Antiquities Exhibits

Antiquities at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. The Toledo Museum of Art holds small but distinguished collections of Renaissance, Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Japanese art including a portrait bust of Gaius Julius Caesar believed to have been produced in the 1st century CE after his assassination. Its Egyptian objects include a beautifully preserved cartonnage mummy case from the Third Intermediate Period (943-716 BCE)  and a portrait head of Pharaoh Ahmose II from the Late Period, Dynasty 26, about 550 BCE. Portrait head of Gaius Julius Caesar believed to have been produced in 1 CE. Image courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art.

Roman antiquities. Ongoing at the Musée Départemental de l'Arles Antique in Arles, France. Exhibited in a 2,800 square-meter / 30,000 square-foot permanent exhibition space, the vast collection of the Archeological museum of Arles comprises, along with scale models and reconstructions, artifacts dating from Prehistory to the late Roman Empire, including vases, mosaics, sarcophagi, sculptures, and a series of remarkable marble bu sts including a head thought to be a middle-aged Julius Caesar dredged from the nearby Rhone River. bronze sculpture of a captive Gaul, last quater of the 1st century BCE dredged from the Rhone River. photographed by Carole Raddato in 2014 and provided by Wikimedia Commons with a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Head of a middle-aged Roman thought to be possibly Gaius Julius Caesar  photographed by Mary Harrsch in 2013.