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Dating back to the 3rd century, Caer Gybi’s position on low cliffs overlooking the sea suggests it was part of a coastal network of defences, possibly linked to the late #Roman watchtower at Caer y Twr on the summit of Holyhead Mountain. #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #Wales

#EpigraphyTuesday This bronze ‘modius’ (grain measure), now on display at Chesters #Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall, may have been used to measure out weekly rations of corn for soldiers. #RomanArchaeology #History #RomanBritain

" Down! Bad Dog!" 🤣👀 Phallus, Ancient #Roman relief. #Ephesus Archaeological Museum. #PhallusThursday

#TombTuesday Keston #Roman villa is an archaeological site in Keston, greater #London. The villa consisted of several buildings including a mausoleum. The latter is preserved above ground.A sarcophagus was found by farmers around 1783. #romanbritain #Archaeology #History #Burial

#RomanSiteSaturday The Aqueduct of Segovia in Spain. #Roman #architecture

#StandingStoneSunday The Lochmaben Stone, is a megalith standing in a field, nearly a mile west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, Dumfries & Galloway in #Scotland. The area is also known as Stormont. 📷 W. Baxter #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday #Roman mosaic. Port scenes. 3rd -4th century. From Vega Baja de Toledo. Museum of Hospital de la Santa Cruz. Toledo. #Spain. #art #Archaeology #History #artwork

#Roman #glass mosaic from ancient Castulo Spain. #MosaicMonday #Art #Archaeology #History

#MosaicMonday Achilles is adored by princesses of Skyros, a scene from the #Iliad where #Odysseus discovers him dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros. A late #Roman mosaic from La Olmeda, Spain, 4th-5th centuries AD. #Art #History

Jon Goerner Andrea Anthony Majanlahti museitaliani Heidi Jon Hawke 🏛️🏺 James H NCDrusus rogueclassicist ~ david meadows Łukasz Sokołowski Livia en Roma Not that I can think of, but there are butcher funerary reliefs. The third one is from the Torlonia Collection and is restored, but Winckelmann himself felt that the lines from the Aeneid meant that it was a funerary relief, rather than a shop sign. Hmm.

For #ReliefWednesday, we're visiting an exhibition on the #Palatine in #Rome dedicated to the #MagnaMater, #Cybele. Here we see one of her priests, proudly dressed in female garb and surrounded by ritual objects. This exotic cult, apparently so un-Roman, was a state religion.

Andrea Jon Goerner Anthony Majanlahti museitaliani Heidi Jon Hawke 🏛️🏺 James H NCDrusus rogueclassicist ~ david meadows Łukasz Sokołowski Livia en Roma They’re practically a copy of ancient Roman statues of children and Cupids. Donatello was one of the earliest artists to break free of the medieval style of art and pull inspiration from ancient sculpture (his time in Rome exposed him to much ancient art).

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It's always a bit of a thrill to see this drachm coin minted in Knossos, Crete, which depicts the goddess Hera on the obverse. Because the reverse, below, depicts an iconic image from the myth of the Minotaur - the labyrinth. 🤩 #ARTIC Struck 350-220 BCE. 📸 me

#SarcophagusSaturday reminds us that #Christianity didn't take over #Rome right away. This #sarcophagus lid from about 25 years after #Constantine began building his basilicas shows a merry festival of #Cybele, the #MagnaMater, celebrating the #resurrection of her consort #Attis.

Anthony Majanlahti GretaS 🏛 Colosseo • Foro Romano • Palatino Jon Goerner Heidi Jon Hawke 🏛️🏺 James H NCDrusus Ritterton rogueclassicist ~ david meadows Livia en Roma *Absolutely* to the Roman Houses of the Caelian hill - spettacolare! 📸 me

#StandingStoneSunday Nether Largie stones

"To ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the unreasonable is folly." iniusta ab iustis impetrari non decet, iusta autem ab iniustis petere insipientia est -Plautus, 'Amphitryon', Prologue

6th century AD mosaic of a child playing chariot racing from the Great Palace at Constantinople. Pushing wheels on sticks represents the chariot and four horses. Part of the collections at the Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Byzantine

#MosaicMonday offers us a strangely asymmetrical #tomb #mosaic in black and white from the late C2 CE, found in southern #Trastevere, which seems to feature the winged hat of #Mercury or #Hermes Psychopompos, the god in his role of leader of souls to #Hades.