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Rayya 🪡🖌🏳️‍🌈📚
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Amateur historian and dabbler in many arts.
SCA: Rayya al-Ruqay'ya & Raedora de La Palma
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
🎆 Happy New Year Everyone! 🎆

2026 is the Year of the Horse 🐴, so here are some of my favourite archaeological horses for #RockArtThursday!

This is the stunning 'Panel of the Horses' in Chauvet Cave, France, painted ~30,000 years ago! 🐎

I hope everyone has a great year!

#archaeology 🏺
Cave paintings in black of four horse heads next to eachother in succession on a yellow wall, with the drawing of a rhino beneath
January 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.

A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!

📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...

#Archaeology
The image shows a small, rounded, purple glass vessel in the shape of a pomegranate fruit displayed against a light grey background. The display lighting enhances the translucent purple glass which replicates the colour of a ripe fruit. There is some encrustation dotted around the body of the vessel and around the calyx which has one lobe missing. Height 6.9 cm (2.7 in), Diameter 6.6 cm (2.5 in). Probably used as a container for perfumed oil.
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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artologica.net
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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decmusicology.bsky.social
Just so you are aware, the average historian

-- will have done comprehensive exams for their PhD where they are expected to have read *all* the research in their area.
-- they will then write a dissertation where they add to this by visiting archives and painstakingly amassing new sources.

1/2
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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ivathehuman.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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broodingbookcase.bsky.social
I love to see ancient glasswork. It feels whimsical and modern in a way the pottery never does.
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19d
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!

Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a fat little mouse, 14.6 cm in length. The body of the vessel is rounded and stands on four feet made from tooled trails of glass. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The flask surface is decorated with trails of glass which have been flattened and notched. Modern scholars refer to this type of trailed decoration as ‘snake thread’. On display at the Met Museum in New York
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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yazagames.com
We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔

But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️

If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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celestialfang.bsky.social
Getting the full medieval court painter experience
December 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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theonion.com
Crying Sounds Coming From Inside Suit Of Armor
Crying Sounds Coming From Inside Suit Of Armor
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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drewjakeprof.bsky.social
This is a late ancient (5-7th c.?) Greek account of the life of a rich woman who was raised Jewish, converted to Christianity when her parents died, lived for 20 years as a male monk named John, was discovered & made head of a woman's monastery, & was later martyred
drewjakeprof.bsky.social Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Nov 25
well, what the heck. it's the tuesday before thanksgiving, and whoever is on here deserves a treat: the first new translation I've posted in a long while: the Life and Martyrdom of Susanna:

andrewjacobs.org/translations...
Life and Martyrdom of Susanna
andrewjacobs.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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carbunny.bsky.social
I very highly recommend picking up weaving or spinning as a hobby. Learning by hand the amount of labor that used to be required to create simple things like rope, ribbon and fabric, that we buy for pennies now, is astounding.
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
a book page with a coat of arms showing a skull, next to it is written Caterine Morte
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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formthehead.bsky.social
Never noticed how caked up the mannequins at the Met were
mannequin wearing a suit of armor that exposes its luscious foam buttocks Silhouette of another mannequins BBL
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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boneysoups.bsky.social
do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
birdingarb.bsky.social
This is just the SCA...
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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ansitru.bsky.social
En garde 🤺

#embroidery
A hand holding a bead embroidery with a tiny sword, flail, spikes and other various beads. The text reads "this email could have been a duel | fight me"
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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fiadh.bsky.social
female armor “how women actually want to dress”
August 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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theoplum.bsky.social
them
ursa & genevieve from ladies of the living princess. one woman leaning over another, vaguely late 15th-early 16th c stylings
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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featherfangart.bsky.social
| Villain |

To all my fellow people pleasers out there... 😌
#originalart
an illustration of book being pierced through by a sword, from the wound the thorns with red tips are growing, slowly changing into flowers, a red bookmark is there to symbolize blood. the book reads 'It's alright to say No. You will always be a villain in someone's story...'
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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tiffbaxter.bsky.social
🌟Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟
I'm Tiffany, an illustrator primarily working with the fantastical & historical especially in ttrpgs and books. I'm available for commercial & private work from mid Nov!
💌: tiffany.baxter@btinternet.com (no bsky DMs pls, I'm in the UK! 💀)
Portfolio: www.tiffanybaxter.com
A black and white ink illustration of a scowling early 19th century housekeeper holding a lamp stood within an open gothic arch doorway. The doors are elaborately carved with natural motifs such as the Green Man. The stone above has carvings of wolves. An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees. An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold. A square sticker of a silvery-blue medieval inspired unicorn curled up asleep. It's on a gold matte shine background with a red border decorated with curved white lines and dots. It rests on a backdrop of a Richard Dadd painting of fairies.
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM