Roman mosaic featuring a pouncing lion
Mosaic of a lion (detail).
From the atrium of Basilica A at Ayios Yeoryios at Peyia in Cyprus (Agios Georgios, Pegia).
Excavated by AHS Megaw and the Dept of Antiquities in the 1950s.
6th century CE
#mosaicmonday
3. These Days
2. Sunsets
1. D.A.F.
The Idol of Pomos is one of the most spectacular items from Chalcolithic Cyprus & one of my favourite objects in the Cyprus Museum
Wonderful piece by @killgrove.bsky.social
“Idol of Pomos: A 5,000-year-old fertility figurine from Cyprus”
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
1. Mary Jane's Last Dance
2. Free Fallin'
3. Here Comes My Girl
I am exciting to be speaking in Melbourne on the Paphos theatre and ancient theatre at the ArtsWest Building at the University of Melbourne for National Archaeology Week
@archaeologyweekaus.bsky.social
events.humanitix.com/theatre-in-t...
Black and white photo of a red figure Pyxis lid with the painted face of a dog waiting for a well-deserved treat
It’s National Pet Day here in Australia.
And here is a good boy celebrating.
Oh yes you know you are a good boy.
4th century BC Pyxis,
Walters Art Museum 48.82
art.thewalters.org/object/48.82/
Festival poster featuring a crowd enjoying a performance by a dancer.
We are celebrating the Egyptian festival of Sham el-Naseem at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at @sydney.edu.au on Saturday 18 April, 12-4pm.
All welcome!
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats...
April 1-Oct 25 Melbourne Museum - ROME: Empire, Power, People museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemus... - "an immersive experience and vivid portrait of a civilisation that continues to shape our world today"
We are now inviting contributions for the 2026 iteration of the Teaching Classical Languages Symposium. The one-day hybrid event will take place Friday 14th August at the Vere Gordon Childe Centre, University of Sydney. We are delighted to announce that this year's keynote speaker is Carla Hurt. Carla is a Latin high-school teacher and You-Tuber working in Melbourne, Australia: https://foundinantiquity.com/ We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on any topic related to the pedagogy of Classical Languages. We are particularly interested in papers that speak to the following: Imagine the perfect textbook; under this theme we invite you to think broadly in terms of what you see as critical to Classical Languages pedagogy, the full range of formats available in an increasingly hybrid world, the integration of social themes and Classical content and best practice in raising student confidence. Possible provocations include: Should textbooks try to include “culture”? Is there still a role for a physical book? What kinds of exercises do students really need? Should we be insisting on translation from English into the target language? We also welcome panel presentations. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to the convenors, Tamara Neal t.neal@sydney.edu.au & Sarah Lawrence slawren4@une.edu.au by April the 28th.
#CFP Teaching Classical Languages Symposium 2026 - hybrid/University of Sydney - August 14th - Keynote: Carla Hurt - Due by April 28 to t.neal@sydney.edu.au & slawren4@une.edu.au mailman.sydney.edu.au/pipermail/us...
Roman lamp with an image of a rabbit on the tondo
Bunnies for Easter Sunday!
Roman mould made oil lamp with rabbit design, likely from North Africa. 5th-8th century CE
Chau Chak Wing Museum NM62.731
www.sydney.edu.au/museums/coll...
For the first time, archaeologists have analysed ash residue from incense burners preserved at Pompeii, revealing the substances burnt as offerings to the gods in Roman households and the long-distance trade undertaken to acquire them.
A fragrant #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵
🏺 #Archaeology
Apollo 8, Apollo 17 and Voyager 1 all took iconic photos of Earth from outside: Earthrise, Blue Marble and Pale Blue Dot. But none of these images has led to political action which ensures the protection of Earth’s environment. Photographs aren’t going to do it.
🧪 #ArtemisII
This lovely fresco is from Herculaneum. Like our pet rabbits, he loves his fruit and we see him here investigating plump, succulent figs.
🕰️C1st AD
🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum, Naples
#FrescoFriday
If someone much more powerful than us came and nicked Stonehenge we’d be fuming, we’d want it back. We’d ask but they’d decline saying “they’re still looking at it” (James Acaster). Then they say they want to charge us for looking at it. . .
Its almost Easter, so out comes the bunny!
Detail of a mosaic featuring a rabbit, Villa Romana del Casale, near Piazza Armerina, Sicily.
4th century CE
#MosaicMonday
A masterclass in alt text construction
A detail on a pottery cup of a greyhound-like dog scratching its head with its hind leg
A pottery cup featuring a greyhound-like dog scratching its head with its hind leg in the centre
This red-figure pottery cup attributed to the Euergides Painter shows a pup scratching away with a hindleg. The dog depicted here is likely a Laconian hound, which were the usual hunting dogs used in Greece.
🐕️ Attic red-figure stemless pottery cup, The Euergides Painter, 510–500 BCE. AN1966.447
Still from the virtual reconstruction of the Paphos Theatre's Antonine phase that was created by Lithodomos in 2017. It shows the cavea (seating area), orchestra, stage and stage building of typical Roman eastern design and covered with columns and statuary as well as the parodoi entranceways marked by barrel vaulted curved ceilings that were covered with frescoes.
The ancient theatre of Nea Paphos in Cyprus as it appears from the air today following decades of excavation by the Australian Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project mission.
Its World Theatre Day today!
The ancient theatre at Paphos, Cyprus was used as a venue for performance & entertainment for six centuries from the 4th cent BCE to the 4th CE; structurally modified over time.
This building would have echoed with the sounds of an audience & community. #WorldTheatreDay
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘tiles’ for The Arab Hall: Past and Present at Leighton House
The exhibition explores Leighton House's extraordinary Arab Hall. Here are a few of the antique tiles from Damascus, Turkey and Iran which line the walls.
📷 Leighton House
Map of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa, displaying the geographic extent of the Roman Empire in AD 117. Triangles show the locations of aqueducts and sites associated with them, such as cities and towns, studied in the article.
Make sure to stay hydrated this #ThirstyThursday! 🫗
The #Romans made sure their citizens had access to clean, fresh water with aqueducts. A new study shows how they were carefully planned to ensure an adequate supply.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Woof!
Our best friends for a long, long time.
'Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds'
#archaeologynews 🏺
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
'Archaeologists uncover earliest layers of ancient Nea Paphos'
#archaeologynews 🏺
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/arch...
This is a thought-provoking (and thoughtful) paper
This is incredibly sad news. What a massive loss for Australia. What an amazing legacy Rhoda Robers leaves behind.
'Ancient Cypriot jug returns home after online auction intervention'
#archaeologynews 🏺
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#FrescoFriday with this section of the Villa Farnesina Crypotoporticus A in Palazzo Massimo!
A column is painted onto the white and red background, with the base of the column itself painted to resemble shells, though they could also be feathers.
#AncientBlueSky🏺
A terracotta oil lamp featuring a central relief of a standing camel on a base.
A rare #Roman terracotta oil-lamp, decorated with the image of a #camel.
Found in the legionary fortress of Vindonissa, present-day Windisch, Switzerland.
📷 Béla Polyvàs, Kanton Aargau.
🏺 #archaeology
Fresco fragments from the Roman bathhouse at Verulamium (modern day St. Albans). The fragments are part of the collections at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #StAlbans #RomanBritain
