Simon Bralee
@simonbralee.com
Advocate for arts and humanities. I believe in the importance of sharing the stories of research to create impact outside of universities. Comms professional and history postgrad researching Anubis in the Roman World. 🏛️🐍
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12 powerful, challenging, painful and joyous artworks responding to UCL’s history of eugenics at the university’s Stratford site, including Dog Whistle, a video installation by Veronica McKenzie partly inspired by Galton’s trip to Egypt. I recommend a visit
#Egyptology www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/pub...
#Egyptology www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/pub...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
12 powerful, challenging, painful and joyous artworks responding to UCL’s history of eugenics at the university’s Stratford site, including Dog Whistle, a video installation by Veronica McKenzie partly inspired by Galton’s trip to Egypt. I recommend a visit
#Egyptology www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/pub...
#Egyptology www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/pub...
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#MosaicMonday
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#MosaicMonday
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
Fragment of a floor mosaic depicting a woman with a sistrum, probably priestess of Isis cult -Late #Roman period, 4th century AD - from a domus in #Carthage, #Tunisia - now in the British Museum.
#History #art #Archaeology
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My timeline is full of images without alt text, mostly archaeological. What's going on? Is it people posting on the weekend who aren't thinking about accessibility because it's the weekend? Inclusion isn't just for professional life. Get it together folks! Use the setting, think of other people.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My timeline is full of images without alt text, mostly archaeological. What's going on? Is it people posting on the weekend who aren't thinking about accessibility because it's the weekend? Inclusion isn't just for professional life. Get it together folks! Use the setting, think of other people.
My favourite detail of this fresco of Isis (and Harpocrates) is the crocodile at the bottom, just in case we missed where this scene was set #Egyptology
#FrescoFriday - Discovered November 1765: Isis welcomes Io at Canopus, complete with snakes and sistra-shaking. From the Ekklesiasterion in the Temple of Isis, Pompeii (VIII.7.28). #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9558). Link - mann-napoli.it/en/tempio-di...
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9558). Link - mann-napoli.it/en/tempio-di...
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My favourite detail of this fresco of Isis (and Harpocrates) is the crocodile at the bottom, just in case we missed where this scene was set #Egyptology
Bronze figurine of the goddess Venus from St Albans, holding an apple to entice Paris. Likely from a Roman period domestic shrine in the town. Verulamium Museum 🏺 #AncientBluesky
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bronze figurine of the goddess Venus from St Albans, holding an apple to entice Paris. Likely from a Roman period domestic shrine in the town. Verulamium Museum 🏺 #AncientBluesky
Two jackals on a stele, dedicated to the cult of the Emperor Nero, showing a combination of Egyptian iconography and a Greek inscription. From Asyut (Greek - Lycopolis, Wolf city), home to a major temple dedicated to Wepwawet, a canine god. 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Two jackals on a stele, dedicated to the cult of the Emperor Nero, showing a combination of Egyptian iconography and a Greek inscription. From Asyut (Greek - Lycopolis, Wolf city), home to a major temple dedicated to Wepwawet, a canine god. 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
To be fair, this is a pretty cool top. I realise people are doing their job, but does seem a bit silly. Either way, it’s nice to see Hellebore get free publicity ahead of the holiday season.
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
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November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
To be fair, this is a pretty cool top. I realise people are doing their job, but does seem a bit silly. Either way, it’s nice to see Hellebore get free publicity ahead of the holiday season.
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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
Osiris Ptah Sokar statuette giving Monday morning vibes (Made in Ancient Egypt, Fitzwilliam)
🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Osiris Ptah Sokar statuette giving Monday morning vibes (Made in Ancient Egypt, Fitzwilliam)
🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky
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A review of the Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum #Egyptology
Made in Ancient Egypt
A review of the new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A review of the Made in Ancient Egypt exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum #Egyptology
This is a serious breach from the Culture Secretary showing a complete lack of ethical rigour. Snd does not look good for Keir Starmer to try and lessen it by saying it “was not entirely up to the standard expected”
Nandy breached code over appointment of donor to lead football regulator
Culture secretary ‘deeply regrets error’ after inquiry finds failures in declaring past donations by watchdog nominee
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November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is a serious breach from the Culture Secretary showing a complete lack of ethical rigour. Snd does not look good for Keir Starmer to try and lessen it by saying it “was not entirely up to the standard expected”
Pilgrim badge of St Leonard, looking like a medieval yoda
🏛️ Kings Chapel Museum, Cambridge
🏛️ Kings Chapel Museum, Cambridge
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Pilgrim badge of St Leonard, looking like a medieval yoda
🏛️ Kings Chapel Museum, Cambridge
🏛️ Kings Chapel Museum, Cambridge
Londoners have always been grumpy as can been proved by this fossil of brychaetus muelleri found in London Clay (Island of Sheppey, so technically not London). They were large fish with armour-covered bodies and sharp teeth, 50-55 million years ago.
🏛️Sedgwick Museum.
🏛️Sedgwick Museum.
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Londoners have always been grumpy as can been proved by this fossil of brychaetus muelleri found in London Clay (Island of Sheppey, so technically not London). They were large fish with armour-covered bodies and sharp teeth, 50-55 million years ago.
🏛️Sedgwick Museum.
🏛️Sedgwick Museum.
Classical bust (of Antoninus Pius?) covered in shells in the window of Sinai & Sons, Kensington Church Street 🏺 #AncientBluesky
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Classical bust (of Antoninus Pius?) covered in shells in the window of Sinai & Sons, Kensington Church Street 🏺 #AncientBluesky
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So we enter November, aka Anubis month. This image from a calendar mosaic from Thysdrus (El-Jem, Tunisia) depicts a festival commemorating the death of Osiris, which was celebrated all over the Roman Empire (Sousse Archaeological Museum, © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons) 🏺 #AncientBluesky
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
So we enter November, aka Anubis month. This image from a calendar mosaic from Thysdrus (El-Jem, Tunisia) depicts a festival commemorating the death of Osiris, which was celebrated all over the Roman Empire (Sousse Archaeological Museum, © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons) 🏺 #AncientBluesky
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November
Englishmen vs Frenchmen
Thomas Rowlandson 1788
Royal Collections Trust
Englishmen vs Frenchmen
Thomas Rowlandson 1788
Royal Collections Trust
November 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
November
Englishmen vs Frenchmen
Thomas Rowlandson 1788
Royal Collections Trust
Englishmen vs Frenchmen
Thomas Rowlandson 1788
Royal Collections Trust
When they re-installed it, they joked the Glass Armonica would sound again only when America was in peril. Recently a strange, high pitched, eldritch noise has been heard coming from the room. Yet when the curators go up to investigate no one is there and the instrument is closed up.
A replica of Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Armonica in his London home, now a museum. He said this musical instrument was the invention that gave him the most joy. It was quite the hit in Europe: Mozart composed for it, and Beethoven, Donizetti and Saint-Saëns all used it in pieces.
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
When they re-installed it, they joked the Glass Armonica would sound again only when America was in peril. Recently a strange, high pitched, eldritch noise has been heard coming from the room. Yet when the curators go up to investigate no one is there and the instrument is closed up.
A replica of Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Armonica in his London home, now a museum. He said this musical instrument was the invention that gave him the most joy. It was quite the hit in Europe: Mozart composed for it, and Beethoven, Donizetti and Saint-Saëns all used it in pieces.
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A replica of Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Armonica in his London home, now a museum. He said this musical instrument was the invention that gave him the most joy. It was quite the hit in Europe: Mozart composed for it, and Beethoven, Donizetti and Saint-Saëns all used it in pieces.
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This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/
Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/
Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
📸 me
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Here’s a beautiful little monkey from the tomb of Maya and Merry from Saqqara. #Egyptology #Archaeology
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Here’s a beautiful little monkey from the tomb of Maya and Merry from Saqqara. #Egyptology #Archaeology
A friend sent me this: NYT Connections trying to build bridges after Victoria Coren-Mitchell insulted it last week. #OnlyConnect
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A friend sent me this: NYT Connections trying to build bridges after Victoria Coren-Mitchell insulted it last week. #OnlyConnect
Loving this version of The Hymn to Inanna by Enheduanna, translated into Scots by Robert Crawford. Available in most recent issue of the LRB.
“I’ve sang yir halie sang.
Goddess, fit for aa airts, it’s blythe tae hymn ye,
Kind, bricht, guid woman, aa yir airts I’ve sang!”
🏺 #AncientBluesky
“I’ve sang yir halie sang.
Goddess, fit for aa airts, it’s blythe tae hymn ye,
Kind, bricht, guid woman, aa yir airts I’ve sang!”
🏺 #AncientBluesky
Robert Crawford · Poem: ‘Enheduanna’s Song’
www.lrb.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Loving this version of The Hymn to Inanna by Enheduanna, translated into Scots by Robert Crawford. Available in most recent issue of the LRB.
“I’ve sang yir halie sang.
Goddess, fit for aa airts, it’s blythe tae hymn ye,
Kind, bricht, guid woman, aa yir airts I’ve sang!”
🏺 #AncientBluesky
“I’ve sang yir halie sang.
Goddess, fit for aa airts, it’s blythe tae hymn ye,
Kind, bricht, guid woman, aa yir airts I’ve sang!”
🏺 #AncientBluesky
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Bronze bust of #Isis unearthed at #Türkiye 's Satala highlights religious diversity in #Roman stronghold
#archaeology #Egyptology
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/bron...
#archaeology #Egyptology
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/bron...
Bronze bust of Isis unearthed at Türkiye's Satala highlights religious diversity in Roman stronghold - Türkiye Today
A 20 cm bronze Isis bust found in Satala’s necropolis points to the rich religious diversity of Roman legions; the restored piece will go on display in Gumushane
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October 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Bronze bust of #Isis unearthed at #Türkiye 's Satala highlights religious diversity in #Roman stronghold
#archaeology #Egyptology
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/bron...
#archaeology #Egyptology
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/bron...