alas, the images are Getty, so they can't be posted.
Located southwest of Bonn, Zülpich was known in Roman times as Tolbiacum, an important way station on the road between Trier and Cologne. Excavations in the area in service of a new sewer line revealed the grave last September along the ancient Agrippa Street.
Avon calling.
How interesting it would be to see the colors of the makeup palette. Some enterprising cosmetic company could try to replicate them for the next season’s release.
Always love the finds that humanizes the people they uncover.
“If every woman got out of bed tomorrow and liked what she saw in the mirror, the world economy would collapse within 30 days.”
-Estee Lauder
I thought Romans largely cremated their dead. It would have been helpful had they provided an approximate date for the burial. Maybe she was from a later or earlier era I am most familiar with, the 100 years where the republic sank and the empire began.
Perhaps she was a well-placed call girl of her time with the tools of her trade.
