An elegant 18th c. porcelain jug? No! It's instead a 1st c. BCE-1st c. CE #Romanglass oinchoe, imitating the usual metal form of this vessel. The body was blown, but the rest was cold cut. Stunning. Certainly found in a tomb.
Another stunning object from yesterday's visit to the National Museum Copenhagen:
A enamel-painted #Roman glass cup found in a burial of a man at Himlingøje, 3rd c. AD. Vessels like this are known as circus cups because they are decorated with images of animals hunted in the arena during the venationes (hunting spectacles). The cups were a product of workshops in the Rhineland.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This delightful figure of the #Roman god Mercurius is holding a purse & has a winged feet and a winged helmet. He protected the pay of Roman soldiers, so this figure may have belonged to a soldier.
#Roman bird-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail had to be broken to remove the perfume. This one is still intact and filled with the scented content!
The vessel was found in a burial at Rovasenda, Italy.
"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."
"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."
"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."
"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."
"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."
Quite popular among several countries, there was the belief that, during childbirth, knots had to be untied.
Everything, in the house, had to be loose to ease the delivery.
Also, a broom was kept in a corner of the room – this custom was followed in #Japan, too!
#Roman husbands wrapped their wives with special belts, which then were untied, to ease the pain of the labor.
Also, in the #MiddleAges, special birth girdles¹ were used.
Im "Rahmen des Seminars 'Der globale #Roman'" werden am Institut für #Germanistik der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (#HHU_de) am 21. und 28. November 2023 zwei Gastvorträge veranstaltet.