It's a pleasure to be in Augsburg, a place that holds significant personal and professional memories for me. A walk down memory lane: I spent three years here working on my PhD at Augsburg City Archaeology.
A vertical carved panel (from R.M.S. Olympic) with three foliage designs including grapes. An identical panel from R.M.S.Titanic is now in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Carved oak panel. c. 1911
Inspired by Grinling Gibbons (17th Century)
Part of a newel post on the Grand Staircase of R.M.S. Olympic.
R.M.S. Titanic had an identical panel, which has been recovered from her wreck.
Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast
#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday
A horned god with spear and shield - a local god from Roman Maryport in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport, Cumbria. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Maryport #Cumbria
Deshalb war ich da 🙂
It's a pleasure to be in Augsburg, a place that holds significant personal and professional memories for me. A walk down memory lane: I spent three years here working on my PhD at Augsburg City Archaeology.
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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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Entrance Hall to Cardiff Free Library.
Floor & wall tiles, with designs for the four seasons by the Victorian illustrator & artist Walter Crane.
Produced by Maw & Co. 1882
The building is now Museum of Cardiff.
#TilesOnTuesday
My photo shows a Paleo-Babylonian clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text, still partially enclosed in its original clay envelope. The clay is pale orangey-brown in colour displayed against a grey display case background. The outer envelope has been broken open, revealing the inner tablet beneath. Both surfaces are covered with densely packed wedge-shaped characters, which record a contract for the sale of a house purchased by Mannum-balu-Samas at the price of 1/3 shekel and 15 grains of silver. This is followed by the names of the numerous witnesses including the mayor Sin-magir and the courier Apil-ilisu. The same text is repeated on the envelope in the event of a dispute, which was broken to inspect the internal document. It is dated 32nd year of Hammurabl's reign, 10th month, c. 1750 BC. The clay envelope measures 87 mm (height) × 55 mm (width), while the inner tablet measures 64 mm (height) × 43 mm (width). On display at the Museum of Antiquity in Turin. Collection number MAT 740.
A 3,750 year-old contract for the sale of a house recorded on a clay tablet, still in its original clay envelope!
Museo di Antichità, Turin
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Decorated cist lid from Nether Largie North Cairn at Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. The cairn dates to the Bronze Age. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Kilmartin #Argyll
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.
📷me
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The picture shows a pair of Egyptian sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves, the sole with bound edges and pointed toe. One sandal is completely preserved with ankle strap and toe strap.
#Egyptian flip flops: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1500-1400BC
On display at Museum of the University of Tübingen
📷me
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A cartoon-style drawing shows two cats sitting in front of a pet carrier. One cat says: “I go in, and when I come out I’m at the vet… then I go back in, and when I come out I’m home…” The other cat responds: “Could it be? A wormhole!”
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A cartoon-style drawing shows two cats sitting in front of a pet carrier. One cat says: “I go in, and when I come out I’m at the vet… then I go back in, and when I come out I’m home…” The other cat responds: “Could it be? A wormhole!”
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Selfie in front of the Colosseum in Rome.
Tourists. 🤷🏻♂️😉🏺
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This calls very desperately for experimental archaeology. How durable were they? Were they comfy? How long did they take to make, and what was their relative trade-value? Did one shop for shoes, or make them at home? All these are vital research questions, if you're a flip-flopaholic! #Egyptology
Ooh are we sharing ancient shoes?
We'd like to offer these shoe-shaped ceramic vessels from medieval Pleidelsheim, Germany.
Found in the burial of an individual missing both feet, they may have been a way to symbolically 'restore' the deceased's faculties.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Shared for #MonoFootMonday
Yes, they have been preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate.
A tiled floor impressed to look like mosaic. Squares of Celtic knotwork, surrounded by a floral like border.
Victorian imitation mosaic floor -
Museum of Cardiff, Wales
It is actually made of tiles impressed with coloured clay & lines to simulate mosaic.
Produced by Maw & Co.
Not #MosaicMonday
Shalimma, une femme aventureuse. #Archéologie
lejournal.cnrs.fr/nos-blogs/br...
Webpage containing several links to recent news stories relating to Antiquity research. Each story is depicted with a category, image, title and short 'teaser' paragraph.
Want to explore the latest in #ArchaeologyNews? Our website's news section covers everything from accessible summaries of new research to personal blogs from Antiquity authors!
Check it out at antiquity.ac.uk/news
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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 picture shows a pair of Egyptian sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves, the sole with bound edges and pointed toe. One sandal is completely preserved with ankle strap and toe strap.
#Egyptian flip flops: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1500-1400BC
On display at Museum of the University of Tübingen
📷me
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Stone circle
Good morning from the Merry Maidens
A display of a well preserved object resembling a bucket, with a triangular handle and rough, decayed texture. The object is mounted upright in a glass case within a modern museum setting.
A Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast and a willow handle, dating back some 7000 years ago.
Lime bast fibre is a strong and flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for example, used to make textiles or ropes.
Found in a well in Eythra, dating 5100-5000 BC. 🧵1/2
📷 me
Das Foto zeigt eine Stockenten-Mutter, die mit ihren Küken auf einem leicht unruhigen Gewässer schwimmt. Die Ente hat ein detailliert gezeichnetes, braun-gemustertes Gefieder und blickt aufmerksam zur Seite. Um sie herum drängen sich elf kleine, flauschige Entenküken, die durch ihre charakteristische gelb-schwarze Färbung auffallen. Im Hintergrund ragen hohe Gräser und Schilfhalme ins Bild, die den natürlichen Lebensraum unterstreichen. Die Lichtstimmung wirkt sanft, was dem Bild eine friedliche und familiäre Atmosphäre verleiht.
Ein leises Pieps, ein sanftes Gleiten,
durch Wellen, die das Gestern weiten.
Ein Herzschlag braun, elf Herzen klein –
so schön kann pures Dasein sein. 🤗
They don't make 'em like they used to anymore.
