It was found within the foundations of a Roman structure with round walls while digging a cellar in Toft Green in 1770. The site was later built over by York’s first railway station and the exact location is now lost. There’s a few Egyptian(ising) items from the Roman period in the Yorkshire Museum
A Latin inscription carved on a gritstone tablet and painted with red text. The translation reads “To the holy god Serapis, Claudius Hieronymianus, legate of the Sixth Legion, Victorious, built this temple from the ground".
An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
An adorable little #Roman dog figurine, some 1700+ years old - once an ornament, a lucky charm, or a child's toy, perhaps..?
This is 100% the image I’ve been looking for to include in my thesis…
The last 24 hours have shown what many have said for a long time.
Britain's role as an accomplice to Trump's America must end.
We must urgently decouple from a rogue US & seek security with allies closer to home. That starts with suspension of the US bombers on British soil.
Our leaders are cowards and would have been complicit in the murder of millions of people.
Vote Green.
A contemporary portrait of Mary Toft, wearing a bonnet and 18th century clothes, with a cute rabbit on her lap.
April is rabbit season and this year is particularly important, marking the 300th anniversary of Mary Toft, who claimed to have given birth to rabbits in 1726, tricking several eminent doctors, until it was revealed to be a hoax.
A photoshopped image from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Harold Godwinson swearing on holy relics an oath to the Absolute Unit (a very large sheep).
Breaking news: we've just signed a once-in-a-lifetime loan agreement to bring rural England's most iconic artwork home for the first time in 1,000 years.
Introducing our 2027 major exhibition - Bayewe Tapestry: the Fight to Wool England.
A steatite black statuette of a dog of the mastiff family, resembling an XS Bully, with a light anxious mien. Covered in cuniform writing.
Dogs are lovely. Statuette of a friendly pooch donated by a doctor from Lagash to the goddess Ninisina, for the life of Sûmû-El, King of Larsa.
Early second millennium BCE, ancient Girsu (Tell Telloh, Iraq). Held in Louvre. #AncientBluesky
Statue féminine à tête de lion de Thinissut (argile, IIe s. av. J.-C., musée régional de Nabeul en Tunisie). Elle était exposée dans l’exposition Carthago du @ParcoColosseo.
FUNERARY STELE OF A YOUTH, 410-390 BCE. GROTTAFERRATA, MUSEO DELL'ABBAZIA, ON LOAN TO THE CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS Here we have a refined and mostly intact example of late C5 BCE Attic funerary sculpture. Once it would have been bright with colour, but no trace of the original paint remains, so we can see the Parian marble that so impassioned C18-C19 neoclassicists. The stele is rectangular, stepping back twice so it's thickest at the bottom. At top is some symmetrical palmette decoration. The stela shows a youth seated facing right, his face in profile. He has short curly hair and round cheeks, and in age is surely no older than 20. His bare shoulder and chest are broad and strong, and his chiton covers his far shoulder and his body from the waist to the ankles. He's holding an open scroll and is reading happily as his faithful dog lies in the shade beneath his chair. His legs are crossed at the ankles, a graceful touch. How this got to Grottaferrata is anyone's guess.
For #ReliefWednesday we're at a show in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome to find a #Greek, probably #Athenian funerary stele from c. 400 BCE with a beautiful crisp #relief of a young man, the deceased, reading a scroll, his loyal #dog under his chair. #AncientBluesky 🏺
I helped edit this super cool story of a dude from India who wrote his name on Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago! 🏺🧪
An oil painting of the Battle of Actium by Lorenzo A. Castro, depicting a stylised sea battle with early modern ships. (Public Domain)
Her country gods, the monsters of the sky,
Great Neptune, Pallas, and Love’s Queen defy:
The dog Anubis barks, but barks in vain,
Nor longer dares oppose th’ ethereal train.
Aeneid Book 8, 696-700 John Dryden translation.
The figure head of a long necked bird, possibly a black swan or Cormorant, at the stern of a wooden ship. It’s head in upside down with a goobery look on its face.
Reconstruction of the stern swan on a Roman period ship
🏛️ Museo della Città, Rimini
A black and white mosaic of a sailing ship. A swan figure can be seen at the stern of the ship.
