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Venere di Capua

II century AD

Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Photo: Luigi Spina

The so-called Psyche di Capua (actually a Venus), is a statue found in 1726 in the Campano amphitheater in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, where it decorated the front porch of the summa cavea together with other sculptures.

Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Photo: Luigi Spina

Statua femminile di Concordia

I sec. d.C.

Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

Photo: © Luigi Spina 

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Hypothetical reconstruction of the Basilica Ulpia, Rome

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The Temple of Neptune, Paestum

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Plans of a hypothetical restoration of Hadrian’s Palace, Rome

Polskie wykopaliska archeologiczne w Egipcie. Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski podczas oględzin sarkofagu (1937).

Basilica sotterranea di Porta Maggiore

Metà I sec. d.C., Roma, Piazzale Labicano

Struttura trinavata con abside centrale, lunghezza circa 12 m, larghezza 9 m, altezza 7 m; opera cementizia, decorazione a stucco e affresco.

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Questo è un posto un sacco misterioso che se scenne sottotera pe visitallo, e stava sottotera puro all’epoca dii romani quanno è stato costruito, e no solo mo perché ciamo costruito sopra noi.

Spesso viè chiamata Basilica Neopitagorica, perché se pensa che chi l’ha fatta fà fosse un seguace dee na filosofia ispirata a Pitagora, che come vedi nun è solo quello dee tabbelline e der famoso teorema ma puro un mistico e un filosofo; ma me renno conto mentre che scrivo che te manco ‘e tabbelline te sei studiato quinni te basti sapè che era un gran cervellone. A Roma ar tempo dell’imperatori s’ereno diffuse certe sette un po’ ispirate a lui, in particolare all’idea che dietro all’apparente casino e schifo der monno ce sta un ordine superiore e na verità nascosta, che si uno è bravo e paziente e ce se mette d’impegno li pò scoprì e vive mejo e perfino superà i limiti umani e perfino perfino aggiudicasse ‘a vita eterna .

E pare (ma nun è popo sicuro) che sto posto ‘o fece costruì un tale Statilio Tauro che era ricco ma poi cadde in disgrazia, forse pe motivi politici, e fu accusato de praticà ‘a maggia (che magara era sta filosofia che amo detto, che però pe potello condannà dissero “è maggia, è vietato, nun se pò fa”).

Che d’era dunque sto posto? Nun se sa bene. Potemo però dì senza meno che nun era na chiesa, in caso quarcuno se sconfonnesse leggendo “basilica”, che ‘e basiliche romane nun ereno robbe de religione ma sale de riunione a forma rettangolare co li pilastri, come questa qua appunto, e solo dopo li cristiani hanno copiato ‘a forma. Forse era na tomba, o forse un’aula de incontro e insegnamento tipo quelle de scola ma pe gente molto più intelligente e selezionata tipo scola privata supervip dii neopitagorici, ma comunque, scola pubblica o privata, te nun ce saresti entrato mai.

‘A decorazione è da paura tutta fatta de stucco, che s’è conservata perché quanno er proprietario è annato a finì male sto posto l’hanno chiuso, messo i sigilli, e riempito de tera, e l’hanno trovato dumila anni dopo pe caso mentre scavaveno pe fà ‘a ferovia. Sò raffigurati tutti miti legati all’aldilà e ar superamento de se stessi come esseri umani, tipo quello de Orfeo, che te ‘o conosci già, o quello de Ganimede, che Zeus se n’era invaghito e se trasforma in aquila quasi fosse daa Lazio e ‘o rapisce in cielo. E se vede Ercole che va a recuperà Arcesti dall’ortretomba, che sta Arcesti s’era sacrificata ar posto der marito pe nun fallo morì. Ma soprattutto, ner posto d’onore in fonno aa sala, c’è ‘a scena daa poetessa Saffo che, avenno preso er due de picche da un pischello de cui s’era innammorata, se butta in mare, e viè accolta da Ino-Leucotea, che puro lei s’era buttata in mare per amore, ma der fijio, pe sarvallo dar marito che era impazzito e ‘o voleva ammazzà, e li dei l’aveveno trasformata in divinità.

