“...during his reign between 117 and 138 CE, has proven to be a trove of antiques.”
I wonder what the cut-off date is for calling something an antique vs. an antiquity?
Antique is sometimes/often anything no longer available that's over 25 years old. Antiquities are *also* antiques, because, well, once an antique, always an antique.
Y'know, I think I graduated with Ann... later ran into her on Antigua... she had rented a VW Tiguan...I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
- "Ozymandias", Percy Bysshe Shelley