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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 110 Roman artefacts from Italy and provinces of the Roman Empire. These date from 1 to 500. This collection holds items from Spain that include jars, amphorae, a marble sarcophagus and a gravestone. It also has major fragments of a 3rd-century wooden pumping wheel from the copper mines at Tharsis, rare survivals of Roman mining technology. From Greece there is a large marble gravestone, inscribed with a poignant account of a young couple’s death and their orphaned child. From Syria there are seven glass vessels and a 3rd century marble head of woman from the city of Palmyra. Roman Britain is represented by domestic pottery, bronze fittings and a patera (libation dish), and there is a bronze figurine of Hercules from Gaul. Other items include Roman marble copies of Greek sculpture, a Roman mosaic fragment, a Roman marble oscillum (figurative offering) and a further 62 Roman glass vessels. The collection also includes the Warwick Vase, an 18th century restoration of a 2nd century monumental marble krater (vase for mixing wine and water) from the gardens of the villa of Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli, Italy. At its greatest extent the Roman Empire, which succeeded the Roman Republic, encompassed most of Europe, coastal northern Africa, the Black Sea, Asia Minor and much of the Levant.
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