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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Constantine the Great
Emperor of Rome from 306 to 337. He is best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parma
A round shield, three feet in diameter, carried by the celites in the Roman army. Though small, compared with the Clipeus, it was so strongly made as to be a very effectual protection. This was probably owing to the use of iron in its...
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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: 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: Bronze Helmet Ornament
Decorations placed on the helmets of the Roman soldiers.
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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: 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: 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: Charlemagne
The King of the Franks from 768 and the Emperor of the Romans from 800 until his death in 814.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cloaca Maxima
One of the world's earliest sewage system, located in ancient Rome.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Column of Duilis
The column was adorned with the brazen beaks of the captured Carthaginian vessels. Part of the inscription reciting the achievements of the Roman fleet has been preserved.-Webster, 1913
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Column of Duilius
Restoration of the column of Gaius Duilius, a Roman politician and admiral in the First Punic War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Dacian Stronghold
A Roman siege, led by Trajan, of a Dacian stronghold, a stone wall of protection.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Death of Julian the Apostate
A depiction of Julian the Apostate, a noted philosopher and Roman Emperor, and his death.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Desultor
A rider in the Roman games, who generally rode two horses at the same time, sitting on them without a saddle, and vaulting upon either of them at is pleasure. The annexed woodcut shows three figures of desultores. - Smith, 1873.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Foot Soldier
Roman Foot Soldier during the Conquest of Italy
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fortified Wall
Restoration of the Roman fortified wall on the German frontier. -Breasted, 1914
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hollow Square
Military formation of the Romans, also agmen quadratum. Square formation with no troops in the middle.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar heard that a little way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in the shells of mussels which lived in the rivers. He could...
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Odoacer Compels Augustulus to Yield the Crown
Augustulus is deposed from the crown by Odoacer, and was thus the last Western Roman Emperor.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Paenula
A thick cloak, cheifly used by the Romans in traveling, instead of the toga, as a protection against the cold and rain. It appears to have had no sleeves, and only an opening for the head, as shown in the preceding figure. - Smith, 1873