A #Roman glass bottle, made about 2000 years ago & once used to hols perfume or perfumed oil. A beautiful piece of #AncientGlass !

For #RomanSiteSaturday , the odeon of Nicopolis, constructed in the first half of the 2nd century CE with a capacity of about 1,600 spectators.

More on the odeon and Nicopolis:
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#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece

Glass flask ~ C3rd-C4th CE

This small flask is only 8.3cm tall but what it lacks in size it makes up for in beauty. The flask is made from light blue glass and has obtained an iridescence from age. It is thought to come from the eastern Mediterranean.

🏛 The Getty

#FrescoFriday ; from the tablinum of the Casa dell'ara Massima at #Pompeii , a scene of Narcissus admiring his reflection in the water, set in a painted window with folding shutters among other wall decoration.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy

For #FindsFriday a new discovery: Greek-Illyrian helmet unearthed in Pelješac, Croatia.

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#FrescoFriday

It would be hard to go past the new frescoes unveiled at Pompeii this week. Leda and swan has been the subject of a couple of newly found frescoes over the past few years and this one is a subtle play of pinks against the dark background.

📸 Tony Jolliffe

A beautiful #Roman glass jug, in absolutely amazing condition - it was made about 1800-1900 years, & is a lovely example of ancient glasswork #Archaeology #Roman Archaeology

Mummy mask of a woman, wearing a wreath of pink flower petals and a necklace. Painted plaster, eyes inlaid with glass. From Middle #Egypt . #Roman Period, late 1st - early 2nd century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Portrait of a youth, eastern Greek workshop, 80-50 BC, Jacopo Contarini collection, on display in room 6
#museum #Venice #Archaeology #portrait #collection

#MosaicMonday

Are you unimpressed with your Monday? This moustachioed gent stands in solidarity, as you might expect given he seems trapped in a floral border of a larger mosaic.

This Byzantine piece dates to the C6th CE
🏛 Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul
📸 Laurom

Engraved Gem depicting the goddess Nemesis ~ c. C2nd CE

This engraved red jasper is small (only 1.7cm in length!) but the detail of the portrait is phenomenal. The winged goddess Nemesis holds a wheel in her right hand symbolising fate and its power.

🏛 The Getty

Live # #RomanSiteSaturday (2)
Arch of Augustus, Rimini.

#FrescoFriday

Fresco Fragment with Landscape in Tondo ~ c. 50-79 CE

Escape to the seaside with this lovely fresco of a building on the shoreline. Look closely and you may even see the fisherman enjoying a moment of serenity.

🏛 The Getty

Fascinating world of ancient #glass : a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD.

Photo: Landesmuseum Württemberg

New post this week, the first of a whopping 8 parts on the Greek city of Messene, one of my favorite stops from last summer. Part one is mostly an introduction, but wades into the first elements of the main site:

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#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece

And there’s more! #Messene RoaminTheEmpire

Messene, Achaea - Part I

QMC History Hilary Stark Kerry

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#ReliefWednesday ; a votive Mithraic tauroctony scene dedicated by Salvius Novanio Lucianus. Possibly originating in Picenum and dated to the 2nd-3rd century CE. Now in the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie in #Warsaw .

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

The tombstone of Marcus Cocceius Nonnus (aged six). Dating to around AD 96-98, it depicts Marcus as a victorious charioteer. Found near the Roman fort at Penrith, the tombstone is now part of the collections British Museum #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain 📸 My own.

#ReliefWednesday showing Helios, Sun God.
From the North-West pediment of the temple of Athena in Ilion (Troy).
Between the first quarter of the 3rd century BC and 390 BC.

Found during the excavations lead by Heinrich Schliemann in 1872, now in the Pergamon-Museum in Berlin

#ReliefWednesday

Roman terracotta plaque ~ c. 27 BCE–c. 68 CE

This relief depicts a griffin seeming to accept a drink from a man. Griffins were not considered friendly, so this scene is quite unusual.

🏛 The Met