, etc.) or the Neo-Flavian emperors (Constantinian dynasty), this paper is a necessity. Complete genealogical lines & connections are demonstrated & explained in this paper. #Discover #AncientBlueSky #Flavian
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CAPITAL FROM THE SUMMA CAVEA, 75-120 CE. COLOSSEUM This richly-carved Corinthian capital is not exactly Corinthian. It seems Domitianic in execution and in invention. Though it has been subjected to the systematic breakage that marks a piece of marble destined for the kilns, we can still see the main detail of a Medusa head, two snakes tied under her chin and with wings atop her head. Medusa's head is on a shield held up by the sinuous curves of a much larger snake. Pieces of wings to the right and left of the shield suggest the former presence of fully rounded Pegasi which have been knocked off. The Pentelic marble is an expensive Greek import, suitable for what was intended as a palace of entertainment for the people, lavishly decorated. In fact this comes from the summa cavea, the highest section of seating, where even women were allowed.
#ReliefWednesday finds us at the #Colosseum where this massive #Corinthian #capital testifies to the exuberant #Flavian #Baroque of the original decoration. From a base of #acanthus emerges a shield with a #Gorgon head, and #Pegasi at the corners, a real flight of fancy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FUNERARY ALTAR OF FLAVIA TYCHE, C. 90 CE. PANTHEON DM / FLAVIAE TYCHE/T FLAVIUS AUG L FELIX / CONIUGI KARISSIMAE / DE SE PER OMNIA BENE / MERITAE F ET SIBI ET / T FLAVIO FELICI /FILIO PIENTISSIMO / ET LIBERTIS / LIBERTABUS POSTERISQUE / EORUM FECIT This altar was made for one Flavia Tyche, the freedwoman wife of the imperial freedman Titus Flavius Felix, who also dedicates to himself, his son, and their freedmen and freedwomen and their descendents. There is an intriguing erasure between "Flavio" and "Felici" which might conceal a spelling mistake. This altar was taken and carved out in the late C16 or early C17 and furnished with an iron lid and lock to serve as an alms box for the chapel of S. Giuseppe di Terra Santa, whose confraternity ran the chapel still visible in the Pantheon, the first one on the left as you enter. This was the congregation of the Virtuosi al Pantheon, the oldest artists' guild in Rome, freeing artists from obligatory membership in guilds of craftsmen like goldsmiths and masons and creating a separate legal category recognising artists as a distinct group.
#SpoliaSunday continues at the #Pantheon in #Rome, where in the rooms behind the rotunda we find this #Flavian funerary altar to one Flavia Tyche hollowed out and used as an #alms box for the chapel of St Joseph of the Holy Land from the early C17 in the Pantheon itself. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Bust of Vespasian, full body statue of Vespasian and gold coin of Vespasian
Bust of Vespasian, full body statue of Vespasian and gold coin of Vespasian
Bust of Vespasian, full body statue of Vespasian and gold coin of Vespasian
Bust of Vespasian, full body statue of Vespasian and gold coin of Vespasian
#OTD AD69, #Vespasian was formally recognised as #Roman emperor, ending the Year of the Four Emperors & founding the #Flavian dynasty. He rose through military success in Britain & Judaea, restored stability after civil war, & became known for practical leadership & financial reforms.
Bust of Vespasian
20 December AD69: #Vespasian, formerly legate of Legio II Augusta during the invasion of Britain in AD43, became Emperor of #Rome. #History #Flavian
Silver coin of Vitellius and busts of Vespasian and Otho
#OTD 24 Oct AD69 the Second Battle of Bedriacum was fought near modern Cremona, Italy. There were actually 2 battles at #Bedriacum during the Year of the Four Emperors — 1) between #Otho & #Vitellius, 2) between Vitellius & #Vespasian, whose victory would mark the beginning of the #Flavian dynasty
Bust of Domitian in the Louvre Museum.
14 September 81 CE: Domitian became Roman Emperor upon the death of his brother Titus. #History #Rome #Flavian
CINERARY URN WITH DEXTRARUM IUNCTIO, C. 80 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN Dis Manibus. / C(aius) Iulius Hermes / vix(it) ann(is) XXXIIII m(ensibus) V dieb(us) XIIII / C(aius) Iulius Andronicus / conlibertus fec(it) / bene merenti de se This beautiful marble urn is richly carved with an ædicule at lower centre containing a married couple holding each other's right hands, the husband at left, his wife at right. They are flanked by two spiral columns supporting a pierced pediment. At the two front edges are two pilasters decorated with an unusual leaf pattern with Ionic capitals connected by a garland of carved fruit. The inscription commemorates two freedmen: C. Iulius Hermes, the deceased, made at the behest of his fellow, Andronicus. As a pre-made urn, it seems a strange choice for one man to buy for another. Yet the catalogue of this museum doesn't even consider that these two were a couple, which was my first thought.
