#ReliefWednesday
1st century CE bas-relief showing the #Celtic god
Cernunnos and Apollo (left) and Mercury (right). (Musée Saint-Remi, Rheims, #France)
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Crab on a silver tetradrachm from Akragas, Sicily, dated 479–412 BC, photographed at Casa de la Moneda in Madrid. More than 2,400 years later, the design is still sharp and instantly recognizable.
#AncientCoins #Numismatics #History #Archaeology #AncientGreece #Museums #Crab
A photo of the Porta Nigra, a massive Roman city gate in Trier. Constructed of sandstone blocks, featuring two large cylindrical towers with multiple arched windows and passageways. The weathered structure stands prominently in a modern urban setting, surrounded by buildings. Sunlight casts shadows on the stone facade, highlighting its intricate details and imposing presence.
The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages.
The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest.
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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
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The columns of an arched building with a plant growing to one side. Venus is bathing with attendant nymphs holding her towel & fresh water.
Stone relief
From a water tank.
It shows Venus bathing with attendant nymphs holding her towel & fresh water.
From Bremenium (High Rochester) fort, Northumberland, to the north of Hadrian's Wall.
Now in Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle.
#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology
PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF DIANA, 209-211 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This fresco fragment comes from a building near Porta Laurentina in Ostia Antica, and was excavated in 1868, two years before papal collections of antiquities stopped with the taking of Rome by the kingdom of Italy. It was part of a painted calendar, and shows the celebration of the Natales Dianæ on 13 August, the main religious ceremony of the month. Against a cinnabar red background, 4 children at left, wearing formal dress, raise torches to a statue of the goddess, who is shown in the act of drawing an arrow from her quiver. To the right, a procession of 5 children is departing rightward. The first boy seems to be directing the others. Two are carrying staffs with bunches of grapes hanging from them, and two hold baskets of fruit.
#FrescoFriday takes us in a procession of #children to pay our respects to the goddess #Diana, in a #fresco from #Ostia now in the #VaticanMuseums. It's from a building with a painted #calendar dating from 209-211 CE. This scene represents #August, when Diana was celebrated. #AncientBluesky 🏺
An ancient artifact on display in a museum: a clear glass vessel in the shape of a dove, mostly full of a clear liquid, with a small heap of pinkish substance in the bottom, and dark substances in the head and tail.
Roman blown-glass unguentarium or balsamarium in the shape of a dove, found at Rovasenda near Vercelli in N Italy, sealed since its manufacture about 1900 years ago, containing the remains of a cosmetic and the liquid in which it was once suspended. One would have snapped off the tail to open.
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Slab with Byzantine Imperial Emblem from the walls of Genoese Galata (c. 1304-1316) now at Istanbul Archaeological Museums
Four betas: βασιλεὺς βασιλέων, βασιλεύων βασιλευόντων
"King of Kings, Ruling over Rulers"
Nishapur: Persian ultra-modern ultra-minimalism from the tenth century CE
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A very strong and clear statement from the Economic History Review on the use of AI in original articles and literature reviews.
And good to see they have at last Xited. #Skystorians
Publication – Nicola Di Cosmo, Lorenzo Pubblici, « Venice and the Mongols. The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World »
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Building stone of the Twentieth Legion which was found at Bearsden Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. The stone is part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland
Mosaic on the Northern Aisle Floor of the Byzantine Church of Petra
Mosaic on the Northern Aisle Floor of the Byzantine Church of Petra www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mos...
#FrescoFriday - A charming still life panel fresco showing a rabbit nibbling at figs. 🐰 From Pompeii, dated AD 40-79.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
Getting a bit stuck for Easter references on our IMAGO image database BUT there is this lovely 'egg and dart' architectural detail on stonework from Baalbek in Lebanon.
Amber figurine of a bear on a small metal stand, viewed from the side, with warm orange translucent tones and a softly blurred indoor background.
WOW, I just hit 19k followers! When I joined Bluesky in July 2023, I never imagined things would take off like this. The exodus from X was clearly waiting to happen, I’m so glad it did. It’s great to see such a large community of archaeology enthusiasts here! Thank you all!
This figurine...🧵1/2
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These woollen chitons (or long tunics) have - incredibly - survived from Roman Egypt due to the dry climate. Amazing finds showing a wonderful insight into past fashions.
🕰️5th-7th century AD
🏛️📷Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
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#MosaicMonday
This fragment of a mosaic comes from an ancient cathedral that was once located in Apamea, Syria. Apamea, located on the right bank of the Orontes River. This mosaic was made c. 533 #Art #History #Archaeology
(Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)
Mosaic of the Samaritan woman at the well, baptistery of San Lorenzo Naples
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (“Little Hagia Sophia Mosque”) was built by Justinian next to the Palace of Hormisdas. This palace, where Justinian lived as the junior emperor, seems to refer to the Persian prince who fled to Constantinople during the reign of Constantine.
the Co-emperor Alexios, Eldest Son of John Ii
the Co-emperor Alexios, Eldest Son of John Ii www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/the...
I heartily recommend this new volume to all early medieval types who love a good map. Covers the period c. 400-1000.
Two divers in full gear on the bottom of a greenish, murky body of water, brushing sediment away from a dense field of circular, encrusted pottery vessels scattered and stacked across the lake bottom.
Following up on yesterday's post about the #Roman shipwreck cargo discovered in Lake Neuchâtel: what a stunning photo of the pottery vessels on the lake bottom! 🤩
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Oh wow, the condition on this find.
Great news, though the image implies new buildings in Wales are surprisingly fortified.
Baptistery attached to San Lorenzo, Naples
This delightful little painted wooden horse was a child’s toy around 2,000 years ago. It dates from 1st - 3rd century AD Roman Egypt. The wood has been preserved so well by the intense dryness of the Egyptian climate.
🏛️📷 British Museum
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Gravestone fragment showing three Roman legionnaires. The fragment was found at Croy Hill on the Antonine Wall, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanScotland #NMS
