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Top: Lugdunum, Roman Empire, Silver denarius.(obverse) Head of Augustus, bare, right.
(reverse) Capricorn right, holding globe. ca. 12BCE

Bottom: Eastern Roman Empire, Silver radiate.(obverse) Bust, radiate, draped and cuirassed.
(reverse)…

Culture/period

Classical Greek term details

Date

480BC (circa)

Findspot

Excavated/Findspot: Pyrgos (said to be from)
(Europe,Greece,Boeotia,Tegyra)

Materials

bronze term details

Dimensions

Height:…

Large: The three Graces. Marble, Roman copy of the Imperial Era (2nd century CE?) after a Hellenistic original. Restored for a large part in 1609 by Nicolas Cordier (1565-1612) for Cardinal Borghese.
Small: Provincial coin of Caracalla, ca. 200 CE.

Athena of the Parthenos Athena type. Pentelic marble, Greek copy from the 1st century BC after the original from the 5th century BC. Some 17th-century restorations: arms, ends of the belt, some folds of the peplos, aegis, tip of the nose.

The Arch of Titus was erected by his brother Domitian in 82 CE to celebrate Titus' military victories in Jerusalem. It is just south-east of the Roman Forum in Rome.

A fake coin made using a sand mold. The grainy texture of this coin make it obviously a sand-cast coin and not a genuine artifact.

A fake, die-struck coin of Pertinax. The metal of this coin looks genuine but the style is problematic. The eyes don't look like anything found on other, genuine ancient coins.

Painted by the famous painter Raphael in 1509-1511 as part of the commission for the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican.

One of the most infamous instances of illegal looting, these treasures were smuggled from the archaeological site of Troy, in modern day Turkey, by the classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1873.

Top: Photo of treasure, likely taken by…