Vaulting of the Roman Theater at Nicaea

ashlar masonry crypt
Image Credit:
TRTHABER
Subject:
Pliny

Substructure of the Roman Theater at Nicaea

Ruins of a large stone structure
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Pliny

The Roman Theater at Nicaea

Ruins of a large stone structure
Image Credit:
TRTHABER
Subject:
Pliny

Nicomedia Aqueduct, Izmit, Turkey

Roman ruin with climbing plants growing on it
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
Carole Raddato
Subject:
Pliny

Roman Bithynia Map

map showing Roman period cities
Agent:
Simeon Netchev
Image Credit:
Following Hadrian
Subject:
Pliny

Panel with Painted Image of Isis

bust of elegant female
Date:
A.D. 100–200
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Subject:
Pliny

Statuette of Isis-Fortuna

standing female figure
Date:
2nd century A.D.
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Subject:
Pliny

Chariot Race (Course de char) by Jean Léon Gérôme

huge crowd watches 6 four-horse teams careen around the turning post in the Circus Maximus
Agent:
Jean Léon Gérôme
Date:
1876
Image Credit:
Art Institute of Chicago
Subject:
Pliny

Ummidia Quadratilla inscription reconstruction drawing

sketch of preserved sections and supplements
Date:
1st century AD
Image Credit:
EDCS – Epigraphy Database Clauss / Slaby
Subject:
Pliny

Casinum Theater

overgrown ruins of an open hillside theater
Date:
1st century AD
Image Credit:
Rob@roamintheempire.com
Subject:
Pliny

Mausoleum of Ummidia Quadratilla

Ruins of a large stone structure with high arched entrance
Date:
1st century AD
Image Credit:
Wikipedia user Rjdeadly
Subject:
Pliny

Casinum Amphitheater

oval shaped clearing surrounded by low stone wall and rising grassy seating area
Date:
second half of the 1st c. A.D.
Image Credit:
Rob@roamintheempire.com
Subject:
Pliny

An Eruption of Vesuvius

lava and smoke emerging from a dark crater
Agent:
Johan Christian Dahl
Date:
1824
Image Credit:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject:
Pliny

Possible site of Pliny the elder's villa at Misenum

clear archaeological site with sea in the background
Image Credit:
Soprintendenza ABAP dell'Area Metropolitana di Napoli
Subject:
Pliny

Fragmentary Mosaic Floor with Bear Hunt

The figures of three hunters are preserved, and one of them has his name, Lucius, inscribed above his head. The arm of another hunter is preserved along the left edge, along with his name, Minus. The hunters are driving four bears into a net; a fifth has already been captured. The net is set in a semi-circle and tied to trees at the right and left edges of the scene.
Date:
4th century AD
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Subject:
Pliny

Mosaic Floor with Diana and Callisto Surrounded by Hunt Scenes

Roman mosaic floor with hunting scenes
Date:
AD 175–200
Image Credit:
J. Paul Getty Museum
Subject:
Pliny

Pliny the Younger and his Mother at Misenum, 79 A.D., 1785

painting of a worried woman looking over her shoulder at an ominous landscape as her young son pores over a book and an adult male points as if to say "WTF"
Agent:
Angelica Kauffmann
Date:
1785
Image Credit:
Wikimedia Commons
Subject:
Pliny

Map of Roman monuments of Misenum 1890

plan
Agent:
Karl Julius Beloch
Date:
1890
Image Credit:
Wikimedia Commons

Map of the area around Vesuvius

sketch map of Bay of Naples area indicating ash fall areas
Agent:
Eugenia Russell
Image Credit:
Ancient World Magazine
Subject:
Pliny

Sketch of Bay of Naples in 79AD showing the approximate route taken by Pliny the Elder

basic sketch of the bay with Pliny's route indicated
Image Credit:
Pompeii In Pictures
Subject:
Pliny

Geological and structural sketch of the Campania region

Map of Bay of Naples showing fault lines
Agent:
Di VIto et al. 2024
Date:
2024
Image Credit:
European Geosciences Union
Subject:
Pliny

