Egyptian mason’s mallets

Dier el-Medina
1539-1077 BCE

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

A 1930s image (hello in the Wellcome Collection) of "Roman Cutlery" which includes a collection of spoons and forks or various sizes.

"The Romans didn't have forks..."

Umm?

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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That is fantastic!

COSMATESQUE PAVEMENT, C. 1268. S. MARIA IN ARACOELI When the old Augustinian church and monastery of S. Maria in Capitolio were given to the Franciscan order in 1249, the new owners needed a far bigger church to host the huge crowds that came to listen to their sermons. The new church turned its orientation 90° and made the older church the transept of the new one. The floor was designed as white marble pavers separated by Cosmatesque stone inlays, mostly in the imperial stones, porphyry and serpentino. But occasionally the regularity of these borders gives way to chaos, as here, near the front door, where we find bits of mosaic tesseræ, some giallo antico and other stones, and a porphyry ivy leaf next to a serpentino diamond shape, both carefully framed with borders of triangular white marble pieces. All this is ancient spolia proclaiming the church's legendary connection with the emperor Augustus.

#Spolia pavement in the #Aracoeli for a very belated #SpoliaSunday, on Tuesday. The newly-rebuilt #Franciscan basilica was consecrated in 1268 but floor tombs continually disturbed the #Cosmatesque floor, creating the crazy-pavement of reused ancient stone we see here. #AncientBluesky 🏺

A 19th century copy of fresco from the house of the Vetti, Pompei

Episode 12: Roman Frescoes, Not just a pretty face

Not all Frescoes are Buon!!!

Can you name the others?

And why were black frescoes recommended...

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Some nice mixtum opus going on here!

A built up floor, for Roman mosaics and other hard floors

and in order:

Opus Scutulatum
Opus Tessallatum
Opus Scutulatum / opus mixtum

#mosaicmonday #romans #rome #history #archaeology #mosaic #romanbluesky

Roman Floors: Under Your Feet Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 31 March · 18min

Episode 11 is now available:

Roman Floors: Roman Glass, Under Your Feet

or...

Roman Floors: Mosaic, Tile, Clay and Wood

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#romans #rome #history #archaeology #mosaic #romanbluesky #tiles

A clear glare "Roman" bowl bring held

A round bowl

vessel, more like a vase than a bowl

It was great to hold these!

I know these are reproductions, but they are made in the same manner, using traditional methods, as per the original glassware.

Ministry of Culture archaeological site, Ventimiglia, Italy.

Book cover, with an ancient stone relief of 2 pairs of fighting gladiators. The text is crimson.

🥳Cover reveal for 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How a Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'🥳

Now officially available to pre-order with an early bird discount (though I'm not sure the release date on the website is 100% set in stone yet)

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Roman Floors: Under Your Feet Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 31 March · 18min

Episode 11 is now available:

Roman Floors: Roman Glass, Under Your Feet

or...

Roman Floors: Mosaic, Tile, Clay and Wood

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#romans #rome #history #archaeology #mosaic #romanbluesky #tiles

fragments of roman era glass in an iron frame. Found in Scotland and now in the Hunterian museum.

The museums interpretation board: Window glass from the headquarters buildings was found at all of the forts on the Antonine Wall which have been excavated. More rare is the iron window grille. It is probable that the glass was set behind the grille in a wooden frame. Often a grille was used on its own. A square stone building with windows was an alien structure in the Scottish landscape dominated by various types of roundhouses, normally with only a door. The arrival of the Romans not only altered the social and political structure of local society in the central belt but also changed the landscape.

Roman glass fragments in the British Museum

A Roman iron window frame of 25 panes.

Roman window glass, originally an early type of 'Plate glass' was cast onto a stone plate or similar and installed in a wood frame.

It could also be installed in iron frames.

Roman Glass - Sand, Soda, and Empire Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 26 March · 16min

Episode 10 is now available:

Roman Glass: Roman Glass, Sand, Soda and Sunlight

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Roman Glass: One Lump or Two?

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#romans #rome #history #archaeology #glass #romanbluesky

Roman Glass - Sand, Soda, and Empire Podcast Episode · Build Like a Roman · 26 March · 16min

Episode 10 is now available:

Roman Glass: Roman Glass, Sand, Soda and Sunlight

or...

Roman Glass: One Lump or Two?

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Spotify
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#romans #rome #history #archaeology #glass #romanbluesky

2000 years.

You know I meant 2000 years, right!

A close up of pallets of tuff

tuff on pallets

2000 later, and Italians are still selling Tuff (tufo in Italian) at the local builder's merchants.

Selfie of myself in front of the Porta Nigra.

Can finally cross this off my list of pilgrimage sites for late antiquity nerds. ✅ 🏛️ 🇩🇪

Sheredot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Demonstrative reconstruction of Roman suspended plaster ceiling found in Trier Cathedral original date circa AD 306

By Kuznetsova Yulia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18227258

Darren McLean (c) A medieval house with a heavy timber floor / ceiling with laths fixed to it to accept plaster. Not Roman, but probably similar to Roman techniques.

Phots from this episode

Roman Walls and Ceiling | Build Like a Roman Lath, Reed, and Wattle

Episode 9 is now available:

Roman Wattle and Daub!

That Romans frequently lived in house of timber frame, with Lath and Plaster!

Links her for Apply, Spotify etc 👇

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#romans #rome #history #archaeology #WattleAndDaub #plaster #BLAR #romanhouses

That's like a nice face, with a terrible new haircut.

One of the great things we have at OU Classical Studies is scholarships for MA students who are either teachers working in state schools or UK Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic students.

You can find out more and apply here: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

Archaeological landscape surveys - volunteer opportunity Have you ever wondered how Archaeologists map their finds and sites? The answer is archaeological surveying, an important aspect of archaeological fieldwork that records the footprint, profile, and l...

Ever fancied volunteering on an archaeological survey?

There's presently a series of events in the Pennines!

Not only is it free (as it's a funded event!) there's also high quality, 1-to-1 training

Many events like this have a fee attached!

Spaces are limited to 4 people per day

I’m not surprised. There were thousand given away at the time, after they’d distributed the bulk to various museums etc.

Plumbing | Build Like a Roman Roman plumbing. More than aqueducts

Episode 8 is now available:

Roman Plumbing (not only aqueducts, that's a future episode)

#romans #rome #history #archaeology #plumbing

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That’s future archaeologist confusion, in the making. 😀

You’re not the first to ask that, in the last few days actually.

I have a contract to write a book on a different topic, so will mention it to the publisher (they do books on Rome, construction etc) soon.

It’s nice to know there’s interest in the topic.

Starts tomorrow! Still time to sign up...

Roman Brick and Tile | Build Like a Roman

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Asbestos | Build Like a Roman

Episode 7 is now available:

Romans and Asbestos

This week's episode is quite short, but still, quite an interesting topic.

#romans #rome #history #archaeology #asbestos

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