Plancia Magna and the role of a Roman benefactress in Perge FOLLOWING HADRIAN The ancient city of Perge, located on the coast of southern Asia Minor in the Roman province of Pamphylia, provides a fascinating case study of elite benefaction in the Roman East. In Perge, Roman …

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(Re-)Uniting City and Country This volume inaugurates the IN-ROME Studies Series and explores the dynamic relationship between cities and their surrounding landscapes. Its objective is to enhance our understanding of the complex c...

a volume I'm a co-editor on has just been published. Contributions aim to center urban peripheries in the Roman world (heavy on Rome and Italy) from a variety of perspectives
(The paper version will cost you mightily, but an open-access digital version should be available within a day or two)
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View of the temple with fish mosaic

GPOY with cubiculum/bedroom mosaic floors

For #RomanSiteSaturday I’m at the Roman villa at Milreu, Portugal 🏛️🇵🇹🌿

prometheus-Logo zum 25. Geburtstag #25prom2026

#25prom2026 #prom_outofframe
🥳 Vor 25 Jahren, am 1. April 2001, startete prometheus – das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung und Lehre.

Was seitdem geschah: prometheus-bildarchiv.de/de/about/mil...

It’s #MosaicMonday in 🇦🇺 so here’s the cockerel-headed man of Brading Roman Villa. There’s been much discussion about this. My favourite interpretation is the villa owner, living in disgrace in Britannia, is making a joke about the emperor Constantius Gallus (cockerel in Latin) who exiled him.

After a hard day delivering chocolate eggs, this Romano-Easter bunny smashes some fat grapes.

🕰️C2nd AD

Revisited Aspendos this afternoon. The weather wasn't great, so I'm not sure if my camera photos will be an upgrade from my previous visit in 2013. Anyway, it was wonderful to be back. Here are some photos taken with my iPhone. #ArchaeologyTravel

Mosaic of a peacock on a fence, surrounded by trees and leaves, with a border of cockle shells beneath it

#MosaicMonday Detail of a peacock on a fence in a mosaic from Baiae, the Roman seaside 'resort' near Naples

1st century AD, now on the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

📸 Mine

#archaeology #romanempire #ancientbluesky #photooftheday 🏺

ANNONCE : 26ème congrès de la #SFHU à #Tours : Anatomie du chantier urbain. Construire la ville de l’Antiquité à nos jours.

A warrior of the steppes in 5th-century Hispania: the first representation of an Alan horseman in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire A team of archaeologists and historians has proposed a new reading of an enigmatic slate found in Salamanca that could change the understanding of the presence of nomadic peoples in the Iberian Penins...

A warrior of the steppes in 5th-century Hispania: the first representation of an Alan horseman in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

Viel Spaß und liebe Grüße an die Darmstädter Kollegen Natalia und Jonas!

This mosaic depicts snails in a basket (presumably waiting to be cooked and eaten). This may explain why one has already escaped and another is making a break for it.

🕰️4th century AD
🏛️📷Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia
#MosaicMonday

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against an off-white background. The front-facing octopus appears almost cartoon-like, with a large red and white head and body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot which stare out at the viewer. Below the head and body are eight writhing arms. This octopus and other fragmentary animal mosaics were discovered in the 19th century at the Hermitage of Santa Colomba, Villaquejida, León, which had been built on the site of a Roman villa.

A charming little octopus from a #Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD 🐙❤️

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 March 17.30. Come hear Melanie Shaffer @bristolcms.bsky.social & @carrielarocco.bsky.social. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online. #medievalsky
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

✨Our new book is here✨

This volume analyzes the reception of certain heroes and heroines in different processes of construction of national or collective identity and in mass culture, from the XIX to the XXI century by Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

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www.fnac.es/a12888040/An...

The Roman priesthood of the Salii, devoted to Mars, celebrated the beginning and end of the war season, in March and October. In the opening of the war season the sacred shields of the city of Rome were carried in procession and beat with sticks. End of 2nd/beginning of 3rd c AD #MosaicMonday

📢 ATTENTION SCHOLARS 📢

It's time to submit your application for a BILNAS research grant.