Vultus image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing of facial features. Top left corner: a brown eye behind rectangular glasses, black eyebrow, and dark skin; below it, 3 tear drops. Top right: light-skinned closed eye with a brown eyebrow. Middle of page: a pair of dark brown lips, curved in a slight smile. Right and slightly above, a dark brown nose and two yellow exclamation points; below them is a red mustache. Bottom left an unknown v-shaped red object; next to it a tan nose. Far right an open mouth with red lips; below a blue eye
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Verbum image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing of a cartoon word bubble. In the middle is the latin word "verbum" in green surrounded by several more English, French, German, Ancient Greek, Latin, and other words written in pencil and outlined in yellow, blue, green, and pink. On the right edge of the image, slightly overlapping the bubble are drawn a page of lined paper and a yellow pencil with pink eraser.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Ultimus image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil image a landscape. Three snow-covered mountains are in the background, the center slightly taller. Puffy clouds and a few snowflakes are in the sky. A dirt road winds through a green field in the foreground and up the center mountain. Two large black and white checkered flags are drawn behind the mountain on either side and a red location marker hand over the peak. The word "ultimus" is written above.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Timeō image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing of a person with long brown hair, wearing a sweater with a green and black diamond pattern over a white collared shirt. The person's face is only visible to the bottom of the eyes. They are clutching at their chest with their right hand, sweating and breathing heavily. A heart is drawn on top of their chest in red and blue; curved lines radiating from it denote it beating. Spiky lines are drawn behind their head and at bottom. The words "timeo, timere" are written at bottom.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Sentiō image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing of human brain in profile on a blue-washed background. Superimposed on the brain is a brown eye. Flanking the brain are two neurons, one on each side, and portions of two others disappearing out of frame on either side. Written above the brain are the words "sentio, sentire."
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Sapiēns image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing of a brown owl standing on a rock in profile, head turned to face the viewer. A branch of greenery, perhaps an olive branch, appears to be growing out from behind the rock. Behind the owl is a dark blue night sky with a yellow crescent moon and orange stars. The words "sapiens, sapientis" are written across the top of the page.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Ōlim image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing, of the back cover of an open book is in the bottom right. It's illustrated with a pointed wizards hat. A black magician's wand is laid across it; a green ribbon book mark dangles from the spine. A red timeline pointing to the right runs across the book cover from the left of the page. Another timeline is drawn above the book pointing left. Half a clock is visible at the left of the page. The abbreviations "AD," "BCE," "CE," and "BC" are visible on the page. "Olim" is written at top.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Ōdī image by Bani Gourab

Colored pencil drawing with "odi" written across the top. The "o" in "odi" is depicted by a splattered red tomato. "Odisse" is written in red-outline letters at bottom. In the middle of the image are two more splattered tomatoes, two yellow thumbs down symbols, two one-star rating images, two encircled red "x" symbols, and a large green graph arrow plummeting downward.
Agent:
Bani Gourab
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Vōx image by Juliet Burns

Ink and marker image of a person facing left with the throat cross-sectioned to reveal the anatomy of the throat. The larynx, trachea, and vocal cords are labeled. The vocal cords label is written on a sticky note. Sound waves are depicted by a series of three curved lines leaving the person's mouth and entering the person's ear.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Virtūs image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing in the style of a movie poster. "Hercules" is blazoned across the top of the sheet above an image of bar-chested man wearing a white skirt and a lion skin. he wears the head of the lion like a hat with the front legs of the skin tied across his chest. He's fighting a seven-headed reptile against a blue sky; the ground is brown. An inset text box reads "Watch as the mighty Hercules fights the Hydra!" A second text banner at bottom reads "In Hercules: Virtus."
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Uxor image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing of a woman sitting in front of a vertical loom. She appears to be dressed in a yellow Ionic chiton held together with pins or buttons down the shoulders and arms. Her hair is gathered back along her neck by a red and white ribbon. She holds some of the warp threads of the weaving in her right hand. An image of a ship on the ocean with sail furled can be seen in the completed portion of the weaving. "Uxor" is written in the upper left of the image.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Tot image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing of the personified Fama (Rumor). Her skin is light gray and her wings and hair dark gray. Her clothes are also dark gray with folds outlined in dark blue. She is barefoot with small wings at her ankles. The underside of her skirt is visible, upon which several eyes can be seen. More eyes are visible in her hair. She holds a straight trumpet in both hands; the trumpet in her right hand raised to her lips , the trumpet in her left is held partially behind her. Aeneid 4.182–83 is quoted.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Sēcūrus image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing of a light-skinned person with curly brown hair lying on a bench on a balcony. The sun shines in a blue sky with a few wispy clouds. The person wears a short-sleeve white tunic or chiton with blue bands of decoration at the hem and sleeves. Their eyes are closed and they have a small smile on their face. Their head and feet rest on the flared arms of the bench.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Rumpō image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing of a terracotta-colored vase lying on its side broken into pieces. Five small pieces of varying sizes from the body of the vase are grouped together in foreground. The base and rim of the vase lay behind them broken into two large pieces.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Parvus image by Juliet Burns

