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Chapps

@chapps

3 years

The most popular restoration I've done is the one showing an ordinary man's business in Ancient Rome.

Chapps

@chapps

3 years

My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/

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@these_qualia @robrousseau Nope. Swollen hands can be just edema - from arthritis, other health issues, which age makes worse. His mother's hands were thin as a rail and blue-purple - perhaps circulatory issues, heart failure. Can't believe people are making fun of a health issue here.

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Last spring, a Palestinian farmer found a gorgeous Byzantine era #mosaic on his land while digging a hole for an olive tree. He and his son slowly excavated it for three months. Dating from the 5th-7th c. CE, it has geometric designs and depictions of birds and animals.

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Today, it's appropriate to appreciate Janus, the two-headed god of transitions, beginnings, endings, doorways, and duality. The month of January is named after him. One head looks back on the past, reflecting, one head looks forward to the future, hopeful. Happy new year!

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Evidence of a Roman toddler's journey across newly-made wet clay tiles, two millennia ago. The chubby little foot is heavily impressed on the front, showing forward momentum (with probably half the brick yard, trying to catch him or her). Baths of Diocletian. #archaeology

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I'm so impressed with the conservation job done on this bronze statue of #Mars , found in #Zeugma . Carried out by @CCA_Roma (these are their pics), conservation included stabilization in situ and in the lab. The patina that emerged is remarkable. #archaeology #Turkey

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It's #PhallusThursday ! The 2nd. c CE sculpture known as 'The Sleeping Hermaphrodite'. All female from behind, and *very* much all male from the front. Found in the ruins of a Roman domus on the Quirinal, near the Teatro dell’Opera, Rome. #archaeology

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My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/

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Folks, here's your annual reminder that this is how colorful the clothing of the ancient and medieval eras were. Not all-white or all muddy brown. A rainbow of colors, mostly from plant dyes. #polychromy

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From the dusty russet reds of madder through to sunshine gorse flower, orange willow, the mercurial and fleeting green reed flower to indigo and logwood. A spectrum of plant-dyes.

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Finally finished! A speculative reconstruction of the 1st c. AD funerary altar of the child Julia Victorina. Beautiful Ionic decorative scheme, with very specific spring flowers. So specific that I think they must have been individually colored. #polychromy #Louvre 1/

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The queen herself, Nichelle Nichols, has passed into the stars. Her portrayal of #Uhura is legendary, but many people don't know about her work to recruit women and minorities for #NASA , starting in the 1970s. A class act. #RIPNichelle

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Jeff Koons has created a temple of Apollo in an old slaughterhouse on the Greek island of Hydra. He’s crafted a #polychrome statue of the 2nd. c CE Apollo Kithara from Cyrene ( #BritishMuseum ). Collages of frescoes and a mosaic floor create an appropriate setting. #polychromy

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This 1st c. AD #Roman ointment jar is ground out of a block of transparent *rock crystal*, and fitted with a gold cap and a finely braided gold chain to allow it to be hung up. Only the wealthiest woman could have afforded this for fragrant ointments and essences.

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A lovely remnant. 1st c. BCE - 4th c. CE blue faience torso of the goddess Venus Anadyomene, aka Venus rising from the sea. She would have been wringing out her hair. Greek/Roman/Egyptian - truly multicultural. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Founder's Collection, Lisbon.

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1 year

@TerryAnn1219 Really? #AIfake

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@gracels That's because it's not real - it's an AI monster. As with all chicks, peachicks are dull colored for protection. The males don't get their vibrant feathers until they're grown. Real peachick below.

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I've always said that if you want to understand how complex ancient Roman women's hairstyles were, take a look at the back. As one of the leisured class, she would have had one or more ornatrices (hairstylists, probably slaves) to work on her hair every morning. #GettyVilla 1/

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What a party outfit! This new speculative digital restoration is the Roman god #Mithras , from a 2nd c. AD Roman sculpture in the British Museum. I’ve used the fresco from the #Mithraeum in Capua as the inspiration for Mithras’ pseudo-Persian outfit. 1/ #tauroctony

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Rock crystal is insanely difficult to carve, so seeing five pieces from Carthage (Tunisia, North Africa), ca. 200-500 CE, is a real treat. Pliny believed that rock crystal came from solidified snow, and it was thought to protect from a variety of ailments. Closeups follow … 1/

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This Babylonian kudurru stele records the gift of land from a father, Nirah-nasir, to his daughter, Dur-Sharrukinaia'itu, on the occasion of her marriage. It was probably deposited in a temple, and gave her control over her own property. Serpentine stone, 1100-1083 BCE 1/

