The Roman Theatre at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) as it is may have looked when completed in 16/15 BC after its dedication by M. Agrippa (note the drop curtain is in the raised position), and how it looks today. #RomanSiteSaturday.

The Roman Theatre at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) as it is may have looked when completed in 16/15 BC after its dedication by M. Agrippa (note the drop curtain is in the raised position), and how it looks today. #RomanSiteSaturday.

Harry in front of the Roman walls at Colchester

Harry in front of the Roman walls at Colchester

Harry in front of the Middleborough mosaic

Harry in front of the Balkerne Gate, Colchester

#RomanSiteSaturday
Harry has reached #Camulodunum — Britain’s first Roman colonia (cAD 49–50), built for retired soldiers and early provincial capital. Once a stronghold of the Trinovantes & Cunobelinus, it later became a symbol of Roman rule. Destroyed in the Boudican Revolt, then rebuilt. 🏛️

New post this week, part two of five on ancient Spalatum! This installment finishes up with the basement area of Diocletian's Palace and includes the famous peristyle of the palace.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Photos showing some of the complex archaeological remains at #OstiaAntica, ancient port of Rome.
#Archaeology #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
📷 my own.

For another #RomanSiteSaturday a nocturnal view of London's Roman Wall from above; courtesy of Mariordo (Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz). #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

View along a curving underground feature with 7 light wells open above, 8 arches to the right and 3 to the left. Pieces of architectural spolia (eg a Corinthian capital) are placed along the passageway and under some arches. The structure's surfaces are of thin terracotta brickwork.

View looking across the width of the amphitheatre underground showing a complex of interlocking arched passageways. Pieces of architectural stonework are on the floor, including decorative Corinthian capitals and fluted columns. As with other view, light floods in from above and numerous arches are in evidence.

#RomanSiteSaturday 🏺
Flavian amphitheatre in Pozzuoli, #Roman port of Puteoli west of Naples, is 3rd largest in Italy w spectacular underground structures surviving.
3 storeys high w wide passages + complexes for moving/lifting scenic effects. Animals were housed on 2 levels w 40 cages on each.

Edeta fué una ciudad ibérica, a unos 500 m del núcleo histórico de Liria, Valencia 🇪🇦 España. Sertorio la destruyó en el año 76 a. C., formando una nueva ciudad de estilo romano que tuvo su esplendor en los siglos I y II 📷 A. M.

#RomanSiteSaturday
Edeta fué una ciudad ibérica, a unos 500 m del núcleo histórico de Liria, Valencia 🇪🇦 España.
Sertorio la destruyó en el año 76 a. C., formando una nueva ciudad de estilo romano que tuvo su esplendor en los siglos I y II
#Hispania #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#AncientBluesky

1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Saturday

#RomanSiteSaturday
#CastleSaturday

#SwordSaturday

#StuartSaturday

#SarcophagusSaturday

#SteepleSaturday
#SpireSaturday

#RooftopSaturday

#ScreenSaturday

#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

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Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey was in Roman Imperial times the "first city of Pisidia", but it was already a major town in the Hellenistic period. It was abandoned after Arab raids threatened the town around 640 and after an earthquake destroyed it around 650. #RomanSiteSaturday

#RomanSiteSaturday & one of the most gorgeously located ancient basilicas I can think of
in the south of Kos 🇬🇷 the Basilica(s) of Agios Stefanos, c5-6 opposite the island of Kastri

See more ancient sites from around Greece (a lot more) in the playlist >>>
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Saturday

#BookwormSat
#CastleSaturday
#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
#SaturdayStatue
#SaturdayStripes
#SaturdaySwans
#SculptureSaturday
#SixOnSaturday
#SpireSaturday
#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

(Can't believe i typed # 'Sunday' ...got so excited about #RomanSiteSaturday i wished it would go all weekend 😆 )

Looking down an ancient paved road with people, Roman ruins and mountains in the distance

Looking down the Via di Mercurio from the Roman city wall of #Pompeii towards the forum, early one Saturday morning

📷 Sept 2023

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

An eroded carving of Minerva on a stone face, framed by modern surround with hood. The light is pale, on a winter's morning.

Close up of a carving of Minerva, on a stone face; modern bricks are visible bottom right, where a hole has been filled.

