My in progress illustration next to the marble bust of Livia at the British museum

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Happy #natalediroma everyone (albeit one day late)!! Aprils illustration is of the empress Livia Drusilla, who ascended to the throne in 27 BCE with her husband Emperor Augustus.

The April sticker is of The Boxer at Rest, a Roman bronze statue of a Hellenistic original ⚱️

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2778 years of #Rome! #NatalediRoma

Natale di Roma, Dies Romana

Secondo la leggenda, narrata anche da Varrone, Romolo avrebbe infatti fondato la città di Roma il 21 aprile del 753 a.C.

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Happy #NataleDiRoma! Rome turns 2777 years old! Rome and her history have had such a huge impact on my life, and I'm so glad to have proposed to Charlotte there last year, tying the city into my family.

Happy Birthday, Rome!

MMDCCLXXVIII AB URBE CONDITA

#aburbecondita #birthdayofrome #rome #NatalediRoma

Happy 2778th birthday to Rome, one of my favourite cities in the world, I will see you in September! #natalediroma #rome

Happy 2,778th birthday to Rome!
Pic from my archives January 2010: a typical rooftop in the centre of the city, hundreds of years of accretions.

#Rome #NataleDiRoma

The Image of Philip the Arab on JSTOR John M. York, Jr., The Image of Philip the Arab, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 21, H. 2 (2nd Qtr., 1972), pp. 320-332

For a useful summary of Philip's reign, see:

John M. York, Jr. “The Image of Philip the Arab.” Historia: Zeitschrift Für Alte Geschichte, vol. 21, no. 2, 1972, pp. 320–332.

jstor.org/stable/4435267

#ACOTD #NatalediRoma #Numismatics 🧵🏺

Ancient Coin of the Day: A thread for Rome’s birthday, looking at the coins of Philip the Arab, during whose reign Rome’s 1000th rolled round in AD 248.

#ACOTD #NatalediRoma #Numismatics 🏺🧵

Image: RIC IV Philip I 118; British Museum (1867,0101.798). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#MosaicMonday - Mosaic depicting the She-Wolf looking after Romulus and Remus. From Aldborough (Britain), about 300-400 AD. Leeds City Museum.

Happy 2,778th birthday, Rome! #NatalediRoma 🐺

The Forum Romanum, showing from left to right, the Arch of Septimius Severus, the temple of Saturn, and the Basilica Julia.

The writer, wearing an anti-Covid mask, as required, in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, stands next to a marble bust of Antinous, last god of the ancient world.

The writer in front of the temple of Portunus in the Forum Boarium.

The entrance to the Pantheon of Rome late at night, very, very late at night!

On the 2,778th anniversary of the date traditionally identified as the founding of Rome, I wish we were back in that extraordinary city to celebrate, as we did in 2022 when these photographs were taken!

Felix dies natalis, Roma!

#NataleDiRoma #Forum #Antinous #Portunus #Pantheon

#OnThisDay - 21 April - according to tradition in 753 BC the city of Rome is founded. #NatalediRoma

As Ovid says:

"ipse locus causas vati facit. urbis origo venit."

'The moment gives motivation to the bard. The founding of the City is come!' (Fasti 4.807-808)

A dark blue glass finger ring with an engraved scene on its bezel. The carving depicts a she-wolf standing over two small children beneath her. The figures are rendered in fine detail within the smooth, oval surface of the ring.

DIES ROMANA - MMDCCLXXVIII AB VRBE CONDITA - Happy 2778th Birthday #Rome!

The story of Rome begins with a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus as depicted on this #Roman finger-ring made of blue glass.

Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg

#NatalediRoma #RomanArchaeology

Happy 2,778th birthday to Rome!
Pic from my archives: 2010 and the January sun sets on the Flavian Amphitheatre and the colonnade of the Temple of Venus and Rome.