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A cuddlepuddle of four ancient Roman #puppies , rendered in marble. 😍 From the House of the Faun, #Pompeii . #dogs 1st century BCE MANN (National Archaeological Museum, Naples) 📸 me

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Have another piece of #ancientglass . In this case, it's a luminous 1st c. BCE mosaic cast glass bowl, comprised of blue (cobalt) and white (antimony and tin oxide) rods fused and melted into a disc, and placed over a form. Broken and repaired at some point in its past. 😍

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Fragment of a painted terracotta sculpture of the Etruscan goddess Uni, Roman Juno, queen of the gods. Note the magnificent floral diadem, and the painted pattern on the peplum folded over her shoulder. Sanctuary of Juno Curitis, Celle, ca. 380 BCE. #polychromy 1/

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I was fortunate enough to be able to visit the newly-excavated ‘Black Room’ in #Pompeii . I didn’t expect it to be so massive. It had to have been used for large gatherings, but what kind? It makes me wonder about the owner of the house. There’s my dog! 📸 me

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2 years

Folks, I am here to tell you that I had this room *all to myself today*. Yes, it's the garden fresco from the Villa of Livia, in the #PalazzoMassimo . Somebody pinch me. 😍

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Sunset view from my window on my last night in Rome. Not too shabby. #Roma #Rome

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The intensely colorful mosaics of 8th c. CE Ummayad archaeological site of Hisham's Palace, north of Jericho, cover more than 9,000 sq. feet. Room after room of stone carpets, mostly geometric, but also including the famous 'Tree of Life', below. #MosaicMonday

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The most magnificent of all ancient #Roman ‘cage cups’ is the 4th c. CE Lycurgus Cup, made of dichroic glass. In normal light, the glass appears milky green, when backlit, it glows a ruby red. The effect was made by adding silver and gold nanoparticles …. 1/ 📸 my own

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@mhoye Oh, and I forgot ... I have the world’s oldest tooth implant. I was part of the pilot program in ‘75, when I was a kid. My uncle was a dentist and put it in. Every dentist who ever sees me freaks out and says ‘I’ve only seen these things in text books!’. Awesome.

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Currently at the #GettyVilla , the golden bust of Marcus Aurelius, found in the ruins of ancient Aventicum (present day Avenches, Switzerland). This hollow bust was likely attached to a wooden structure that could be carried around in processions. 1/

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Guess who's coming to the #GettyVilla this month? The golden bust of Marcus Aurelius from Roman Aventicum (Avenches, Switzerland). Here's an *awesome* photo of its discovery in 1939, inside ancient water pipes under the Sanctuary of the Cigognier. 1/

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For today's #reliefwednesday , we have the grave stele of a young mother, Phylonoe, who probably died in childbirth or soon thereafter. She looks out sorrowfully from the land of the dead at her young son, his arm outstretched yet unable to touch his mother. (abt. 380 BC) 😔

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Look at these elegant bronze arms of a woman from a tomb in #Taranto , with gold snake-headed bracelets. The function? The clasped hands can be separated by releasing a hinge between the palms ... to crack nuts. Yes, this is a late 4th, early 3rd c. BCE nutcracker. #archaeology

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For #FrescoFriday , something unusual. Do you know what it is? Something very unusual - a rare survivor of the Vesuvian eruption of 79 AD. Swirls of vivid grape vines and flying birds. Very Dionysian imagery ... #archaeology 1/

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Re: the rock crystal 'Crouching Venus' from the #GettyVilla , @cockieontsunami made a really good point. The ancient Greeks thought that rock crystal was ice frozen so deeply that it could never melt. Therefore, this Aphrodite-Venus, born from the sea, is made of 'water'. 🌊 1/

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A remarkable bronze bust, unveiled as one of the archaeological artifacts that had been stolen from Italy, sold in the U.S. by art traffickers, and, at last, returned. Amazing that his original stone (and glass?) eyes are intact, although one is bulging. #artcrime

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I don’t see Paris or Helen. All I see is this magnificent dog, who seems to know this will all end badly. #Pompeii Does the Greek text say ‘Alexandros (cane?)’