If you were the woman, and I were the man / Would I send you yellow roses / Would I dare to touch your hand? For #EpigraphyTuesday this #Flavian #cinerary #urn has a #marriage scene carved on it but names two #Greek freedmen. #AncientBluesky 🏺
I’ve never used Flavian Font. Sounds exotic. It would be cool to say my book was written in Flavian … by the sea. #BookSky #Flavian
Colosseum Balcony #kfrontdesigns #photography #colosseum #balcony #rome #roma #italy #italia #romeitaly #gladiators #ampatheater #stadium #flavianamphitheatre #flavian #theater #theaterintheround #piazzadelcolosseo
🗓️ July 1, AD 69: Vespasian is declared emperor in Alexandria (Egypt), beginning the #Flavian dynasty.
A seasoned general, he restored order, began building the #Colosseum , & became the first emperor succeeded by his son.
📜 “An emperor ought to die standing.” – #Vespasian according to Suetonius
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #caesar'smessiah #atwill #simon #flavian #pope #christianity #earlychristianity #cult #messiah #takeover
Flavian sculptures of women with complex hairstyles and 2 hairpins
Flavian sculptures of women with complex hairstyles and 2 hairpins
Flavian sculptures of women with complex hairstyles and 2 hairpins
#Flavian #hairstyles worn by fashionable #Roman women. Image 2 shows a Roman hairpin found at #Trimontium in the Scottish Borders, & image 3 an example carved in bone found in London. Both would have been used to keep the complex Flavian hairstyles in place. All date to AD80-96.
HOLY-WATER STOUP CARVED FROM SEATING IN THE COLOSSEUM, C10(?). COLOSSEUM Not only was the Colosseum a huge mine of marbles in the Middle Ages, there were numerous religious structures built into the amphitheatre over the course of the Middle Ages. This might have come from S. Salvatoris de Rota Colosei, first recorded in 1192 but probably extant far earlier, during the phase of the Colosseum's life in the C9-C10 when it was a huge apartment building, extra floors with wood-beam inserts in the travertine and brick walls, all in the ownership of the local powerful church, S. Maria Nova. A church called S. Salvatoris de Insula, noted in the same inventory, may have also been built into the "insula" that the amphitheatre had become. Here we have a strip of Luni marble that is larger than a staircase step, big enough to hollow out a basin for holy water at the top. A worn cross of four inward-pointing triangles is still visible.
#SpoliaSunday this week leads us through the hordes in the #Colosseum in #Rome to find a quiet corner devoted to #spolia in the #Flavian #amphitheatre. Part of the marble seating was prised up, its top hollowed out to serve as a container for holy water in a now-lost church.
MUSE IN ARCHITECTURAL SETTING, 64-105 CE. MUSÆUM UNDER THE BATHS OF TRAJAN In 2011, explorations behind the "Painted City" fresco in a cryptoporticus under the Baths of Trajan discovered a gigantic mosaic, 16 metres long by 6 metres tall, which showed female figures in an architectural setting rather like a scenæ frons, with one heroically nude male figure, Apollo. The fragmentary mosaic, the largest mural mosaic ever found in the Roman world, must have belonged to an important public building which archaeologists have hypothesised as a Musæum, a place for concerts, poetry readings, and other events. The area pictured shows one of the Muses, nude but for a blue drapery over one knee, standing against a background of columns, including one decorated with a male comic mask. This is a tiny part of the mosaic. The rest, very damaged but still impressive, stretches across the whole exterior wall, and, given that it's facing an already-excavated nymphaeum, it extends for another 6-10 metres under the earth. We will have to wait for this marvel to be open to the public, but it will be stunning.
#MosaicMonday brings us (📸 CSR Restauro Beni Culturali) back under the #BathsofTrajan in #Rome to see a marvel discovered in 2011, a detail of a huge wall #mosaic, probably #Flavian, from the exterior of a large public building buried by order of #Trajan.
Marble bust of Emperor Vespasian.
20 December AD69: #Vespasian, formerly legate of Legio II Augusta during the invasion of Britain in AD43, became Emperor of #Rome. #History #Flavian
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Of my research of the ancestry & relationship of the popes, inevitably all that I could trace back to the 1st century led directly back to Arrius Piso; the main creator of Christianity. He, his family & descendants were popes. #Josephus #History #Rome #Flavian #Info
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