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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 17

I posted these once on here too. They’re Romano-Egyptian. Same kind of deal, stitched leather with bright colours.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 17

That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 16

Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?

Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.

#MosaicMonday

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 16

Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?

Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.

#MosaicMonday

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 16

Hard to say. Both are at the British Musuem and I think they give a wide range of dates. From memory, the shield is dated from c350-50BC (or similar).

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 14

The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.

🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 14

The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.

🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 14

Waterloo to Battersea by river is probably no more than 3-4 miles.

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Jun 14

Enjoying the lugubrious (or coy?) expression of the donkey being fed by a boy from a basket in this Byzantine-era mosaic of daily life, from the Great Palace of Constantinople (5th century onwards, Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul)

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 13

On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.

🏛️BM
📷 mine

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 13

On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.

🏛️BM
📷 mine

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 12

An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.

You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.

🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 12

In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.

🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 12

An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.

You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.

🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 12

In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.

🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 11

A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair

🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · Jun 11

A digital reconstruction of an #IronAge hillfort of White Caterthurn, Angus, #Scotland, has been created by a photographer during his during PhD research.

Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Jun 11

A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair

🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · Apr 18

#FrescoFriday and here’s some beautiful birds from Pompeii.

📷 mine

🏺 #AncientBlueSky