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Turns out that paint layers were omitted from my final digital restoration of #Mithras and the bull. This version has more highlights and shadows, with extra golden and pink coloration. Not sure that many folks will care. Enjoy! #mithraeum #polychromy #archaeology #BritishMuseum

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Nearly 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, an artist made this medicine pot, dedicated by a priest-physician "for the life of" King Sumu-El of Larsa. The dog was the sacred animal of Ninisina, goddess of health and medicine. This artist *knew* dogs. Look at that face! 🥹 ❤️ 📸 me

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From the cloisters in the Baths of Diocletian, this small piece of marble tells a very cool story. Note the trestle table - what do you think he's doing? He's a marmorarius, dressed in a dalmatic tunic, busy making marble marquetry (opus sectle). 4th c. CE. #archaeology 1/

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A fantastic aerial shot, showing the gorgeous round mosaic from the Baths of the Seven Wise Men in Ostia. Built under Hadrian, the mosaic shows a hunting scene and the room was once covered by a large dome. #mosaicmonday 📸

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In 1849, during street excavations along Vicolo delle Palma (now Vicolo dell'Atleta) in Trastevere, Rome, extraordinary bronze sculptures were found. This horse - which once had a rider - is an original 5th-4th c. BC Greek work. Hidden in the back of the Capitoline Museums. 1/

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I know all of us departing #Rome lately have posted the same pics, but there's something about 2,000 year old sculpture and frescoes (from the area near the airport) saying goodbye to you in the terminal that really knocks your socks off. ALT text for more details. #archaeology

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SO jealous of those of you who live in #Rome or will be visiting in the next few months. The largest collection of ancient bronzes ever found - from San Casciano dei Bagni - have been conserved and will go on display at the Quirinal Palace, starting June 22!

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3 years

#Roman #cameo portrait of Drusus Major, with the signature of 'Herophilos, son of Dioscorides', who worked as a court tailor under Emperor Tiberius (14-37 AD). Cast antique glass, prob. commissioned by Tiberius as an imperial gift, it once had a gold coating. #Kunsthistorisches

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These Assyrian royal archers or bodyguards on polychrome glazed bricks come from a palace built by the Achaemenid ruler Darius I ‘the Great’ in Susa, Persia (copying Babylon). The details on the clothing are superb. About 510 BCE. 😍 #polychromy Pergamon Museum, Berlin 📸 me

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The emperor is dead *and* immortal! And a blonde. My newest digital restoration is Augustus as Jupiter, the king of the gods. A melding of Roman realism with Greek Classicism. A lot to unpack here … #polychromy #archaeology #art 1/

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Another highlight on ancient #polychromy . Note how a painted sculpture looks in lamplight - which is how they were often seen. Augustus looks both incredibly real and *hyper-real* - idealized as a god. Brilliant.

MV Arte

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@chapps @Tarraco_Viva We were working on ancient lighting with lanterns with photographer @lopezmonne and very interesting things came out...

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A bit of a #Roman glass rarity. A spoon. Said to have been found near the Sea of Galilee, it was made from a single blown tube that was then tooled to shape the bowl and handle. Rare, made for the luxury market during the Roman period, lasting into Islamic times. #MetMuseum

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From stormy L.A., here’s an #ancientglass treat. Pliny the Elder writes about these vessels - where the glass was blown into casings of silver with openwork designs, as seen here. Fantastic luxury item, ca. 50-100 CE, possibly from Brindisi. #BritishMuseum (1870,0901.2) 📸 me

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I come across many beautiful small items when I do research. Like this 4th c. BC figurine of an enthroned woman. Her upper limbs are articulated and her throne richly decorated. Sphinxes adorn the armrests, palmette patterns can be seen on the legs (Thebes Arch. Mus). #polychromy

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I hope that anyone who plans on visiting Naples this year - like myself - books a ticket to visit the Ipogeo dei Cristallini in Naples. Hypogeum C has the bed-shaped sarcophagi and the carved limestone Medusa on the wall. Rare surviving ancient Greek #polychromy .

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For more exciting archaeological openings in Campania, check out the Ipogeo dei Cristallini. Located beneath the modern Centro Storico in Naples, the Ipogeo contains four beautiful preserved Greek rock cut tombs with later Roman interventions.

