1-200: Qarat el-Muzawwaqa (Dachla Oasis Western Desert, Egypt), necropolis, tomb of Petosiris (Roman period, 1st/2nd Century AD) – The zodiac with Harpocrates in the centre.– Ceiling painting.
1-100: Patubastis Tomb Zodiac Ceiling (probably 1st century AD) From The Necropolis of Muzawwaka (Muzawwaqa) meaning “The Decorated Hill” in the vicinity of Deir al-Hagar Temple. Photo by Bernard M. Adams
1-100: roman intaglio of the zodiac, 1st century ad
1-100: Altar of the Twelve Gods. Made of marble and decorated with the zodiac signs and the busts of the twelve gods. Diameter: 82.2 cm. Height: 36 cm. From the first century AD. Found in Gabii, Italy. Located in the Louvre.
1-300: A first- to third-century Roman chalcedony gem engraved with symbols of the zodiacal constellations Capricorn (the goat-fish) and Libra (the scales). (British Museum)
1-300: "Fragments of zodiacal disks dating from the 1st- to the 3rd-century CE (probably 1st or 2nd centuries CE) have been found at Salzburg (Austria) and Grand (France). The fragment from Salzburg, housed in the Museum Caralino Augustum, Salzburg, is made of bronze. The Salzburg fragment (dated to 2nd-century CE) originally formed part of an anaphoric clock (or parts of anaphoric clocks); a very sophisticated kind of water clock imitating the "risings" of the constellations."
1-300: Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, nose now missing, surrounded by a crescent on her head, seven stars in the field around and the signs of the zodiac in low relief; inscribed beneath with an unitelligible Gnostic formula Excavated/Findspot Argos 2ndC-3rdC British Museum All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. — Jacques Lacarriere
1-300: Convex sardonyx gem engraved with the forepart of Capricorn; below is a dog (?) running to the right; on the left is a bird on a cornucopia; on the right is a bird on a handleless krater. Culture/period: Roman Imperial Date: 1stC-3rdC Materials: sardonyx Technique: engraved British Museum number: 1814,0704.1470
1-100: Celestial sphere, 1st century Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, inv. 784 This large sphere is spanned by the band of the zodiac, with the images of the 12 signs. Stars are scattered over its surface at random.
1-200: A Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp - Zodiac - Roman Empire, Ca. 1st-2nd Century CE. Ornately designed oil lamp with signs of zodiac surrounding a fertility goddess. Lamp is incised with geometric designs and a long spout. Makers mark on base “MLC.” 4”L.
27 BC-14 AD: Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
29 BC: At Ephesus,the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World attracted pilgrims from all over the Graeco-Roman world. The temple was erected in 29 BC. to the goddess Roma and the deified Julius Caesar. The cult of emperor worship was promoted there.
50-150: Roundel with bust of Atargatis-Tyche and Zodiac 50-150 AD From Petra Nabataean/Roman found at Khirbet Tannur is supported by a winged niké, and surrounded by a mural-crowned tyche. One of the symbols of the Nabataean zodiac portrays Allat, the female goddess of fertility. She is armed with a lance or sword which can been seen faintly above her left shoulder. Source: Cincinnati Art Museum
52-51 BC Dendera Zodiac - Sylvie Cauville of the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research at Utrecht University and Éric Aubourg dated it to 50 BC through an examination of the configuration it shows of the five planets known to the Egyptians, a configuration that occurs once every thousand years, and the identification of two eclipses.[3] The solar eclipse indicates the date of March 7, 51 BC: it is represented by a circle containing the goddess Isis holding a baboon (the god Thoth) by the tail. The lunar eclipse indicates the date of September 25, 52 BC: it is represented by an Eye of Horus locked into a circle.
69-79: Vespasian was Roman Emperor from AD 69 to AD 79.
100-120 Polychrome painted wooden base-board and vaulted cover of the coffin of Cleopatra, daughter of Candace, who died at the age of eleven years. The interior is decorated with a representation of Nut, surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac arranged clockwise. Roman Period, Date: 100-120 (circa) From: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb 32 (Africa, Upper Egypt, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (Thebes)) Length: 183 cm Width: 66 cm British Museum number: EA6706
100-200: Bianchini's planisphere, 2nd century A.D. Paris, Musée du Louvre Discovered in Rome in the 18th century, this plate displays the surviving fragments of a planisphere incorporating the so-called "Barbaric Sphere", which depicts the Greek, Egyptian and Mesopotamian constellations. The four circles contain images of the Chaldean zodiac, two Greek zodiacs, an area with numbers that indicate the planets' influence on the individual signs of the zodiac, and lastly, the Egyptian Decans.
