🪷 #NovemberCountdown to Antinous' birthday on 27 Nov: #Antinous / #Apollo head at Berlin's #AltesMuseum. Crowned with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite / #Venus. Large Egyptian-style eyes! From #Naukratis Egypt, which #Antinoos and #Hadrian visited in autumn 130 AD. 🪷

🪷 July 5th to 13th is the Ludi Apollinares Roman festival of #Apollo. Livy: "Romans wore floral wreaths, ate outdoors." Good excuse for a picnic! antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/07/wear... Photos: #Antinous as #Apollon wearing myrtle wreath of #Aphrodite. #Naukratis bust at Berlin Altes Museum. 🪷

🪷 July 5th to 13th is the Ludi Apollinares Roman festival of #Apollo. Art: #Naukratis #Antinous / #Apollon head Berlin's #AltesMuseum. Crowned with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite / #Venus. Photo: #Antinoos / #Cernunnos Altar of Edhie Laureano Pires, Bahia, Brazil www.instagram.com/yatawamirim 🪷

🪷 #Naukratis #Antinous/#Apollo head crowned with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite #Venus. #Antinoos & #Hadrian visited Naukratis,
#Hierakleion and the Nile resort of #Canopus in 130 AD. Grieving Hadrian returned alone to Canopus in February 131. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/grie... 🪷

🪷 #Naukratis #Antinous #Apollo head with myrtle wreath sacred to #Aphrodite who had a shrine in Naukrates on the Nile near #Canopus and #Hierakleion which Antinous & Hadrian visited in October 130. In February 131, grieving #Hadrian returned to Canopus: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/grie... 🪷 🪷

🪷 Get a grip, we're going shopping #PhallusThursday for #Thanksgiving #BlackFriday specials. Hellenistic #Naukratis figure of an Egyptian with a pretty prodigious phallus protruding over his head (400-50 BC). #Antinous and #Hadrian visited Naukratis at the mouth of the Nile. 🪷