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The Lex de imperio Vespasiani is an epigraphic text on a bronze tablet, now partially lost, containing part of a law that granted some or all powers of the emperor to Vespasian in the year 70 CE. The extant text is on a large bronze tablet currently held at the Musei Capitolini in Rome [2930×4446]

September 22, 2024

The Lex de imperio Vespasiani is an epigraphic text on a bronze tablet, now partially lost, containing part of a law that granted some or all powers of the emperor to Vespasian in the year 70 CE. The extant text is on a large bronze tablet currently held at the Musei Capitolini in Rome [2930×4446]

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Fuckoff555 on September 22, 2024 10:07 am

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_de_imperio_Vespasiani](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_de_imperio_Vespasiani)
ursastara on September 22, 2024 10:41 am

It’s incredible how our modern alphabet has nearly unchanged from Latin 2000 years ago

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The Lex de imperio Vespasiani is an epigraphic text on a bronze tablet, now partially lost, containing part of a law that granted some or all powers of the emperor to Vespasian in the year 70 CE. The extant text is on a large bronze tablet currently held at the Musei Capitolini in Rome [2930×4446]

Sepulcher of infante Alfonso in the Miraflores Charterhouse, in Spain, made by the Castilian sculptor Gil de Siloé between 1489–1492 CE [2136×2848]

A terracotta theater mask representing an African slave. Made in Sicily, ca. 350 BCE, now housed at the British Museum [1800×1900]

A black-figure column krater with wrestlers and paidotribes (gymnastics teachers). Made by the “Swing Painter”, c. 540-530 BCE, now housed at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia [1000×850]

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