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Warren Wilson

@mrwjwilson

Australian living in London. Topics of tweets (in no particular order) - gin, beer, theatre, musicals, TV, history, Romans, travelling & people watching

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Happy October! 📷 October from the Mosaic with the months of the year from Thysdrus (El Jem). This panel depicts two men facing one another and pointing to a star. According to one theory, it celebrates the birthday of Alexander Severus on October 1 AD 208. It depicts the

Happy October!

📷 October from the Mosaic with the months of the year from Thysdrus (El Jem). This panel depicts two men facing one another and pointing to a star. According to one theory, it celebrates the birthday of Alexander Severus on October 1 AD 208. It depicts the
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Happy 1st day of October! October takes its name from being the eighth month of the ten-month Roman calendar (octō = eight). 📷 3rd century AD mosaic from Hellin (Spain) showing a helmeted deity riding on a genius with the claws of Scorpio, the zodiac sign starting in

Happy 1st day of October! 

October takes its name from being the eighth month of the ten-month Roman calendar (octō = eight). 

📷 3rd century AD mosaic from Hellin (Spain) showing a helmeted deity riding on a genius with the claws of Scorpio, the zodiac sign starting in
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Square panel detail of the Monnus Mosaic with the personification of the month of October (Bacchus with thyrsus and wreath). From a Roman domus in Augusta Treverorum (Trier), late 3rd century AD. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.

Square panel detail of the Monnus Mosaic with the personification of the month of October (Bacchus with thyrsus and wreath). From a Roman domus in Augusta Treverorum (Trier), late 3rd century AD.

Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Germany.