CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome

 Images to Accompany Discussion 2

Influences on Rome

Greeks

• Map of the Greek world
• Greek colonies
• The acropolis, Athens
• Temple of Portunus. Rome. Late 2nd century BC.
• Greek alphabets. Chart showing various Greek alphabetic scripts.
• Greek vase showing Zeus attacking Typhon, a monster.

Etruscans

• Rome and her neighbors. Inset: Early Rome (with hills)
• Gold lamina tablets with inscriptions in Punic and Etruscan
• Etruscan necropolis at Cerveteri. Aerial view.
• "Sarcophagus of the Married Couple," from an Etruscan Tomb
• Etruscan Tomb Painting

1. Tomb of the Leopards
2. Francesca Giustiniani Tomb
3. Tomb of the Funeral Couch
4. Tomb painting showing warriors fighting

• Etruscan bronze mirror with ivory handle; depicts the judgement of Paris, the chariot of Helios, and Herakles by a funeral pyre.
• Etruscan. terracotta statue of Apollo, 6th c. BC. H 1.8 m. from the Portonaccio Temple at Veii.
• Winged horses made by an anonymous Etruscan artist 300- 200 B.C.
• Plan of an Etruscan temple.
• Model of sheep's liver used for divination.
• Etruscan figurine of Aeneas carrying Anchises
• Etruscan bronze sculpture, the Capitoline She-Wolf, ca. 500 BC, from Rome. (The nursing putti are Renaissance additions.)

Archaeology and Early Rome

• Model of Hut A from the Palatine Hill, Rome, 8th - 7th cents. BC.
• Model of the hut village on the Palatine, Rome, 8th - 7th centuries BC, based on excavation results.
• Pottery from the Early Early Roman settlement on the Palatine hill
• Dolium used for a modest burial on the northern slope of the Palatine Hill, Rome, first half of the 7th cent. BC.
• Bronze hut-shaped urn, 10-8th c. BC. In the stylized fashion of a home typical to the most archaic Roman settlement.
• Early Latin inscription found on the so-called lapis niger in the Roman Forum; ca. 600 BC.
• Bronze statuette of an augur holding a lituus in both hands. From the votive hoard of Lapis Niger, Rome. ca. 550 B.C.
• Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline. View of excavated foundation.
• Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline: reconstruction

   

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