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anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday at the #BritishMuseum offers us a drum from the base of a column from the temple of #Diana of #Ephesus in modern #Turkey. Here, in delicate #relief, we find winged #Thanatos, Death himself, beside a female figure, with #Hermes #Psychopompos at far right. #AncientBluesky 🏺
DRUM FROM A COLUMN OF THE TEMPLE OF DIANA OF EPHESUS, 323-300 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM The site of the Artemision at Ephesus had been sacred since the Bronze Age. The second temple on the site burnt down in 356 BCE, on the day of the birth of Alexander the Great (c. 20 July). The Ephesians rebuilt it beginning in 323 BCE, on a grand scale, and, like its predecessor, its columns were covered in reliefs. Of all this glory, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, very little survived the Christians. Here we have the most intact fragment of one of the column drums, evidently describing an event in the Underworld. Death, Thanatos, stands at left, a nude youth with wings. A woman in a beautiful peplos and chiton at centre might be Alkestis or Euridike, both mortals on their way up to the Sunlit Lands, and at right is Hermes Psychopompos, leader of souls, another beautiful nude youth.
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 PM
matqbritholiday.bsky.social
I just love this film #BednobsandBroomsticks and the way it creatively adapts the Bayeux Tapestry

MAGIC WITH A MISSION.

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

#MaryNorton #Disney #WW2 #animation #creativity #bayeuxtapestry #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS opening credits (#16)
YouTube video by Sam Henderson
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February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday offers us this beautiful obelisk in the #BritishMuseum with an #inscription in #Phoenician from the C4 BCE. Our own script derives from these letters, passing first through archaic Greek and Latin. When this was carved, those alphabets had already split off. #AncientBluesky 🏺
OBELISK WITH PHOENICIAN INSCRIPTION, C4 BCE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This refined and elegant epigraphy is Phoenician, a language spoken in the coastal cities of the Levant and in Carthage. The obelisk is a funerary stela found in a cemetery in Kition in Crete. It says "This pillar which Arish, chief of the brokers, erected to his father Parz, chief of the brokers, son of Menahem, chief of the brokers, son of Mashal, chief of the brokers, son of Parsi, chief of the brokers (or the brothers?), to his mother Shamzebaal of Azar, chief of the prefects (?) are their? resting place for ever." The Phoenicians were mad for commerce and the title "chief of the brokers" meant something like "head commercial agent". This script, in which letters represent separate vowels and consonants, and not ideograms or syllables, was functional and adaptable: our own alphabet derives from it.
February 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Ea Nasir has been loaned away by the British Museum!
Its the number one object i go there to see!
#eanasir #britishmuseum #history #customerservice #mesopotamia
Placeholder in British Museum where the famous Ea Nasir "Shoddy copper mechant" complaint tablet used to be. The placeholder says the object is on loan to Abu Dhabi until 2027
February 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
adrianpgibson.bsky.social
George IV’s beautiful Coronation surcoat from 1821 which is on display at the British Museum at the moment. The robe serves as an interesting comparison to the stunning cloaks worn by the Hawaiian Royalty which were made from tiny feathers 🌺

#georgeiv #surcoat #hawaii #exhibition #britishmuseum
February 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM
aliciacolson.bsky.social
Well, I decided to write about Generative AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum #generativeAI #AI #archaeology #britishmuseum
aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/gen-ai-arc...
GEN AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum
What's this? Is there much more that's behind those AI generated photos posted by the British Museum late last month?
aliciajmcolson.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
barbdrummond.bsky.social
#BeninBronzes #BritishMuseum
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
citizensky.bsky.social
Looking up at the British Museum

#britishmuseum

#museum

#London

#blackandwhite

#blackandwhitephotography

#bnw #blackandwhitephoto

#streetphotography #urban

#streets #streetphoto

#streetshots
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 AM
supersequin.bsky.social
Cervine synchronicity this wknd with the #BBC #TheDarkisRising, @LisaKnappmusic.bsky.social & @GerryDiver.bsky.social singing #StarCarr at the @edfss.bsky.social #IndoorFestivalofFolk and an encounter w/ 10k y.o. stag headresses at the #BritishMuseum lisaknappgerrydiver.bandcamp.com/album/hinter...
10000 year old headdress found at Star Carr in Yorkshire. The headdress is made from a deer skull and has holes drilled through to allow it to be worn.
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
ntelahi.bsky.social
Amazing design and objects for the #Samurai exhibition at the #BritishMuseum
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
the-past-with-pat.bsky.social
The #MetMuseum is one of my all time favorites. I actually prefer it to the #BritishMuseum, especially when comparing their #Egyptian sections. While the British Museum has more artifacts, that are more famous, the presentation is like a cluttered store room. The Met’s is beautiful and immersive.
February 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
paulinepark.bsky.social
William Lloyd smashed the priceless #PortlandVase to smithereens #OnThisDay in 1845 in one of the worst cases of vandalism to befall any work of #art; fortunately, the #BritishMuseum staff were able to put the Roman cameo glass vase back together again...
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February 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
tiinaroose.bsky.social
This is a drawing of a meditating soldier. I think he looks grumpy rather than meditating #samurai #britishmuseum #grumpysoldier
February 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
tiinaroose.bsky.social
Beautiful amazing Samurai exhibition at the British Museum ❤️ #samurai #britishmuseum @britishmuseum.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
killerrabbit90.bsky.social
I can’t ignore the irony of the British Museum’s AI scandal www.creativebloq.com/ai/i-cant-ig... #UK #BritishMuseum #AI #AISlop #insulting #ToneDeaf #DataCenterEnergyHogs #EnergyVampires #tech #V8Global
I can’t ignore the irony of the British Museum’s AI scandal
How did this get approved?
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February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
frannabel2010.bsky.social
Born #OTD in 1812, #CharlesDickens visited the reading room of the #britishmuseum on 11th October 1839. Here is the page from the register showing his attendance. #archives
February 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
mediaactive.bsky.social
The BritishMuseum was recently caught using #AI imagery in a promo, leaving followers enraged and dissapointed at the stunt.” This generative AI technology is already pervasive within our textual & audio cultures but simultaneously resented, mocked rejected? flip.it/X3b0Xi
I can’t ignore the irony of the British Museum’s AI scandal
How did this get approved?
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February 7, 2026 at 11:09 AM
globalmuseum.bsky.social
Objections raised to British Museum’s visitor pavilion and landscaping plans.

Conservation groups are concerned the development will cause 'unacceptable level of harm'.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #museums
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
sujculture.bsky.social
A matriarch gently sways in a rocking chair/creaking like an oarlock/With each stroke the boat floats closer, closer.../I ask for a story, but she's weary/and retires like the night mist rising off the river
▶️ #NordicNoir 🖼️ works on paper 🎟️ #BritishMuseum ℹ️ scanmagazine.co.uk/nordic-noir-...
February 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
globalmuseum.bsky.social
British Museum Deletes AI-Generated Pictures After Backlash.
The British Museum in London has long been dogged by accusations that it contains troves of stolen art. So there's a certain irony when it posted a series of AI-generated images
petapixel.com/2026/02/04/b... #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum
February 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
passamezzo.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday:
Playing for #Tudor dancing at the #BritishMuseum about 15 years ago

#earlymusic #musicianlife #musicianslife #tudors #historicalinterpretation #heritage #heritageinterpretation #historicaldance #earlydance
February 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
chapps.bsky.social
Let’s focus on the kottabos kylix. The aim of the game is to fling wine lees from your cup (a kylix is seen in her hand) to sink an oxybaphon (a floating saucer). Here instead a duck looks up at her, as if to say ‘What the heck?’. Wonderful cartoon-like lines. 🏺 2/

Abt. 430 BCE. #BritishMuseum
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
oddlytruejp.bsky.social
⚔️ The British Museum's FIRST Samurai exhibition opens TODAY! 280 artifacts spanning 1,000 years of warrior myth & reality. London, Feb 3 - May 4.
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#Samurai #Japan #BritishMuseum #London #History
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The British Museum's first-ever
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February 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
valtagliaferri.bsky.social
#partenone #britishmuseum #londra #london #art #arts #arte #storia
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social
#EpigraphyTuesday returns to the #BritishMuseum for an excellent example of #rustic capitals in the unusual medium of #bronze, in this #inscription from c. 200 CE commemorating one S. Pompeius Maximus, priest of the cult of Sol Invictus and #Mithras. #AncientBluesky 🏺
BRONZE PLAQUE WITH INSCRIPTION, C. 200 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This piece was bought from the Castellani collection in 1872 but was probably from Ostia Antica. The inscription is on a bronze plaque topped with three triangles which contain, from left to right, a sacrificial knife, a bust of the Invincible Sun with a radiate crown, and a patera. The inscription is in a wonderful "semi-formal" script which used to be called "rustic capitals", imitating writing with a stylus on wax as if to bely the permanence of writing on bronze. The text says "Dedicated to Sextus Pompeius Maximus, son of Sextus, High Priest of the Sun God, Mithras, all powerful, and Father of Fathers, President of the Guild of Master Ferrymen. We, priests of the all powerful Sun God, Mithras, do this on account of the high regard and affection we hold for him and his worthy deeds. He has this for ever."
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM