Bel Temple in Palmyra | Syria (by Eric Lafforgue)
Marble head of a companion of Odysseus
Roman, probably a copy of a Hellenistic original of about 200 BC
From Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy
The British Museum, Located in Room 22: Alexander the Great
The Ledenhall Street Mosaic
Roman Britain, 1st or 2nd century AD
Found in Leadenhall Street, London (1803)
Bacchus on a tiger
The British Museum, Located in Room 49: Roman Britain
Cavalry Helmet
Roman Britain, 3rd century AD
The British Museum, Located in Room 49: Roman Britain
Gilded mummy portrait of a woman
Probably from er-Rubayat, Egypt
Roman Period, about AD 160-170
The British Museum
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath
Roman, 2nd century AD
A version of an original from Hellenistic Greece
The British Museum
Marble portrait of Tiberius
Roman, about AD 4-14
From Italy
The British Museum, Located in Room 70: Roman Empire
Marble bust of the emperor Hadrian wearing military dress
From Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy
AD 117-118
The British Museum
This portrait bust was found at the Villa Adriana, the Roman emperor Hadrian’s magnificent country residence near Tivoli, outside Rome.
Pair of child’s leather sandals
From Thebes, Egypt
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
The British Museum
Marble bust of Clytie
Roman, about AD 40-50
Said to be from near Naples, Italy
The British Museum
