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emily 🏹🕯️🖤
@eldeakin.bsky.social
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🏷️ MA roman archaeology @ durham university
🏺 women and art in the roman world, agrippina major stan
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eldeakin.bsky.social
book i really need is missing from the library. today in my MA struggle chronicles
May 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
just finished reading Fulvia by @jldraycott.bsky.social !! yet another welcome addition to my beloved collection of biographies about Roman women
April 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
found a book in a bibliography that doesn’t seem to exist. i love academia
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
they’ve been threatening us with that gal gadot cleopatra movie for what feels like years. is that still happening? can we forget about it yet?
April 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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calthalas.bsky.social
This is why universities are “the enemy”, why the arts need to be defunded, why humanities degrees are a “waste of time”.

You cannot have authoritarianism without manipulating history first.
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 29
Joshua Clemans is a partner of New Founding—backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen. “Martial” means warlike. 1/
March 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
For a late #FrescoFriday, superb paintings from #Herculaneum depicting a ceremony at the temple of Isis, with palm trees, Ibises, and priests and priestesses, some with sistrums (rattles). A priest disguised as the god Bes performs a ritual dance on the podium steps. 🏺 1/

1st c. CE, #MANN
In this wall painting from a villa in Herculaneum, priests and worshippers in Egyptian costume celebrate a water ritual for the goddess Isis at the foot of a grand staircase leading to a temple. An altar stands in the foreground, and statues of sphinxes on pedestals flank the temple's entrance. The head priest, clad all in white, holds up a golden vessel, which does not touch his skin (his hands are covered by the white garment), and two rows of worshippers are on either side of the staircase. At the bottom, a collection of priests and priestesses clap and hold up sistrums (rattles), so this would have been a joyously loud ceremony. One priest tends to the fire on the altar, which is decked with garlands, with two black and white ibises lounging in front of the scene. One priest with a crown of leaves plays the tibia (double pipe) while sitting on the ground in the foreground - is this the same priest that disguised himself as Bes in the other painting?). The presence of ibises and palm trees helps locate the scene in Egypt. Roman, 62-79 CE From a villa in Herculaneum (house/villa not recorded) Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, 8924 One of two panels from Herculaneum depicting different moments of a ceremony that unfolds on and in front of the podium of a temple (of Isis), preceded by the altar and surrounded by palm trees, garlands, crowns, and ibises. Priests distinguished by their clothes and different attributes are engaged in different moments of the same religious function that unfolds between two wings of worshippers. A golden vase is presented and then carried to the altar in the foreground;here, a priest disguised as a dark-skinned god Bes performs a ritual dance while carrying a palm branch and wearing a crown of leaves. This is probably the solemn ceremony of the inventio Osiridis described by Plutarch, in which the symbol of the god was the water contained in the golden vase. Roman, early 1st century CE. From Herculaneum, a house or villa near the Theatre. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN inv. 8919)
March 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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followinghadrian.bsky.social
#AncientSiteSunday - Gadara (Umm Qais) in Jordan is a Hellenistic city founded by the Ptolemies. Under Roman rule, it became one of the semi-autonomous cities of the Decapolis and prospered in the 2nd century AD with large-scale public building works.
followinghadrianphotography.com/2020/09/27/g...
March 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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archagainstaparth.bsky.social
We will publish the letter tomorrow. Still time to share widely and directly! tinyurl.com/2rcmmm2e
On this Land Day, let’s keep fighting for Palestinian self-determination, right of return, freedom, happiness🔑🫒✊
Eid Mubarak everyone🌙
#wacwithoutapartheid #wac #wac10 #wacaustralia #archaeology #🏺
March 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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archagainstaparth.bsky.social
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Join over 300 archaeologists & cultural heritage workers worldwide. Sign the open letter to WAC, urging them to pledge no ties with apartheid Israel or its complicit institutions. WAC respected the boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1986. Why not now?
#Archaeology #🏺
March 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
happy birthday Ovid!

a pic of his statue in his hometown of Sulmona, Abruzzo 🖤
March 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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killgrove.bsky.social
New frescos unveiled at Pompeii today rival those at the Villa of the Mysteries! 🧪🏺
Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who 'breaks free from male order to dance freely, go hunting and eat raw meat in the mountains'
Archaeologists have brought to light an enormous fresco depicting a secretive cult practice in Pompeii.
www.livescience.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#ReliefWednesday - Relief of the emperor Caracalla, crowned by his mother Julia Domna in the guise of Victory, resting his right hand on a tropaion: ca. AD 214-217, likely from Roman Syria. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Image: National Museum, Warsaw (139678 MNW). Link - cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/4...
The relief shows the standing emperor Caracalla in armour, resting his right hand on a victory monument (tropaion) - a tree trunk set up, "dressed" in a tunic and a hat on which hangs the weapons taken as symbols of victory. At the base of the tropaion sit a pair of bound captives looking up at the emperor. Next to Caracalla, his mother Julia Domna is standing in a characteristic wig; she crowns the emperor with a laurel crown, while holding a palm leaf in her left hand.
February 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
"...a bit with a dog - that's what they want".

Discovered #OnThisDay - 23 February - in 1875 in the House of Orpheus, Pompeii (VI.14.20); the same house yielded up the (in)famous plaster cast of the chained dog. #Pompeii #Dog 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (110666)
Roman mosaic of a black 'jackal-like' dog, wearing a white collar with a red lead around its neck. The dog's red tongue protrudes from its mouth *blerp*.
February 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
one day i will inherit approximately 40 olive trees and currently that is my entire reason for living
February 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
well! that was certainly interesting
February 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#OnThisDay - 14 February - in 44 BC the 'Lupercalia Incident' occurred. Mark Antony attempted to present Caesar with a diadem – a symbol of kingship. A moment of deep political resonance and one which hastened Caesar's downfall. #Caesar 🏺

Image: RRC 480/3. Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Obverse of a Roman Denarius: Wreathed head of Caesar, right. Lituus and Culullus in the left of the field. Border of dots.
February 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#FrescoFriday - Discovered 20 February 1851 at the Scavo del Principe di Montenegro, Pompeii (VII.16.10), a scene that is typically identified as Omphale, the Lydian Queen, looking down on a drunken Hercules . #Pompeii #AncientBluesky 🏺

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9000)
February 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
eldeakin.bsky.social
very me thing to notice, but the pretense of ‘accuracy’ of roman clothing seems only to apply to men in modern film. for women it’s more about them looking good through a modern lens. and i really think that’s a shame
February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
trying to turn off my brain to watch gladiator 2
February 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
my (american) flatmate boiled milk in our kettle ☹️
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
eldeakin.bsky.social
back at uni to finish my MA 🫡🫡
January 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
Claudius and the #Praetorian Guard.

A #gold aureus of Claudius (41-54). The reverse depicts #Emperor Claudius greeting a Praetorian signifer and the legend "praetorians received"
Lyon mint (44-45AD)
AncientBlueSky🏺🪙
#artwork #Roman #History #Coins
December 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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doccrom.bsky.social
"Happy Birthday, Nero!"

#OnThisDay - 15 December - in AD 37 Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born. Following his adoption by Claudius he would be Nero Claudius Caesar, reigning as emperor AD 54-68. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Image: RIC Nero 1; BM (1864,1128.252). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
A Roman gold coin. Obverse: Confronting busts of Nero, bare, head bare, facing right and Agrippina, draped, hair in long plait at back, facing left. Reverse: Inscription within oak-wreath.
December 15, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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doccrom.bsky.social
#OnThisDay - 16 December - in 19 BC the Altar to Fortuna Redux (Fortune the Home-Bringer) was dedicated. It celebrated Augustus' return to Rome after a three-year absence (Dio 54.10.1-3). #AncientBluesky 🏺

Image: RIC Augustus 53a; MK Berlin (18206797). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
December 16, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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drjeball.bsky.social
Fortunately, the defeated gladiator would have a relatively good chance of being spared, as most gladiatorial fights did not end with the defeat of the defeated fighter (although they would be vulnerable to dying of infection from any wounds sustained)

www.badancient.com/claims/gladi...
Did most Roman gladiator fights end in death?
Gladiatorial contests are often depicted as bloody and brutal battles to the death, with only the most valiant fighters allowed to survive. But how true is this?
www.badancient.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:24 AM