EditorialVotive relief from a healing sanctuary, Greek, 100-200 CE. From the island of Milos. It was common practice in antiquity to dedicate representations of afflicted parts at a healing shrine, either as an offring of thanks for a cure or in hope of one. Th...
EditorialRoman cinerary urn decorated with garland of bay leaves. Latin inscription: for the spirits of the deceased Baria Tyche, with her daughter Baria Spendus, by her husband Lucius Barius Spendon. Marble. 150-200 AD. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern...