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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

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A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4d

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum

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The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 4d

New post this week, part three on ancient Kos! This week continues through the reconstructed Casa Romana before detailing the adjacent remnants of the southern area of the agora.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 4d

Cirencester was the Roman Corinium, second only to London in size with 10,000 inhabitants. Its amphitheatre was one of the largest in Britain. It was built in the early 2nd century and it could hold c. 8,000 spectators. It was fortified against Saxon invaders. #RomanSiteSaturday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4d

A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower

Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today

📷 Oct 2025

#RomanSiteSaturday

Lower courses of stone built wall with foundations of projecting tower on the right and internal square tower to the left. Surrounded by grass. Trees in the background

Squared facing stones of a Roman wall with rubble core exposed. Grass in foreground, trees and sky behind

Interpretation board set up to explain the Roman walls of Cirencester

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 4d

The Roman camp of Raedykes near Stonehaven is one of the best preserved in Scotland. It covers around 38 hectares and has an irregular outline. Probably built in the late 1st century, by the 1700s it was being associated with the elusive site of the battle of Mons Graupius. #RomanSiteSaturday

The ditch of the Roman camp of Raedykes in north east Scotland

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 4d

For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's the remains of the Basilica of the Five Martyrs in Salona, Croatia

It was built in the 4th century AD above the graves of five priests killed in Diocletian's persecution of the Christians

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanempire #photooftheday🏺

Roman ruins in a rectangular open plan with a few stumps of columns remaining on either side and grass covering flagstones on the floor. Behind are a row of trees and in the distance some rugged mountains

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 4d

#RomanSiteSaturday

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and #Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the #Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day #Syria.

#Archaeology #History

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Dura-Europos was founded
around 300 BC by Seleucus
I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great. In 113 BC, Parthians conquered the city, and held it, with one brief Roman intermission (114 AD), until 165 AD.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 4d

#RomanSiteSaturday & Serdica: what is now Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬
contains a lot of Roman remains including this early c4 church, built in the ruins of what was formerly a baths

See more of Sofia in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EptH...

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Rome and Beyond @romebeyond.bsky.social · 4d

#RomanSiteSaturday The Vicus Caprarius archaeological site, known as the “City of Water,” is an underground complex in #Rome located near the Trevi Fountain. An insula, a domus and medieval dwellings coexist in this space
More here: romeandbeyond.altervista.org/vicus-caprar...
#archaeology #history

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 4d

The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester (Corinium). Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 17d

New post this week, part two on ancient Kos! This week's post details the large Western Archaeological Zone with its mosaics and frescos as well as the city's 1st-2nd century CE odeon.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 23d

#MosaicMonday From last week's post on ancient Kos, a 2nd-3rd century CE mosaic depicting Asclepius arriving on Kos. He is greeted by a Koan as Hippocrates sits nearby. Archaeological Museum of Kos.

More here:
www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24d

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me

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Two turquoise-blue hippopotamus figurines, one larger with black plant motifs and an open mouth, the smaller one lying on its side.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 25d

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC.
To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone.

Bernisches Historisches Museum.

🏺 #archaeology

A row of colorful ancient glass bracelets in blue, yellow, green, and brown, each with different patterns, displayed against a black background.

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 25d

#RomanSiteSaturday The great baths of Mactaris, a old Phoenician town in Tunisia that eventually became a Roman colony

These baths are some of the best preserved in all of North Africa. Walls rise to 15m and #mosaics still line the floors!

📸 Mine

#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

Grand Roman ruins with a series of arches still standing, above a wide mosaic floor with a pattern of concentric circles, under a cloudy sky

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 25d

It's #RomanSiteSaturday & we've had a pretty great summer of getting around Roman Britian, with that in mind - think it might be time for a bit of a thread-of-threads 🧵👇

🏺AncientBluesky

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · 24d

New post last week on the ancient city of Kos! The first in a five part series explores the history, museum, and sites in the northwest of the city.

Bonus cat for #Caturday in picture 4.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 25

For #MosaicMonday the mosaic in the so-called winter triclinium of the #Roman villa at Antandros. A kantharos and birds are depicted in the centre of the mosaic. The villa dates back to the 4th c. AD. Antandros is located in the ancient Troas region,... 🧵 1/2

🏺 #archaeology

A photograph of an room featuring partially preserved stone walls decorated with faded red,yellow, and white frescoes. The floor is covered with an elaborate mosaic floor with birds and a kantharos, a vessel with two handles, in the centre of a circle of alternating triangles in red, blue, white and ochre, creating an optical illusion of continuous motion, a kind of swirl, surrounded by ornate borders including wave designs.
The setting appears to be an archaeological site, with exposed remnants of the original structure visible around the mosaic floor.

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LadyKivingston @lupalionessa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Attention #ClassicsBlueSky, #AncientBlueSky, or anyone who just loves myth and history:

What kind of stickers or shirt designs would you want? I’m itching to make some fun designs but am having a bit of art block!

Any suggestions would be considered and any help appreciated!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 23

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2

📷 Rami Rizk

🏺 #archaeology

Close-up aerial view of the so-called Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek, Lebanon, showing its massive colonnade with well-preserved Corinthian columns, surrounding ruins with fallen stones and walls, and green fields in the background.

Aerial view of the ancient Roman temple complex of Baalbek in Lebanon, showing the massive so-called Temple of Bacchus with its well-preserved colonnade, the remains of the Temple of Jupiter with scattered giant stone blocks, and surrounding ruined walls and courtyards. The site is set within a green landscape with trees, fields, and modern houses in the background under warm sunlight.

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · Aug 23

#OnThisDay - 23 August - in AD 93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola died in his fifty-fourth year: "though snatched away in the mid-career of his prime, he lived to a ripe old age measured by renown" (Tacitus, Agricola 44.3). #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RIB 2.3.2434.1 [ILS 8704a]; Grosvenor Museum, Chester

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · Aug 23

New post this week, the second and final part on Colonia Caesar Augusta (modern Zaragoza). Included this week, parts of the form, baths, sewers, and the city fortification walls.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Aug 17

For #ancientsitesunday this stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of #Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water.

Photo: Valentino Ligori

#archaeology 🏺

Roman aqueduct with large stone arches casting long shadows across a grassy field. The structure runs diagonally through the landscape, with rows of trees and open green spaces stretching into the distance under a partly cloudy sky.

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RoaminTheEmpire @roamintheempire.bsky.social · Aug 16

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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