Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
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Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
· Oct 17
AncientBluesky 🏺- A favourite! The eponymous piece from the Tomb of the Blue Vase, Pompeii (HGE08). A stunning cameo glass amphora, with grape-harvesting Cupids: ca. 1st Century AD. #Pompeii #Archaeology
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
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Looking for a Christmas gift that’s protective, portable and a little bit outrageous? Adopt a Roman flying phallus.
Perfect for the impossible-to-buy-for friend, AND adoptions help conserve objects at Colchester Museums. Adopt: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/adoptanobject
Perfect for the impossible-to-buy-for friend, AND adoptions help conserve objects at Colchester Museums. Adopt: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/adoptanobject
December 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Looking for a Christmas gift that’s protective, portable and a little bit outrageous? Adopt a Roman flying phallus.
Perfect for the impossible-to-buy-for friend, AND adoptions help conserve objects at Colchester Museums. Adopt: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/adoptanobject
Perfect for the impossible-to-buy-for friend, AND adoptions help conserve objects at Colchester Museums. Adopt: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/adoptanobject
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#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 20 December (or near it!) - in AD 69 the Capitoline Temple burned down: "No so deplorable and horrible disaster had ever befallen the Roman people" (Tacitus, Hist. 3.71-2). #History 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#OnThisDay - 20 December (or near it!) - in AD 69 the Capitoline Temple burned down: "No so deplorable and horrible disaster had ever befallen the Roman people" (Tacitus, Hist. 3.71-2). #History 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Crosby, Stills & Nazgûl
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Crosby, Stills & Nazgûl
#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
#OnThisDay - 20 December (or near it!) - in AD 69 the Capitoline Temple burned down: "No so deplorable and horrible disaster had ever befallen the Roman people" (Tacitus, Hist. 3.71-2). #History 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#OnThisDay - 20 December (or near it!) - in AD 69 the Capitoline Temple burned down: "No so deplorable and horrible disaster had ever befallen the Roman people" (Tacitus, Hist. 3.71-2). #History 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 1239; Münzkabinett Berlin (18229208). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
Reposted by Dr Crom
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
#OnThisDay - 11 December - in AD 361 the Roman Emperor Julian, commonly known as Julian the Apostate due to his turning from Christianity, entered Constantinople for the first time as sole ruler. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Sirmium 94; ANS 1956.184.4. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Sirmium 94; ANS 1956.184.4. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
#OnThisDay - 11 December - in AD 361 the Roman Emperor Julian, commonly known as Julian the Apostate due to his turning from Christianity, entered Constantinople for the first time as sole ruler. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Sirmium 94; ANS 1956.184.4. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Sirmium 94; ANS 1956.184.4. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#OnThisDay - 10 December - in AD 20 the 'Senatus Consultum de Pisone Patre' is issued: the account of the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso for his "wicked plans to disturb the tranquillity of the commonwealth". #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Hispania Epigraphica. Link - eda-bea.es/pub/record_c...
Image: Hispania Epigraphica. Link - eda-bea.es/pub/record_c...
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#OnThisDay - 10 December - in AD 20 the 'Senatus Consultum de Pisone Patre' is issued: the account of the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso for his "wicked plans to disturb the tranquillity of the commonwealth". #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Hispania Epigraphica. Link - eda-bea.es/pub/record_c...
Image: Hispania Epigraphica. Link - eda-bea.es/pub/record_c...
Going out tonight for a Departmental Dinner ('tis the Season, after all!). I'm tired and the Term has felt interminable at times, but I'm looking forwards to a spot of indulgence!
a cartoon character says i apologize for nothing while eating grapes
ALT: a cartoon character says i apologize for nothing while eating grapes
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December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Going out tonight for a Departmental Dinner ('tis the Season, after all!). I'm tired and the Term has felt interminable at times, but I'm looking forwards to a spot of indulgence!
You will be visited by three spirits...
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
You will be visited by three spirits...
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#OnThisDay - 8 December - in 65 BC, Quintus Horatius Flaccus - the Roman poet Horace - was born.
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OnThisDay - 8 December - in 65 BC, Quintus Horatius Flaccus - the Roman poet Horace - was born.
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
#OnThisDay - 8 December - in 65 BC, Quintus Horatius Flaccus - the Roman poet Horace - was born.
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OnThisDay - 8 December - in 65 BC, Quintus Horatius Flaccus - the Roman poet Horace - was born.
