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#ReliefWednesday - A dazzling cameo glass amphora, with grape-harvesting Cupids. The eponymous piece from the Tomb of the Blue Vase, Pompeii (HGE08): ca. 1st Century AD. #Pompeii #Archaeology Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link -

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The eponymous piece from the Tomb of the Blue Vase, Pompeii (HGE08) - a beautiful cameo glass amphora decorated with scenes of Cupids harvesting grapes, ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman #Glass Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link -

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Sometimes you just have to admire the beauty of an ancient statue - the profile of the 'Apollo Saettante' bronze from the Temple of Apollo at Pompeii (VII.7.32), with loose ringlets. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (6281). Link -

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PPE Classics Department-style...

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#MosaicMonday - Central emblem of the eponymous mosaic of the 'Villa du Paon', Vasio (Vaison-la-Romaine): ca. Mid-2nd Century AD. In a floor with depictions of many birds, this little show-off draws the eye! #Roman #Art Image: Musée Theo Desplan. Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Discovered 17 May 1760, one of the best known Pompeiian frescoes: the so-called 'Sappho' panel from Insula Occidentalis. A woman holds wax tablets and stylus, contemplating the words she will write. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9085)

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#FrescoFriday - What is probably my favourite Roman wall-painting: a stunning panel from Casa Farnesina showing a woman holding an askos, perhaps pouring perfume or oil into a small container: ca. Late 1st Century BC. #Roman #Art Image: Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo

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#ReliefWednesday - One of my favourites here! A fantastic relief from Palmyra, ca. 1st Century AD, showing three deities in lamellar cuirasses - Baalshamin, flanked by Aglibol and Malakbel. #Palmyra #Art Image: Louvre Collections (AO 19801). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - the lararium fresco painting of Bacchus from the House of the Centenary, Pompeii (IX.8.6). Vesuvius is shown laden with vines, as it appeared prior to the AD 79 eruption. #Roman #Art Image: Author's photograph; National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112286)

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#MosaicMonday - If you want intricate and gorgeous mosaic-work, then look no further than the stunning 'Venatio' mosaic from the Roman Villa at Vallon, ca. Late 2nd - Early 3rd Century. #Roman #Art Image: Amt für Archäologie des Kantons Freiburg. Link -

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#MosaicMonday - 'The Academy of Plato' mosaic from the Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus, Pompeii. Discovered 14 July 1897, it shows seven figures in the garb of Greek philosophers. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (124545). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - One of my favourite pieces, as it's so damn OTT! Neptune and Amphitrite in a chariot drawn by hippocamps, surrounded by an idealised seascape: from Cirta, Algeria: ca. AD 300-325. #Roman #Art Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1880). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - the well-known 'memento mori' mosaic from the House of Polybius, Pompeii (VI.17.25), discovered #OnThisDay - 17 May - 1783. A skeleton carries a jug in each hand as a reminder to us to enjoy life while we can. Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9978)

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#FrescoFriday - A vibrant panel from the Tomb of the Dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, ca. 400-350 BC. The colours, movement, and individuality of the figures are particularly striking. #MagnaGrecia #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9357). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - The portrait of Terentius Neo and his wife, from their house in Pompeii (VII.2.6). The details of the piece - including the rotulus, stylus, and wax tablet - and their expressions always get me! #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9058)

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#MosaicMonday - The utterly fabulous mosaic showing Theseus fighting the Minotaur from the 'Villa of Theseus' (Room 36) at Nea Paphos, Cyprus: ca. Early 4th Century AD. #Archaeology #Art Image: OUC Department of Antiquities Republic of Cyprus. Link -

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#FrescoFriday - a fabulous harbour scene from the Villa San Marco, Stabiae - discovered 17 January 1752. There is such precision in the handling of the architecture and I love the sense of movement in the water. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9514)

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A gorgeous piece of ancient glass decorated with scenes from the arena, including a retiarius (Pulcher) fighting against a secutor (Aurica): from Trier, ca. 3rd Century AD. #Roman #Glass #Art Image: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (EV 1906.16). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - The eponymous piece from Casa della Matrona ignota, Pompeii (VI.15.14); discovered 6 April 1898 - a woman wearing a pearl necklace, with gold and pearl earrings. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (124666). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - a panel showing a lion attacking a leopard - from the House of the Mosaic Doves, Pompeii (VIII.2.34), discovered in March 1885. Still remarkable, though now damaged by the subsiding floor. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (114282)

