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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Balneum
Balneum or balineum signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing vessel, such as most Romans possessed in their own houses; and from that it came to mean the chamber which contained the bath. When the baths of private individuals...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bath
Interior of bath in ancient Rome.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bath Room
An ancient bath-room (as discovered).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Blind Belsarius
Belsarius was ordered to have his eyes put out, and was reduced to a homeless beggar.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Boxer With Cestus
The cestus was used by boxers from the earliest times. It consisted of thongs of raw ox-hide, or of leather, tied round the hands of pugilists, in order to render their blows more powerful. Sometimes these bands were tied round the arms...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Breastpins
Gold breastpins discovered at Pompeii.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bronze Helmet Ornament
Decorations placed on the helmets of the Roman soldiers.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Brooches
Brooches of gold found at Pompeii.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bucranes and Festoon
Roman bucranes and festoon.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Building Camp
Soldiers Building Cam, with Guards. - Greenough, 1899
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Byzantine Court
Constantine, the first Christian emperor, removed the capital of the world-empire from Rome to Byzantium, henceforth to be called Constantinople. Though the court, with all its splendor and power, was thus transferred to a city where...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Caduceus
The staff or mace carried by heralds and ambassadors in time of war. This name is also given to the staff with which Hermes or Mercury is usually represented, as is shown in he following figure of that god. From caduceus was formed the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Caesar Crossing the Rubicon
An image of Julius Caesar and his army crossing the Rubicon River, which is located in northeastern Italy. The idiom "Crossing the Rubicon" refers to Julius Caesar passing this river in 49 BC, and means to pass a point of no return.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Caesar's Death
The Death of Caesar. Naturaly such extraordinary success made him enemies, and though the city seemed in the main to be contented with his rule, it was easy for his ill-wishers to play on the passions of the people by pointing out that...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cameo
Cameo, a term applied to gems of different colors sculptured in relief. The art of engraving on gems boasts of high antiquity, having been practised with various degrees of success by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Camp Sacrifice
Sacrifice in Camp. Military Band. - Greenough, 1899
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Candys
A robe worn by the Medes and Persians over their trowsers and other garments. It had wide sleeves, and was made of woollen cloth, which was either purple or of some other splendid colour. In the Persepolitan sculptres, from which the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Capitoline and Cloaca Maxima
The Capitoline Hill is a Roman hill between the Forum and the Campus Martius. The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. "The Capitoline and Cloaca Maxima. A restoration." -Allen, 1890
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Capsa
A box for holding books among the Romans. These boxes were of cylindrical form. There does not appear to have been any difference between the capsa and scrinium, except that the latter word was usually applied to those boxes which held a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Caractacus and Claudius
Caractacus was a British Chief that had fought very bravely against the Romans. He was brought to Rome with chains on his hands and feet and set before the emperor of Rome. The wife of Caratacus, who had also been brought a prisoner to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Castra
The system of encampment among the romans was one of singular regularity and order.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cathedra
A seat or chair, was more particularly applied to a soft seat used by women, whereas sella signified a seat common to both sexes. The cathedrae were, no doubt, of various forms and sizes; but they usually appear to have had backs to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cavalryman
Cavalryman Charging. - Greenough, 1899