Pen and marker drawing of a light-skinned young child with curly brown hair, bare-chested, wearing a purple skirt. They kneel facing forward and play with a small toy horse. The horse is mounted on a small wheeled base. The word "parvus" is written in the upper left-hand corner.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Occīdō image by Juliet Burns

Ink and marker drawing in two registers. The top register covers one-third of the page and features three silhouettes illustrating a spear being thrown: (1) preparation with spear and right arm drawn back, (2) mid throw, stepping forward, spear overhead, (3) release, right arm outstretched. The bottom register, features dark-skinned, bearded man wearing a green skirt, holding a sword aloft in his right hand. He is collapsing backward, the spear having pierced his stomach. Blood pools beneath him.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Humus image by Juliet Burns

Ink and marker drawing of a cross-sectioned landscape. The sky is bright blue with puffy white clouds. The cross section of the ground reveals four layers of earth: the top layer is a reddish-brown with some sparse vegetation, the second layer is an orange-tan, the third is a light tan, and the fourth is dark brown. The roots of one bush penetrate down to the third layer. A few rocks are scattered throughout the second and third layers.
Agent:
Juliet Burns
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Vestīgium image by Alice Fitts

Pencil drawing of a beach scene. A line of footprints stretches diagonally from the lower left foreground into the surf in the middle distance, becoming progressively smaller. At the bottom of the page just off center is the word “vestigium."
Agent:
Alice Fitts
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Quamquam image by Alice Fitts

Ink drawing day and night scene. On the right side is a hilly landscape with evergreen-like trees under a partly cloudy sky with a smiling sun. On the left hand side is a night scene of open water. Several stars and a smiling crescent moon. In the foreground, spanning the dividing line between the scenes is a the back of lefthand with manicured fingernails.
Agent:
Alice Fitts
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Onus image by Alice Fitts

Multimedia image of a kneeling man, head bent forward, holding a globe on his back. Encircling the globe in two rings are words cut out from paper: competition, anxiety, comparison, perfection, have to be normal, note enough time, tests, meritocracy, be pointy, win all the time, social media, be the best, expectations, grades, politics, isolated, shiny, never enough, college, be well rounded. Below are written the words “onus, oneris."
Agent:
Alice Fitts
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Vehō image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Ink drawing of a man kneeling on his left knee his right foot is planted with knee bent at a right angle. His arms are raised and balancing a globe on his shoulders.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Uxor image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Ink drawing of a wedding band. The band features two hands clasping each other. Inside the ring is drawn the gender symbol for female. At the bottom is the word “uxoris."
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Salūs image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Pencil drawing of a large circle inside of which is a caduceus (a staff with two serpents entwined around it and wings near the top) and a rod of Asclepius (a staff with a single serpent wrapped around it). The staves are crossed at the bottom forming a V pattern. Inside the V is another small circle holding a small medical cross. Below the staves inside the large circle is the word “salutis."
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Relinquō image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Pencil drawing of several columns in the shape of women dressed in ancient Greek chitons and standing on a plinth. One column is missing, its outline denoted by a dotted line.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Rarūs image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Pencil drawing of a scattering of torn pieces of paper.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Pendō image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

A set of balance scales hang in mid-air. Both pans are partially filled, but the right pan is heavier and the scales are tilted to that side. Written below the image is pendo/pendere.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Brevis image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

A rectangular pit has been excavated in which lies a skeleton. It is roped off with stanchions. Behind the excavated area a lamp hangs above a placard which reads “Vita est brevis. Ars est longa."
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Morior image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Pencil drawing of a grave and headstone reading R.I.P. A ghostly form is rising from the grave. Beneath the image are the words morior/mori.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC

Grātia image by Kayli McGowan Kinney

Pencil drawing of a young woman wearing classical greek-style draped garment. Her hair is pulled up on top of her head and held in place with a ribbon with a few ringlets loose framing her face. Her arms are crossed over her chest, fingertips resting on her clavicles. Gratias is written next to her.
Agent:
KAYLI MCGOWAN KINNEY
Date:
2025
Image Credit:
DCC