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#MosaicMonday - The stupendous 'Venatio' mosaic from the Roman Villa at Vallon, ca. Late 2nd - Early 3rd Century. The hunting emblemata are surrounded by an intricate geometric pattern. #Roman #Art Image: Amt für Archäologie des Kantons Freiburg. Link -

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Utterly gorgeous amethyst with an engraving of a Nereid riding on a Hippocamp, formerly in the gem collection of Lorenzo de' Medici. Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (Inv. No. 26091)

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#MosaicMonday - The eponymous piece from the House of the Mosaic Doves, Pompeii (VIII.2.34). Discovered March 1885, it shows a group of birds alighting on a lion-footed basin. #Pompeii #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (114281). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - Made (in)famous by HBO's 'Rome' this mosaic emblem served as table-top in the peristyle garden of the officina coriariorum of M. Vesonius Primus, Pompeii (I.5.2). #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (109982). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - Getting the week going in the best possible way I know: a wonky wolf. The (in)famous Aldborough Wolf mosaic, ca. 4th Century AD, which shows Romulus and Remus with the She-Wolf. #Roman #Art Image: Leeds City Museum. Link -

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Roman statue of the goddess Isis: ca. AD 100-150. Wearing a palmette headdress with a solar disc, she holds a sistrum (now broken) and a vessel for Nile water. #Roman #Goddess Image: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Antikensammlung, I 158. Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Perseus - still carrying his 'harpe' and the head of Medusa - releases Andromeda from her chains: from the peristyle of the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii (VI.9.6). Discovered 18 June 1828. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8998)

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#ReliefWednesday - The 'Cup of the Ptolemies', a deliciously stunning kantharos carved from a single piece of sardonyx; decorated with Bacchic paraphernalia: ca. 50 BC - AD 50. #Egypt #Roman #Art Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France (CAMEE 368). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - I thought my first offering for 2022 should be my favourite, so here's the famous panel of the distribution of bread from the tablinum of the House of the Anonymous Magistrate, Pompeii (VII.3.30). #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9071)

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A quick blast of colour on a grey day with this glorious example of #Roman 'ribbon glass': ca. 25 BC - AD 50, with a spiralled glass cane applied to create the rim. The sheer vibrancy of it makes me smile! Image: Corning Museum of Glass (72.1.11). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - a gorgeous panel from Casa Farnesina showing a woman holding an askos, perhaps pouring perfume or oil into a small container: ca. Late 1st Century BC. I find the detail in the clothing quite exquisite. #Roman #Art Image: Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo

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#FrescoFriday - One of my favourite panels from Pompeii: the rather splendid fresco from the House of Jason (IX.5.18), showing the myth of Europa and the Bull. Those colours! #Mythology #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111475). Link -

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Ancient Artefact of the Day: Bronze Mouse – complete with snack for nibbling; Roman, ca. 1st Century AD. Traditionally associated with the cult of the god Apollo Smintheus, but read on! #AAOTD #Mouse Image: Getty Collection (96. AC. 268). Link -

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#MuseumsUnlocked - 'The Sea' The marine mosaic from the House of L. Aelius Magnus, Pompeii (9.2.16) - originally in a shallow basin next to the triclinium, perhaps to give the scene an added water effect. Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (120177)

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#OnThisDay - 17 May - in 1783 the well-known 'memento mori' mosaic from the House of Polybius, Pompeii (VI.17.25), was discovered. A reminder to enjoy life while we may. #Mosaic #Archaeology Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9978)

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#FrescoFriday - From the east wall of the winter triclinium of the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii (V.4.a), a Fourth Style fresco showing Orestes killing Neoptolemus at Delphi, a scene drawn from Euripides' 'Andromache'. #Roman #Art Image:📸Wolfgang Rieger

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#MosaicMonday - A detail from the fantastically vivid mosaic discovered in Lyon on February 18 1806, showing a set of Chariot races with all the features of the Circus' 'spina': ca. 2nd Century AD. #Roman #Art Image: Lugdunum Museum (2000.0.1209). Link -

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Detail of a woman's portrait in tempera on a linen shroud: ca. AD 170-200. Perhaps from Antinoopolis. A beautiful piece of funerary textile, speaking to the fragility of some ancient art. #Egypt #Art Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art (09.181.8). Link -