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Thanks to @lynleyjmcalpine , we have confirmation of what's being depicted on the right side of that newly excavated Nilotic fresco. It's an Archimedes Screw - a water screw! The water is being pumped out of the river to fill the dolium (jar) for the donkey. It gets better... 1/

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From the new excavations in #Pompeii - a fragment of a ceiling fresco showing a wayfarer in a Nilotic scene. Lots of frisky Dionysiasts, I think. Wonderful gilded statue in a shrine at the top. But what is on the right? 1st c. CE. Pompeii (IX 10, 1). 📸 me

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This exceptional lararium - household shrine - is located in a service area in the House of the Vetti, #Pompeii . It depicts the Lares domestici, household gods, each carrying a rhyton and pouring wine. They flank a genius, a protective spirit. 1/ 📸 me

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I'm a sucker for blue #glass , as @TJ_Derrick can attest. This one is really odd. From Pozzuoli, now in the #BritishMuseum , this iron blue blown glass olla is decorated with applied spots of opaque yellow and green glass. Like wet sand. ca. 50 AD. #archaeology

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Another beautiful fresco emerges from the volcanic debris at #Pompeii . Looks like a maenad with a thyrsus. Beautiful colors.

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#pompei : è sempre emozionante vedere emergere dai lapilli le pitture che hanno aspettato quasi duemila anni da quando sono state osservate l’ultima volta, chi sa da chi e in che circostanze?

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There are few moments in ancient Greek and Roman art as gut-wrenching as the depiction of King Priam of Troy begging Achilles for the return of his son Hector's body. Shown here on a 2nd c. AD sarcophagus from Tyre, Lebanon. National Museum of #Beirut . 📸 Egisto Sani, Flickr 1/

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This 1st c. BCE Roman supulchral relief depicts a Greek warrior wearing a cuirass and helmet, leaning on a spear in front of a funerary stele. The snake symbolizes the soul of the dead. It's 'retro' art, imitating the Greek classical style of the 5th c. BCE. #BritishMuseum 1/

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Here's my newest reconstruction - the stunning 1st/2nd AD Roman sculpture known as the ‘Diana of Versailles’. Follow this thread to go down a rabbit hole from the 16th c. Vatican, to the 16th, 17th and 18th c. French court to the sinking of the Titanic. 1/ #Louvre #polychromy

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The road to the Trojan War. Here in this 1st c. BC/AD relief, Aphrodite has her arm around the shy Helen; Eros is on the right, working his magic of desire on Paris. Both gods forging a disastrous relationship. Peitho - the goddess of persuasion - presides over the scene. 1/

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This extraordinary chalcedony portrait bust depicts a sullen Agrippina the Younger, sister of Claudia, wife to her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and mother to Nero. It’s fragmentary, but powerful. The hair! 😍 1/ 37-39 CE #BritishMuseum (1907,0415.1) 📸 me

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Remarkable in its retention of color, this Roman-era Egyptian mummy shroud depicts a young woman wearing a pink garment with black clavi (stripes), standing beneath a jeweled arch. She's holding a cup and a floral garland, surrounded by funerary deities (AD 190-220). #Egypt

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My favorite portrait of a cat is from a wall painting in the Tomb of Nebamun from ancient Thebes (Luxor), #Egypt . The family cat has joined his master Nebamun and his mistress Hatshepsut on a hunt in the marshes and has done spectacularly well. 🐈 1/ #BritishMuseum 📸 my own

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My husband modeling the t-shirt that he gave me for Christmas. Nobody tell him ... 🌋 🚫 🤫

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I never tire of viewing the famed bronze ‘Boxer at Rest’ at the #PalazzoMassimo in Rome. This one work of art - a Hellenistic Greek original, perhaps inspired by the work of Lysippos - feels the most human. Tired, beaten, bloody, scarred, and mortal. 2nd c.-1st c. BCE 📸 me

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One of the most beautiful examples of ancient Greek pottery, this large 4th c. BC hydria from Cumae, known as the 'Regina Vasorum', the Queen of Vases. The encircling relief shows painted and gilded Olympian gods. 1/ #HermitageMuseum / 📸 Yuri Molodkovets #ReliefWednesday

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I guess people *really* like ancient Roman glass! I was going to save these for next week, but what the heck. Here's two 1st c. BCE ribbed glass rippenschale bowls with white trails, one cobalt blue, the other burgundy. Probably made in the eastern Mediterranean. 😍 #GettyVilla

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Two years of experimenting with virtually painting and restoring stained and broken marble, and I suddenly realize that I definitely need a portfolio site. Not sure which one is best, but I'd better do it soon! #digitalreconstruction #polychromy 1/

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I have a favorite ancient fountain, but it's not covered in mosaic tile and seashells. It's a humble street fountain in Herculaneum, with the image of Venus Anadyomene (Venus rising from the sea), with a water spigot in her seashell. 📸 Klaus Heese,

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Of the many items in the ‘Legion’ exhibit at the #BritishMuseum , the one that took me by surprise is my favorite dice tower. Created to make cheating at dice less likely, you throw the dice in the top, it skips down steps, and knocks bells at the bottom. 1/ 📸 me

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@UnionRebelMs My dog brings me a stick from our yard whenever she wants a special filled bone. She finds me wherever I am in the house, wiggles and growls with the stick, points to where she wants me to go ... which is always the cabinet with the bones. We then do the exchange.

