Daniel Stroe
@argileye.bsky.social
Journeys through the Ancient World. Hellenistic and Roman history & historiography. I comment mostly on art, history, politics & numismatics. With some Romanian, Ecuadorian & British flair.
“Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.”
“Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.”
Here’s a Scythian-Cimmerian trilobate arrowhead (6th–2nd c. BC) from my collection. Nomadic people from the Eurasian steppe who invaded the Near East in the 8th c. BC and controlled hegemonically areas in present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova… 2/3
April 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here’s a Scythian-Cimmerian trilobate arrowhead (6th–2nd c. BC) from my collection. Nomadic people from the Eurasian steppe who invaded the Near East in the 8th c. BC and controlled hegemonically areas in present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova… 2/3
Early on Saturday morning, thieves entered the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, blasting open a door with explosives. Although not confirmed which solid gold Geto- #Dacian artefacts were stolen (all lent by the Romanian authorities for the ‘Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver’ exhibition), 1/2
January 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Early on Saturday morning, thieves entered the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, blasting open a door with explosives. Although not confirmed which solid gold Geto- #Dacian artefacts were stolen (all lent by the Romanian authorities for the ‘Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver’ exhibition), 1/2
10 January 49 BC: #Caesar crosses the Rubicon. #Pompey “issued an edict in which he recognised a state of civil war, ordered all the senators to follow him, declared that he would regard as a partisan of Caesar any one who remained behind” (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”) and flees East. #numismatics
January 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
10 January 49 BC: #Caesar crosses the Rubicon. #Pompey “issued an edict in which he recognised a state of civil war, ordered all the senators to follow him, declared that he would regard as a partisan of Caesar any one who remained behind” (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”) and flees East. #numismatics
Here he is depicted on a #denarius struck by the moneyer M. Furius L.f. Philus in 119 BC, the obverse depicting the head of #Janus; the reverse commemorating the defeat of Gallic tribes the Allobroges and the Averni in Gaul by Quintus Fabius Maximus, which finally secured this region for Rome. (2/2)
January 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here he is depicted on a #denarius struck by the moneyer M. Furius L.f. Philus in 119 BC, the obverse depicting the head of #Janus; the reverse commemorating the defeat of Gallic tribes the Allobroges and the Averni in Gaul by Quintus Fabius Maximus, which finally secured this region for Rome. (2/2)