Click on this link to check your eligibility and to download an application form: bilnas.org/research-act...

📅 Deadline: Friday 27 February 2026.

#Grants #Funding #NorthAfrica #Libya

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

❗️Petition to protest the planned closures of the Wincklemann-Institut (!) and archaeology programs at Humboldt University in Berlin ⬇️

New job:

Assistant Professorship in Archaeology

Aarhus University

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69819

#MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #MosaicMonday

Detail of athletes from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, c 216 AD

Animals as Literary Topoi in Fable and Ancient Literature

Seminar in Barcelona @filcomub.bsky.social with @masterclaub.bsky.social and @lludrigueta.bsky.social

He escrito un libro. ¿Os cuento qué hay en él?
- 25 años de lecturas
- 9 meses de escritura
- muchas ganas
- bibliografía consultada en 6 idiomas (italiano, francés, inglés, español, alemán, latín) de bibliotecas nacionales e internacionales.

Resultado: 384 páginas de historias alucinantes.

MOSAIC WITH THE FACE OF PHOBOS, C4 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM In 1856 the English archæologist Sir Charles Thomas Newton decided to go digging at Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum in Turkey, in search of one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum. He found a late-antique "domos" built by a man called Charidemos, who helpfully left a verse in mosaic naming himself. He published copious excavation notes, a remarkably responsible thing to do at the dawn of modern archæology, and then carted off the mosaic floors he found to the BM, perhaps less responsibly. Here we see the screaming face, tongue out, of Phobos, Fear, at the centre of a floral design contained within round concentric frames including a beaded motif. Stylised vine leaves appear in black triangles to fill the corners of this square panel. Phobos has wild blond-orange hair. Walking over his face was a symbolic conquest of fear.

#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum speaks for all of us with this C4 floor #mosaic from #Halicarnassus with the face of #Phobos, Fear, blossoming like an evil flower within a series of classical #frames. Fear radiates outward. The symbolism is clear: step on your fear and go on. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Vortrag von Monika Trümper (FU Berlin): Neue Forschungen im Gymnasium von Agrigent. Von einem einzigartigen antiken Hörsaal und einem neuen Dach für das Apodyterium Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2026, 19.15 Uhr, HS3, Schwaansche Str. 3

The next lecture in our colloquium at the #HSI of the #UniRostock will take place on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. The topic: Monika Trümper (FU Berlin): New research at the Gymnasium of Agrigent. It's going to be exciting! 😁
www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/institut/akt...

Are you considering achieving a PhD in #AncientHistory? And are you interested in #RomanReligion? This job advertisement @unimainz.bsky.social might be for you:

stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/52699
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This banger again 👀🤩 because why not.

#MosaicMonday
Detail of floor mosaic - 1 century AD.
National Archaeological Museum Aquileia. The bow motif connects
ivy and vine branches, referring to the cult of Dionysus. #art #Archaeology #Italy #History
📷: Ottone Porfirogenito.

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

🚨 #Roman villa alert! 🚨
📰 Ground Penetrating Radar has revealed a >500 sq m, well-preserved villa in South Wales, with potential to teach us a huge amount about life from the 1st all the way to the 5th century AD

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

www.openculture.com/2026/01/dict...

#books #literature #language

An inscribed floor tile from Roman London, with a sketch depicting a Roman lighthouse. Part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #RomanBritain

Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World Tübingen, June 29 to July 1, 2026 Codex Justiniani I-IX cum glosa Franciscus Accursius, Guido de Suzaria, Guillelmus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Ferreriis, Petrus de Cerveriis (BHSL.HS.0021) Land and l…

🚨CfP: Land and Power in the Late Roman World. Deadline: 11 Jan 26, event 29 Jun-1 July 26.

Come join the Land & Loyalty team in sunny Tubingen to discuss why land was so important in the late Roman world. ECRs especially solicited!

research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/...