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What's the big deal about a sock, you say? For Wednesday's #MuseumsUnlocked , I figured I'd point out this ancient Egyptian striped child's sock from *300 to 400 AD*, now in @britishmuseum . Dyes: madder used for red, woad for blue, and weld for yellow. I'd wear it now! 🧦

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@RpsAgainstTrump The @FBI might be interested in someone distributing fake U.S. currency …

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Found under the floor of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, pieces of the original medieval rood screen - pigments pretty well intact. Remember, all of the original exterior sculptures of the cathedral would have been similarly painted, as well as the architecture. #polychromy

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I'm not quite sure how I'd missed this! The surviving paint is sensational. 3/

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A beautiful 7th c. BCE Milesian Greek oinochoe (wine jug), with its repeating pattern of wild goats and spotted deer on the belly of the vessel, and dogs, water fowl, and sphinxes on the shoulder. This style is thought to have been patterned after textile designs. #GettyVilla 1/

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3rd c BCE Etruscan terracotta votive statuette of a male torso with exposed internal organs. The dedicator perhaps suffered from stomach or intestinal problems. It would have been presented with a prayer to request a healing, or a post-cure expression of gratitude. #GettyVilla 1/

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@SawyerHackett We are giving these thugs way too much leeway. Time to crack the whip. They're desecrating churches, threatening violence to minorities - it sounds a lot like the south of the Reconstruction period through the 1960s.

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#Polychrome terracotta figurine of a dancing maenad, 2nd c. BC (National Archaeological Museum, Athens). Here's where you get a big hint as to the colorful world of ancient Greece, Rome and their contemporaries. 😍 Photo by on Instagram.

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This 2nd c. BCE terracotta statuette from Asia Minor is - in my eyes - probably the most beautiful depiction of a goddess from the ancient world. The 'Heyl Aphrodite' is tremendously sensuous and elegant, and standing in extreme contrapposto. 😍 👏 👏 #AltesMuseum #Berlin

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One of the more memorable Torlonia marbles, a man hanging upside down from the underside of an enormous ram. From the Odyssey, it's #Odysseus fleeing the cyclops' cave under the ram. I've never painted a mythic sheep! #polychromy #archaeology 1/

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The Assyrian portraits of horses on the wall reliefs from the royal palace of Nineveh are truly spectacular. Muscular bodies covered in elaborate harnesses, minutely detailed with floral designs and crescent-shaped crests on top of their heads. #ReliefWednesday #BritishMuseum

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It's been 200 years since the discovery of a gilded bronze statue of Apollo in the Norman town of #Lillebonne in France. The Musée Juliobona (the Roman name of the town) is currently hosting an exhibition entitled 'Qui es-tu Apollo?' ('Who Are You, Apollo?'). A thread ... 🧵 1/

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Triplets! This shows how fresco artists must have had pattern books from which a client could select themes and scenes. Three levels of artistry here, with the largest and best on the left, and progressively getting smaller and less skillful to the right. 1/ 📸 me

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When I was a young university student, this was the piece of sculpture that I became obsessed with when I first visited the #BritishMuseum . I sketched it, studied it, and never found a way to quantify it. Now I just love it. 😍 Horse from Selene’s chariot, Parthenon.

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This gorgeous, large Etruscan cinerary urn retains a great deal of its original vivid pigments. A young man reclines on the lid, propped up on pillows and holding a phiale (offering dish). #polychromy The mystery is the name written above the warriors on the urn below … 1/

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@chapps

1 year

Great example of the range of hues available for both polychrome sculpture *and* clothing (yes, in the medieval era, everyone wore loads of colors, not just brown) via the madder root. Most of the pinks you see on ancient sculpture are due to madder lake. #MetMuseum #polychromy

Rowena Dugdale

@redrubyrose_

1 year

A wide range of colour results from fresh madder root. Classic red to burnt orange, chestnut and pink. Achieved through a combination of dye strength, PH tweaks, fabric choice and base colour- some of the greener tones were overdyed nettle + iron.

