Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
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Dr Crom
@doccrom.bsky.social
· Oct 17
AncientBluesky 🏺- A favourite! The eponymous piece from the Tomb of the Blue Vase, Pompeii (HGE08). A stunning cameo glass amphora, with grape-harvesting Cupids: ca. 1st Century AD. #Pompeii #Archaeology
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (13521). Link - mann-napoli.it/gli-oggetti-...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Reposted by Dr Crom
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Reposted by Dr Crom
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#FrescoFriday - From a series of fresco depictions of the Muses from the Praedia of Julia Felix, Pompeii (II.4.10/3). Here is Urania, Muse of Astronomy, with a celestial globe and measuring rod. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (ED 2759 ; P 12). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
#FrescoFriday - A fresco of Fortuna from the Caupona of Tertius, Pompeii (IX.7.22), with the addition of a notable graffito:
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
"CACATOR / CAVE MALU(M)" (CIL IV 3832)
'Shitter, Beware of Evil!'
Best mind your step! #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (112285)
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#OnThisDay - 14 November - in AD 565 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died at the age of 83. His was an energetic reign, perhaps most famous for his legal revisions. #History 🏺
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Image: Gold Solidus of Justinian I, Constantinople, AD 538-545. ANS 1948.19.743. Link - numismatics.org/collection/1...
Reposted by Dr Crom
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Reposted by Dr Crom
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I haven't done a #PhallusThursday post in a while, so here's an Athenian amphora, ca. Late 6th Century BC, showing an ithyphallic Satyr flanked by a pair of Sphinxes. Attributed to the 'Pointed Nose Painter'. 🏺
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
Image: Louvre Collections (E862). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#LatinForTheDay – 13 November #Horace
“otium divos rogat in patenti
prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes
condidit lunam neque certa fulgent
sidera nautis;
otium bello furiosa Thrace,
otium Medi pharetra decori,
Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura venale
neque auro....
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#OnThisDay - 13 November - in 36 BC Octavian (later Augustus) celebrated a triple ovation, with his later Res Gestae (25.1) describing this victory as 'pacifying the sea from pirates'. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: Aureus of 42 BC; RRC 497/1; BM (1864,1128.237). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
#OnThisDay - 11 November - in AD 109 Trajan dedicated his 'naumachia' - a stadium for the recreation of naval battles - reflecting not only his military persona, but also the role of emperor as impresario. #History 🏺
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#OnThisDay - 11 November - in AD 109 Trajan dedicated his 'naumachia' - a stadium for the recreation of naval battles - reflecting not only his military persona, but also the role of emperor as impresario. #History 🏺
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: RIC II Trajan 209; ANS 1958.214.9. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#OnThisDay - 10 November - in AD 41, the Emperor Claudius wrote a letter to the Alexandrians trying to defuse the civil unrest between the city's various ethnic communities: an issue left unresolved by Gaius Caligula. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
Image: Papyrus 2248 Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987)
#OnThisDay - 8 November - in AD 30, Marcus Cocceius Nerva was born. He would be proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate following the assassination of Domitian in AD 96, reigning until AD 98. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#OnThisDay - 8 November - in AD 30, Marcus Cocceius Nerva was born. He would be proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Senate following the assassination of Domitian in AD 96, reigning until AD 98. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Image: Obverse of RIC II Nerva 34 (aureus); BnF. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
Reposted by Dr Crom
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Reposted by Dr Crom
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)
Reposted by Dr Crom
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
Reposted by Dr Crom
A delightful history of a mongrel language
Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly
A delightful history of a mongrel language
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A delightful history of a mongrel language
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...