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Dr Paula Lock
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Classical history | Archaeology | Ancient Roman bars | Sensory studies
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Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn carries off Kephalos the hunter. Made on Melos in the mid 5th century BC but found in a tomb on Rhodes.
#eos #greekmyth #ancientgreece
January 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
January 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A charming little piece for Sunday: a terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely Sunday!

📷 by me

🏺 AncientBlueSky #archaeology
The picture shows a terracotta figure of a standing cat playing a harp-like instrument with its front legs. The lower part of the figurine is broken off.
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#ReliefWednesday - Delightful small-scale detail with this depiction of a Circus on a bone 'game counter'. The two conical projections being the metae ('turning posts'): ca. 1st Century AD. #Roman 🏺

Image: Princeton University Art Museum (1996-178), Link - artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Aphrodite crowns a herm of Dionysius ( terracotta circa 150-100 BC).
#aphrodite #dionysus #ancientgreece
Aphrodite crowns a herm of Dionysus. Terracotta, circa 150-100 BC.
January 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The wrath of the grapes: How the #Romans cheated the hangover by eating one of their five a day!
#HappyNewYear #Hangover #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

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January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The wrath of the grapes: How the #Romans cheated the hangover by eating one of their five a day!
#HappyNewYear #Hangover #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky

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January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#MosaicMonday; from the Archaeological Museum of Patras, a mosaic depicting the toilette of Venus. The goddess holds up a mirror reflecting her face as Cupid attends to her. From a villa at Plateia Ipsilon Alonion in #Patras. Second century CE.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
December 30, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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A fishy dish for #FindsFriday.
Often found in funerary contexts, so hypothetically for 'ritual banquets'.
This one, by artist called 'the eyebrow painter', also features lively hornshell + mussel.
Terracotta, Magna Graecia, 310-300BC.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Matera, Basilicata.
Painted terracotta plate with black background and orangey-red sea creatures swimming in a circle: two fish with black/white stripes (bream?) on sides and long fin along their back, plus a hornshell (a long cone shaped shellfish with a scalloped 'mouth' opening), and a mussel. In the centre of the plate is a round depression to hold condiment such as fish sauce for dipping.
December 27, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Minoan mugs that are 3,700 years old, but would sell like hotcakes today too. At the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📸 me
#MuseumMonday #AncientBluesky #skystorians 🗃️
Minoan mugs on glass shelves in a museum.
December 23, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Head of Aphrodite, marble. From Velletri, half of the 2nd century CE, on display at the Archaeological Museum
#Rome #archaeology #history
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📸 August 2024
December 24, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas #AncientBluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bod3...
December 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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Wow your friends and family this festive season with a taste of the past. Try this ancient #Roman recipe for #Passum — a delicious sweet #wine with a rich and velvety texture that goes down a treat! Why not give it a go? #SensoryTimeTravel #Christmas #AncientBluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bod3...
December 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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These #Roman glass spherical bottles would make great #Christmas baubles🎄, but they were used to hold perfume and loose powder. The contents were sealed inside the delicate cosmetic containers and a small knob at the top had to be broken off to remove the oil/powder. 1/2

🏺 AncientBluesky
The picture shows five spherical bottles made of glass in different colours: red, bue, light blue, yellow. One is made of colourless glass. Each of the bottles is decorated with a spiral thread. With the exception of one vessel, the knobs are broken off.
December 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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#RomanSiteSaturday; the aqueduct of ancient Nemausus, which includes the famous Pont du Gard aqueduct bridge over the Gardon. Numerous other remains can be found along the ~50 kilometer route, though:

www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #France #AncientBlueSky
December 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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The stunning site of #AlbaFucens comes complete with stepping stones, water fountains and bars! What more could you ask for? #RomanSiteSaturday #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Me
December 21, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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#FrescoFriday - Niche wall painting depicting Thanatos (the personification of death). From the Via Laurentina Necropolis, tomb 9, located outside the city walls of Ostia. Dated to the second half of the 2nd century AD.

Ostiense Museum, Ostia Antica.
December 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Happy Winter Solstice! RIB 1599 altar dedicated to Mithras by Litorius Pacatianus. Found in 1822 at the Mithraeum, Housesteads. Currently on display at the Great North Museum: the Hancock.
December 21, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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The Roman built Frontinus Gate and main street of Hierapolis, Turkey. Hierapolis is the site of a much earlier Phrygian settlement and later a Greek city. The city was home to the first known water powered saw mill. City was also known for its hot springs and wool production. #RomanSiteSaturday 🏺
The watermill is evidenced by a raised relief on the sarcophagus of a certain Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, a local miller. On the pediment, a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown powering via a gear train, and frame saws cutting rectangular blocks by the way of connecting rods and cranks.
December 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Lovely little Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare 😍

The artisan who made this brooch some 1,900 years ago, gave the hare a cheerful little face! Copper alloy decorated with enamel.

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#Archaeology
Romano-British brooch in the form of a crouching hare, viewed from the side with head to the right. The hare has one long ear, a slightly curved incised mouth, and two curved legs (one back and one front). The brooch is cast from copper alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The body is inlaid with green enamel with four copper-alloy decorative dots in the green enamel. The head is decorated with a circular green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye.
December 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
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December 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Which came first, the hairdo or the bread?
Carbonised loaf from #Pompeii. Hairdo, Imperial family, #BritishMuseum.

#ChristmasQuiz #PanisQuadratus #Roman #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Me
December 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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Was digging up some photos for a friend from this site today, so why not, for #RomanSiteSaturday, the Palace of Galerius in #Thessaloniki. Built circa 300 CE, the excavated archaeological area includes a large peristyle and bathing complex.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Greece #AncientBlueSky
December 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM