For #worldbeeday , here’s the bottom of a gold phiale - offering bowl - decorated with bees, acorns, and beechnuts. The bees alternate with the acorns on the outermost ring - look closely. 🐝

Green, 4th-3rd c. BCE
#Metmuseum

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The tombstone of #Roman soldier Marcus Petronius, who died at the age of 38 after 18 years in the #Roman Army. Originally from Vicetia (Vicenza, Italy), he was a standard-bearer in the Legio XIV Gemina & died in Wroxeter within 20 years of the conquest of Britannia #Archaeology

A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks.

Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD.

From the collections at the Museum of London.

📸 taken by me

A sweet mosaic known as the ‘Thief Partridge’. It depicts a (chukar?) partridge stealing a mirror from a colorful woven basket. The theme is inspired by a Hellenistic prototype by Sosus of Pergamon. #MosaicMonday

House of the Labyrinth, #Pompeii .
#MANN (inv. 9980)

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Something lovely to start the week! 🦛 💙

Four adorable blue faience hippos made by ancient Egyptian artisans some 4,000 years ago!

Decorated with lotus flowers, these blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and regeneration/rebirth. Photos my own.

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Apparently it's #WorldBeeDay : a beautiful #Roman intaglio depicting a bee. From Syria.
1st to 3rd century AD
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Photo: Yale University Art Gallery.

3D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them cam.ac.uk/research/news/…

#WorldBeeDay

We’re celebrating the amazingness of bees with this beautiful golden bee thought to date to the Hellenistic period of Greece. At only 1.5 cm in length, it’s about the size of a bee as well!

🏛 Yale University Art Gallery

Apparently it's #WorldBeeDay : a beautiful #Roman intaglio depicting a bee. From Syria.
1st to 3rd century AD
🐝🐝🐝

Photo: Yale University Art Gallery.

Monday morning in the office...
(Digital artwork by Alexey Kondakov)

A bishop shown on a Chertsey tile, made in the thirteenth century. Now displayed in the exhibition at Winchester cathedral, originally set in the altar at St Swithun's shrine
#MedievalMonday

2nd century AD mosaic floor panel from Roman Daphne, near Antioch. The female figure may be the personification of ‘abundance’ and ‘good living’. The mosaic is now part of the collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art #MosaicMonday 📸 My own.

#MosaicMonday
Europa being abducted and carried over the sea by Zeus in the form of a bull, though neither look all that bothered.... 2-3 C AD.
One of many fine floors discovered around 1900 in Trinquetaille district of Arles, now in the superb Musée de l'Arles antique.

A small fragment of black and white geometric mosaic and a collection of tree root disturbed tesserae in Worthing Theatres and Museum

Found during excavations in the Romano Celtic temples of Chanctonbury Ring West #Sussex

The full nature of floor design is sadly unknown

#MosaicMonday

🤩Exciting news for #MosaicMonday ! 🤩 On behalf of Stephen Cosh/David Neal, who are not on Twitter/X, delighted to announce that Volume V of their magnificent corpus of Romano-British mosaics has been published. Read on for details ... 1/2
Image below: Priam, Ketton (Rutland)

A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks.

Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD.

From the collections at the Museum of London.

📸 taken by me

#StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, carved in limestone. Found in Montagnac, #France . Dating 3200-2400 BC.
In the late neolithic period, several cultures living....1/2

In the year 1615, the Italian traveler Pietro della Valle described mummy portraits as the most exquisite sight in the world. Since then, mummy portraits have captivated the attention of both scholars and the general public. This portrait of a woman named Eirene is one of....1/2

Cliff really does get around. Now he’s in the Ivory Coast and sends this dispatch. mainlymuseums.com/post/1245/mus-…
Clifford Pereira #museums #ivorycoast

The Black Watch Museum in Perth #StainedGlassSunday