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Fragmento de cabeza de toro, parte de decoración en un edificio del Foro Romano de Augusta Emerita.
Siglo I-II
🏛️ Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz 🇪🇦 España.
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
Fragmento de cabeza de toro, parte de decoración en un edificio del Foro Romano de Augusta Emerita. Siglo I-II 🏛️ Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Badajoz 🇪🇦 España. 📷 A. M.
January 14, 2026 at 9:39 AM
ideasroadshow.bsky.social
👣 Love this Bowl with Human Feet which is almost 6,000 years old! Egypt, Nile clay, ca. 3700–3450 B.C.

The bowl which has a beautiful polished surface is very similar in form to the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "to bring."

🏛️ Met

🏺 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #ancientbluesky #archaeology #Egypt
Bowl with Human Feet. This simple, round bowl, tipped slightly forward as if to offer its contents, has two such feet solidly attached to its underside
January 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
romanpiso.bsky.social
This paper answers a question asked by historians for hundreds of years; who emperor Pertinax' mother was. And, finding that out also answers several other questions. Spoiler: Pertinax & Marcus Aurelius had the same mother, but different fathers. #AncientBlueSky

www.academia.edu/32460979/Fam...
Family And Ancestry Of Emperor Pertinax.pdf
So many people who have either wondered about the Roman emperors or who have tried to research them, have been at a great loss as to where to find out anything much about a lot of the emperors. Now, I...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
romanpiso.bsky.social
This paper has the latest info on just who the procurators of Judea actually were. Why would their actual identities have been hidden? Read it & learn a great deal. #Judaea #JewSky #History #AncientBlueSky #RomanEmpire #Jerusalem

The Procurators Of Judea Revealed
www.academia.edu/119567264/Th...
The Procurators Of Judea Revealed
This paper comprises a numbered, chronological list of the Roman installed procurators of Judea, from 37 BCE until the Jewish Diaspora of 135 CE. What is different about this list is that making use o...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
romanpiso.bsky.social
#Discover #AncientBlueSky

Arrius Calpurnius Piso was the main author of the gospels & the main creator of Christianity. The Jews witnessed it & the Pharisees were writing in the Talmud what they knew about the creation of Christianity; including who did it & why.

www.academia.edu/10920856/Arr...
Arrius Calpurnius Piso (aka The NT Jesus) In The Talmud
A paper using information from the Jewish Proof Texts to expose the creation of Christianity by royal Roman, Arrius C. Piso and his family. Also see our paper, 'Pliny The Younger In The Talmud&#39...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:55 AM
gladiushispania.bsky.social
#Buenasnoches
Teatro romano de Acinipo, Ronda, Málaga 🇪🇦 España.
Construido posiblemente a mitad del s. I a.C.
Es uno de los más antiguos y singulares de la antigua Hispania romana.
#Hispania #Roma #RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
Teatro romano de Acinipo, Ronda, Málaga 🇪🇦 España. Construido posiblemente a mitad del s. I a.C. Es uno de los más antiguos y singulares de la antigua Hispania romana. 📷 A. M.
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
hellenicsociety.bsky.social
'Significant New Archaeological Findings in Tenea, Greece'

#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Significant New Archaeological Findings in Tenea, Greece
ATHENS – The Greek Ministry of Culture on January 9 announced the results of the systematic excavation of ancient Tenea, which was completed in October 2025. According to the announcement by the…
www.thenationalherald.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
hellenicsociety.bsky.social
'Rare 'Smiling Medusa' Unearthed in Ancient City Founded by Greek Queen Amastris'

greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/r...

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January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
mumblerjamie.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday from Narbonne with a copy of an altar from 26-25BC, dedciated to Augustan Peace by a private indvidual, T. Domitius Romulus.

