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AncientBlogger @ancientblogger.bsky.social · Jan 28

Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn carries off Kephalos the hunter. Made on Melos in the mid 5th century BC but found in a tomb on Rhodes.
#eos #greekmyth #ancientgreece

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jan 28

Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read:

‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’

‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’

Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Jan 19

A charming little piece for Sunday: a terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely Sunday!

📷 by me

🏺 AncientBlueSky #archaeology

The picture shows a terracotta figure of a standing cat playing a harp-like instrument with its front legs. The lower part of the figurine is broken off.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Jan 22

#ReliefWednesday - Delightful small-scale detail with this depiction of a Circus on a bone 'game counter'. The two conical projections being the metae ('turning posts'): ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman 🏺

Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...

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AncientBlogger @ancientblogger.bsky.social · Jan 23

Aphrodite crowns a herm of Dionysius ( terracotta circa 150-100 BC).
#aphrodite #dionysus #ancientgreece

Aphrodite crowns a herm of Dionysus. Terracotta, circa 150-100 BC.

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Jan 1

The wrath of the grapes: How the #Romans cheated the hangover by eating one of their five a day!
#HappyNewYear #Hangover #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Jan 1

The wrath of the grapes: How the #Romans cheated the hangover by eating one of their five a day!
#HappyNewYear #Hangover #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

bacchusandbeyond.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/t...

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · Dec 30

#MosaicMonday; from the Archaeological Museum of Patras, a mosaic depicting the toilette of Venus. The goddess holds up a mirror reflecting her face as Cupid attends to her. From a villa at Plateia Ipsilon Alonion in #Patras. Second century CE.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · Dec 27

A fishy dish for #FindsFriday.
Often found in funerary contexts, so hypothetically for 'ritual banquets'.
This one, by artist called 'the eyebrow painter', also features lively hornshell + mussel.
Terracotta, Magna Graecia, 310-300BC.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Matera, Basilicata.

Painted terracotta plate with black background and orangey-red sea creatures swimming in a circle: two fish with black/white stripes (bream?) on sides and long fin along their back, plus a hornshell (a long cone shaped shellfish with a scalloped 'mouth' opening), and a mussel. In the centre of the plate is a round depression to hold condiment such as fish sauce for dipping.

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Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com · Dec 23

Minoan mugs that are 3,700 years old, but would sell like hotcakes today too. At the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📸 me
#MuseumMonday #AncientBluesky #skystorians 🗃️

Minoan mugs on glass shelves in a museum.

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Rome and Beyond @romebeyond.bsky.social · Dec 24

Head of Aphrodite, marble. From Velletri, half of the 2nd century CE, on display at the Archaeological Museum
#Rome #archaeology #history
AncientBlueSky
📸 August 2024

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 23

Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas #AncientBluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bod3...

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 23

Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas #AncientBluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bod3...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Dec 23

These #Roman glass spherical bottles would make great #Christmas baubles🎄, but they were used to hold perfume and loose powder. The contents were sealed inside the delicate cosmetic containers and a small knob at the top had to be broken off to remove the oil/powder. 1/2

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The picture shows five spherical bottles made of glass in different colours: red, bue, light blue, yellow. One is made of colourless glass. Each of the bottles is decorated with a spiral thread. With the exception of one vessel, the knobs are broken off.

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 22

Yes — an essential part of Roman life for keeping footwear in pristine condition!

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · Dec 21

#RomanSiteSaturday; the aqueduct of ancient Nemausus, which includes the famous Pont du Gard aqueduct bridge over the Gardon. Numerous other remains can be found along the ~50 kilometer route, though:

www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #France #AncientBlueSky

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 21

The stunning site of #AlbaFucens comes complete with stepping stones, water fountains and bars! What more could you ask for? #RomanSiteSaturday #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · Dec 20

#FrescoFriday - Niche wall painting depicting Thanatos (the personification of death). From the Via Laurentina Necropolis, tomb 9, located outside the city walls of Ostia. Dated to the second half of the 2nd century AD.

Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica.

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Lynn Bridgett 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @northernlass208.bsky.social · Dec 21

Happy Winter Solstice! RIB 1599 altar dedicated to Mithras by Litorius Pacatianus. Found in 1822 at the Mithraeum, Housesteads. Currently on display at the Great North Museum: the Hancock.

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Matthew 🏺 @sumeriansauce.bsky.social · Dec 21

The Roman built Frontinus Gate and main street of Hierapolis, Turkey. Hierapolis is the site of a much earlier Phrygian settlement and later a Greek city. The city was home to the first known water powered saw mill. City was also known for its hot springs and wool production. #RomanSiteSaturday 🏺

The watermill is evidenced by a raised relief on the sarcophagus of a certain Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, a local miller. On the pediment, a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown powering via a gear train, and frame saws cutting rectangular blocks by the way of connecting rods and cranks.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Dec 19

Lovely little Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare 😍

The artisan who made this brooch some 1,900 years ago, gave the hare a cheerful little face! Copper alloy decorated with enamel.

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#Archaeology

Romano-British brooch in the form of a crouching hare, viewed from the side with head to the right. The hare has one long ear, a slightly curved incised mouth, and two curved legs (one back and one front). The brooch is cast from copper alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The body is inlaid with green enamel with four copper-alloy decorative dots in the green enamel. The head is decorated with a circular green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye.

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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 18

Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
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Dr Paula Lock @paulalock.bsky.social · Dec 18

Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Me

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