The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

A sight to behold this morning at Parco Castelli Romani: Cyclamen hederifolium everywhere! It is a tuberous perennial known for its late summer and autumn flowers and attractive winter foliage. 🌷 #Rome #CastelliRomani #nature

“Un altro Achille. L’eroe di Omero a Roma”, conferenza al Museo Nazionale Romano di Federica Bessone, Professoressa ordinaria di lingua e letteratura latina, Università di Torino. youtu.be/mIVcUPf3S_0 #Roma #Rome #Latin #Iliad #Iliade

Fascinating! #openaccess

The Ipogeo delle Ghirlande is an important Roman tomb discovered in Grottaferrata, near Rome. The hypogeum contained two marble sarcophagi, both sealed. The sarcophagi belonged to a Roman noblewoman named Aebutia Quarta and her son, Carvilius Gemellus, who died at the age of 18. #SarcophagusSaturday

A magnificent copper alloy #Roman wine jug with the goddess Minerva and owl Recovered during gravel extraction in the early 1980s with over 1000 other items Loot from a raid accidentally lost in the Rhine or deliberately deposited as an offering? 📷 December 2024 Neues Museum, Berlin #FindsFriday

#FindsFriday A vast #Roman fortress was established at Usk in the 50s AD. Covering an area of 19.5ha. This was the base for a #legion of 5,000 at a time when the Usk river probably marked the edge of the Roman Empire. Iron dagger and scabbard inlaid with Silver. 📷My own #History

Live from Palazzo Braschi in #Rome, visiting the exhibition dedicated to Yoshitaka Amano. If you are in Rome, love Japan and the works of Amano sensei (including the illustrations for the Final Fantasy game franchise) you won’t want to miss this exhibition! #ローマ のブラスキ宮殿で開催される天野喜孝展！ #art #美術

This is the oldest evidence of the theme of individual reading within the context of Greek funerary sculpture. #ReliefWednesday

Fragment of a sarcophagus with a Maenad playing the tympanum (Tympanistria). Urban workshop, Antonine period (160-170 CE). Currently at the San Nilo Abbey Archaeological Museum in Grottaferrata #ReliefWednesday #Rome #archaeology

The Church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola is a masterpiece of Roman Baroque art. The most famous feature of the church is its magnificent ceiling, painted by the Jesuit artist and lay brother Andrea Pozzo. The main fresco on the nave ceiling is The Apotheosis of St. Ignatius. #Rome #art #architecture

#ReliefWednesday: A #Roman terracotta money box in the shape of a beehive, decorated with an image of Mercury, holding the caduceus (the staff carried by herolds) and a money bag. Mercury was considered the god of financial gain and commerce, and as such...🧵1/2 🏺 #Archaeology

Somehow managed to have not one, but TWO books published this month! 🎉 Thrilled to see these out: 👉 Vine-growing and Winemaking in the #Roman World (w/ @divali.bsky.social, M.S. Busana) 👉 Between Global and Local: Glocal Refractions in Roman Material Culture and Society (w/ R. Montoya González) /1

Live from Vicus Caprarius in #Rome! Visitors can explore the remnants of an ancient Roman residential complex, including a luxurious mansion (a domus) and an apartment building (insula). It includes a massive water reservoir, or castellum aquae, which was part of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct (1st c. CE)

#EpigraphyTuesday and an early #SpoliaSunday with this piece from the San Nilo archaeological museum in Grottaferrata. It is a slab with inscription of philosophical phrases. End of 1st century CE and reused in a window of the monastic church. #Rome #archaeology #history

#FrescoFriday at the Campo Valdès Roman baths, Asturias, #Spain. Some frescoes were preserved in situ while others had to be recovered from collapsed sections of the building. These recovered paintings have been restored and are displayed on separate panels within the museum #archaeology #history

🌸Narcissus🌸 This #FrescoFriday we travel to Pompeii to visit the house of Octavius Quartio. This fresco depicts Narcissus, his reflection clearly mirrored in the water below. Narcissus seems to be resisting the urge to gaze upon his own reflection, but how long will that last? #AncientRome

For #ReliefWednesday a #Roman relief from Ostia depicting a tesserae workshop: two men are cutting stones to prepare tesserae (little cubes) for mosaics. Two other men are bringing stone slabs to be cut, while a fifth man is telling where to put the slabs. 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

The Circus Maximus right now #Rome

#ReliefWednesday at San Nilo abbey archaeological museum. Funerary stele with reading boy Ionian workshop (Asia Minor), 410-390 BCE, marble #archaeology #history

After a short hiatus, I'm back with #EpigraphyTuesday, and it's the inscription of the Temple of Antoninus & Faustina in the Forum. DIVO ANTONINO ET / DIVAE FAVSTINAE EX S C For the divine Antoninus and for the divine Faustina, by decree of the Senate. #AncientBlueSky🏺

Ho ricevuto questo libro in regalo e mi accingo a leggerlo 😊 #books #libri #Roma

#EpigraphyTuesday in the Baths of Campo Valdès, Asturias, #Spain. FORTUNAE / BALNEARI(ae) / T(itus) POMPEIUS PE / REGRINIANUS / PRO SALUTE / SUA ET SUORUM / DICAVIT To Fortuna Balnearia, Titus Pompeius Peregrinianus For his own well-being and that of his family/people Dedicated (this) #archaeology

Inscription recording the offices of Cassius Cerealis who organised games honouring the Emperor Nero at the Puteoli amphitheater, near Naples. Dating to AD 54-68, the inscription is part of the collections at the Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

Perfect day to visit San Nilo abbey (Grottaferrata), founded in 1004 by a group of Greek monks from southern Italy, led by Saint Nilus of Rossano. It is the last surviving Byzantine monastery from the many that once existed in southern Italy and around #Rome. A thread 🧵 #architecture #history #art

New post this week, the second and final part on Colonia Caesar Augusta (modern Zaragoza). Included this week, parts of the form, baths, sewers, and the city fortification walls. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Two of my favorite images of the gorgon Medusa, which illustrate how her myth and visage changed over time. On the left, a Greek kyathos (wine ladle) with a monstrous Medusa chased by Perseus. On the right, a Roman gilded silver roundel with a tragically beautiful Medusa. 🏺 1/ #GettyVilla 📸 me

Starting a podcast ("Instant Classics") with Charlotte Higgins at the end of August. One thing we'll be doing (there are plenty others) is reading & discussing the Odyssey over several months. Here's why we chose that tinyurl.com/kfds9tkr

#RomanSiteSaturday live from the Roman Baths of Campo Valdés (Gijón, Asturias, #Spain). Their history spans from their construction in the 1st century CE to their rediscovery and transformation into a museum. #archaeology #history

The Temple of Jupiter Anxur is believed to have been dedicated to Jupiter Anxur, who was the protector of the ancient city of Anxur (the original name for Terracina).
The most significant construction of the complex we see today took place during the late Roman Republic, around mid-2nd and mid-1st c

Greetings from the Temple of Jupiter Anxur in Terracina! #Rome #archaeology #history

Easter at the Basilica di San Saba, Rome

New issue of Mélanges de l'École française de Rome - Antiquité Vol. 136, No. 2 (2024) journals.openedition.org/mefra/16775 @ef-rome.bsky.social Les entourages et le pouvoir dans le monde romain aux premiers siècles de l’Empire – Varia @paulineczl.bsky.social

For #FrescoFriday a #Roman wall painting from the Casa dei Cervi, Herculaneum, depicting Cupids playing hide and seek. I especially like the one who covers his eyes - some things haven't changed since Roman times! In Roman wall painting of the 1st c. AD, scenes depicting...🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Gaspar van Wittel, Veduta del Tevere a Castel Sant’Angelo (1683) © Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Roma (MiC) - Bibliotheca Hertziana, Istituto Max Planck per la storia dell’arte/Enrico Fontolan #Roma #Rome #art

There is nothing better than spending the Easter break at Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica (hopefully it will be nice and sunny soon)

Renaissance artist Raphael was born #otd in 1483 in Urbino, Italy. Raffaello Sanzio, Autoritratto (1506 circa), Galleria degli Uffizi, #Firenze

Ludi Fortunae: domenica 13 aprile 2025 a Palestrina #Roma

Federico Barocci, Aeneas fleeing Troy, 1598, Galleria Borghese, #Rome #art #ClassicalReception

1a Giornata Internazionale di Studi del Museo Archeologico Oreste Nardini - 28 Marzo 2025 - Velletri, #Roma “Coriolano, i Volsci e i Romani” #storia #archeologia

In a few weeks (April 16) I'll be in Rome to talk about Rome, namely my research on the ancient extraction of volcanic tuff for building stone and the modern historiography thereof. It can also be followed in streaming 🏺#ArchaeologyBluesky bsr.ac.uk/city-of-rome...

"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." #Shakespeare

The Arch of the Argentarii is an architraved gate erected in 204 CE near the Forum Boarium. The college of moneychangers and cattle dealers (the argentarii et negotiantes boarii) paid for its construction and dedicated it to Emperor Septimius Severus and his family #Rome #archaeology #history

The stairway down to the catacombs of Sant'Agnese in Rome is lined with fragments of sarcophagi, inscriptions, and other funerary monuments found in and near the catacomb complex on the Via Nomentana in #Rome. 📷🇮🇹 🪦 flic.kr/p/2qH4aKL #photography #archaeology #EarlyChristianity #Italy

“Oh #Rome! My country! City of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! and control in their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance?” Lord #Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. IV. LXXVIII #WorldPoetryDay #WorldPoetryDay2025

An idyllic landscape scene from the Casa del Frutteto reveals a harbour-side with the figures on the shore seemingly signalling to the vessel in the distance. The composition and sense of perspective are beautiful and you can almost feel the summer glow! #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky🏺

J. M. W. Turner, Ancient Italy — Ovid Banished From #Rome, Oil on canvas, Private collection. Publius Ovidius Naso, known as #Ovid, was born in Sulmo, Italy, on 20 March, 43 BCE. Near the end of his life he was exiled to Tomis, a Black Sea port city. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art #art #otd

There's just something about ancient gems! A Roman amethyst of the goddess Diana in her guise as a huntress. Signed ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΥ ('Of Apollonios'), suggesting the gem engraver active under Augustus. #Roman 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (26070). Link - mann-napoli.it/gemme-farnes...

Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome | British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/blog/mary-be...

Pompeii has been excavated for hundreds of years, and in that time techniques, practices and philosophies have changed. In the new Emperors of Rome podcast we speak to Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social and Steven Ellis @stevenellis.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...