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#ReliefWednesday - Roman silver oenochoe from the Berthouville Hoard, decorated with scenes from the Trojan War, focussed on Achilles abuse of Hector's body: ca. 1st Century AD. #Myth #Art Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (inv. 56.5). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - Plenty more fish in the sea! The marine mosaic from the House of the Geometric Mosaics (VIII.2.16): discovered August 1890 - originally in a shallow basin, likely to give the scene an added water effect. #Pompeii #Art Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (120177)

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#MosaicMonday - Who doesn't appreciate a Medusa mosaic? A pavement from Palencia, ca. Late 2nd Century AD. The Four Seasons occupy ancillary positions. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid (3618). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - the famous so-called 'Sappho' fresco from Insula Occidentalis, Pompeii: discovered 17 May 1760. A young woman holds wax tablets and stylus, contemplating the next words she will write. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9085)

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#FrescoFriday - a favourite panel of mine - damaged, but still fabulous: Io being guarded by Argus, from the north wall of the tablinum of the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Discovered 30th October, 1829. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9556)

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#FrescoFriday - I've shared another fresco of the Three Graces from Pompeii before (MANN 9236), but this version was discovered 12 July 1760 in Insula Occidentalis - though the precise find-spot is debated. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9231)

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#FrescoFriday - I utterly adore this delicately painted pastel-like fresco of a woman holding an askos, seemingly decanting perfume or oil into a small container. From Casa Farnesina, ca. Late 1st Century BC. #Archaeology #Art Image: Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo

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I think this means she's now Queen of Scandinavia.

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One of the most beautiful pieces I saw this morning – this fabulous carved Pictish stone, ca. 7th-8th Century AD, decorated with depictions of a goose and a fish. #Pictish #Archaeology Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.IB 226) - Author's own photograph

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Roman legionary helmet, ca. 1st Century AD, in bronze and iron. Image: National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid (2002/125/3)

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#FrescoFriday - discovered 8 August 1759 this panel, identified as Diana with bow and arrow, comes from Villa Arianna, Stabiae. It was found in context with depictions of Medea, Leda, and Proserpina (Flora). #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9243)

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#FrescoFriday - I find this pillar from the Fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii (VI.8.20), rather marvellous, with its series of panels showing scenes from the laundry process. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9774). Link -

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For #WorldOceanDay you couldn't ask for much more than the marine mosaic from the House of the Geometric Mosaics (VIII.2.16): discovered August 1890 - originally in a shallow basin, to give the scene an added water effect. #Pompeii Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (120177)

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#FrescoFriday - Among the best known images from Pompeii: the so-called 'Sappho' panel. A woman holding a wax tablet raises her stylus to her lips in contemplation. Discovered 17 May 1760 in Insula Occidentalis. #Pompeii #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9084)

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#ReliefWednesday - a sumptuous painted stucco relief from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Discovered 30 October 1829, the panel gives some idea of the overwhelming detail in these pieces. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9595)

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#MosaicMonday - stunning portrait of a young woman wearing a pearl necklace, along with gold and pearl earrings. The eponymous piece from Casa della Matrona ignota, Pompeii (VI.15.14); discovered 6 April 1898. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (124666)

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I'm not usually a fan of ancient weaponry, but I think this is gorgeous: a Roman dagger with iron scabbard decorated with brass and enamel inlays - ca. Early 1st Century AD, discovered at Mainz. #Roman #Army Image: Landesmuseum Mainz (1917/96). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Discovered 18 June 1828 in the tablinum of the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii (VI.9.6), this energetic fresco shows a cavorting Satyr and Maenad. Real vibrancy here! #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9135). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - The signature of the mosaicist Hephaistion, ca. 200-150 BC, with a trompe-l'œil effect, as if written on a piece of parchment curling from the wax seal its corner. #Art Image: Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung, Berlin (Mos. 70). Link -

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#ReliefWednesday - The so-called 'Seal of Nero' - a carnelian intaglio, showing the aftermath of the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas; attributed to Dioskourides: ca. 30 BC-AD14. #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (26051). Link -

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A favourite for the final #MosaicMonday for 2021, with this roundel of a dog next to an overturned vessel: ca. 2nd Century BC; El Shatby, Alexandria. #Roman #Egypt Image: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum (32044; BAAM Serial Number 0859). Link -

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#OnThisDay - 1 December - in 1830, during the excavations of the House of the Faun, Pompeii (VI.12.2) this well-known mosaic of a cat was discovered on the east side of the atrium. Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9993)

