The pediment from the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath is one of the best-known objects from Roman Britain. It originally looked down on people entering the temple precinct from a height of 12 metres.
It is all that remains of a full-size, gilt bronze statue of the goddess Sulis Minerva, and stood in the temple in the heart of Roman Bath. Gilded bronze statues are extremely rare in Roman ...
Eitan Klein, from the Theft Prevention unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said the teen’s guess was close to reality, as the ring depicted Minerva, Rome’s equivalent of the Greek ...