Quinni tutti esempi de amore che te fa annà ortre er limite, che pare che mori ma in reartà entri in una dimensione superiore. Però si me posso permette na riflessione, è bello e nobile e quasi divino morì pe sarvà un figlio o un marito o pe un ideale; ma buttasse in mare come Saffo pe no stronzo che nun te vole me pare na cazzata, perché aho si nun te vole nun te vole, nun è che je poi cambià a capoccia, e puro si ‘o costringi, poi devi da sta co uno che sai che nun te voleva, ma pe carità; mejo fassene na ragione e annà avanti, che ner mare, ortre a Ino-Leucotea, ce stanno mille e mille pesci, come dice er proverbio, e sai quanti antri mejo ne trovi?

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Precise geometric pattern on a rams-head: terracotta pot.
East Greece, 6th BC.

Currently preserved at the Met Museum, New York.

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Temple of ancient Greece at an archaeological site in Syria.
V century BC.

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Bronze bracelet. Norheastern India, Nagaland, Angami and Zemi tribes. 

Bracelet, Madhya Pradesh, South India.

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Roman Theseus Relief, 1st Century BC/AD

From Cerveteri (map), Italy. In the center is the Greek mythological hero Theseus, shown lifting a huge rock under which his father Aegeus, King of Athens, had hidden the sword and sandals Theseus would need for his perilous journeys and labors. Theseus’ mother, Aethra, stands behind him, indicating the hiding spot. Aegeus buried his sandals and sword under the rock after Aethra became pregnant. He then told her that when their son grew up, he should move the rock, if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of his royal parentage. Made of terracotta.

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Stone ‘Alam
Object Name: Standard
Date: ca. 1600
Geography: India, Deccan, Bijapur or Golconda
Culture: Islamic
Medium: Basalt

The Mystery of Scotney Castle
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⚫Located in Lamberhurst, Kent, England.
⚫Built as a fortified manor house in the 14th century, Scotney Castle in Kent later passed into the hands of the Darrell family.
⚫Arthur Darrell was thought to have died in Europe in 1720.
⚫His funeral was held at Scotney on 12 December and as earth was thrown on to the lid of the coffin a stranger in a black cloak standing among the mourners spoke out ‘that is me they think they are burying’, before vanishing.
⚫In the 1900s Arthur Darrell’s coffin was excavated.
⚫It was full of stones!
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Dunnottar Castle
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⚫It is a ruined medieval fortress located on the northeastern coast of Scotland.
⚫The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages.
⚫Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell’s invading army in the 17th century.
⚫Dunnottar’s several buildings, put up between the 13th and 17th centuries, are arranged across a headland covering around 1.4 hectares.
⚫The dominant building, viewed from the land approach, is the 14th-century keep or tower house.
⚫The other principal buildings are the gatehouse; the chapel; and the 16th-century “palace” which incorporates the “Whigs’ Vault”.
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The Mausoleum of Hadrian
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⚫Also known as Castel Sant'Angelo (English: Castle of the Holy Angel).
⚫Located in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy.
⚫It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family.
⚫The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.
⚫The structure was once the tallest building in Rome.
⚫It was built in AD 135–139 and converted into a fortress in the 5th century.
⚫Following this, the remains of succeeding emperors were also placed here, the last recorded deposition being Caracalla in 217.
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Fort Bard
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⚫Located in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.
⚫The current fortifications were built by Charles Albert of Savoy between 1830 and 1838.
⚫It replaced a 10th-century castle that had, itself, been built on an earlier structure founded by Theodoric I in the 5th century.
⚫On May 14, 1800, a 40,000-strong French army was stopped by 400 Austro-Piedmontese soldiers at Fort Bard.
⚫The Fort Bard is formed of three main defence stations positioned at different levels upon a high imposing rock spur, the lowest at 400m above ground and the highest at 467m.
⚫There are a total of 283 rooms in the entire fortress.
⚫In 2006 it reopened to tourists as the Museum of the Alps, it has additional art exhibitions and galleries.
⚫In the summer, the main courtyard is used to host musical and theatrical performances.
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Black basalt statue of a priest of Bastet Padimahes holding a stele of Horus on the crocodiles and covered in magical formulas.
⚫30th Dynasty, (380BC to 300BC).
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