- Nutria
I believe this is a Nutria, an animal like a beaver but with a rat like tail - Beaver
Beaver - Apollo
- Ares
- Arch of Titus
- Venus
- Amphitheater
- Zeus
- Ariadne from the Vatican
- Natural amphitheater
- He set a little child in the midst of them
Mathew 18:1 - 3 - Theatrum at Aspendus
- Floor plan of the theatrum at Herculane
- Benjamin of Tudela in the Desert of Sahara
This Jew was the son of a rabbi of Tudela, a town in Navarre, and he was called Benjamin of Tudela. It seems probable that the object of his voyage was to make a census of his brother Jews scattered over the surface of the Globe, but whatever may have been his motive, he spent thirteen years, from 1160-1173, exploring nearly all the known world, and his narrative was considered the great authority on this subject up to the sixteenth century. - Groups from Titus' triumphal procession over the Jews (Arch of Titus)
- The approach to Constantinople
From Anselmi Banduri Imperium orientale, tome II., p. 448. 2 vols. folio. Parisiis, 1711. - Roman temple (maison carrée) in Nîmes
- Poseidin
- Mausoleum
- Niobe with her youngest daughter
- Floor plan of the Erechtheum
- Atrium
- Pantheon, seen in section from the inside
- Hestia
- Pilum
- Plan of Parthenon
- Circus Maximus - Plan
- Hercules
- Gladiator barracks at Pompeii
- Laocoon
- Circus Maximus
- Signia
- Chlamys
- Silenus with little Dionysus, Louvre Museum
- World as known to the Ancients
Map of the World as known to the Ancients - Balteus
- Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs (Apollo temple at Bassa
- Roman Atrium
- Columbarium
- Artemis
- Dionysus from the Louvre Museum
- Cerae (open)
- Temple ruins in Paestum
- Cerae (closed and sealed)
- Dionysis
- Sistrum
- Basterna
- Bronze Hermes statue of Herculaneum
- Parthenon
- Demeter
- Athena
- Divining Rod
I believe that the imagination is the principal motive force in those who use the divining rod; but whether it is so solely, I am unable to decide. The powers of nature are so mysterious and inscrutable that we must be cautious in limiting them, under abnormal conditions, to the ordinary laws of experience. - Balneum (Roman Bath)
- House of Pansa at Pompei
- Positions of the Hands on Divining Rods
From “Lettres qui découvrent l’Illusion des Philosophes sur la Baguette.” Paris, 1693 - Plan of House of Pansa - Pompeii
- Siege of a village by Champlain
In this campaign he employed instruments of warfare which greatly astonished the savages, and easily secured him the victory. For the attack of a village, he constructed a cavalier of wood, which 200 of the most powerful men "carried before this village to within a pike's length, and displayed three arquebusiers well protected from the arrows and stones which might be shot or launched at them." A little later, we see him exploring the river Ottawa, and advancing, in the north of the continent, to within 225 miles of Hudson's Bay. After having fortified Montreal, in 1615, he twice ascended the Ottawa, explored Lake Huron, and arrived by land at Lake Ontario, which he crossed. - The Forum with the Adjoining Buildings
A. The Forum. 1. Pedestal of the statue of Augustus. 2. Pedestal of the statue of Claudius. 3. Pedestal of the statue of Agrippina. 4. Pedestal of the statue of Nero. 5. Pedestal of the statue of Caligula. 6. Pedestals of equestrian statues. 7. Pedestals of standing figures. 8. Pedestal for three equestrian statues. 9. Speaker's platform 10. Table of standard measures 11. Room of the supervisor of measures. B. The Basilica. a. Entrance court. 1. Corridor. 2. Main room. 3. Tribunal. 4-4. Rooms at the ends of the tribunal. C. The Temple of Apollo. 1. Colonnade. 2. Podium. 3. Cella. 4. Altar. 5. Sundial. 6. Sacristan's room. 7-7. Rooms made from earlier colonnade. D. D'. Market Buildings. E. Latrina. F. F. City Treasury. G. Commemorative Arch. H. Temple of Jupiter. I. Arch of Tiberius. K. The Provision Market—Macellum. 1. Portico. 2. Colonnade. 3-3. Market stalls. 4. Market for meat and fish. 5. Chapel of the imperial family. 6. Banquet room. 7. Round structure with water basin—Tholus. 8. Pen. L. Sanctuary of the City Lares. 1. Main room, unroofed, with an altar in the centre. 2. Apse, with shrine. 3. Recesses with pedestals. 4. Niche opening on the Forum. M. Temple of Vespasian. 1. Colonnade. 2. Altar. 3. Cella. 4. Portico. N. The Building of Eumachia. O. The Voting Place—Comitium. 1. Recess opening on the main room. 2. Recess opening on the Forum. P-R. Municipal Buildings. P. Office of the duumvirs. Q. Hall of the city council. R. Office of the aediles. S. Fountain. - Pope Joan
From Joh. Wolfii Lect. Memorab. (Lavingæ, 1600.) It will be seen by the curious woodcut from Baptista Mantuanus, that he consigned Pope Joan to the jaws of hell, notwithstanding her choice. The verses accompanying this picture are:— “Hic pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virile Fœmina, cui triplici Phrygiam diademate mitram Extollebat apex: et pontificalis adulter.” It need hardly be stated that the whole story of Pope Joan is fabulous, and rests on not the slightest historical foundation. It was probably a Greek invention to throw discredit on the papal hierarchy, first circulated more than two hundred years after the date of the supposed Pope. Even Martin Polonus (A. D. 1282), who is the first to give the details, does so merely on popular report. - The Forum Triangulare, with Adjacent Buildings
A. Portico at the Entrance of the Forum Triangulare. B. Forum Triangulare. 1, 1. Colonnade. 2. Promenade. 3. Doric temple. 4. Semicircular bench, with sundial. 5. Sepulchral enclosure. 6. Altars. 7. Well house. 8. Pedestal of the statue of Marcellus. C. Open-air Gymnasium—Palaestra. 1. Colonnade. 2. Pedestal with steps behind it. 3, 3. Dressing rooms. D. Tank for Saffron Water. E. Large Theatre. 1. Dressing room. 2. Stage. 3. Orchestra. 4. Ima cavea. 5. Media cavea. 6. Summa cavea, over a corridor. 7, 7. Tribunals. F. Small Theatre. 1. Dressing room. 2. Stage. 3, 3. Tribunalia. G. Theatre Colonnade, used as Barracks for Gladiators. 1. Passage leading from Stabian Street. 2. Entrance. 3. Doorkeeper's room. 4. Passage to the Large Theatre, walled up. 5. Stairway leading down from the Forum Triangulare. 6. Athletes' waiting room—Exedra. 7. Room with remains of weapons and cloth. 8. Guard room. 9. Stairs leading to overseer's rooms. 10. Kitchen. 11. Mess room. H. Temple of Zeus Milichius. 1. Colonnade. 2. Altar. 3. Cella. 4. Sacristan's room. I. Temple of Isis. 1. Colonnade. 2. Cella. 3. Shrine of Harpocrates. 4. Purgatorium. 5. Hall of initiation. 6. Hall of the Mysteries. 7. Priest's residence. K. City Wall. L. Foundations of Steps.