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Gold snake bracelet / armlet from the Ptolemaic period. Dated c 300-250 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1988.22). metmuseum.org/art/collection…

Καλημέρα από την Μεσσηνία...🌻☀️

Good morning.

“Cats in the Sun”, Greek Islands. Photographer: Hans Silvester, 1994.

Carthaginian Glass Head Pendant, C. 5th-4th century BC.

The earliest type of head-pendants date to the 6th century BC and were produced in Phoenicia. Later types such as this one were produced in the Phoenician colony of Carthage as well as other Phoenician settlements located

Roman Votive Ear Panel, 1st-3rd century AD

Made from marble with a Greek inscription “'IAEICEYXHN”“(?).

Votive offerings were presented to a god, sometimes either in the hope of a cure or as thanks for one. They were made in the shape of the afflicted body part – in this case a

Fragment of a terracotta Campana relief: head of gorgon with of Perseus wearing a fillet and chlamys on the left. Roman 50BC- 100 AD Source: British Museum

Gold snake bracelet / armlet from the Ptolemaic period. Dated c 300-250 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1988.22). metmuseum.org/art/collection…

Bronze Age flint arrowhead, Atrak valley, Khorasan, NE Iran

'Newest member of the family, adopted from shelter! Any suggestions for a name?'

What the hell?? 😯😬🤔 (From FB)

#MosaicMonday
Glass opus sectile depicting sea life.
From the Domus of the Surgeon, on display in the archaeological section of the City Museum of Rimini.

Detail from Christ Crowned With Thorns, Dieric Bouts, 1470.

King Mithridates or Antiochus I of Commagene shaking hands with Heracles, Arsameia on the Nymphaios. Mount Nemrut, Adiyaman, Turkey.

From Roman London, the wonderful ‘Bucklersbury mosaic’.

About 1,800 years ago, this well-preserved and almost complete mosaic floor belonged to wealthy home in the heart of Roman ‘Londinium’.

Shown here in a reconstruction of a Roman dining room. Museum of London. 📷 2021.

aegean landscape in aegina

Gold Ring with Aphrodite. Culture: Greek, c. 4th Century BC

Le temple d'Apollon sur l'île de Naxos, en Grèce, tel une porte des étoiles...

📷 Athan Andreas.