Today (March 5) marks the Navigium Isidis, a religious festival dedicated to the goddess Isis, which officially opened sailing season. One account said it culminated with the launch of an ornately decorated ship with a swan neck like on this elegant mosaic from Rimini 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
A screenshot of CNN Politics with the headline’Donald Trump defends size of his penis’.
Ten years ago today
Veii: famous for a 4th century BC siege, but in the 4th century AD it may have been one of Imperial Rome's wild-animal depots. This mosaic of an elephant boarding a ship was found there (modern-day Isola Farnese). #mosaicmonday #AncientBlueSky
📷 by Carole Raddato. Badisches Landesmuseum, Germany.
A marble statue of a bearded man. His eyes have a piercing stare emphasised by indentations where the pupils would go, possibly containing a stone or glass in antiquity.
A thousand yard stare, the sign of acute distress, deep wisdom or both? This larger than life sculpture may depict the philosopher Plutarch (350-433 CE), who sponsored the procession of the Great Panathenaia. From the Acropolis Museum, Athens 🏺
Seal with Forepart of Jackal or Dog
Seal with Forepart of Jackal or Dog www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/8...
A sculpture of a cruel self entitled boy tormenting a goose by pulling at its neck. The boy fights back with terror in its eyes.
Was this the very first Pokémon? A child tormenting and capturing a living animal for its pleasure was a popular topic in Roman art. Pliny the Elder said a sculptor called Boethos created a statue of a boy and goose. Several copies of this item have survived. 🏛️ Vatican Museum
#AncientBluesky
For #PokémonDay, here are our favourites with links to ancient Egypt:
Cofagrigus 👻 looks like an #Egyptian coffin
Lucario 🦾 based on jackal-headed god Anubis
Sigilyph 👁🗨 inspired by #hieroglyphs
Ampharos ⚡️ based on the lighthouse/Pharos of Alexandria
Who would you choose!?
📸 Ken Sugimori
#Pokemon
Remarquable statuette en bronze du dieu gaulois Sucellus provenant de Vienne (en France). Elle date du Ier siècle et provient du laraire d’une maison. The Walters Art Museum - Baltimore.
Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales.
Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs
Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
A lead votive plaque with an image of Mercury wearing a winged helm and holding the caduceus, symbol of heralds.
Mercury - messenger of the gods, patron of merchants, thieves and businessmen, escort of the dead - looking pensive.
Norwich Castle Collection 🏺 #AncientBluesky
TIL Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, a 16th century French jurist, was said to have courageously defended in court the rats of Autun charged with eating all the barley. When they didn’t turn up in court, he proved they could not do so safely due to local cats and they were let off the charge. 🗃️
A small cat shaped book with an intricate pen portrait of a cheeky anthropomorphic cat surrounded by arcane scripts and scribblings.
The installation partly explores ideas of truth and transparency as totalising revelation in the Trumpist world. A small cat-shaped book, bound with Coptic stitch, at the centre of the maze could be a guide out or a guide even further in.
A painting of a cat sat at a picnic table laden stood on grass and with glistening glasses of golden beers.
A detail from Candice Lin’s immersive, labyrinthine g/hosti in Whitechapel Gallery. “I want a visitor to be haunted by the experience of my art”, she says “to leave with a shadow, a demon, a ghost perched in their peripheral vision, somewhere barely seen but lurking” #cat #art
Is this from the archive of Zenon? There’s also a stele recording an offering to Anubis made by Pasos, Feeder of the Dogs. They had their priorities right! cpi.csad.ox.ac.uk/CPI-II/CPI-210.html
Broke: Cat Owner
Woke: Cat Dad
Bespoke: αἰλουροβοσκός, ailouroboskos ("herder of the sacred cats") *
*A position for slaves of a temple of Bastet attested to in a Ptolemaic document.
A neo-classical portico with eau-de-nil colour illuminations of Egyptian gods taken from a funerary content, including Anubis, Isis and Nephthys. Where the god Osiris would normally be located in this kind of image there is instead an ankh, the symbol for life. This is art of great power and mystery.
Bloomsbury’s Greek Revival Portico Building, designed by William Wilkins, lit up with ancient Egyptian art. #AncientBluesky #Egyptology #UCL200