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"Gemma Augustea"*(1st century CE)*onyx & ivory cameo
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"Apollo"-Vulca
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"Cerveteri sarcophagus"*etruscan tomb outside rome*520 bce
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"She-Wolf"*500-450 bce*myth of founding of rome (romulus & remus)
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"Pont-du-Gard aqueduct"*Nimes, France
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"Pompey the Great"*portrait bust*106-48 bce
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"Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Ancestors"*c. 10 bce
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"Augustus Primaporta"*1st century ce*contraposto, chiastic balance
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"Aulus Metellus"*orator*c. 80 ce
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"Ara Pacis Augustae"*Altar of Augustan Peace, Rome*13-9 bce*Bellum ad Justum = Just War
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"Temple of Gaius & Lucius Caesar"*Nimes, France*20 bce-10 ce
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"Pompeii"-resort city destroyed by Vesuvius-villas with frescoed walls-mosaic floors
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"Villa of Mysteries"*c. 50 bce
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"Villa of the Papyri"*Herculaneum*model for the Getty in Malibu
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"Arch of Titus"*Rome, 81 ce*celebration of reconquering if Jerusalem in 70 ce
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