Roman antiquities
Empire's surviving relics
Roman antiquities are artifacts, ruins, and relics from ancient Rome and its empire—coins, sculptures, pottery, inscriptions, architectural fragments.
The term also refers to the study or collection of such objects: a museum's collection of Roman antiquities, She specialized in Roman antiquities.
Dealers and auction houses use the phrase for items from roughly the 8th century BCE through the fall of the Western Empire in 476 CE.
- tunicsLoose hip-length garments
- aqueductsChannels conveying water distances
- legionsGreat many, or armies
- denariiRoman silver coins
- mosaicsPictures made from fragments
epics · centurions · basilicas · penates · temples · reliefs · senate · amphitheaters · insulae · Pompeii ruins · triumphal arches · sarcophagi · amphorae · tesserae · marble busts · histories · toga party · villas
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