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The First 20 Popes

DEDICATION OF A SHRINE TO HERCULES, 1 JUNE 128 CE. OSPEDALE FATEBENEFRATELLI, ISOLA TIBERINA "Sacred to Hercules of the House of Augustus, from the collection of the warehousemen of the second larger cohort and Diadumenus, slave of our Caesar, and Titus Flavius Crescens and the Galban workers; under the care of Hermes, slave of Gaius Mundicius Helpistus. Dedicated on the Kalends of June [June 1st] in the consulship of Marcus Iunius Mettius Rufus and Quintus Pomponius Maternus [128 AD]." So it seems the workers in the Horrea Galbana, the huge warehouses of Galba near the river-port of Rome in today's Testaccio district, had a nice whip round to fund a sacred space, a shrine or altar, to Hercules. The workers, imperial freedmen and slaves, were divided into three "cohorts", not military ones, but possibly corresponding to the three courtyards of the Horrea. Hercules, the human who became a god, was a natural divinity to link to Hadrian, emperor at the time. He was also connected to mercantile activity and the emergence from the bonds of slavery, which would also help to explain the devotion of the warehouse-men.

A #dedication of a #shrine to #Hercules is the subject of this week's #EpigraphyTuesday. Made in elegant rustic capitals, we can date it precisely to June 1, 128 CE. It's now on the wall of the fishpond cloister of the #Fatebenefratelli hospital on the #Tiber Island in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For #stunday. Sunset on the cliff-top ruins of the 5th-century BCE Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. (2023)

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Back to researching land title in the ancient world. 💙📚 #AncientBlueSky #law

For #AncientSiteSunday. Ancient site of Monte Alban, in Oaxaca, Mexico (2011). #MonteAlban #Mexico #ruins #ancientbluesky #Oaxaca #stunday #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #EastCoastKin #ECK #SundayStonework #archaeology

"Homer invented these fictions and attributed human powers to the gods; I wish he had attributed divine powers to us"
Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions" (Book I, Chapter 16)
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A weathered statue of a crouching human. Long stands of hair are visible falling in the shoulders.

The ‘harpy’ from another angle showing the top half of a crouching body which is clearly animal shaped.

The ‘harpy’ side on, the back of its body shows a piece of masonry which may be wings or even part of a building, a door arch?

The Colchester sphinx. A similarly shaped statue to the statue in the previous photos, but in much better condition clearly showing a winged Greek style sphinx with a head between their front claws.

Roman-period statue of a ‘Harpy’ found in Driffield Terrace, York. To me, it (loosely) resembles the Colchester sphinx, which is believed to have been placed on a tomb. Both items may be evidence for a taste of Egyptian style art in Roman Britain. 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky

El teatro romano de Cartagena construido entre los años 5 y 1 a. C. en la ciudad de Carthago Nova, actual Cartagena 🇪🇦 España. Tenía capacidad para unos 7000 espectadores, y estuvo en uso hasta el siglo III. 📷 A.M.

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El teatro romano de Cartagena construido entre los años 5 y 1 a. C. en la ciudad de Carthago Nova, actual Cartagena 🇪🇦 España. Tenía capacidad para unos 7000 espectadores, y estuvo en uso hasta el siglo III
#Hispania #Roma #RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology #History
#AncientBluesky

One of these frogs is a mid-2nd millennium BC Egyptian amulet made of carnelian. The other is a strawberry-flavoured chewy sweet.

Which is which?

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A striking Hellenistic/#Roman glass bowl, made about 2100-2200 years ago. It has an almost hypnotic blue, green, & clear spiral pattern #AncientBlueSky

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Just submitted the news for @ancientwarfare.bsky.social magazine no. 107. Exciting stories from Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Norway. Look for that issue soon!
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A small bronze statuette of a bull with an Egyptian style crown between his horns.

Small bronze statuette of the Apis Bull, found in Dringhouses, York. It’s inscribed with a check pattern on its back and flanks. 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky

SARCOPHAGUS WITH THE FOUR SEASONS, 270-280 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This sarcophagus was acquired by Pius VI for the VM from its discoverers, and now holds a prominent position in the Belvedere Courtyard. It's tub-shaped, a lenòs, and, as often happens with such sarcophagi, has two lions savaging antelopes at the curved ends. From left to right, two on either side of the central figure, stand youthful male figures representing the Seasons: Winter, fully dressed in tunic and cloak, holding up a duck he has hunted; Spring, nude but for his cloak, with one arm bearing a branch with new leaves; Summer, also nude but for a cloak, holding a herdsman's staff; and Fall, holding a container of fruit and a freshly-hunted rabbit. At centre is the young male deceased with a peripetasma or curtain behind him, held up by Spring and Summer. The face has been carved for a male, but the figure is female, in a dress and stola.

