Character Timeline

10 BCE to 360 CE

10 BCE

Aurelia Apollonia

A bust of a woman with short curly dark brown hair. She has a pearl head band that sits over her hair and dark eye lashes under her eyes in the style of fayum portraits. She is wearing a two toned tunic of dark ivory and torquoise. Her gaze is not looking directly forward and instead off to the right. she has a small smile and light lips. She wears three kinds of necklaces, two that are made of circular beads and one that is a flat gold collar. Her earrings are gold and torqoudse and in the shape of trapazoids.

Citizen
Alexandria, Egypt
30 BCE- 14 CE

25 CE

Lucius Cornelius Crispus

Image showing the different types of clothing for roman men across social classes.

Citizen
Misenum, Italy
10-30 CE

50 CE

Valeria Secunda

This image shows three men working in a bakery. One is putting bread into a very large oven, another is holding the tray of loaves for him, and a final is turning a flour mill. The bakery is made entirely of stone, and sketched to depict the hard work they were doing.

Citizen
Massilia, Gaul
First Century CE

Demetrios

A Marble statue depicting the a man without arms, legs or head.

Freeborn Non-citizen
Aphrodisias, Asia
20-45 CE

Apollonios

A frescoe depicting a Roman grain boat, dated the the Third Century CE.

Freeborn Non-citizen
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
First Century CE

Cantinea Procla

An engraving of a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses depicting Telethusa and Iphis praying to Isis

Citizen
Pompeii, Italy
First Century CE

60 CE

Zosime

Slave
Pompeii, Italy
46-79 CE

65 CE

Claudia Helena

Roman fresco of a woman sitting and pouring contents from one container to another

Citizen
Pompeii, Italy
65 CE

66 CE

Masculus

Plaster image showing cavalrymen in battle

Freeborn Non-citizen
Heliopolis (Baalbek), Syria
66 CE

67 CE

Sexuality in The Roman Empire

Aprhodite sitting on a sea shell

Freedperson
Pompeii, Italy
50-67 CE

84 CE

Gaius Lartius Priscus

A gladiator mosaic that shows six gladiators and a referee

Freedperson
Capua, Italy
84 CE

95 CE

Siro

Roman mosaic of a retiarius gladiator holding a trident and net while wearing light armor.

Slave
Rome, Italy
90-100 CE

100 CE

Gaius Valerius Primus

An inscription from Rome recording feriae (religious festivals) of the vigiles. It mentions specialists using pumps, sickles and hooks. Date: 362 AD.

Citizen
Rome, Italy
90-110 CE

Theodora

Marble relief from the Colonnacce of the Forum of Nerva in Rome (late 1st century CE), depicting the myth of Arachne. At the center, Arachne cowers as Minerva strikes her, while surrounding women engage in weaving and textile work

Freeborn Non-citizen
Antioch, Syria
155 CE

110 CE

Marcus Julius Crescens

Fierce roman battle fighting shirtless barbarians in smokybattleground

Citizen
Rome, Gaul
110 CE

130 CE

Maximus

Deptiction of a Roman Cart (4-Wheeled) and Pulled by Oxen

Non-citizen
Augusta Treverorum, Gaul
130 CE

137 CE

Gaius Antonius Rufus

The crossing of the Roman Army over the Danube River in the first Dacian War (the large figure is a personification of the Danube)

Citizen
Bostra, Syria
137 CE

140 CE

Marcus Aurelius Felix

A bronze Tablet that granted citizenship to an Auxiliary

Citizen
Apulum, Dacia
130-150 CE

150 CE

Felix

Elite household, Elites having a party, Younger slave serving elites

Slave
Rome, Italy
Second Century CE

Julia Severa

Visual representation of a ritual done for Isis' favor

Citizen
Ostia, Italy
Second Century CE

Aurelia Chreste

A Roman mosaic that depicts an actor with cane or 'rhabdo' that was used for the blind.

Citizen
Ostia, Italy
Second Century CE

Gaius Julius Apollinaris

A Relief shown at Kocaeli museum in Turkey. It depicts two men embracing, asssumed to be Diocletion and Maximian. Excavated from the Imperial Cult Complex in 2009.

Citizen
Nicomedia, Bithynia
246 CE

Hilarus

Reconstructed illustration of Magna Roman Fort showing Roman buildings, defensive walls, roads, and surrounding settlement in its historical layout.

Slave
Novae, Moesia Inferior
150 CE

Aelia Sabina

Citizen
Aquileia, Italy
Second Century CE

250 CE

Gaius Julius Primus

Citizen
Lugdunum, Gaul
Third Century CE

360 CE

Publius

Roman carriage transporting people to a destination

Citizen
Tarraco, Hispania
360 CE