#Rome #NataleDiRoma

Auguri Roma⁠
ph @fran.cescoroma8005⁠

#21aprile #natalediroma #campidoglio #romebynight #romadinotte #nightinthecity #sampietrino #sanpietrino #sampietrini #sanpietrini #roma #rome #cobblestones #sampietriniromani #sanpie… instagr.am/p/DIs30KlRh2-/

Happy birthday, Roma! 🐺
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"Il Colosseo è quanto di meglio ho visto a Roma. Questo edificio mi piace, sarà magnifico una volta terminato!" - Stendhal

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#21aprile

Oh, buon Natale! 😉

#21aprile
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21.04.2023 - Happy Birthday Rome - 2776° Natale di Roma - Images | Luca Neve Do not copy, screenshot, screengrab photographs for personal or professional or Social Network use whitout permission, it is theft. Please contact luca.neve@hotmail.com

2778 anni, Tanti Auguri alla più Grande e più maltrattata di tutte, Tanti Auguri Grande Bellezza, Splendore (quasi) Eterno:
Tanti Auguri Roma!

#Roma #Roma2778 #Rome #BuonCompleannoRoma #GrandeBellezza #CaputMunti #CittàEterna #Urbe #LaCittà #LaLupa #NataleDiRoma

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🏛️ Natale di Roma: quando la storia si veste di festa 21 aprile e ROMA spegne le candeline 🎂 su un compleanno... millenario!

È il Natale di Roma 🏛️
Ma cos’è davvero il Natale di Roma? Perché si festeggia? E soprattutto: come possiamo celebrarlo anche se non abitiamo all’ombra del Colosseo?
#NatalediRoma #compleannodiroma #roma #perfettamentechic

🪷 April 21st is #NatalediRoma, the 2,778th birthday of Rome. #Antinous was born November 27th in 111 AD and he died October 28th in 130 AD. He is no myth, no legend. #Hadrian loved Antinous so much he declared him a god ... the final and ultimate deity ... for Rome ... for us ... forever! 🪷

🪷 #Antinous Priest @antoniussubia.bsky.social #AntoniusSubia offers this prayer to Mater Roma on 21st April, the 2,778th birthday of Rome #NatalediRoma: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/happ... 🪷

🪷 April 21st #NatalediRoma we celebrate the #VenatioUrsae (Bear Hunt) when #Antinous & #Hadrian slew a bear 129 AD. Constantine Arch tondo shows #Antinoos (left) & bear (right). Bears sacred to #Artemis/#Diana. We seek the Dianic-Artemis-Bear within us: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... 🪷

🪷 Visitors to #Hadrian's Pantheon get a treat on 21 April #NatalediRoma (Rome's birthday) when a sunbeam illuminates the portal through which Hadrian and #Antinous strode. The emperor designed the temple to serve as a solar calendar sundial. More: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/hadr... 🪷

Ancient Rome comes to life with gladiator fights in the Circus Maximus #NatalediRoma

Natale di Roma 2025 Il 21 aprile prossimo, nel giorno del 2778° compleanno dell’Urbe, il Colle Capitolino si trasformerà in un palcoscenico a cielo aperto

Il 21 aprile prossimo, nel giorno del 2778° compleanno dell’Urbe, il Colle Capitolino si trasformerà in un palcoscenico a cielo aperto
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#21aprile #natalediroma #prossimamente #roma

On the 2,777th anniversary of the date traditionally identified as the founding of Rome, I wish we were back in that extraordinary city to celebrate, as we did in 2022.

Felix dies natalis, Roma!

#NataleDiRoma #Forum #Antinous #Portunus #Pantheon

#OnThisDay, the legendary foundation date of the city of Rome; April 21, 753 BCE. Some pics from my very first day in #Rome on my first trip to the city (and Europe) in January of 2009.

🏺 AncientBluesky #OTD #RomanArchaeology #NataleDiRoma

Happy birthday, Rome! #natalediroma

DIES ROMANA - MMDCCLXXVII AB VRBE CONDITA - Happy 2777th Birthday Rome!

The story of Rome begins with a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus as depicted on this Roman finger-ring made of blue glass.

Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg

#NatalediRoma
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