with the former working title "symbiosis", the game's final name is "Viridarium" now. here's the logo I made for it
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some of the available artefacts to be found in the game. all from Greek mythology
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CHILD'S SARCOPHAGUS WITH EROTES, C. 190-230 CE. PALAZZO VENEZIA This small but intact sarcophagus comes from the Mattei collection in the Villa Celimontana, once one of the greatest collections of any Roman noble family until it was put up for auction in the mid C18. Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini bought the best pieces, which are now in the nearly inaccessible Gallery of Statues in the Vatican Museums. The lesser pieces were scattered across Europe and a surprising amount are now in palazzo Venezia. This Severan-era box shows Erotes harvesting grapes and making wine, with the movement going from right to left, the opposite of the usual direction. At centre two Erotes are trampling grapes in a vat, then to the left another is leading a goat to sacrifice at an altar set before a phallic herm of Priapus holding a plate of fruits. The lid has a complex front of pediments with shallow reliefs showing griffins and Erotes holding wreaths, alternating with antefix-like forms with eagles and a youthful head (the deceased?) at centre.

This #SarcophagusSaturday finds us in the #viridarium or enclosed garden of Paul II in #palazzoVenezia in #Rome, where a #sarcophagus teeming with #Erotes evokes both fecundity and transformation. The #relief work is reminiscent of late-antique ivories. #AncientBluesky 🏺

##RomanBaths, #Atrium, View of the #Door to the #Vestibule of the #Viridarium By Wolfgang Pfauder