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The menu of a modest Roman meal in an epigram by Martial

What the Romans wore, how they furnished their houses and what they talked about, we can picture quite well; but what an ordinary Roman dinner looked like came as a revelation to me personally. In one epigram Martial lists the dainties prepared for his table, inviting a friend to a

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All that this splendour lacks is Jared Leto and Perseus in a Phrygian cap with the head of Medusa

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Jennifer Lopez and the lid of an alabaster jar in the form of a royal woman's head in a Nubian-style wig, reign of Akhenaten, 1340 BC, Metropolitan Museum

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Mr Rodriguez and Princess Nefertiabet, 2590 BC, the Louvre

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Cara Delevingne and Tutankhamun on the Throne, 1323 BC, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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Emily Blunt and a Golden Crown of the Ptolemaic Era, 2nd Century BC, from the Brooklyn Museum

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Lupita Nyong'o and Predynastic Egyptian Combs of 3800 BC, with a Ceramic Dress of 2550 BC from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Ryan Murphy and the Golden Cylindrical Amulet of 1800 BC from the British Museum

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Salma Hayek and a Portrait from a Romano-Egyptian Mummy of the 1st Century AD in the Metropolitan Museum

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Ezra Miller and the Terracotta Amulet with the Eye of Horus

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Kim Kardashian and the Predynastic Female Figure of 3500 BC from the Brooklyn Museum

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