PACI AVG

T DOMITIVS ROMVLVS / VOTVM POSVIT QVOD / FIDE(I)COMMISSVM PHOEBVM LBERV(M)... / RECEPIT

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January 13, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Great summary of past and present study of the Herculaneum papyri from Richard Janko. #ancientbluesky youtu.be/rmXM6qh18B0?...
Reading the Ancient Library from Herculaneum with Digital Unrolling - Richard Janko
YouTube video by Hellenic Society
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January 12, 2026 at 7:58 PM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
"The team "struck gold" - discovering the footprint of a 572 sq m Roman villa surrounded by fortifications. "It's around 43m (141ft) long and looks to have six main rooms [to the front] with two corridors leading to eight rooms at the rear."
—BBCNewsWales #AncientBluesky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
www.bbc.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday brings us to #Roman #Carthage in 375 CE, to a well-appointed #domus with a floor #mosaic showing the #seasons and #months. This fragment now in the #BritishMuseum shows #November as a priestess of #Isis, with a #sistrum in her hand. See the ALT text for why. #AncientBluesky 🏺
FLOOR MOSAIC OF THE MONTHS, FRAGMENT WITH NOVEMBER AS ISIS, 375 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This fragment was part of a large floor mosaic depicting the months and seasons, from a wealthy domus in Carthage 2.0, the Roman version, which was the main city of Roman North Africa. The female figure represents November, which we know because she is holding a sistrum, a kind of rattle used in Isaic ceremonies. The main festival for Roman worshippers of Isis was the Isia, which occupied the last days of October and the first day of November. It was a long celebration that may have influenced the Christian feast of Easter: the first days were full of wailing and mourning for the death of Osiris, who had died at the hand of the evil god Set. The body of Osiris was cut into pieces and scattered across Egypt. Isis set out to gather them and reassemble her husband, and November 1 was the Heuresis or "finding", when Osiris returned to life and all was joyous. November 3 was the Hilaria or day of joy.
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
antrelclaottawa.bsky.social
The "Pompeii of Port Talbot" discovered in South Wales?
#AncientHistory #Archaeology #RomanBritain #RomanWales #AncientRome #AncientBluesky
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
ullamr.bsky.social
Interesting @bsrome.bsky.social event in London on Monday January 19 at 6pm. #Archaeology #History #AncientBluesky⚱️🦋 ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Myth, History and Archaeology: Peter Wiseman in conversation with Christopher Smith and Liv Yarrow
ics.sas.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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itaque nulla alia in civitate, nisi in qua populi potestas summa est, ullum domicilium libertas habet; qua quidem certe nihil potest esse dulcius, et quae, si aequa non est, ne libertas quidem est.

(Cic. Rep. 31)

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 AM
rsoneira.bsky.social
I am thrilled to share my latest publication in MHNH.

"Detraditionalization, Unbelief and Theological Struggle in On the Sacred Disease."

I propose a new interpretation in Spanish of this wonderful Hippocratic text.

🔗 doi.org/10.24310/mhn...

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics
Detradicionalización, increencia y pugna teológica en Sobre la enfermedad sagrada | MHNH. Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas
Bremmer, J. N., «Religion and the Limits of Individualisation in Ancient Athens: Andocides, Socrates, and the Fair-breasted Phryne» en Religious Individualisation. M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, M. Mulsow, B.-C. Otto, R. B. Parson, & J. Rüpke (eds.), Berlín, 2019, 1009-1032.
doi.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:07 AM
gladiushispania.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday
Mosaico de Medusa y las cuatro estaciones, encontrado en Palencia, España.
Siglo IV a. C.
🏛️ Museo Arquelógico Nacional de Madrid. 🇪🇦
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
Mosaico de Medusa y las cuatro estaciones, encontrado en Palencia, España. Siglo IV a. C. 🏛️ Museo Arquelógico Nacional de Madrid. 🇪🇦 📷 A. M.
January 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
✨The Chariot Race✨

This chariot race is part of the famously large mosaic found in Britain called the Horkstow mosaic. Featuring all the thrill of chariot racing including the spina (central island) and the metea (turning points). Happy #MosaicMonday indeed!

