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Archaeological travels through the Roman Empire. Bimonthy updates at the website. All photos my own unless otherwise noted.
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New post this week starting a new series on (Colonia Martia Julia Valeria) Salona! The colony was established by Caesar in 47 BCE, and would later be the birthplace of Diocletian:

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I just leave this for #PhallusThursday: A Roman oil lamp featuring an inscription and a phallus.
The inscription reads "ne atigas non sum tua marci sum" (don't touch me! I'm not yours; I belong to Marcus').

From the Esquiline necropolis in Rome, 2nd century BC

📷 me (Musei Capitolini)

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A black slipped pottery oil lamp with a rounded body and a small spout, displayed on a circular transparent stand. It features an inscription along its sides and an engraved phallus the top.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Looking west onto Milecastle 39 - a fortlet on Hadrian’s Wall, located to the northeast of Once Brewed in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #HadriansWall
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany.
The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2

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A small square mosaic glass inlay displayed against a dark background, showing an ibis, a long-legged bird with a curved beak walking on a thin red ground line. The inlay is light green with a slightly porous, pitted surface and slightly chipped edges.
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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New post, the fifth and final part on ancient Kos! This post focuses on the famed Asclepieion, located a few kilometers outside the ancient city and active through the Roman period.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This bronze head of a goddess with her spooky, hypnotic inlaid silver eyes, will be roaming the shadows tonight on All Hallows Eve! Still looking for her body, 2,000 years later … 😱 🏺 1/

Hellenistic, 150-100 BCE, Mersin, Turkey. #BritishMuseum
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Bronze head of a woman or goddess, torn from a full-sized statue. She wears a lunette diadem with inlaid silver patterns, with a star in the middle. Her wavy hair is center parted and pulled back into a bun. She looks directly into the camera with inlaid silver eyes, set beneath shadowed brows. With her mottled brown and green patina, the effect is frightening! British Museum (1928,0416.1)
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Roman glass cups with colourful enamel decoration of animals from the Roman arena. AD 200s.

Found in richly-furnished graves in Denmark. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four images of Roman-era clear-glass cups painted with colourful enamel decoration depicting animals from the Roman Arena. Known as ‘circus cups’, fourteen of which have been found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark. Dated AD 200s. The top two images show two sides of the same cup. Top left: a brown lion with shaggy mane, its front and rear legs outstretched as if running at full speed. Top right: a green spotted leopard. Out of shot, a blue goat is being hunted down by the lion and the leopard. Bottom left: fragmentary glass cup decorated with a light brown lion with shaggy mane. Nose and lips outlined in black. Bottom right: image of a gladiator with green leggings and blue shield, and in front of him a large brown bear.
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology
Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Some of the extensive remains of Roman Corbridge in Northumberland. A wonderful site with a great museum. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Corbridge #Northumberland
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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A terracotta bust of a girl wearing a crescent-shaped pendant, known as a lunula, which was typically worn by females.
Lunula pendants were believed to possess apotropaic qualities, meaning they were intended to ward off evil. The moon was a symbol associated. ..🧵1/2

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Small bust figurine made of light-colored stone or clay, depicting a female figure with large almond-shaped eyes, a rounded face, and patterned lines suggesting hair or a headdress, wearing a crescent-shaped pendant. Displayed against a dark background.
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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This remarkable bronze cobra with eyes inlaid with glass paste likely originated from a workshop in Alexandria.
The cobra motif is prevalent in Egyptian iconography, symbolizing royal authority and safeguarding against the Pharaoh's enemies.
The Greek author Plutarch indicates that...🧵1/2

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October 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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#RomanSiteSaturday; A new post this week, part IV of the ongoing series on ancient Kos. The current installment finishes up the main town with the northern agora and harbor area.

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#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #InternationalArchaeologyDay
October 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

📷 Royal Ontario Museum

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The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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New post this week, part three on ancient Kos! This week continues through the reconstructed Casa Romana before detailing the adjacent remnants of the southern area of the agora.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Cirencester was the Roman Corinium, second only to London in size with 10,000 inhabitants. Its amphitheatre was one of the largest in Britain. It was built in the early 2nd century and it could hold c. 8,000 spectators. It was fortified against Saxon invaders. #RomanSiteSaturday
Part of the earthworks
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower

Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today

📷 Oct 2025

#RomanSiteSaturday
Lower courses of stone built wall with foundations of projecting tower on the right and internal square tower to the left. Surrounded by grass. Trees in the background Squared facing stones of a Roman wall with rubble core exposed. Grass in foreground, trees and sky behind Interpretation board set up to explain the Roman walls of Cirencester
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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The Roman camp of Raedykes near Stonehaven is one of the best preserved in Scotland. It covers around 38 hectares and has an irregular outline. Probably built in the late 1st century, by the 1700s it was being associated with the elusive site of the battle of Mons Graupius. #RomanSiteSaturday
The ditch of the Roman camp of Raedykes in north east Scotland
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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For #RomanSiteSaturday, here's the remains of the Basilica of the Five Martyrs in Salona, Croatia

It was built in the 4th century AD above the graves of five priests killed in Diocletian's persecution of the Christians

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #romanempire #photooftheday🏺
Roman ruins in a rectangular open plan with a few stumps of columns remaining on either side and grass covering flagstones on the floor. Behind are a row of trees and in the distance some rugged mountains
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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#RomanSiteSaturday

Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and #Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the #Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in present-day #Syria.

#Archaeology #History
Image description Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great. In 113 BC, Parthians conquered the city, and held it, with one brief Roman intermission (114 AD), until 165 AD.
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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#RomanSiteSaturday & Serdica: what is now Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬
contains a lot of Roman remains including this early c4 church, built in the ruins of what was formerly a baths

See more of Sofia in the episode >>>
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October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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#RomanSiteSaturday The Vicus Caprarius archaeological site, known as the “City of Water,” is an underground complex in #Rome located near the Trevi Fountain. An insula, a domus and medieval dwellings coexist in this space
More here: romeandbeyond.altervista.org/vicus-caprar...
#archaeology #history
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The remains of the Roman amphitheater at Cirencester (Corinium). Built during the 2nd century AD, it is estimated that the amphitheater would have held around 8000 people. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Cirencester
October 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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New post this week, part two on ancient Kos! This week's post details the large Western Archaeological Zone with its mosaics and frescos as well as the city's 1st-2nd century CE odeon.

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#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
September 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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#MosaicMonday From last week's post on ancient Kos, a 2nd-3rd century CE mosaic depicting Asclepius arriving on Kos. He is greeted by a Koan as Hippocrates sits nearby. Archaeological Museum of Kos.

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#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
September 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM