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-...
#OnThisDay - 11 November - in AD 109 Trajan dedicated his 'naumachia' - a stadium for the recreation of naval battles - reflecting not only his military persona, but also the role of emperor as impresario. #History 🏺
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#OnThisDay - 11 November - in AD 109 Trajan dedicated his 'naumachia' - a stadium for the recreation of naval battles - reflecting not only his military persona, but also the role of emperor as impresario. #History 🏺
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
#OnThisDay - 8 November - in AD 30, Marcus Cocceius Nerva was born. He would be proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate following the assassination of Domitian in AD 96, reigning until AD 98. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#OnThisDay - 8 November - in AD 30, Marcus Cocceius Nerva was born. He would be proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate following the assassination of Domitian in AD 96, reigning until AD 98. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Reposted by Dr Crom
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Reposted by Dr Crom
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Reposted by Dr Crom
A delightful history of a mongrel language
Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly
A delightful history of a mongrel language
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A delightful history of a mongrel language
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Reposted by Dr Crom
Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...
a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him
Alt: GIF: Mrs Doyle, when being hard-sold a machine to "take the misery out of making tea", retorting with "Maybe I like the misery..."
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
Reposted by Dr Crom
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...
a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him
Alt: GIF: Mrs Doyle, when being hard-sold a machine to "take the misery out of making tea", retorting with "Maybe I like the misery..."
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...
#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
#LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid
“nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur
rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo.
rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris,
dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae.
si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
Reposted by Dr Crom
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺
Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid
“Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam.
quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent.
nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro;
alta puellares tardat harena pedes.
interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...
#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
November is depicted in this mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, with a priest in the guise of Hermanubis with two pterophoroi. It commemorates the Inventio Osiridis, a week-long reenactment of the death of Osiris and the quest of Isis to recover his body, held in the month of Khoiak (Oct-Nov). 🏺 1/
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
November is depicted in this mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, with a priest in the guise of Hermanubis with two pterophoroi. It commemorates the Inventio Osiridis, a week-long reenactment of the death of Osiris and the quest of Isis to recover his body, held in the month of Khoiak (Oct-Nov). 🏺 1/