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This #ReliefWednesday from the first or second century A.D. The carving was found in the tomb of the Haterii family in #Rome.
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🏛️ Design for a Panel or Wallpaper (?) with an Ornamental Frame with Scrolls and a Shell Decorated with Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Fruits and a Monogrammed Oval Frame

#Archaeology #History #Antiquity #Art #AncientHistory

Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/711313
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The Tomb of the Shields, ( dated 340 BC and discovered in 1870), is a large hypogeum one of the largest #Etruscan tombs in Tarquinia. The plan of the tomb imitates that of a house with a central atrium with three rooms.

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