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Alicia Montemayor
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Writer, Painter and Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Aesthetics.
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#ReliefWednesday

A number of sculpted relief motifs from sarcophagi in the gardens of the Antalya Archaeological Museum. 📸My own.

#ancientbluesky #art #artwork #Archaeology
September 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Branch with Leaves - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/15677
September 16, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
British writer Aphra Behn, painted in 1670 by Sir Peter Lely (#BTD). Wrote Oroonoko & many plays, & is buried in Westminster Abbey.
September 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Cyprus Museum friends.
Small guy, big chariot Balancing act Dainty legs Monday face
September 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Virgin and, peeking out from under her blue robe, Baby J. With fab floral border. From the Hours of Simon de Varye, 1455, by Jean Fouquet. It’s been his day.
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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chapps.bsky.social
You'd be forgiven if you thought that this figure on the bottom of a scarab ring was Medusa. In fact, it's Hera - Hera Lakinia, recognizable due to her image on the coins of the ancient Greek city of Kroton (Crotone) on the lonian coast of Italy. 🏺 1/

Greek, 4th c. BCE
#GettyVilla 📸 me
The head of a goddess decorates the flat surface of this hollow gold scarab set in a silver swivel ring. Carved in relief rather than engraved as on a stone scarab, the goddess wears a stephane or crown decorated with three palmettes and a necklace with acorn-shaped pendants. Her locks of wavy hair radiate out from her face and she has a fierce expression. She represents Hera Lakinia, a local version of Hera, whose sanctuary was near the city of Kroton in South Italy. Coins of Kroton from the 300s BCE show similar images of Hera Lakinia, supporting this identification. Getty Villa Museum (85.AM.273)
August 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#TombTuesday

The Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient pyramid in #Rome, #Italy, near the Porta San Paolo. It was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius during the reign of the emperor Augustus, probably between 18 and 12 BC. It is made from Carrara marble.

#Archaeology #History #Roman
#AncientBlueSky🏛️
July 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Found in Anatolia a Hittite text date circa 2000 BC.

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#Archaeology #History #writing
#EpigraphyTuesday
Tudhaliya IV and Kurunta of Tarhuntassa in 1235BCE. With this treaty Tudhaliya promises the sovereignty of Tarhuntassa and another territory to Kurunta and his sons for the future, although Kurunta is advised to not want to imitate Tudhaliya's "Great Kingdom".
July 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The Artist's House in Argenteuil - 1876 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8671
July 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Honestly, I can never get enough of ancient glass. The vibrant colors, clever forms, and even the use of gold. This alabastron (perfume or scented oil flask) has swirls of gold between bands of colored glass. 1/ 🏺

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A gold band alabastron, with irregular bands of colored glass (cobalt blue, green, white, and black) snaking across the surface of this elegant vessel. The opulent gold bands are in fact gold leaf sandwiched between layers of colorless glass. Gold band glass was a luxury ware and this alabastron, or perfume flask, would have been owned by a prosperous Roman woman. The term alabastron comes from alabaster, the material from which containers of this shape, used for perfume and scented oil, were originally made in Egypt. In the Roman Empire, the use of gold band glass was initially limited to the creation of alabastra, but the medium was gradually adapted for the creation of a variety of other shapes.
July 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Dance like no one is watching …

Frozen in mid-step, this little Tarantine terracotta dancer’s himation (with traces of bright pink pigment) swirls about her feet. She wears an ivy leaf wreath on her head, connecting her to the worship of Dionysus. Almost certainly placed in a tomb. 🏺

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'Dance like no one is watching' ... Frozen while in motion, this statuette depicts a dancing woman, draped in a himation and wearing an ivy leaf wreath on her head. Her himation-wrapped right arm is folded back, her hand at her neck, her head lifted in abandon, and her right foot lifted backwards. Is it a religious dance, Dionysian, or instead linked to funerary practices? Perhaps all three. This figurine was certainly placed in a grave with the deceased person, likely a young woman. It still has traces of its original polychromy - particularly a bright pink pigment, which once covered the entire himation (cloak). Greek, Hellenistic, South Italian, Tarentine (the Greek city-state of Taras, part of Magna Graecia, or 'Great Greece', one of the Greek colonies in Italy), ca. 3rd century BCE. 6 × 2 7/16 × 3 3/8 in. (15.2 × 6.2 × 8.6 cm) Met Museum, New York (11.212.20)
June 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This #FrescoFriday we’re in awe of the deep blue of this fresco from Pompeii. It depicts Mars, the god of war. He stands on a plinth adding a sculptural feel and is surrounded by bushes, trees, birds, and a rich blue sky that might be about to turn from twilight to night.

#AncientBluesky🏺
Image description: Mars, the Roman god of war, stands on a plinth in a fresco from Pompeii. He holds a spear, shield and wears a crested helmet and a cloak, but is otherwise heroically nude. He appears in a garden seemingly at twilight a Gorgoneion seals the leafy border that frames the scene. Image credit to Carole Raddato.
June 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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"We have nowhere we can both call home. The boat is still our only refuge. And, every day, that bears down on us a little harder."|

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May 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Wheat Harvest - August 1884 #artbots #vangogh
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May 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Edge of the Cliff, Pourville, 1882 #artbots #monet
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9738
Edge of the Cliff, Pourville
March 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
utpictura.bsky.social
Así, son bienvenidos.
trinomonero.bsky.social Trinomonero @trinomonero.bsky.social · Mar 24
Lunes de Product placement interplanetario #trinomonero
March 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Annunciation, 1659, by #MichaelinaWautier (So. Netherlands, 1617-1689). Held by Musée-promenade de Marly-le-Roi; source, KIK IRPA / Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?ob... #artherstory #womenartists #LadyDay #FeastOfTheAnnunciation
An oil painting of the Annunciation. Mary, in a tannish robe and blue cloak, turns away from the table where she kneels reading to look up at the Angel Gabriel. The winged angel, who has long brown hair and wears a red robe with a yellow-gold cloak, holds a stalk of lily in his left hand. With his right hand he points skyward. Between them, above their heads, in an opening in the clouds, is the Holy Spirit in the form of a white dove.
March 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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All the replies/discussion on this are fascinating, thanks!
prehistorian.bsky.social Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Mar 25
The Melsonby assemblage (not a hoard). 28 (smallish) wheels and 14 harnesses, so potentially seven 4-wheeled carts (2 ponies each). If right then Early Iron Age tradition, as vessel might suggest. Out of fashion in Gaul by 450 BC, slightly later here perhaps.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Amazing Late Iron Age finds from Melsonby in Yorkshire, including these mask-like faces on a vessel
Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England
The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.
historicengland.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 7:09 AM
utpictura.bsky.social
🌱 Lo que hacen 20 cm de distancia. Ahora ya está mucho mejor.
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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People are already falling in love with A.I. What will happen once that becomes commonplace?
Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?
www.newyorker.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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1/ #Onthisday in 1621, Hugo de Groot, child prodigee, humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright, escaped life imprisonment in a book chest. De Groot was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law, laying the foundations for international law.
March 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Mon Ciel Bleu, il est tout beau sur mon nouveau téléphone... 😁
Trop content !

🎁 pour vous, mon fond d'écran
Paysage parisien, une rue avec l'établissement Thoumieux et la tour Eiffel au fond dans la brume...
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The delicate aquamarine colouring of this 2,000-year-old Roman flask came from iron in the sand used to make it, and its iridescence is the result of weathering which turned the glass opaque
www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...
March 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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'Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Chelsea' (1871) by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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March 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM