When your dog hears a bag of treats being opened....

A quite rare #Greek askos in the form of a lobster claw, dating around 450 BC. The vessel was used to hold oil. Photo: datenbank.museum-kassel.de/20654/T57519/0…

I'M BACK BITCHES

🦔 Ancient Egyptian blue faience model hedgehog from Abydos, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. (c.1567-1320 BCE) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. 📷 Ashmolean Museum.

Excellent googly eyes, fabulous tentacles Léon, Spain, now in the MANN, Madrid

It's the second day of the Saturnalia festival. Io, io! 🪔 Celebrations continued at home, where individuals conducted their private religious rituals. People bathed early, made a sacrifice and ate a suckling pig, a Saturnalia favourite! 🐷 Read more 👉 followinghadrian.com/2017/12/17/io-…

More #behindthescenes action at Chedworth. Conservation volunteers have been getting the long corridor (over 30 metres of it) ready for the new year. #MosaicMonday #mosaics #mosaic

I'm going to be making more replicas of the Colchester Gladiator and Chariot Race cups in the New Year so do check out our online store potted-history.co.uk

Lion attacking a deer Marble enclosure slab from late 10th-early 11th century Athens At the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens Byzantine Museum

Always a favourite - is it a lion, a griffin, a dog that just needs a pedicure? Qasr al-Hallabat, Jordan

I hope this isn't the camel the Magi were arriving on, those little spaghetti legs couldn't hold one wise man, let alone three Art Institute Cairo, possibly from Syria

We all know I love this little chap's face, but its when you zoom out you see all the even better details. The fancy crossed feet, the udders, the tip of the tail that's actually an ear of corn. *chef's kiss* Chapel of the Priest John, Kirbhat al-Mukhayyat

Lets remember today the real-world impact of Christianity, shown in this 10th century wall painting (now lost) from a church at Tebtunis, Fayum, Egpyt. Two sinners are shown having their tongues, penis, and breasts eaten by snakes - things got pretty wild pretty fast...

One of the big mysteries of Medieval Art: how a Roman god apparently forgotten in the 4-5th century AD appears on a 13th century fresco in the Aula Gotica of the S. Coronati church in Rome?

Devouring the Christmas leftovers like villa romana de Cardenajimeno (Burgos)

It's not a mosaic, but it's certainly gone wrong Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire (Delft bowl)

Some other favourites - I love this little face in the pewter cast!! #AquaeSulis #RomanBaths #MosaicsGoneWrong

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