#Graffiti scene from house IX-1-12, shows an episode from the battle between two #Gladiators . The two continue the fight unarmed. The Gladiator on the right can be seen wearing a victory wreath in his head.
#Pompeii #History #Archaeology

#Roman FortThursday
The Castrum at Masada. Note the classical 'playing-card' layout. #Roman legionary (X Fretensis) castra at Masada, Israel, viewed from the fortress walls; constructed 72-73 AD.
#Archaeology #History

#ReliefWednesday offers us the opportunity to consider how hard and how purple the #heart of #Nero was (probably not very, in both cases), and why a #porphyry cobblestone bears his name in the #Vatican , the heart of #Catholic #Christendom .

1972 Gareth Edwards try
Wales vs Scotland
Cardiff Arms Park, 5 February 1972

The ‘Pine Room’ from the House of Augustus (Domus Augusti) on the Palatine Hill in #Rome . It’s a cubiculum - bedroom - decorated with frescoes of pine festoons against a background of colonnaded porticos; a simple black and white floor mosaic completes the room.

📸 me

#ReliefWednesday
This stucco relief portrays Dionysus as a #wrestler ; the athlete - god rests one elbow on a hoop used for gymnastic exercises. Found at the Palaestra at #Pompeii . (See Alt for more details)
#Art #Archaeology #History #artwork

Tokyo researchers find lost villa of ancient Roman emperor in Italy - The Jerusalem Post - jpost.com/archaeology/ar…

It's #HillfortsWednesday !

Here's the gloriously sinuous, contour-hugging ramparty goodness of Beacon Hill, a stunning 3.8ha Iron Age hillfort in #Hampshire

✈️ 📷 looking NW © Ginny Pringle for Hampshire Cultural Trust 2015

For more see: hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/bur…

Herculaneum papyrus found to contain passages from the History of the Academy by Philodemus of Gadara, touching on Plato’s death and enslavement: ansa.it/canale_scienza…

#HillfortsWednesday
Abbotsbury Castle, Dorset is a multivallate hillfort enclosing around 4.5 acres. Triangular in shape, the structure appears to display at least 2 phases of development – the initial single circuit of defences belongs to the Early Iron Age.
#Archaeology

It's #HillfortsWednesday huzzah!

Here's the glorious Bronze Age round barrows and spectacular (albeit unfinished) 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill #Hampshire 😍

✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for Hampshire Cultural Trust

For more see: hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/bur…

Spectacular view from atop the amazing replica Claudian gateway at Richborough! Perfect weather for filming with ace History Hit💥 Ancient History Hit Dan Snow Tristan Hughes !!! Arts & Humanities at @UniKent BAR Publishing The Ancient World

For #EpigraphyTuesday we're strolling down the via Sacra in #Rome looking for a coronarius or wreath-seller, a kind of florist whose services were employed for symposia, weddings, funerals, and other events. We stop at the booth of the Septicii, #Greeks who do good work.

A building stone of the Twentieth Legion (Valeria Victrix), with the Legion’s wild boar emblem. The Legion was involved in the construction of Hadrian’s Wall. Now part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

Inscription of a chamber attendant. In Latin, an ornatrix was a female slave who beautified and adorned their owners, anything to embellish their owners. Marble, pigment #Roman Period (early 1st C AD), Pozzuoli, Italy. G. De Criscio collection 1899. KM 1030. #EpigraphyTuesday

#TombTuesday finished sketch reconstruction of the Early Bronze Age kerbed burial mound on Pendinas hillfort, #Aberystwyth , c. 2400 BC, just after it was built

The site is unexcavated, but we do have geophysics suggesting internal concentric structures

#DigPendinas

#TombTuesday
Legananny Dolmen is a megalithic dolmen 9 miles southeast of Banbridge in County Down, Northern Ireland.

This tripod dolmen has a capstone over 3m long and 1.8m from the ground. It dates to the Neolithic period. #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday
A mosaic floor of Bellerophon and Chimaira, Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, in the Medieval City of Rhodes, ca. 300-270 B.C.
#Art #Myth #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday
Stobi is considered by many to be the most famous archaeological site in North Macedonia.

The Episcopal Basilica, dating from the 5th and 6th centuries, with a baptistery to the south. A peacock from the baptistery's mosaic floor.
#Art #Archaeology #History

#MosaicMonday depicting the Nereid Thetis, a goddess of the sea, accompanied by a Triton playing the pan flute, discovered in the #Roman Villa of Saint-Rustice in 1833, 4th - 5th century, MSR, Musée Saint-Raymond.
#Art #Archaeology #History