100-200: "Relief with Phanes" ca. 2nd Century A.D. Modena, Museo Civico Archeologico. The first bestower of life in the universe, Phanes emerged from the cosmic egg at the beginning of time. For the adepts of Orphism he represents a new era of salvation: the band of the zodiac symbolises eternal time, while the serpent entwined around it represents the rapid course of human time.
100-200: Farnese Atlas, ca. 2nd century A.D. Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6374 The celestial sphere carried by Atlas on his back is the oldest depiction of the sky as the ancients saw it. The globe features the celestial equator, the ecliptic with the zodiac band, the Arctic and Antarctic circles, the colure and the constellations (19 northern, 14 southern) with the 12 signs of the zodiac.
100-120 Base-board and cover of the wooden coffin of Soter, son of Cornelius Pollius and Archon of Thebes, with polychrome painted and gilded decoration and inscriptions: surrounded by the twelve signs of the zodiac, arranged anti-clockwise, Roman Period, Date: 100-120 (circa), From: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb 32 (probably)(Africa, Upper Egypt, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna (Thebes)), Materials: wood, gold Technique: painted, gilded Length: 213 centimetres Width: 77 centimetres British Museum number EA6705
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138-161: Antoninus Pius, also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138 to 161.
150-220: Zodiac of Cairo' or the 'Daressy Zodiac.' It dates from the Roman Imperial Period.
150-200: Athribis zodiac
200-300: Head of a Sarapis priest wearing a diadem with a disk and 7-rayed star. The base of the statue has a zodiac ring. Limestone, from Roman Carthage, 3rd century A.D. Musée du Louvre, MA 1833. Courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux, photograph by Chuzeville.
200-300: Tauroctony of Mithras with zodiac, London, 3rd century, in Ashmolean
200-300: Aevum (Aeon) and Tellus (Gaia), Roman mosaic from Sentinum, 3rd century AD, (Glyptothek, Munich).
200-300: flic.kr/p/qEREhp | Mosaic pavement depicting Aion enthroned and holding a zodiac wheel in his right hand, and a scepter in his left, 3rd century AD, from the triclinium of a Roman house in Arles, Musée de l'Arles antique, Arles, France
212: Ponza zodiac - Total eclipse of the Sun in Leo - which is where the snake’s head in positioned on the ceiling - was visible on Ponza at a date (14 August, A.D. 212) fallingwithin the period when the mithraeum was built. It is suggested that the Ponza zodica comemorates that eclipse. (“Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung, Volume 2” By Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase Walter de Gruyter, 1984 p.2021-2022)
222-235: Coin of Perinthos with bust of Severus Alexander Roman Provincial A.D. 222–235 Mint, Perinthos, Thrace DIMENSIONS Diameter: 40.5 mm. Weight: 32.59 gm. Die Axis: 1 Currently at the MFA ACCESSION NUMBER 62.629 MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Bronze
246-221 BC: There was a smaller temple, dedicated to the triad of Latopolis, about two miles and a half north of the city, at a village now called el-Dayr. Here, too, is a small Zodiac of the age ofPtolemy III Euergetes (246-221 BC).
253-268: Gallienus was Roman Emperor with his father Valerian from 253 to 260 and alone from 260 to 268.
286-337: Hammath Tiberias Synagogue Mosaic floor (Decoration). Date: 286-337 CE. Period: Late Roman (132-324). Origin : Israel/Eretz Israel | Palaestina Secunda | Hammath Tiberias. The central panel depicting the zodiac wheel. In it Helios is surrounded by the twelve zodiac signs.
299-200 BC: Fragment of zodiac, sign of Libra (the scales). Turquoise and gray-blue faience design with yellow. Height 7.1 cm. 3ed century B.C. Ptolemaic Egypt.
