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Related content for the gallery "Room 70: Roman Empire"
Related galleries
Room 85: Roman portraits
Rooms 83-84: Roman sculpture
Room 69: Greek and Roman life
Room 11: Greece: Cycladic Islands
Room 12b: Greece: Mycenaeans
Room 12a: Greece: Minoans
Room 13: Greece 1050-520 BC
Room 14: Greek vases
Room 15: Athens and Lycia
Room 77: Greek and Roman architecture
Room 78: Classical Inscriptions
Room 71: Etruscan world
Room 72: Ancient Cyprus
Room 73: Greeks in Italy
Room 16: Greece: Bassae sculptures
Room 17: Nereid Monument
Rooms 18, 18a and 18b: Greece: Parthenon
Room 19: Greece: Athens
Room 23: Greek and Roman sculpture
Room 82: Early Ephesus
Room 49: Roman Britain
Related highlight objects
Aes signatum or money ingot
Basalt bust of Germanicus
Beaker in Pergamene Relief Ware
Billon tetradrachm of the city of Alexandria, reign of Commodus
Black Glaze pourer (askos) in the form of an elephant
Black Gloss boss-centred dish (phiale) with relief decoration
Black Gloss drinking cup (poculum) with a painted inscription
Black slip jug with barbotine decoration
Bowl with appliqué decoration
Brass sestertii of Hadrian showing Personifications of Africa and Spain
Bronze coin of Cleopatra VII
Bronze coin of Herod I 'the Great', king of Judaea
Bronze coin of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judaea
Bronze coin of the city of Alexandria, reign of emperor Hadrian
Bronze diploma granting citizenship to Marcus Papirius
Bronze figurine of a lictor (magistrate's attendant)
Bronze handled dish (patera) showing Scylla
Bronze head of Augustus
Bronze lampstand
Bronze statue of a goose
Bronze statuette of Venus or Dione
Brooch containing a coin of the emperor Philip I
Brown glass jug
Cameo of Agrippina the Elder
Cameo portrait of Augustus
Cobalt-blue glass beaker
Cobalt-blue glass model boat
Crocodile-skin suit of armour
Gaulish red slip pottery bowl
Glass bottle in the form of a fish
Glass bowl with enamelled decoration
Glass box
Glass cremation urn
Glass cup or bowl
Glass cylindrical box
Glass dropper-flask in the form of a gladiator's helmet
Glass flask
Glass window pane
Gold aureus of Aurelian
Gold aureus of Octavian
Gold aureus showing Trajan's Column
Gold medallion showing Constantine the Great at prayer
Head from a marble statue of Vespasian
Lead coffin with lid
Lead-glazed pottery drinking cup (skyphos)
Limestone head of a woman resembling Cleopatra VII
Marble bust of a girl
Marble bust of an old man
Marble bust of Trajan
Marble funerary relief of Lucius Antistius Sarculo and Antistia Plutia
Marble portrait of Julius Caesar
Marble portrait of Tiberius
Marble statue of the emperor Septimius Severus
Military horse trapping inscribed with the name of Pliny the Elder
Onyx cameo portrait of a woman wearing the stola
Painted roundel with portraits of a man and a woman
Panel from a mosaic showing a lion and cupids
Pottery lamp in the form of a ship
Silver cistophorus of Augustus
Silver cistophorus of Claudius
Silver cistophorus of Mark Antony
Silver denarius of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
Silver didrachm with wolf and twins design
Silver figurine of Tutela
Silver radiate coins with Roman Legionary badges: Pegasus and Capricorn
Silver tetradrachm of Augustus
Six pottery bowls containing different coloured pigments
Terracotta figurine of a woman riding on a pig
The Arcisate Treasure
The Barber Cup
The Crawford Cup
The Portland Vase
The sword of Tiberius
Three bronze strigils with scenes from the Roman Circus
Tombstone of a young boy, Marcus Cocceius Nonnus
Two silver cups with repoussé decoration
Vase in the form of a male grotesque head
Wall painting of Ulysses and the Sirens
Wall painting showing a coastal landscape
Related research projects
Coins from the Anglo-American project in Pompeii
Finds of Roman gold coins in Britain
Roman provincial coinage
The Roman shipwreck project
Related themes
Hadrian – the rise to power
Leaders and rulers
Related tours
Cleopatra of Egypt: from history to myth
The art of glass
Related world cultures
Ancient Rome
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