Today's vintage photograph: Marble statues (many of them Greco-Roman) are gathered together in hiding in The Louvre's basement crypt during WWII. A wonderfully haunting 1939 photo by Laure Albin-Guillot.

Fresco of Menander, from the House of Menander in Pompeii. Ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ μὴ φράσῃς ἐγκώμιον. - Do not ponder a laudatio for yourself. Menander

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This 2nd c. CE Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait was produced with glue tempera - pigments suspended in animal glue. The results are quite different from the realism of encaustic paints, lending this style a more cartoonish effect. Love those large eyes! 👀 #GettyVilla 📸 me

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments! Looks similar to a modern-day set! An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II. 📷 Cleveland Museum of Art clevelandart.org/art/1914.680

For #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉 and #MosaicMonday, here's the Owl Mosaic from Thysdrus, depicting an owl wearing a toga and surrounded by dead birds with an inscription that says "the birds are bursting with envy, and the owl does not care". El Jem Museum, Tunisia.

A metal #Roman flask, with very vivid remnants of its original enamel decoration. It was found in a grave in Pinguentum (modern Buzet, Croatia), but made in either Britain or Gaul in the C2nd AD #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

#EpigraphyTuesday shows that ancient lovers were made just as insecure by the absence of their beloved as modern lovers are. This #fresco from #Pompeii and now at #Naples is marked by a graffito, an #inscription hoping for the lover of the ardent #Ario to return, still in love.

A rare display of explicit emotion from the High Classical period, as a mourner wipes a tear away while visiting a grave.

A piece of stone from Chesters fort (Britain) incised with a #Roman-era graffito of a hunting scene - a hunter (with a disproportionately big head!) wields a trident as he approaches his four-legged prey (maybe a wild boar..?) #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

A Roman dice tower, used to ensure fair rolls in dice games. The inscription translates as "The Picts are conquered, the enemy destroyed, play in safety." Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.

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A discarded Roman woman’s shoe thrown away 1900 years ago at #Vindolanda roman fort, the hobnails showing wear over its use. #Archaeology #HadriansWall

Detail of a marble head of the goddess Hygeia, Goddess of Health. Dated 5th - 4th century BCE. Hygeia was the daughter of Asklepios (God of Medicine and healing) and this sculpture was found at a healing sanctuary dedicated to him in Pheneos, Peloponnese, Greece. 📷Athenologio

Mosaic of the return of the hunter and his dog, circa 2nd century AD; on display at the Archaeological Museum of Constantine, Algeria. #Algeria #Numidia #MosaicMonday

Little Theon writes a letter to his father and makes quite a few mistakes (don’t ask me why the author settled on no diacritics). Ca. 2nd to 3rd century AD. Oxyrynchus Papyrus 119, from Leonard Palmer’s „The Greek Language“.

'If you see a eunuch or a monkey just as you are leaving home, then simply turn back, for this means that everything will go badly for you that day.' - Lucian, Pseudologistes, 17.

A grave stele of a young girl, the so-called Giustiniani Stele. It shows her spreading incense from a small box. Ca. 500 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin. Ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος. Whom the gods love dies young. Menander

Greek "Early Corinthian-type helmet. Tarantum(?) Circa 650 BC. Hammered bronze. Removable bovine horns and ears. The detachable crest and the riveted rod used to reinforce the rim of the cap are missing." Using googletranslator per Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva, Switzerland