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
"sublimi feriam sidera vertice"
'I shall soar aloft, striking the stars with my head' (Odes 1.1.36)
#Horace 🏺
Image: 'Quintus Horatius Flaccus' by Giacomo Di Chirico, 1871
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#OnThisDay - 7 December - in AD 80 the Arval Brethren record that vows were undertaken by the Emperor Titus to restore the Capitoline Temple, which had been damaged by fire that year (Dio 66.24.2). #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in AD 80 the Arval Brethren record that vows were undertaken by the Emperor Titus to restore the Capitoline Temple, which had been damaged by fire that year (Dio 66.24.2). #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in AD 80 the Arval Brethren record that vows were undertaken by the Emperor Titus to restore the Capitoline Temple, which had been damaged by fire that year (Dio 66.24.2). #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in AD 80 the Arval Brethren record that vows were undertaken by the Emperor Titus to restore the Capitoline Temple, which had been damaged by fire that year (Dio 66.24.2). #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC 2.1 Titus 515; ANS 1996.110.3. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#OnThisDay - 7 December - in 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated at Formia. Cassius Dio (47.8.4) also notes that Mark Antony’s wife, Fulvia, spat upon Cicero’s decapitated head and stuck her hairpins into his tongue, in vengeance for his speeches against her husband. #AncientHistory 🏺
#ClassicsAdventCalendar - Day 4: A beautiful amethyst intaglio showing Hercules Musagetes. Inscribed ΣΚΥΛΑΚΟΣ - 'of Skylax' - a known gem engraver of the Early-Mid 1st Century AD. 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (7543). Link - artsandculture.google.com/asset/hercul...
Image: Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (7543). Link - artsandculture.google.com/asset/hercul...
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#ClassicsAdventCalendar - Day 4: A beautiful amethyst intaglio showing Hercules Musagetes. Inscribed ΣΚΥΛΑΚΟΣ - 'of Skylax' - a known gem engraver of the Early-Mid 1st Century AD. 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (7543). Link - artsandculture.google.com/asset/hercul...
Image: Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona (7543). Link - artsandculture.google.com/asset/hercul...
#OnThisDay - 4 December - in AD 57 the Arval Brethren record Nero's assumption of 'Tribunicia Potestas', that "designation for the highest exaltedness", i.e. marking him out as Claudius' successor. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Claudius 82; British Museum (R.6498). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: RIC Claudius 82; British Museum (R.6498). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#OnThisDay - 4 December - in AD 57 the Arval Brethren record Nero's assumption of 'Tribunicia Potestas', that "designation for the highest exaltedness", i.e. marking him out as Claudius' successor. #History 🏺
Image: RIC Claudius 82; British Museum (R.6498). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: RIC Claudius 82; British Museum (R.6498). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#OnThisDay - 4 December - in 1824 this superb fresco, showing the moment when Achilles surrenders Briseis to Agamemnon's messenger, was discovered in the Atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.5). #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#OnThisDay - 4 December - in 1824 this superb fresco, showing the moment when Achilles surrenders Briseis to Agamemnon's messenger, was discovered in the Atrium of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.5). #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9105)
Reposted by Dr Crom
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 2 December #Ovid
“membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre, lyramque
excipis: et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne,
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua
murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae.
iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt...
#LatinForTheDay – 2 December #Ovid
“membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre, lyramque
excipis: et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne,
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua
murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae.
iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt...
December 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 2 December #Ovid
“membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre, lyramque
excipis: et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne,
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua
murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae.
iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt...
#LatinForTheDay – 2 December #Ovid
“membra iacent diversa locis, caput, Hebre, lyramque
excipis: et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne,
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua
murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae.
iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#EpigraphyTuesday – a fetching inscription from Großbottwar, taking the form of a dedication plaque for the building of a Temple to Apollo & Sirona by one Gaius Longinius Speratus: AD 201. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart (RL402). Link – landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sam...
Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart (RL402). Link – landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sam...
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday – a fetching inscription from Großbottwar, taking the form of a dedication plaque for the building of a Temple to Apollo & Sirona by one Gaius Longinius Speratus: AD 201. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart (RL402). Link – landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sam...
Image: Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart (RL402). Link – landesmuseum-stuttgart.de/sammlung/sam...