300-1 BC: From Uruk (modern Warka) last few centuries BCE, from a set of 12 clay tablets carved with the zodiac signs. This one shows a lion standing on the back of a winged serpent. The constellations are called MULUR.GU.LA / MULUR.MAḪ urgulû/nēšu “The Lion” (Greek: Leo with Corvus standing on Hydra.) The 8-pointed star to the left is captioned dingirSAG.ME.GAR (Jupiter) positioned by Cancer to show its place of exaltation. VAT 7847, Obverse (= VAN 784 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
332-31 BC: Astrological Disc, Egypt, 30th Dynasty - Ptolemaic Period (332 - 31 BCE), Sculpture, Terracotta, Diameter: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
350-400: Patera from Parabiago. Detail: Aeon, Atlas and Zodiac.Silver with traces of guilding. Second half of the 4th century.Inv. No. A0.9.14264.Milan,Civic Archaelogical Museum.
400-500: Many tour groups have visited the site of Sepphoris 3.5 mi. north northwest of Nazareth and have marveled at the beautiful mosaic floor of the 5th century CE synagogue.
400-800: Susya (Arabic: سوسية, Hebrew: סוּסְיָא) (Susiya, Susia) is an archaeological site in the southern Judaean Mountains of the West Bank that bears the archaeological remains both of a 5th-8th century CE synagogue and of a mosque that replaced it.[1]
400-500: The Zodiac mosaic (Severus Synagogue): One of the most important archaeological findings in the Jewish history. This was a grand synagogue, dated to the Byzantine period (5th C), and named after its builder (Severus), who is mentioned in an inscription in one of its rooms. On its floor is a well preserved colorful mosaic floor, illustrating a Zodiac, inscriptions, and symbols. The photo shows the view of the mosaic floor. In is composed of three panels - two are seen below.
500-599: Naaran (also Na'aran) (Hebrew: נערן) is an ancient Jewish village dating to the 5th and 6th century CE, located in the West Bank. Na'aran Synagogue Zodiac Mosaic Floor 6th Century CE
518-578: Beth Alpha Synagogue. Artist/ Maker: Marianus and his son Hanina (Artisan). Date: 518-527, Justin I, or 567-578, Justin II. Period: Byzantine. Origin: Israel/Eretz Israel | Palaestina Secunda | Beth Alpha
660 BC: Black basalt kudurru (boundary stone): consists of a small stele with rounded top. The Obverse is nearly flat, and the surface of the Reverse has a pronounced curve. The upper part of the Obverse was carved in shallow relief with emblems, to a depth of at least 4 1/2 in. from the top; emblems were also carved on the top of the stele and down the sides to about the same level as those upon the Obverse. Date:660 B.C. Made of Basalt British Museum number: 87220
Astrolabe ~ 10th c. ~ Islamic, Umayyad, Spain ~
699-694 BC: Babylonian ‘kudurru’ (boundary stone) fragment depicting king Ashurnadinshumi Material Basalt Ashmolean Museum Accession No. AN1933.1101
715 BC: Marduk-apla-iddina II (left) as king of Babylon in 715 BC, as depicted on a monument commemorating a royal land grant (kudurru). Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, VA 2663. Reproduced from L. Jakob-Rost et al., Das Vorderasiatische Museum, Mainz 1992, 109.
750-650 BC: Stone tablet. Culture/period: Babylonian Date"750BC-650BC Excavated/Findspot: Borsippa (Iraq, South Iraq, Borsippa) Materials: stone Technique: low relief. British Museum number: 104414
800-900: Sphere of Petosiris. Petosiris was a high priest of Thoth in the 4th century BC. The circle is a divination tool (probably 9th century) where answers to questions are derived by adding the number of the lunar day to the numerological value of the questioner's name in Greek letters then divided by 29. The answer is then read from the diagram.
813-820: "Vat. gr. 1291 dates from AD 813-820 (reign of Pope Leo V). A central emblem figuring Helios in his chariot. The inner circle has 12 small naked female figures, 6 light- and 6 dark-skinned. Outside that are 12 numbers in Greek. Outside that 12 clothed male figures representing the twelve months. Outside that are written the month names in Greek (indicating a specific date in the month) and on the very outside of the figure one may see the emblems of the zodiac signs."
820-1199: c 820-11th century, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea, with 22 constellation figures containing extracts from Hyginus, Astronomica
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