The shrine in context, on an outcrop of rock in a sloping field. The University of Chester's Wheeler building is visible across the River Dee in the background. It is a sunny day.

Shrine to the goddess #Minerva, Edgar's Field, #Chester. Second century (with modern surround), carved on a quarry wall; the only one to survive in situ in Britain. You can find it in Handbridge, just across the Old Dee Bridge from the city centre.

#RomanSiteSaturday #Cheshire #RomanBritain

📷 mine

In the foreground copies of hypocaust pilae are stacked in rows, once under the floor of the bathhouse at Wroxeter. The originals were discovered when the site was excavated in 1859, but subsequently looted. In the background a large, substantial surviving section of the building wall stands tall. The bricks are all reddish in colour.

A #RomanSiteSaturday pic from an impromptu visit to Wroxeter or Viroconium Cornoviorum yesterday. Had to take the opportunity while I was so close as back to Cornwall later today where the Roman evidence is less obvious.

A surviving stretch of Hadrian’s Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland - the first major stretch of the Roman wall west of Newcastle. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Heddon #HadriansWall #Northumberland

The columns of an arched building with a plant growing to one side. Venus is bathing with attendant nymphs holding her towel & fresh water.

Stone relief
From a water tank.

It shows Venus bathing with attendant nymphs holding her towel & fresh water.

From Bremenium (High Rochester) fort, Northumberland, to the north of Hadrian's Wall.

Now in Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle.

#RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology

View of the temple with fish mosaic

GPOY with cubiculum/bedroom mosaic floors

For #RomanSiteSaturday I’m at the Roman villa at Milreu, Portugal 🏛️🇵🇹🌿

Glevum was originally a #Roman fort in #Britain that became a "colonia" of retired legionaries in AD 97. Today, it is known as #Gloucester.

#RomanSiteSaturday
#History
#Archaeology

A colonnaded courtyard seen from above, surrounded by Georgian buildings built of yellow stone

#RomanSiteSaturday The Roman Baths of Bath, seen from the roof of the nearby 15th century Bath Abbey

The medieval Abbey and cloisters were built directly over the ancient Romano-Celtic city of Aquae Sulis!

📸 Mine

#archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

For this week's #RomanSiteSaturday a breathtaking view of Roman Thamugadi (Timgad), Numidia, Algeria; courtesy of Carole Reddato #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology

A tall fragment of an octagonal shaped building, with grass in front and a tree to the left.

Known as the 'Temple of Mars' (although there is no evidence it was dedicated to that god), this Roman sanctuary at Corseul in Brittany was constructed in the first century and in use for two hundred years. Parts of its sacred cella still stand 10 metres tall. #RomanSiteSaturday

Saturday

#BookwormSat
#CastleSaturday
#Caturday
#ChessSaturday
#NonFictionSaturday
#PostboxSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
#SarcophagusSaturday
#SaturdayMono
#SaturdayStatue
#SaturdayStripes
#SaturdaySwans
#SculptureSaturday

1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Saturday

#RomanSiteSaturday
#CastleSaturday

#SwordSaturday

#StuartSaturday

#SarcophagusSaturday

#SteepleSaturday
#SpireSaturday

#RooftopSaturday

#ScreenSaturday

#StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

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More #RomanSiteSaturday & more AthensPosting 🏛

Just on the edge of the Athenian Agora: the Library of Pantainos, built by the philosopher Titus Flavius Pantainos between 98-102 AD during the reign of the Trajan

See more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

#RomanSiteSaturday & more AthensPosting 🏛
The Library of Hadrian, a site we've photographed a lot before but its an incredible survivor in the heart of the city

See more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

#RomanSiteSaturday & its a good day for AthensPosting 🏛

This is the Roman Agora including the gate of Athena Archegetis
See more of Athens in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTmX...

The remains of the foundations of Piercebridge Roman Bridge in County Durham that once carried Dere Street (the Roman road that linked York with Corbridge) across the River Tees. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Piercebridge

Camulodunum, the Roman Colchester in Essex, was an important castrum and city in Roman Britain. It was the first capital of the province. Originally it was the site of the Brythonic-Celtic oppidum of Camulodunon, capital of the Trinovantes and later the Catuvellauni tribes. #RomanSiteSaturday

For #RomanSiteSaturday