Tiberius

AE155 News 6b

Ramesses III gate and Tiberius stela

A mission from the Egyptian-French Center for the Study of the Karnak Temples (CFEETK) has successfully completed the reconstruction of a Ramesses III gateway in the north-western sector of Karnak. The gate appears to have been built over an earlier…

1. The Julius Caesar dish or tazza, circa 1587 99, gilded silver by an anonymous (Netherlandish?) goldsmith. D. 37.6m. Museo Galdiano, Madrid.

The wrong Caesars

As a dozen Renaissance gilded silver treasures, the Aldobrandini Tazze or Twelve Caesars, go on show at Waddesdon Manor, Professor Mary Beard unscrews the puzzle of how the Roman emperors and dishes got mixed up