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@chapps

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Versace bling ca. 200 CE! A #Roman gold necklace w/ a disc decorated with an apotropaic (protective) head of Medusa. A nearly identical necklace is worn by the 2nd. c. CE Romano-Egyptian woman in the mummy portrait below. 1/

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@chapps

2 years

Although it was heavily discussed during the #BritishMuseum 's 'Nero' exhibition, many people still focus on this Capitoline bust of the emperor as his 'true portrait'. And yet, just the highlighted section is ancient! The rest, a Baroque-era (17th c.) invention. 1/

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@chapps

2 years

I think people already know how fond of #Roman glass I am, particularly where blue is in the mix. This beautiful millefiori cup was a grave good from the Roman castrum (fort) of Colonia Iulia Aemona, now part of modern Ljubljana, Slovenia. (City Museum of Ljubljana)

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@chapps

2 years

Jaw dropping. Nearly 50 years after it was stolen from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais in France, this 1st c. AD bronze statue of the child #Bacchus has been returned. All thanks to Dutch art detective, @brand_arthur (his pics, below). Well done! #antiquities #archaeology

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@chapps

3 years

@archaeologyart It always reminds me of Scythian art, like this gold deer.

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@chapps

2 years

I just came across this beautiful marble temple model containing four goddesses (priestesses?). Fortuna (?) holding a cornucopia appears on the left. 2nd-3rd century CE. It's from the 8th Temple at Hatra, #Iraq (Iraq Museum, #Baghdad ). 📸Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin. #archaeology

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@chapps

1 year

This 1st c. BCE Greek bronze lebes (cauldron) is luxuriously decorated with swirls of silver-flowering tendrils and grapes leaves. A figure of a drunken satyr emerges from the front, holding a drinking cup, grinning (with silver teeth!) in a Dionysian ecstasy. #GettyVilla 1/

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@chapps

1 year

Scandal! When the men are away, the women will play. This 5th c. BCE Athenian red-figure skyphos depicts a woman guzzling wine from a large vessel. This is the very opposite of the all-male symposium, a shared drinking experience. #GettyVilla 1/

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@chapps

2 years

Visitors to L.A. are almost always unaware that we're surrounded by mountains. Due to the drought, it's rare to see them covered in snow, but this week is an exception. 'Course, at the moment, we're dealing with a bomb cyclone/Pineapple Express. #LARain

JoesLAAdventures

@JoeHollywoodLA

3 years

I think this is one of the best photos of #DTLA (taken earlier this week) with the beautiful snow-covered San Gabriel Mountains in the backround. Photo by Gary Blasi. #losangeles #LA #LARain #SanGabrielMountains #ilovela

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@chapps

1 year

A seriously difficult piece of ancient glass to photograph properly. This small 3rd-4th c. CE Roman glass vessel has *thirteen* handles. Some residue remains inside, and it probably came from a tomb somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. #GettyVilla

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@chapps

3 months

Four elegant greyhounds from the ancient Gardens of Maecenas in #Rome are *good boys and girls* for sitting at attention for two millennia. They form a base that probably supported a decorative piece of sculpture, probably in bronze. #dogs Early Imperial, #MuseiCapitolini 📸 me

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@chapps

2 years

Well, this looks fantastic - a newly constructed #Roman villa in Somerset. The Villa Ventorum. A lot of money and research has gone into this and I think the education aspect will be enjoyed by both children and adults. See the linked Times article, below.

Dr Pat Witts

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2 years

#MosaicMonday has come early! News of reconstructed villa - and mosaics - at The Newt in Somerset in 'The Times' today:

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@chapps

1 year

This small 1st c. CE Roman #glass beaker or cup features several decorative bands, including a wreath pattern. An inscription in Greek suggests the beaker's festive function: KATAXAIPE KAI EYΦPAINOY ("Rejoice and be of good cheer"). I'll toast to that! #GettyVilla 1/

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@chapps

1 month

@MailOnline That kind of royal ‘protocol’ is embarrassingly out of date. Brigitte Macron made a human gesture, bonding over loss, and Camilla blew it.

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@chapps

2 years

@DrAndrewThaler I worked in tech - specifically in web/mobile apps - and there's no way that this thing is built well, and it certainly hasn't been thoroughly QA'd, nor beta tested. The Twitter Blue users will *be* the beta testers (aka guinea pigs).

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@chapps

2 years

I *finally* got to visit the Roman houses on the Celian Hill. The property began as an insula with shops and storehouses and evolved into a large single house. In the Room of the Genii, frescoes of winged young men appear with Erotes harvesting grapes and a variety of birds. 1/

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