Well, I’m leaning more towards garlic; figs are usually depicted in groups in baskets or bowls, and their colour is also much more distinct. Garlic would be a better fit here because there are only two of them, they’re quite large, and they’re rather pale in colour.
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Have a great time!!
Selfie in front of the Colosseum in Rome.
Tourists. 🤷🏻♂️😉🏺
Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery We are delighted to announce that The Friends of The Potteries Museums & Art Gallery, helped by generous public donations, have raised £10,000 towards the acquisition Ellastone Dress Fastener. Thank you everyone who has donated towards this fantastic milestone. We are now closing this strand of the funding campaign.
Some great news - thank you to everyone who contributed their hard earned cash!
(Just a reminder that had the finder/ landowner donated the dress fastener, it would have cost £0 instead of £150,000...)
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺
Left: wall painting depicting a woman wearing elaborately decorated robes and a tall crown. Right: a person wearing a reconstruction of the outfit.
Reconstruction of an outfit of Nubian Royal Mother Martha, as depicted in a wall painting at the cathedral of Faras in the Kingdom of Makuria #MedievalMonday
The rich outfit highlights the elevated status of the royal mother in Nubian society.
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🏺 #Archaeology
Archaeologists at Tel Azekah uncovered a 2,500-year-old reservoir filled with the remains of dozens of infants, raising unsettling questions about burial practices and social realities in ancient Judah.
#Archaeology
A photo of the face of a young smiling girl. She has a bit messy, dark hair.
Four people standing in a line. A man in a suit, two girls in white dresses (the second is standing on a small chair), and a woman in a long evening dress.
20 April 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Sophia Kaatje van Hasselt, was born in Oosterwolde.
In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her parents Simon and Geertje, and her older sister Hermi. None of them survived.
We are looking at the lid of a burr birch wood tankard carved with a very smiley lion confidently striding along with his curly tail up and a perfectly coiffured mane
We are looking at a photo showing a birch wood tankard showing a carved lion on the lid and smaller carved lions for feet. It has a very ornate lion? thumb piece. There is a stripe down the middle of the photo, we are not sure why - sorry!
Exciting derpy lion news!
We have found ANOTHER burr-birch wood tankard with a lion on it!
This one dates to 1766 and is also made in Norway.
Painting of a single boot decorated with multicoloured embroidery. The lower part of the boot which covers the foot has fur on the outside.
📸 D.78720.LIN Watercolour, Inner Mongolia. Artist: Edith King, c.1930s.
🔗 collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/photographs/...
The session will be run by members of our Front of House team; Kate, who has a background in teaching History of Art and Design, and Suzie, who works in paint, print media and stained glass.
🗓️ 23/04/2026, 6pm (alternative date available)
🎟️ £20 pp
🔗 eventbrite.com/e/1977382367892
Painting of a single boot decorated with multicoloured embroidery. The lower part of the boot which covers the foot has fur on the outside. Text reads '''Take a line for a Walk': A Sketchbook Session, 23 April 2026, 6pm, £20 per person".
There are still places available at Thursday's sketchbook session, so book you ticket now for an evening drawing inspiration from the collections on display. 1/3
What can coinage tell us about crisis? 🪙 The spatial pattern of finds from late antique Phanagoria (Black Sea, now Russia: pleiades.stoa.org/places/854724) indicate citizens dropping coin purses, likely during a fire while the city was besieged (Justinianic, 545-554 CE) arkeonews.net/6th-century-...
Ein Bürger hat den AfD-Abgeordneten Daniel Wald zu der MDR-Recherche befragt. Hier könnt ihr die Antwort abonnieren.
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Kein Name an der Klingel, keiner am Briefkasten: Das Wahlkreisbüro, das der AfD-Politiker Daniel Wald auf der Landtagsseite in Sachsen-Anhalt angibt, existiert offenbar gar nicht. Eine Pauschale kassiert er trotzdem - und das ist legal.
www.mdr.de/nachrichten/... 🧵
Bring on the old shoes! Here are shoes from ancient times to centuries ago, including from the Roman auxiliary fort, Vindolanda 🏺🧪
#Rassismus
lebt von Ignoranz, besonders in großen Strukturen und Organisationen.
Dieses Interview mit dem Polizei-Gewerkschafter Patrick Seegers ist eine Zumutung und wird journalistisch mit der Aussage geframt:
Kein struktureller Rassismus im Fall Lorenz A.
Dann kommen null Fakten, nur
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Geniale Idee! 👍👍
Screenshot des Vortragsprogramms
Morgen beginnt unsere Reihe der Frühlingsvorträge am #LEIZA - von A wie Archäometrie bis Z wie Zahngesundheit ist alles Mögliche dabei!
Live im @leizarchaeology.bsky.social oder via zoom!
www.leiza.de/aktuelles/na...
#OnThisDay - 20 April - in 1863 the statue known as the Prima Porta Augustus was discovered in excavations at the Villa of Livia. Traces of the original polychrome decoration survive. #Augustus 🏺
Image: Musei Vaticani (MV.2290.0.0). 📸Joel Bellviure. Link - catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/De...
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
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
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
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
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The guardian of the garden, always keeping watch.
Dantz wirft @meisnerwerk.bsky.social und @volksverpetzer.de Feindesmarkierung, Denunziation und Vernichtungsabsicht vor.
Anlass ist eine hiermit empfohlene Analyse des VVP über einen OAZ-Artikel, der ein Ferienangebot mit Anastasia-Bezug verharmlost. 2/4
www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/ostd...
„Schreibt KI Geschichte?“ Konferenz in Berlin im @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social - und @claraimmerwahr.bsky.social und ich dürfen dabei sein: Wir fragen uns: Fake, Fact and Act – Glaubwürdigkeit und Wahrheit im Zeitalter von KI
Ihr Chefredakteur "verpetzt" uns gerade bei verschiedenen Medien und prangert unsere Berichterstattung mit ungeheuerlichen Vorwürfen an. Ohne auch nur einen Punkt nennen zu können, wo wir falsch lägen oder unfair seien. Die OAZ möchte uns offenbar vernichten. Weil wir unbequeme Wahrheiten sagen 2/2
Die rechte OAZ versucht gerade exakt das, was sie uns vorwirft: Sie wirft wild mit Nazi- und Stasi-Vorwürfen um sich. Nur weil ihnen unsere faktenbasierte Kritik nicht gefallen hat, werfen sie uns Denunziation und Vernichtungsabsicht vor. Weil sie exakt das mit uns vorhaben. 1/2
