Search Results: Battle of pavia

Warfare is generally understood to be the controlled and systematic waging of armed conflict between sovereign nations or states, using military might and strategy, until one opponent is defeated on the field or sues for peace in the face...

A detail of a marble statue of Hermes showing one of the messenger god's winged sandals. 19th century CE plaster cast from the 1st century BCE bronze original. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

Detail of the Nun of Monza by Giuseppe Molteni (1800-1887 CE). (Civic Museum of Pavia, Italy)

Roman glass perfume bottle. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).

A 1st century CE Roman tomb. Within were stored the cremated remains of the deceased. Inscriptions name the occupants as Laria Amabilis, her husband M.Petronius, and their daughter Petronia Secunda. From the Piacenza region. (Archaeological...

A Roman glazed pottery cup mimicking bronze work with leaf designs. 1st-2nd century CE. (Archaeological Musuem, Pavia, Italy)

A Roman glass kantharos. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).

A Roman fibula (brooch or fastener) in gilded silver with semi-precious stones. 5th century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

A cast of an original 1st century BCE marble bust of Roman general Marcus Agrippa (63-12 BCE). (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy)

Inscription in the façade of Saint Peter in Golden Sky (Pavia), the church (crypt) where Boethius' mortal remains rest. The writing quotes the verses dedicated to him in the tenth canto of Dante's Paradise: "The body whence it was chased...