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Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Palaikastro Kouros A stunning lithochryselephantine statuette, ca. 1480-1425 BC, from Building 5 at Palaikastro. One of the most remarkable pieces of surviving Minoan art. #AAOTD #Minoan Image: Archaeological Museum of Siteia (ΜΣ ΑΕ 8506)

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#ReliefWednesday - The Gherardesca Diptych: one leaf of an ivory diptych, ca. Early 5th Century, showing a pagan apotheosis. The monogram at the top suggests a connection with Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. #Art Image: British Museum (1857,1013.1). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - One of my favourite elements from the huge mosaic floor of the Roman Villa Nennig at Saarland, ca. 3rd Century AD, showing arena musicians performing on a water organ and a buccina. #Roman #Art Image: 📸TimeTravelRome. Link -

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#ReliefWednesday - The Derveni Krater: a Macedonian bronze volute krater: ca. 340 BC. Decorated with a Dionysiac revel, including the playful detail of Dionysus draping a thigh across Ariadne's lap. #Art Image: Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki. Link -

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#MosaicMonday - The masterful 'Aion Mosaic' from Arles. Surrounded by Tritons, Nereids, and Erotes, Aion - holding a zodiacal wheel - dominates the central panel of this triclinium floor: ca. Early 3rd Century. #Archaeology #Art Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques

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#MosaicMonday - a pretty fabulous wall-mosaic of the Three Graces in their well-known Hellenistic arrangement, from the garden of the House of Aulus Herenuleius Communis (House of Apollo), Pompeii (VI.7.23). #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (10004)

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#MosaicMonday - The stunning and visceral 'Exhausted Gladiator' mosaic from the frigidarium in baths of the Roman villa at Wadi Lebda, Lepcis Magna, Libya: ca. Early 2nd Century AD. That border is dazzling! #Roman #Art Image: Kathleen M. Coleman. Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Panel from Villa Arianna, Stabiae: discovered 25 July 1759. Though historically seen as Flora, I've always interpreted it as representing Proserpina. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8834). Link -

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A spot of ancient 'magic' for Halloween - and a piece that got me into the archaeology of cult back in the day. The 'Helios Sphere' from the Theatre of Dionysus, depicting Helios as ruler of the universe (Kosmokrator). #Greek #Magic Image: Acropolis Museum (ΕΜ 2260)

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Next up for #FrescoFriday we go back to my archaeology days on Crete with the Dolphin Fresco reconstruction from above the double doors of the 'Queen's Megaron' in the Palace of Knossos, Late Minoan IIIA ca. 1400 BC. (1/3)

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#MosaicMonday - Some wonderful trompe-l'œil realism from Pergamum in this mosaic signature of Hephaistion, ca. 200-150 BC, presented as if written on a piece of curling parchment. #Art Image: Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung, Berlin (Mos. 70). Link -

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A fabulous fragmentary polychrome bust discovered in 1968 among the "Artemis Well" deposits at Syracuse: tentatively dated ca. Late 4th Century BC, though the contextual information is limited. #Archaeology #Art Image: Paolo Orsi Regional Archaeological Museum, Syracuse (66951)

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#FrescoFriday - The simply marvellous paintings from the Fullonica of Veranius Hypsaeus, Pompeii (VI.8.20), showing the stages of the laundry process. I love the owl (symbol for the Fullers) atop the 'viminea cavea'. #Roman #Art Image: MANN (9774). Link -

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For #WorldTheatreDay here's a mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.3), showing a troupe of musicians and actors preparing behind the scenes. I love the figure on the right being fitted into his costume. Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9986)

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#FrescoFriday - Going Bronze Age with this simply gorgeous 'Spring Fresco' from Room D2, Complex Delta, Akroteri: ca. 16th Century BC. Birds swoop above a rocky, lily-laced landscape. #Minoan #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Link -

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A spot of ancient colour to brighten the start of the day! Egyptian mosaic glass inlay decorated with a representation of a crocodile: ca. Late 1st Century BC. #Egypt #Art Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (42.11.41). Link -

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You're not officially a Classicist until someone has proudly shown you their new Latin tattoo and you've smiled while internally screaming at the nonsense with which they've inscribed their flesh.

