"It spans several periods," Ms. Udell said of the collection, "Mycenaean, Villanovan, Classical Greece, Geometrical, Archaic Roman, Imperial Roman, Republican, Etruscan, South Italian".
On June 11, the Roman imperial torso made $7.36 million.
A smaller league, however, was set up soon afterward and continued into the Roman imperial age.
These were the true latifundia, decried as wastelands by Roman imperial authors such as the elder Pliny.
Roman imperial policy required that Palestine be loyal and peaceful so that it did not undermine Rome's larger interests.
The Indians came because they were looking for fresh sources of gold after the Roman imperial source had run dry.
The episcopate and the diocese were practically the only institutions to survive the collapse of Roman imperial power largely unchanged.
The tendency to use provincials grew, and by the year 100 the Roman imperial army was overwhelmingly non-Italian.
In Roman imperial times, however, an important change occurred when mosaic gradually developed its own aesthetic laws.
Stirring emotions, which one hardly associates with the self-assured and occasionally harsh Roman imperial portraiture, emanate from other portraits.
The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto is a small but elegant house of the Roman Imperial period.