#SarcophagusSaturday at the #VaticanMuseums gives us this odd C18 display of a very toned seminude reclining woman with a #Flavian hairdo, the lid to a different #sarcophagus than the one it's on, which shows the deceased flanked by the Four Seasons (not the band). 270-280 CE. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Precedent Example Discoveries And The New Testament There are examples of discoveries that are similar to ours (to a lesser degree) that also happened to change the predominant world view of history. Most people at this point in time are not truly familiar with these discoveries and may not have even

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Precedent Examples And The New Testament
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Royal Supremacy: When The World Lacked Freedom Paper deals with the reality of the situation when royalty ruled the world, and when no one but royals were allowed to write under penalty of death. Thus, a 'closed' or controlled environment with the created illusion of freedom & the

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Royal Supremacy
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Three Major Religions Created By Ancient Royalty Today, three major religions created in ancient times are still alive and well. All are deliberate fraud and need to be exposed as such. This paper will give you information that will prove once and for all that these religions need to be left in the

This is a paper that covers the creation of 3 Major religions: Judaism, Christianity & Islam. There is at least one other paper of mine which covers this as well. One will want to read them both. @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social #AncientBlueSky #Discover

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When The Real Popes Came To Power.odt This paper picks up where some of my other papers left off. That is, it is a supplement. And yet, it also serves as an overview. To better understand this paper, please read my other papers regarding the ancient royal oligarchy and the creation of

Of hundreds of research papers & articles I've written, this one gives perhaps the best overall summary of 3 major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) & how they came to be. #Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social #Oligarchy #AncientBlueSky #Rome

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The Apocryphal New Testament Authorship For those who are new to the work of the New Classical Scholarship (NCS), we have discovered that history at least before the 1500's, was an "inside job". What that means is that it was being written only by royals who were either

If you read this research paper about the non-canon New Testament texts all the way through, you are bound to learn some remarkable things. #Discover #FreeDownload #Reads #literature #WritingandBooks #Books #NewTestament #AncientBlueSky

Apocryphal NT Authorship
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Flavius Josephus aka Arrius Calpurnius Piso.pdf Who was Flavius Josephus? Answering this one question, leads to answers to virtually all other questions about ancient history. The answer is that he was Arrius Calpurnius Piso, a royal Roman. He wrote under the alias of Flavius Josephus and

Of my research of the ancestry & relationship of the popes, inevitably all that I could trace back to the 1st century led directly back to Arrius Piso; the main creator of Christianity. He, his family & descendants were popes. #Discover #AncientBlueSky #AncientRome

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This exquisite golden lion may be of Lydian or Persian origin. It is unclear. If the latter, it may have been a spoil of the Persian wars dedicated to the oracle of Dodona (where it was found) by a member of the Ionian Greek elite.

🕰️C5th BC
🏛️ Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
📷mine
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Three books, by authorities on the subject; 'Creating Christianity' (Henry Davis), 'Piso Christ' (Roman Piso), 'The True Authorship Of The New Testament' (Abelard Reuchlin).

#archaeology #classics #ancientbluesky Fragment of a horse statue from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassus, Bodrum, #Turkey, c. 350 BC. Attributed to Pytheos of Priene.

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The Optimus In Plinys Panegyricus The 'Optimus' In Pliny's Panegyricus (A key paper to understanding the true nature of ancient history) (Roman Piso, 02-10-2018) [Regarding Secret Co-Rulers In The Roman Empire] [German: 'Der "Optimus" in Plinius es

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The 'Optimus' In Pliny Is Key To Secret About Arrius Piso & Emperors
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This book is also a course on reading ancient texts as the authors themselves read them. #Free #Download:

'Pliny The Younger: His Words & Phrases' (Pliny As The New Testament Paul). By Roman Piso. www.academia.edu/s/111356cef7

Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea – Friday, April 24, 2026 Friday, April 24, 2026

Registration is now open for the 2026 CUNY Classics Graduate Student Conference, Thalassocracy and the Power of the Sea.

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FRESCO FRIEZE OF THE CEILING VAULT, DETAIL, C. 30 BCE. "STUDY", HOUSE "OF AUGUSTUS" We could explore the decoration of this sole surviving room of the upper floor of the late Republican domus almost certainly wrongly called the House of Augustus for any trace of a reference to the Sicilian city of Syracusa, but in vain. Why would we do this? Because Suetonius tells us that Augustus had a "high-up" room he called his "Syracusa", which was a private space he used as a study or workshop. Why he called it Syracusa is an open question. This room is small and windowless like a bedroom. Restoration lasting 20 years pieced together fragments of the vaulted ceiling, and here we see the splendid painted frieze that lines both sides of the vault. Between two elegant frames is a wide band with lilies alternating with wild female faces displaying pointed ears, wide staring eyes, and a smiling open mouth with pearly teeth.

#FrescoFriday finds us upstairs in what is often called the #HouseofAugustus on the #Palatine in #Rome, in a little room over the #cubiculum on the ground floor. This detail of the #fresco work, painstakingly remade, is on the vaulted ceiling. A smile from around 30 BCE. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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For #FindsFriday - the bronze cover of a wonderful compact/folding mirror!
Incredible to imagine this in the hands (or handbag 😆) of an Ancient Greek person 2000 years ago!

325-275 B.C.E.

📸 Us, Allard Pierson Museum. Amsterdam.

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