Spotted this excellent mural on a school building today while on a bike ride.

Does this count as classical reception?

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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

Layers of history.

The Cathedral of Syracuse incorporates into its structure substantial parts of the Doric Temple of Athena built by the tyrant Gelo to celebrate his defeat of the Carthaginians at Himera in 490BC.

Here, we see vast columns supporting the nave and west wall.

📷 mine

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.

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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

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
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Birds drinking. From Santa Maria Capua Vetere, now in the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy. #MosaicMonday

I’d say it’s just a relatively primitive geometric pattern.

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

It’s a superb place to visit. So much history and amazing food.

Layers of history.

The Cathedral of Syracuse incorporates into its structure substantial parts of the Doric Temple of Athena built by the tyrant Gelo to celebrate his defeat of the Carthaginians at Himera in 490BC.

Here, we see vast columns supporting the nave and west wall.

📷 mine

I always find the survival of glass from antiquity to be amazing, but sometimes you come across quite extraordinary pieces.

This Romano-Germanic glass item is moulded into the form of a little fish or whale and it’s delightful.

🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne
🏺 #AncientBlueSky

A surviving stretch of Hadrian’s Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland - the first major stretch of the Roman wall west of Newcastle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Heddon #HadriansWall #Northumberland

Saxon 'Woden ring' to go on display at Epping Forest museum The finely-worked band was discovered by Dean Young, who is

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My photo shows a frontal view of a buff-coloured Minoan pottery jug with a dark-red, stylised octopus painted beneath the dark red pouring spout. The jug has a rounded body with very short neck with out-turned rim, the body tapers downwards to a slightly turned out flat base also painted red. On each shoulder there’s a small chunky loop handle. The octopus is stylised and looks cartoon-like with a vertical dumbbell shaped body, with two large circular eyes with central red dots staring out at the viewer. From the top of the head emerge eight suckered arms. Four arms hang symmetrically downwards on each side of the body, writhing and curling at the tip. There is a similar red octopus on each side of the jug not shown in my photo.

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙

From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Un demi-litre du bitter….. dans une verre maigre.

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

I always find the survival of glass from antiquity to be amazing, but sometimes you come across quite extraordinary pieces.

This Romano-Germanic glass item is moulded into the form of a little fish or whale and it’s delightful.

🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne
🏺 #AncientBlueSky

This goat’s head rhyton (or drinking vessel) is from late C4th BC southern Italy.

I can’t be the only person looking at this thinking ‘must have one’.

🏛️ANU Classics Museum
📷 mine

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Rare white orcas swimming in sync off Hokkaido, Japan: leucism documented in multiple sighting since 2019
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They look like Minoan kamares-ware. Very beautiful. They seem quite modern to our eyes like they’re from the 1920s or 30s.

Filottrano helmet, 4th–3rd century BC; Wikipedia CC-BY-4.0

#FindsFriday #FerrousFriday: `Marta Mazzoli’s study on the morphological evolution of helmets on the Italian peninsula between the 4th and 1st centuries BC documents a complex process of technological and stylistic interaction between #Celtic and Etruscan-Italic traditions.
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This goat’s head rhyton (or drinking vessel) is from late C4th BC southern Italy.

I can’t be the only person looking at this thinking ‘must have one’.

🏛️ANU Classics Museum
📷 mine

This Roman die was found in the Hastings area. You wonder much money was won & lost on this little cube, and how many fights it might have provoked.

🏛️Hastings Museum
📷 mine
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This Roman die was found in the Hastings area. You wonder much money was won & lost on this little cube, and how many fights it might have provoked.

🏛️Hastings Museum
📷 mine
#AncientBlueSky 🏺

Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina. They date to between 1850-1550BC and show the skill, delicacy & beauty of Minoan craftsmanship. The jewellery is of the very finest quality - dazzling & breathtaking in equal measure.

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📷mine
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

I don’t believe there was ever gold on Crete so I’d say they obtained the gold through trade.

Here are the contents of an elite Minoan burial on the island of Aegina. They date to between 1850-1550BC and show the skill, delicacy & beauty of Minoan craftsmanship. The jewellery is of the very finest quality - dazzling & breathtaking in equal measure.

🏛️BM
📷mine
#AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

Every now and then, if you’re feeling down, just have a look at this little fellow & everything is instantly better.

🕰️C2-3rd AD
🏛️📷National Archaeological Museum, Madrid

Here’s another breathtaking piece of Roman glass work in millefiori style. Bafflingly beautiful.

🕰️ C1st BC - C1st AD
🏛️📷 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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