Wrong on so many levels

Mostly pies

Always 🤣

Now we like hypocausts, and we like pies

But which is better ? 🤔

That they'll find a hypocaust

Or

That we were very (very) good ?

A grassy hill with bushes at sunset

Evening light on the impressive Iron Age earthworks of the isthmus gateway at Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, recently cleared of vegetation & looking superb 👌

Always worth a visit 💯

📷 This evening ☀️

Central panel from a Roman mosaic featuring two naked male characters, one seated playing a lyre, the dancing with pan pipes

Here's one of our favourite #Dorset #Roman floors for #MosaicMonday

The lively depiction of a music battle between Apollo (with lyre) and Marsyas (pipes)

[Spoiler alert: things end badly for Marsyas]

Found 1834 and moved to Sherborne Castle

Painting by David Neal for @antiquaries.bsky.social

🤣🤣

Mosaic of a lion in a rocky landscape clutching a leopard in it’s front paws. The lion has a fierce expression while the leopard looks fearful for what comes next. Now held in the MAN Napoli, inv. no. 114282.

✨Lion versus Leopard✨

This mosaic immediately captures your attention - the direct gaze of the lion forcing the leopard into submission is hard to miss. The mosaic has suffered some damage from subsistence over the years but feels acutely compelling even with the rough edges.

#MosaicMonday

A detail of a geometric mosaic of squares in shades of black, green and white, giving a 3D effect. The border is open guilloche with coloured centres.

For this fine spring day (in the UK), shades of green. This simple, elegant mosaic is in the museum in Aquileia.
#MosaicMonday
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Mosaic with blue/red/white guilloche borders top and bottom. Silenus caped in panther skin cloak behind a panther on the left, following Dionysus holding a wine vessel on the right, his arm around a young satyr.

#MosaicMonday
How to make an entrance: bring a panther to the party. Dionysiac scene of Silenus, a panther, Dionysus and Ampelos, a young satyr.
One of impressive #Roman mosaics at Musée départemental Arles antique, excavated 1914 in Trinquetaille area of Arles, thriving port area C1 BC-C3 AD. 🏺

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Mosaic of a winged boy riding a dolphin. From Fishbourne Roman Palace. #MosaicMonday

'Play off' ends in 'flay off', at least according to legend. Choose your instrument wisely, eh, folks? 🎸

Mosaico del jabalí. Las manchas rojas y las teselas azuladas forman sombras difusas. 🏛️ Casa del Jabalí en Pompeya, también conocida como Casa de la Caza Salvaje, es una domus de la época republicana (siglo II a.C.) 📷 A. M.

#MosaicMonday
Mosaico del jabalí. Las manchas rojas y las teselas azuladas forman sombras difusas.
🏛️ Casa del Jabalí en Pompeya, también conocida como Casa de la Caza Salvaje, es una domus de la época republicana (siglo II a.C.)
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#MosaicMonday and some more flooring from a 3rd/4th Century C.E villa complex in Verona.

Sacred to Bacchus, a fabulous feline graces a panel of the banqueting hall floor🍷

📸 Us, #Roman Theatre Museum, Verona.

#ancientbluesky #archaeology #skystorians #ancientrome #classicsbluesky

Part of a colourful Roman mosaic floor depicting doves drinking from a vase from a townhouse that dates AD 1-50. The house is now below the Caseggiato delle Taberne in #OstiaAntica.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome

Best not think about it 😯

Indeed, yes 😬😬😬

First to Second Century AD floor mosaic from Rome with the head of Medusa at the centre. Now part of the collections at the Terme di Diocleziano in Rome. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #Rome

Indeed !

There is certainly a *Cerne Abbas* vibe to the dancing figure

Luckily, though, he has his back to us...

The arched top of a Roman mosaic, with partial damage, showing the head of Oceanus with fish, dolphins and (possibly lobster claws?) in a demi-lune surrounded by three lines of patterns

Oceanus giving some splendid side eye in the fabulous Fordington High Street Mosaic, 2nd century CE, now on the wall of the Dorset Museum
#MosaicMonday

This mosaic depicts Jupiter in the guise of an eagle making off with Ganymede. Ganymede wears a Parthian cap to indicate his easternness (and perhaps also his effeminacy).

🏛️Bignor Roman Villa
📷 my own
#MosaicMonday

Central panel from a Roman mosaic featuring two naked male characters, one seated playing a lyre, the dancing with pan pipes

Here's one of our favourite #Dorset #Roman floors for #MosaicMonday

The lively depiction of a music battle between Apollo (with lyre) and Marsyas (pipes)

[Spoiler alert: things end badly for Marsyas]

Found 1834 and moved to Sherborne Castle

Painting by David Neal for @antiquaries.bsky.social

Ah, yes. His 'club' does appear to be missing.

*Swanky*, you say?

'Swanky' Saxon belt strap end is star find of Halesworth dig The high status find has been discovered at a site that includes a cemetery and many industrial objects.

Amazingly the archaeologists weren't baffled, surprised or astonished @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Though they did admit to not knowing why over one find.
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The Melsonby Hoards: rerouting the evidence for vehicles in Iron Age Britain « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog Our article for Antiquity provides the first overview of the Melsonby Hoards, probably the largest deposit of Iron Age metalwork ever encountered in Britain. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the hoar...

The #Melsonby Hoards - nearly 950 Iron Age objects buried c. 40 BC–AD 40 - reveal Britain’s first evidence for four‑wheeled wagons, as well as other types of vehicle. 🚗👀 Read the #blog and #openaccess article!

🔗 https://cup.org/4bf3b1F

#melsonbyhoards #ironage #archaeology @antiquity.ac.uk

(calls to next room) Honey, I've ritually killed another one of the forks.

Looking down an ancient paved road with people, Roman ruins and mountains in the distance

Looking down the Via di Mercurio from the Roman city wall of #Pompeii towards the forum, early one Saturday morning

📷 Sept 2023

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky