Resource, NY.
1.3 A City Scene, Boscoreale (1st cent. BCE). Cubiculum (bedroom) from the
Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale (detail of left wall with urban
scene). Roman, ca. 50–40 BCE. Second Style. Fresco. Rogers Fund, 1903
(03.14.13a-g). Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY, USA. Image source: Art Resource, NY.
1.4 Meleager on a Roman Sarcophagus (2nd cent.). Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome.
Reprinted by permission of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali–
Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma.
1.5 Venus and Two Nymphs, Britain (2nd or early 3rd cent.). Relief: Venus
bathing with two attendant nymphs (1958.46.N). Great North Museum
Hancock / NEWMA / The Bridgeman Art Library. Reproduced by
permission.
1.6 Tombstone, near Carthage (2nd cent.?). Limestone stela with flat top and
relief; Ghorfa; Carthage. Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum.
All rights reserved.
1.7 Decorated Coffer from Jerusalem (1st cent.?). Carved limestone ossuary
decorated with incised floral, geometric and architectural designs, lid is
decorated with an eight-arched arcade with rosettes in the centre of each
arcade. Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved.
1.8 Base of the Hippodrome Obelisk (c.390). Emperor Theodosius, seated
between his two sons, receives homage from vanquished enemy. Base of the
Egyptian obelisk imported by Emperor Theodosius and erected in the
Hippodrome in Constantinople. Reprinted by permission of SEF / Art
Resource, NY.
1.9 Orant Fresco (2nd half of 4th cent.). SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Rome, view of
confessio (late 4th c.). Reprinted by permission of the Ministero dell’Interno–
Dipartimento per le Libertà civili e l’Immigrazione–Direzione Centrale per
l’Amministrazione del Fondo Edifici di Culto.
1.10 Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (359). Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Roman
prefect. Museum of the Treasury, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican State.
Reprinted by permission of Scala / Art Resource, NY.
1.11 Reliquary of Theuderic (late 7th cent.). Merovingian. Gold-plated silver,
pearls, precious stones. Treasury, Abbey, St. Maurice, Switzerland. Reprinted
by permission of Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY.
1.12 Mosaic from San Vitale, Ravenna (c.545–c.550). Emperor Justinian, 483–
565, and his court, with Archbishop Maximian and General Belisarius in San
