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Website title: Roman Times

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by Mary Harrsch © 2026

Among the Dallas Museum of Art's most striking objects that I photographed there is a small bronze lamp holder depicting Eros as an ephebe attributed to a Greek workshop, perhaps in the eastern Mediterranean, dating to the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE. Depicted as a winged youth leaning dynamically forward in flight, the figure once functioned a...

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by Mary Harrsch © 2026

For some strange reason I have always been particularly drawn to metalwork and found this beautifully decorated Corinithin-style Etruscan helmet incised with images of boars really spectacular when I photographed it at the Dallas Art Museum.

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 by Mary Harrsch © 2026

Another beautiful piece I photographed at the Dallas Art Museum includes this Roman marble portrait of a veiled woman (Dallas Museum of Art, 1973.11), dated to the mid-2nd century CE. She exemplifies a central paradox of Roman sculptural production: the use of mass-produced, standardized body types to represent elite individual identity. This s...

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by Mary Harrsch, © 2026


Photographed at the Dallas Museum of Art (Accession No. 1995.26), this elegant gold necklace illustrates the sophisticated jewelry traditions that flourished in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire during the 2nd and early 3rd centuries CE. The museum attributes the piece to Nabataea, the former kingdom centered on Petra that was incorporat...

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by Mary Harrsch © 2026

This is one of the finest surviving examples of a Greek kerykeion — the iconic staff of Hermes, messenger of the Olympians and guide of souls between the worlds of the living and the dead that I photographed at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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