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anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
The marketplace of memory was crowded with solemn military triumphs. Eurysaces fought back with topography and humour. Jammed between Via Labicana and Via Praenestina, his bizarre industrial tomb was a roadside ambush designed to make you laugh. #EpigraphyTuesday
THE TOMB OF EURYSACES AND ATISTIA, LATE C1 BCE. PORTA MAGGIORE Here we see the travertine and concrete tomb of Eurysaces standing in an awkward triangular wedge where two major extra-urban roads, the Via Labicana and Via Praenestina, diverge at different levels. A long sculpted frieze around the top of the tomb shows scenes of bread-making. Another cornice has the tomb inscription. Knowing he could not compete with the sprawling private tombs of the Cornelii Scipiones or Statilii Tauri, he designed a monument using unusual cylindrical forms evoking industrial dough-kneaders. In the gloomy landscape of the marketplace of memory, filled with solemn aristocratic monuments, Eurysaces' visual wit and prime real estate ensured his legacy was unforgettable.
July 28, 2026 at 11:10 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#SarcophagusSaturday this week brings us to the #BathsofDiocletian where, in Aula XI, we can admire this remarkable #Dionysiac #sarcophagus from a necropolis along the ancient via #Praenestina. Dionysus and his drunken revellers were a common theme in #funerary #relief work in #Rome.
SARCOPHAGUS WITH DIONYSIAC SCENE, C2 CE. BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN This remarkably well-preserved sarcophagus was found in 1961 during an excavation along the via Prenestina at largo Praeneste, today a nightmare of on- and off-ramps for a raised highway. It must have vanished below ground at an early date. Its Dionysiac theme evokes the transportation of the self after death, a pale shadow of which is provided by the effects of wine. At centre is a very drunk Dionysus being held up by two satyrs with two others ready to step in and help. All five are nude except for the god, who has a cloak covering one thigh. To the left, a Maenad is holding a torch, now missing, and she's conversing with a liknos-bearer: a liknos was a sort of scoop used in winnowing wheat, a symbol of prosperity. A final group on the left corner has a fully-dressed Maenad sitting on a rock facing us, and a nude satyr with his back to us, embracing. At the left corner, a Maenad is holding a pedum or foot squeeze-box, and a tambourine. To the right, a callipygian Maenad with her back to us is holding a cithara and the attention of a satyr who has two theatrical masks at his feet, and at the right corner Ariadne, lying on the ground with her back to us, is being unveiled by an Eros while Pan and a final Maenad look on. The cover shows Erotes at work gathering in the grape harvest.
November 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA COTTA PIG SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287798
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
June 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRACOTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF A FOOT, SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA, VIA PRAENESTINA, ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/304472
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
June 28, 2026 at 11:03 AM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRACOTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF A FOOT, SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA, VIA PRAENESTINA, ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287453
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
April 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA-COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF HUMAN HEAD FROM SI TE NE OF PONTE DI NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAM PAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287794
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
brewminate.bsky.social
Highly skilled enslaved individuals would be granted freedom and gain Roman citizenship while working professionally for their former owners.
'Contractor, Public Servant': The Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker in Ancient Rome
Eurysaces’ tomb can be found where two important ancient roads, the Via Labicana and the Via Praenestina, meet and lead into the city of Rome.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
hypnosub69.bsky.social
@trance.bsky.social also got this baby out to read some of the early sections against the Livy + look at maps and the Etruscan and early Latin art. 🤓
Pierre Grimal’s book The Civilization of Rome Italy about 500BC V. Flaminia V. Salaria V. Nomentana P. COLLINA P. VIMINALIS V. Collatina Campus Martius V. Aurelia THE TIBER P. QUIRINALIS QUIRINAL VIMINAL V. Tiburtina P. ESQUILINA III P. RATUMENA V. Praenestina Forum CAPITOL IL ESQUILINE V. Labicana VELIA IV Forum PALATINE Boarium P. TRIGEMINA I P. CAELIMONTANA CAELIUS P. CAPENA AVENTINE RAUDUSCULANA P. NAEVIA V. Ardeatina V. Appia Latina EG.M. V. Ostiensis 2. THE ROME OF THE FOUR 'REGIONS' Etruscan period and beginning of the Republic. The heavy black line indicates the 'Servian' wall, the ancient surrounding wall of the city. The Roman numerals mark the districts (or regions) occupied by the early City tribes: I Subura, II Esquiline, III Colline Region, IV Palatine. Etruscan Head of Jupiter
June 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF A FOOT, SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA, VIA PRAENESTINA, ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287865
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
June 30, 2026 at 5:38 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA-COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF HUMAN HEAD FROM SI TE N E OF PONTE DI NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAM PAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287791
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRACOTTA EX-VOTO HAND, SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA, VIA PRAENESTINA, ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287454
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
October 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA-COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF HUMAN HEAD FROM SI TE OF NE PONTE DI NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAM PAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287792
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
May 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMEN OF ANIMALS HEAD SITE NEAR PINTI DE NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAMPAGN A https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287799
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
April 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA-COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF HUMAN HEAD FROM SI TE N E OF PONE DI NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAM PAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287891
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
January 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRA-COTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF HUMAN HEAD FROM SI TE NE OF PONTE DE NONA VIA PRAENESTINA ROMAN CAM PAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287823
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
October 26, 2024 at 11:23 AM
hamsculptures.bsky.social
TERRACOTTA EX-VOTO FRAGMENT OF A FOOT; SITE NEAR PONTE DI NONA, VIA PRAENESTINA, ROMAN CAMPAGNA https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/287836
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
September 4, 2024 at 1:42 PM
tablilladecera.bsky.social
Su currículo es interesante ya que comienza con un cargo menor como CVRATOR, un encargado o supervisor, en este caso de la via Praenestina que salía de Roma desde el Esquilino hacia el este, hasta Praeneste. Filipo se ocupaba de su mantenimiento.
August 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
tablilladecera.bsky.social
A Publio Marcio Filipo, tribu Quirina, curator de la vía Praenestina, edil curul, cuestor del erario, tribuno de los constructores de barcos de Portus. El gremio de constructores navales de Ostia, a quien se ha concedido permiso para reunirse por decreto senatorial, ha erigido▶️
August 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
chroniclebot.bsky.social
The Porta Maggiore, or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via Prenestina was the eastern road to the ancient town of Praeneste....
Porta Maggiore
The Porta Maggiore, or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome. Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana. The Via Prenestina was the eastern road to the ancient town of Praeneste. The Via Labicana heads southeast from the city.
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March 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
classassocni.bsky.social
Perhaps #OnThisDay in 537, Vitiges launched an assault on several positions of Rome, only to be driven back from the Porta Praenestina
Vitiges - Wikipedia
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March 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
classassocni.bsky.social
Perhaps #OnThisDay in 537, Vitiges launched an assault on several positions of Rome, only to be driven back from the Porta Praenestina
March 21, 2024 at 11:50 AM