Łukasz Sokołowski
@SokolowskiLuk
Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
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This #SarcophagusSaturday we're watching men take away women's agency yet again, this time with a somewhat puzzling series of scenes related to #Castor and #Pollux , and how they got their wives the old-fashioned way, by kidnapping. #Rome #VaticanMuseums
This green basanite bust of the Roman general-politician Germanicus Caesar was mutilated in antiquity, almost certainly by Christians. His nose has been hacked off, his chest gouged, and a cross has been cut into his forehead.
From Egypt, ca. 14-20 CE.
#BritishMuseum
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One more toast to the golden-bouffanted Roman co-emperor Lucius Verus, whose birthday is today (b. AD 130), because I wanted to feature this 2nd c. CE fibula (brooch) at the #HermitageMuseum . The gold mount is set with a *rock crystal* intaglio of Verus himself. Ghostly! 🎂👻 1/
#ZelenskyyWarHero all day every day ❤️🔥
Repost and boost with #ZelenskyyWarHero if you think he is the greatest! 🔥❤️🔥✨
These Greek bronze roundels, crafted around 2300 years ago, likely adorned a horse harness. They depict faces of two satyrs and a man with an oriental headdress. Originally they had a silver surface, traces of which still remain, their..(1/2)
📷May
#ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
#FlashBack to being in Napoli and seeing this gorgeous fresco in person. Yes, it is this small. Yes, she certainly was part of a much larger fresco. Yes, seeing this in person is definitely a moment of awe!
#AncientRome
Ritterton Łukasz Sokołowski RoaminTheEmpire Dr. Jeremy Swist Whaa? I can’t believe that you gave a nod to that account which steals so much content (they’re terrible), and forgot my post. Sigh.
#FrescoFriday Devilishly difficult to photograph in the dark warrens of the Museum of the City of #Barcelona is this 4th c. CE Roman fresco of a horseman on a hunt (reconstructed). Is his gesture a hail to his fellow hunters, a ‘follow me’ gesture? 1/
1st c. CE Roman terracotta from Syria, depicting two female musicians on a camel. They each hold a tympanum, a hand drum. If you look closely, you can see traces of bright pink pigment that once decorated their shared cloak. #polychromy
Princeton University Art Mus. (y1952-53)
#ClassicsAdventCalendar - Day 4: The Nijmegen Helmet
Visored cavalry display helmet: ca. Early 2nd Century AD. The diadem is embellished with miniature busts, with the name 'Marcianus' scratched into the right cheek. #Roman
Image: Valkhof Museum. Link - valkhofmuseum.nl/en/verdieping/…
#PCMAseminar - workshop with 7 presentations on🔸Upper #Egypt #Pottery Workshop - Connectivity & Cultural Influence'
📅Thu 14/12, from 10am (Warsaw time)
👉Program & info on registration: pcma.uw.edu.pl/.../upper-egyp…
Organised by🔸Jerzy M. Oleksiak within his Narodowe Centrum Nauki - funded project
Many of you know how much I love the history of the worship of Mithras and the physical spaces - the Mithraea - where that worship occurred. Open access paper! #archaeology
It's cover day for Dr Nadine Viermann and I - and of course the Women in Ancient Cultures Women in Ancient Cultures series with Liverpool University Press, thanks to Clare Litt 🥳👇👇
This ancient Romano-British head of a woman wearing a diadem is depicting the *exact* same expression I’m currently wearing, after having just canceled my trip to the UK.
I love the little ‘kiss curls’ on her cheeks.
Towcester, England. #BritishMuseum (1903,1121.1)
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