#AncientBluesky
Description from the Hull Museums Collection: “The mosaic panel at the bottom is unique in Britain and shows an eventful chariot race. The racecourse is indicated by the 'spina' or central island, and the 'metae' or turning posts. The four chariots may represent the four factions in the Roman racing world, each conventionally distinguished by the colour of the charioteers' tunics. The scene is laid out rather like a comic strip. One chariot has lost a wheel and overturned, pitching out the charioteer. An attendant dismounts to rescue him, while another lassos runaway horses. The charioteer who has successfully rounded the end of the 'spina' on the left gives his horses free rein, while the team approaching the other end are reined in for the turn. This scene, so full of action, movement and drama has to be one of the most engaging yet found in Romano-British art.” Description from the Hull Museums Collection: “The mosaic panel at the bottom is unique in Britain and shows an eventful chariot race. The racecourse is indicated by the 'spina' or central island, and the 'metae' or turning posts. The four chariots may represent the four factions in the Roman racing world, each conventionally distinguished by the colour of the charioteers' tunics. The scene is laid out rather like a comic strip. One chariot has lost a wheel and overturned, pitching out the charioteer. An attendant dismounts to rescue him, while another lassos runaway horses. The charioteer who has successfully rounded the end of the 'spina' on the left gives his horses free rein, while the team approaching the other end are reined in for the turn. This scene, so full of action, movement and drama has to be one of the most engaging yet found in Romano-British art.” Description from the Hull Museums Collection: “The mosaic panel at the bottom is unique in Britain and shows an eventful chariot race. The racecourse is indicated by the 'spina' or central island, and the 'metae' or turning posts. The four chariots may represent the four factions in the Roman racing world, each conventionally distinguished by the colour of the charioteers' tunics. The scene is laid out rather like a comic strip. One chariot has lost a wheel and overturned, pitching out the charioteer. An attendant dismounts to rescue him, while another lassos runaway horses. The charioteer who has successfully rounded the end of the 'spina' on the left gives his horses free rein, while the team approaching the other end are reined in for the turn. This scene, so full of action, movement and drama has to be one of the most engaging yet found in Romano-British art.” Description from the Hull Museums Collection: “The mosaic panel at the bottom is unique in Britain and shows an eventful chariot race. The racecourse is indicated by the 'spina' or central island, and the 'metae' or turning posts. The four chariots may represent the four factions in the Roman racing world, each conventionally distinguished by the colour of the charioteers' tunics. The scene is laid out rather like a comic strip. One chariot has lost a wheel and overturned, pitching out the charioteer. An attendant dismounts to rescue him, while another lassos runaway horses. The charioteer who has successfully rounded the end of the 'spina' on the left gives his horses free rein, while the team approaching the other end are reined in for the turn. This scene, so full of action, movement and drama has to be one of the most engaging yet found in Romano-British art.”
January 12, 2026 at 9:19 AM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#SpoliaSunday takes us to #palazzoBraschi to recognise a small but persistent #spolia genre, the ancient relief sheared off a #sarcophagus fragment to adorn a statue base in the C18. The scene here is a bucolic one, of four cows, apparently enjoying a good gossip. 250-275 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺
RELIEF, 250-275 CE, ON C18 STATUE BASE. MUSEO DI ROMA This relief was gently sawn off what I can only presume was a fragmentary sarcophagus of the C3. It shows two standing cows, their heads together at centre, behind two others, one on the left lying down on the ground with its hoofs demurely folded, one on the right settling down with its front legs folded but rear legs still upright. They took are facing each other and in fact they all look like they're making unfavourable observations about a fifth cow not in the scene. Three trees in the background complete the scene. The relief is attached to a newer marble back, to decorate the base of a statue of an Antonine emperor on the grand staircase of palazzo Braschi. This transfer of reliefs can be found on all the statue bases in this staircase, and also elsewhere, on the statue bases in the Hall of Mirrors in palazzo Colonna, for instance.
January 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM
lindsaypowell.bsky.social
By crossing the Rubico #OTD 11 January 49 BC (Roman calendar), C. Iulius Caesar made a consequential decision that forever changed the destiny of Ancient Rome. #AncientBluesky antigonejournal.com/2023/09/juli...
How Julius Caesar Crossed the Rubicon and Took Ariminum: Part I
ROBIN ALINGTON MAGUIRE On the choice that changed everything
antigonejournal.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
arturoviaggia.bsky.social
To see this mosaic of the #Baptism of Christ in person is breathtaking. Commissioned in the 5th c. it decorates the dome of the Orthodox Baptistery in #Ravenna. Around the central medallion is a procession of the 12 apostles (Paul being the 12th!)

📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/t7z3cP
#photography
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Dome, Neonian Baptistery (Ravenna, Italy)
The ancient baptistery of Ravenna originally built under the bishop Ursus in the fourth century was embellished in the fifth century with the brilliant mosaic program we see today by Bishop Neon. It ...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
sploeg.bsky.social
Very interesting piece on AI and Roman authorship with link to a talk on it given by Howley #AncientBluesky
illdottore.bsky.social Joseph “offline” Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 5d
Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...
Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26)
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within t...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:46 PM
maskflowerprince.bsky.social
For #stunday. Cliff Palace is the most celebrated of Mesa Verde's ancient cliff dwellings, huddled under the cliff face (2021). #photography #mesaverdenationalpark #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #nativeamerica #ruins #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework
January 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
drjeball.bsky.social
A loaf of #Roman bread, which was being baked in an oven in #Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79; it was carbonised by the disaster & left in the oven until being excavated nearly 1800 years later 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
January 11, 2026 at 11:21 AM
chapps.bsky.social
This engraved Romano-Egyptian magical gem (green jasper) depicts the Egyptian god and psychopomp Anubis holding an ointment jar and standing over a lion-shaped bier. The mummified body of Osiris lies on top. 💀🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

100-125 CE. #GettyVilla
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Oval green jasper gemstone with an engraved scene of the jackal-headed god Anubis standing behind a funerary bier, which is shaped like a striding lion. Anubis holds an ointment jar over the mummified body of his father, Anubis, who is fully wrapped in bandages.
January 11, 2026 at 1:28 AM