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#MosaicMonday - A dazzling mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii (VI.12.2). Discovered 1 December 1830, it is typically identified as the infant Dionysus riding on a tiger. #Pompeii #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9991). Link -

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A really quite lovely cobalt-blue glass drinking cup, ca, Late 1st Century AD. Two Greek inscriptions, framed in 'tabula ansata', ask the buyer to remember that 'Ennion made this' (ENNIωN EПOIHCEN). #Glass Image: Corning Museum of Glass (66.1.36)

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I adore glass from Roman Egypt and this is a stunning piece with a masterful control of colour. Cup with Egyptian figures: AD 250–300; found in Sedeinga, Sudan. #Roman #Egypt #Glass Image: Collezioni Egittologiche, Università di Pisa. Link -

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One of my favourite pieces of ancient portrait sculpture is this gorgeous Egyptian greywacke statue of the pharaoh Menkaure and one of his wives, perhaps Khamerernebty II: Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2490–2472 BC. #Egyptian Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.1738)

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There aren't many days when this #ClassicsMeme is topical, but today's one of them!

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#ReliefWednesday - a stunning openwork gold hairnet, part of the 'Karpenisi Treasure': ca. 3rd Century BC. The central medallion is decorated with a repousse bust Artemis. #Greek #Jewellery Image: National Museum Athens; Stathatos Collection. Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Also from the Herculaneum Augusteum comes this panel of the centaur Chiron instructing the young Achilles in music: discovered 28 November 1739. At this point in Term, Chiron looks as tired as me! #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9109)

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A follow-up #FrescoFriday with this panel of a Satyr 'embracing' a Maenad from the tablinum of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii (V.1.26). #Pompeii Is this embracing? Have I been doing it wrong? Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (110590)

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#ReliefWednesday - A rather fabulous stucco relief of an athlete with a hoop ('trochus') from the Nymphaeum of the Villa San Marco, Stabiae. Removed from the Villa in August 1752. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9578)

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#PhallusThursday - I could use some good luck! So here's a lucky phallus from a Bakery at Pompeii (VI.6.17). The inscription (CIL IV 1454) "HIC HABITAT FELICITAS means 'Happiness dwells here'. Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (27741). Link -

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#FrescoFriday - As I'm missing someone today, here's an enduring reminder of love and affection: Terentius Neo and his wife, from their house in Pompeii (VII.2.6). Has always been one of my favourites! ❤️ Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9058)

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Dionysus from a stunning linen and wool tapestry from Egypt: ca. Fourth Century AD. A tantalising glimpse of the sheer wealth of perishable art that existed in the ancient Mediterranean. #Art #Textiles Image: Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg (Inv. No. 3100a)

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#MosaicMonday - A gorgeous representation of myth from Saint-Romain-en-Gal: ca. Early 3rd Century AD. The scene is that of the abduction of Hylas by the Nymphs, during the voyage of the Argo. #Myth #Art Image: Musée de Grenoble (MG 1401) Link -

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#FrescoFriday - Highlighting the dangers of over-indulgence! A drunken Hercules is disarmed by Cupids as Omphale, Queen of Lydia, looks on. From the Scavo del Principe di Montenegro, Pompeii (VII.16.10). #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9000)

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Augustus: I RESTORED THE REPUBLIC!!!! ⚠️ This claim is disputed #ClassicsMemes

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#FrescoFriday - The panel of Phrixus and Helle with the Ram with the Golden Fleece, usually cited as from Insula Occidentalis, Pompeii (VI.17). Discovered 8 July 1760, it shows the moment Helle falls into the sea. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8889)

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For #ClassicsHalloween here's the well-known 'memento mori' mosaic from the House of Polybius, Pompeii (6.17.25). A skeleton carries a jug in each hand as a reminder to us to enjoy life while we can. Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9978)

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#MosaicMonday - I was hardly up with the cock this morning, but at least I can make my first mosaic post of 2022 this rather fetching Roman rooster, ca. 1st Century BC. #Roman Image: Glasgow Museums Collection (42.3). Link -

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#MosaicMonday - Discovered 8 April 1763 in the so-called 'Villa of Cicero', Pompeii (HGW06), a mosaic signed by Dioskourides of Samos. The panel depicts musicians from a Comedy. #Roman #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9985). Link -

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Caecilius and family... Social distancing since AD 79. Be like Caecilius, or more likely Quintus... #ClassicsVersusCovid

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#FrescoFriday - Detail of the attendant from the panel of Venus and Mars from the House of Punished Love, Pompeii (VII.2.23): discovered 5 August 1844. I've always been most intrigued by what's in her box! #Pompeii #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9249)

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When I am sad, I find solace in ancient things... The Judgement of Paris - fresco panel from the west wall of Room 4 of the House of Jupiter, Pompeii (5.2.15). #Roman Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (119691)

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