#EpigraphyTuesday with a dedication to Venus Ansotica at the Split Archaeological Museum.
Venus Ansotica was a syncretic deity representing a fusion of the Roman goddess Venus and a local Illyrian goddess, worshipped in Aenona (Nin) Dalmatia.
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Two former slaves and their 4 children are remembered on this grand funerary stele.
The Cartorii were very wealthy brick-makers and many terracotta bricks in the region bear the CARTORIANA stamp.
📸 Us, Musei Civici #Padua
#Archaeology #TombTuesday
#AncientBluesky #Classicsbluesky #AncientRome
Roman mosaic showing Neptune in his chariot and brandishing his trident, from the East Baths of Thamugad now in the Musée de Timgad, Algeria; courtesy of Carole Raddato. #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology #MosaicMonday
For #mosaicmonday, one of the greatest treasures of Roman #Tunisia, the 3rd-century AD mosaic of the poet Virgil writing the #Aeneid. Next to him stand Clio, the muse of history and Melpomene, the muse of tragedy.
Printed 3D copy of a tombstone to Ammonius, Centurion of the First Cohort of Spaniards who served for 27 years. The tombstone was found at Ardoch Roman Fort in Perthshire. Now part of the collections at Perth Museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland #PerthMuseum
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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Mosaic of a rate biting the leg of a Roman boy. Red blood streams from the boy’s leg. Around are many leaves on an off-white background.
Rat bites boy! Detail of a 4th century AD mosaic in a bed chamber at the extraordinary Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armenira, Sicily. #mosaicmonday #WorldHeritage
This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.
Happy birthday, Roma! 🐺
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#NatalediRoma
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Mosaic depicting a wolf with what appears to be a large grin on its face. Two children (Romulus and Remus) stand underneath the wolf.
Happy birthday Rome! According to Roman tradition, Romulus founded the city #OnThisDay in 753 BC.
Here's a mosaic of Romulus's early years being raised by a wolf (who had a great smile) #BeforeTheyWereFamous
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21 April AD 121 – Hadrian celebrates Rome's 874th birthday with circus games. #NatalediRoma 🐺
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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
Mosaic of a winged boy riding a dolphin. From Fishbourne Roman Palace. #MosaicMonday
Mosaic with blue/red/white guilloche borders top and bottom. Silenus caped in panther skin cloak behind a panther on the left, following Dionysus holding a wine vessel on the right, his arm around a young satyr.
#MosaicMonday
How to make an entrance: bring a panther to the party. Dionysiac scene of Silenus, a panther, Dionysus and Ampelos, a young satyr.
One of impressive #Roman mosaics at Musée départemental Arles antique, excavated 1914 in Trinquetaille area of Arles, thriving port area C1 BC-C3 AD. 🏺
A monochrome geometric #Roman floor mosaic, still in its original ancient position in the city of Italica (Spain), where it has lain for some 1700+ years
#Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
Part of a colourful Roman mosaic floor depicting doves drinking from a vase from a townhouse that dates AD 1-50. The house is now below the Caseggiato delle Taberne in #OstiaAntica.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
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
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
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Garlic cloves and bread from a fresco originally from Herculaneum and now at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN), Italy. Photo by Sophie Hay
Happy National Garlic 🧄 Day! Greeks & Romans loved garlic—but Mesopotamians loved it 1000s of years before them. The Greek ἄγλις (Latin alium) is an Akkadian loan word. At Pompeii, there was even a garlic seller (aliarii) workshop ( 📸 by @pompei79.bsky.social): pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
The bronze caliga is exhibited at the Museo Civico Archeologico of Bologna. This photo was taken at a temporary exhibition held at the Museum und Park Kalkriese.
#ArtefactSunday - Bronze caliga from an over-life-size statue of a Roman cavalryman from the 1st or the 2nd century AD. Caligae were heavy hobnailed military boots worn by Roman legionaries, auxiliaries, and cavalrymen throughout the Roman Republic and Empire.
This mosaic depicts Jupiter in the guise of an eagle making off with Ganymede. Ganymede wears a Parthian cap to indicate his easternness (and perhaps also his effeminacy).
🏛️Bignor Roman Villa
📷 my own
#MosaicMonday
My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.
This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!
Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!
British Museum 📷 by me
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The arched top of a Roman mosaic, with partial damage, showing the head of Oceanus with fish, dolphins and (possibly lobster claws?) in a demi-lune surrounded by three lines of patterns
Oceanus giving some splendid side eye in the fabulous Fordington High Street Mosaic, 2nd century CE, now on the wall of the Dorset Museum
#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
Birds drinking. From Santa Maria Capua Vetere, now in the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy. #MosaicMonday
A sculpted woman’s head with damage to nose and chin, showing Roman hair style
Close up of hair style on sculpted woman’s head
A sculpted woman’s head, showing Roman hair style
A sculpted woman’s head, showing Roman hair style
This week I am (very belatedly) getting my hair cut. Just sorting out some styles to inspire Nina
#HumanMade
Our curator Andy is all set up at the @favershamfleurmuseum ready for today's finds handling and ID sessions.
Come join us from 11am - 3pm!
#archaeology #museum #heritage
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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