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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 16h

#FrescoFriday offers us this #portrait of a #youth in a #tondo, once in #Herculaneum and now in #Naples. The #MANN houses many such portraits, but they often seem generic "types" without identifying determiners, being instead aspirational indicators of a desired social status. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 15h

Hundreds of Celtic gold and silver coins, as well as brooches, jewelry, and a horse figurine, have been discovered in northern Bohemia, at a location kept secret to prevent looting.
Dated from the 6th to the 1st century B.C., these objects offer a rare glimpse into the Celtic world in Central Europe

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/hundreds-of-ancient-gold-and-silver-coins-from-possible-celtic-market-found-in-czech-republic

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20h

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#FrescoFriday

Again from an old photo dump at #Herculaneum. Here some close up detail of the #painting from a wall fresco.
📸 My own.

#Archaeology #History #art

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#FrescoFriday

Two frescos from a wealthy town house in Herculaneum, portraying images of fruit.

📸 My own.

#Archaeology #History #Art
#AncientBlueSky🏺

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic 😍

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#FindsFriday
Papyrus with lists of #Roman centurions stationed in #Egypt have found by Polish archaeologists in Berenike. These documents were found along with, among other things, pottery from Italy, Roman coins, in what may be the remains of a centurion’s office. #Archaeology #History

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

Glasswares ,1st century. #Roman painted pitcher showing gladiatorial scenes.
Found in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. 👀
#Glass #Art #History #artwork
#FindsFriday

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Dolores DEI @apnudd.bsky.social · 3d

Eleanor of Aquitaine was imprisoned here for a time!

Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#RomanFortThursday

Lauriacum was an important legionary #Roman town on the Danube Limes in #Austria.Where a Roman settlement was located at a ford over the Enns, the Legio II Italica built a legion camp around 200AD, after the abandonment of an older site in Albing,
#Archaeology

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 1d

#RomanFortThursday

Lauriacum was an important legionary #Roman town on the Danube Limes in #Austria.Where a Roman settlement was located at a ford over the Enns, the Legio II Italica built a legion camp around 200AD, after the abandonment of an older site in Albing,
#Archaeology

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Daisy @daisyshylass.bsky.social · 3d

How wonderful! 🤩

Have you read "Sarum" by Edward Rutherfurd? It's a fantastic novel tracing Sarum and its development (including Stonehenge), and later Salisbury, through the eyes of various families throughout the centuries. My favourite is "London", but both are unmissable. 🌟

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PooterheadPharm @pooterheadpharms.bsky.social · 3d

Man, when I build a fort, I want it to LOOK like a fort 3000 years later.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

No, I haven't it sounds fab.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday
Old Sarum was an Iron Age #Hillfort constructed around 400 BC during the Iron Age by creating enormous banks and ditches surrounding the hill.

The site was then used by the #Romans, who called it Sorviodunum

#Archaeology

📷 (Historic England Photo Library

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 3d

#HillfortsWednesday

Monkodonja/Moncodogno is a hill fort occupied about 1800–1200 BC during the Bronze Age,located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.

#Archaeology #History #Croatia

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 3d

Marble bust of Antinous depicted as Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head.
The bust, found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, was part of Marquis Giampietro Campana's collection and was regarded as one of his finest sculptures. Emperor Alexander II of Russia bought it in 1861 for the Hermitage.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#EpigraphyTuesday

Dedication to Serapis, Isis, the Nile and the Theoi Euergetai (Benefactor Gods), Ptolemy III and Berenice II. From #Egypt. #History #Archaeology

[To Sarapidi Isis Neilo / And to King Ptolemy / And to Queen Berenice / Benefactor of the Gods / Kallikrates, son of Antipatros]

1929: given to Bibliothèque nationale de France by Paul Perdrizet

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#TombTuesday

Arthur's Stone, on the Gower peninsula.

The massive stone that caps this chamber was set atop several smaller uprights in an impressive feat of Stone Age engineering.

#Archaeology #History #Wales

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#TombTuesday

Arthur's Stone, on the Gower peninsula.

The massive stone that caps this chamber was set atop several smaller uprights in an impressive feat of Stone Age engineering.

#Archaeology #History #Wales

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#EpigraphyTuesday

Dedication to Serapis, Isis, the Nile and the Theoi Euergetai (Benefactor Gods), Ptolemy III and Berenice II. From #Egypt. #History #Archaeology

[To Sarapidi Isis Neilo / And to King Ptolemy / And to Queen Berenice / Benefactor of the Gods / Kallikrates, son of Antipatros]

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 4d

Terrible news from Wales 😓

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

Jeez ! 😩

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