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Nina Willburger
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Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Nov 9
Hello new followers and welcome! My focus is on #archaeology, you can expect posts from me covering a wide range of topics, e.g. objects, exhibitions, and latest discoveries, primarily from the European Paleolithic to the early medieval period.
I may also share posts about nature and Star Trek.

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A 15,000-year-old painted limestone, from the Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura. The shapes of the dots are symmetrical and executed precisely. The accuracy indicates that the dot rows were painted using a tool or stamp.
On display at our branch museum urmu, Blaubeuren.

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🏺 #archaeology
An irregularly shaped stone with a off-white surface featuring two vertical rows of reddish-brown dots. The stone is displayed in a museum setting.
February 10, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Very pleased to have @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research on Geoffrey of Monmouth featured in the new TV series *Lost Grail* with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

See it on Sky History or stream the series on NOW TV

www.history.co.uk/shows/lost-grail-with-alice-roberts

📷 © 9 of Cups Productions
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Challenge accepted 😅
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Brilliant 😄
Meme-style image showing a homemade birdhouse built entirely from stacked wine corks, with a small round entrance hole in the middle and a pitched cork roof, sitting on a wooden table outdoors; above the photo a bold black text: “By drinking 130 bottles of wine you could save a bird.”
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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An early 15th century memorial brass effigy of Lady Alice, wife of Sir Ralph Shelton, at St. Mary’s Church in Great Snoring, Norfolk. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #GreatSnoring #Norfolk
February 9, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Ces tablettes antiques donnent un aperçu de la vie au sein de l’armée romaine. #Archéologie
➡️ www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/arc...
Photo d'archéologues effectuant des fouilles sur le site de Vindolanda (Angleterre).
February 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Sur les traces de l'escalier perdu du château d'Amboise. #Archéologie
www.culture.gouv.fr/regions/drac...
Sur les traces de l'escalier perdu du château d'Amboise | Ministère de la Culture
Au pied du logis royal du château d'Amboise, propriété de la fondation Saint-Louis en Indre-et-Loire, des archéologues mènent depuis janvier une fouille pour retrouver les vestiges d'un escalier monum...
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February 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Brilliant 😄
Meme-style image showing a homemade birdhouse built entirely from stacked wine corks, with a small round entrance hole in the middle and a pitched cork roof, sitting on a wooden table outdoors; above the photo a bold black text: “By drinking 130 bottles of wine you could save a bird.”
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.

Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🐩

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The photo shows a black and white mosaic depicting a lying large guard dog chained to a double-winged door.
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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2nd century mosaic from Roman St. Albans (Verulamium) depicting Oceanus or Cernunnos. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations, and is on display at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #VerulamiumMuseum
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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“Art” floor mosaic
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London

By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.

#MosaicMonday
A sculptor at work.
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
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#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
A naive representation of an owl on a small flat slate sheet. The body is depicted in alternating white and dark triangles. Crucially, this owl is not playing American Football.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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For today's #MosaicMonday a #Roman guard #dog chained to the door, a detail from a mosaic at the entrance of the House of Paquius Proculus in #Pompeii.
Dating 1st century AD.

Cave canem - Beware of the dog 🐶🐕🦮🐕‍🦺🐩

📷me
🏺 #archaeology
The photo shows a black and white mosaic depicting a lying large guard dog chained to a double-winged door.
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

📷Louvre, Paris
A Greek vessel with an armed owl, wearing helmet, shield, and a lance.
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
A beautifully carved owl from ancient Egypt. It is the hieroglyph for the letter "M". It is unpainted limestone.
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!

Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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#Archaeology
My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’. Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Looking back on an interesting Steentijddag/Stone Age Day yesterday @rmoudheden.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Rothbury Cross c. 800 CE
Northumberland

Part of the shaft section of the Anglo Saxon cross. On one face a haloed Christ holds a book.

Now Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle

#SundayStonework
#SaxonSunday
A haloed Christ holds a book.
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Cullerlie stone circle, near Echt in Aberdeenshire. Within the Bronze Age circle are eight small ring cairns which contained cremated remains. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Cullerlie #Prehistory #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology
February 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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A square-headed Anglo-Saxon brooch from Warwickshire. Dating to the 6th century, the brooch is now on display at the Ad Gefrin Anglo-Saxon Museum at Wooler in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #AdGerfin
February 8, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Absolutely 🦉🗡
February 8, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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For #SuperbOwlSunday a gorgeous armed #owl, depicted on a Greek vessel, dating 5th century BC.

📷Louvre, Paris
A Greek vessel with an armed owl, wearing helmet, shield, and a lance.
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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me before coffee
February 7, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Timeline cleanse!

A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉

The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.

On display at Antikensammlung München

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A red-figure lekythos featuring a stylized owl perched on olive branches on a glossy black body, with reserved red-orange clay for the figure and fine painted details; narrow shouldered form with flaring mouth and footed base, shown on a white stand against a plain background.
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.

This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.

Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!

The Met. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows two Roman gold-band mosaic glass bottles on display at the Met Museum. Made of mosaic patterned translucent cobalt blue, turquoise green, and opaque white glass, together with gold leaf encased in colourless glass. Both bottles have round bodies, flat bases, and cyclindrical necks with horizontal everted rims. The larger bottle on the left is 10.5 cm tall, the smaller bottle on the right is 4.8 cm tall. They are displayed on a clear glass shelf against a light beige background. According to the museum label: “Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes were made in this way, and some of the most common are small globular or carinated bottles such as these. They were presumably used to store expensive cosmetics and perfumes”.
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM