Although a purely culinary item this pig-shaped pie mould from Pompeii reminds me of the cakes shaped in the forms of animals linked to Seth (pigs, donkeys, crocodiles), which ancient Egyptians ate to show that evil will be defeated and justice when it comes, will be delicious. 🏺 #AncientBluesky

Given the news, it seems appropriate to share this photograph once more. Feel free to share. Hand of a gilded bronze statue of an Roman emperor. From Kempten, 1st to 3rd c. AD On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung 📷 me

And if he had played no role at all in helping people, he would still merit the right to life under the rule of law and his wrongful death would still be murder. In our shared humanity we are all equals.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Although it’s going through a difficult time, I don’t think I could ever lose faith with the country of Dylan. Solidarity with his home state today as they collectively, powerfully and peacefully face down the ICE facists, showing us all how to do it.

✨Pan riding an ithyphallic mule✨ The Greek god Pan was connected with flocks and shepherds so it perhaps only fitting that he is depicted here upon a mule, who is faithfully rendered complete with phallus.

That’ll do pig. A small bronze figurine of a boar, rendered so realistically you can see the scowl on its face and the individual hair and bristles shaped almost like a porcine combover. From Colchester, Roman period. #AncientBluesky

A certain Iron Age boar has been attracting attention recently, so for this #MosaicMonday here's a perky Roman boar. He's from the wonderful Triumph of Neptune and the Seasons mosaic from La Chebba, now in the Bardo in Tunis, and he represents Winter. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

👣 Love this Bowl with Human Feet which is almost 6,000 years old! Egypt, Nile clay, ca. 3700–3450 B.C. The bowl which has a beautiful polished surface is very similar in form to the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "to bring." 🏛️ Met 🏺 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #ancientbluesky #archaeology #Egypt

Jacob Epstein’s Primeval Gods and Sun God from 1910, carved either side of a Hoptonwood stone block. Inspired by the Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, it is currently on loan from the Met and on display in Tate Britain. International connections.

We all shine on, like the moon and Serapis and the sun. Oil lamp with image of the god Serapis between a crescent moon and a star or sun. Made in Ephesus, said to be Egyptian, about 100-150 CE. Currently held by British Museum 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

#MosaicMonday brings us to #Roman #Carthage in 375 CE, to a well-appointed #domus with a floor #mosaic showing the #seasons and #months. This fragment now in the #BritishMuseum shows #November as a priestess of #Isis, with a #sistrum in her hand. See the ALT text for why. #AncientBluesky 🏺

This engraved Romano-Egyptian magical gem (green jasper) depicts the Egyptian god and psychopomp Anubis holding an ointment jar and standing over a lion-shaped bier. The mummified body of Osiris lies on top. 💀🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 100-125 CE. #GettyVilla 📸 me

One month to go… UCL turns 200! 🎉 On 11 February, we kick off #UCL200 – a year of celebrations marking our radical founding in 1826 as London’s first university, open to all. Expect parties, exhibitions, student festivals, art, books, performances, and more. Get ready! @uclspeccoll.bsky.social#UCL200

Items related to the Egyptian gods found in Tenea, Greece including votive clay mask possibly depicting Harpocrates, an oil lamp with image of Serapis and gold lotus leaves, dated late Hellenistic to Roman period 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Article about retrieval of items stolen from the British Museum. 654 out of an estimated 1,500 missing items have been recovered 🏺 #AncientBluesky

January 11, 1897: After finding little, 70 Egyptian workers are sent by Grenfell & Hunt to excavate a trash heap near Oxyrhynchus. They immediately found a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas & 1000s more papyri, proving trash heaps are archaeological treasures. oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/waste-paper-...

Ancient Greek Sites Serve as Unexpected Havens for Wildlife #Greece #heritage greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

“Tech industry sources refer to the process of "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" to describe how state agencies are believed to be saving all of the worlds encrypted data at home and abroad with the expectation of future generations being able to access it”.

War trumpet in 'shape of a snarling wild animal' and bronze boar head battle standard showing the importance of animals to iron age self presentation. Great discovery. 🏺 #AncientBluesky

A bronze figurine of Isis-Tyche-Fortuna holding a steering oar and not one but two cornucopias for double the blessings. Don’t settle for anything less this year. Roman, 2nd Century CE. British Museum. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

Happy New Year and good fortune to everyone during 2026! Below is a relief of the Roman goddess Fortuna which was found at Castlecary Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall. Now part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #NewYear

Votive Plaque: Swallow (Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

'Josephine Burton...was recently appointed practitioner in residence at the University of London’s Institute of Classical Studies, where she will be working on a music-theatre project, Songs of Solidarity, to create a collective epic for our time drawing on both Classical and non-Western models.'

This may be how the shepherds appeared at the manger in Bethlehem, those many years ago. A small statuette of a satyr carrying a goat, Egyptian, 1 or 2 century CE. Held in the British Museum. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

Just found out there’s a new movie about Mother Ann Lee and the Shakers to be released in February. Love a bit of millenarianism (and interiors inspo).

Highlights from Boxing Day walk around Rainham, initially the site of a Thames ferry (part of a pilgrim route) and later ‘Havering Riviera’ with pleasure trips from London before a fish manure works put stop to it all. A fascinating area with Georgian houses, industry and a bird sanctuary #history

As I wait for festivities to begin, I am thinking of my favourite Christmas mornings in literature. Nothing beats Oscar and Lucinda when the hero tries a Christmas Pudding against the wishes of his puritanical father who has strong feelings towards “Satan's fruit”. What’s your favourite? 📚💙

1. It has Joe Pesci in it. 2. It has a Christmas tree in it. It’s a Christmas film.

For unto us a child is born. Ceramic images of mothers and children from Cyprus, possibly goddesses c. 700-300 BCE. Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates. 🎄 🏺 #AncientBluesky

On this day in 1792, Lieutenant Hugh Monro was seized by a tiger while hunting in India, later dying of his wounds. This rather elegant and bizarre Staffordshire figurine commemorates this grim event. Fitzwilliam Museum. #otd #history

Catching up with an old friend over the holidays. In his autobiography, full of old scandals, some still remembered, EF Benson recalls showing William Gladstone new epigraphic evidence from Roman Chester. Gladstone was “fiery [in] his advice about making squeezes” and a bit of a know it all.

An exquisite delft shaving basin from the 17th century. The decoration features a plethora of shaving accoutrements. The semi-circular gap fits the neck of the shavee, allowing the bowl to collect hair and cream. The two small holes to the side suggest it was hung up on display.

Happy Epona's Day! Here is Epona and her #horses

The death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly. His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2

A weary look that says he’s seen it all. I have a similar energy, as I head into my Saturnalia and Christmas holidays. Small marble statuette of Thoth sitting on a pillar from the Roman period Egypt. Now held in the Allard Pierson🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky

#ReliefWednesday It's Mercury at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle. Found next to Newcastle upon Tyne Fort. Mercury is carrying a purse and caduceus symbolising his dual role as god of trade and messenger of the gods. #AncientBlueSky🏺

Classically-inspired sleigh. It’s kid-size, so I wonder if it was meant to be pulled by smaller animals like dogs, sheep or even geese or swans(?). From a shop window in Amsterdam, so don’t have any more information. 🗃️ #ClassicsBluesky

Zeus-Ammon. #Roman copy of a #Greek original from the late 5th century BC. The Greeks of the lower Nile Delta and Cyrenaica combined features of supreme #god Zeus with features of the #Egyptian god Amun-Ra. Königsplatz collections. #Art #AncientBlueSky🏺 #History

My review of All Roads Lead to Rome

This little Iron Age piggy from Hounslow, Middlesex, would love to wish you a happy #FindsFriday, but is concentrating far too hard on sniffing out a truffle hidden beneath the baize. 2nd-1st century BC. British Museum.

Rare Incense Burner Depicting Egyptian God #Serapis Unearthed in Ancient City of Ephesus #Turkiye #archaeology #Egyptology arkeonews.net/rare-incense...

Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...

Since he is trending in the news, I thought I’d share this lovely object which may depict the funerary temple dedicated to Amenemhat III (aka the labyrinth) and the nearby town of Crocodeilonpolis with its tame crocodile, both described by Strabo (17.1.37-38) 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology

Could the remains of an actual ship linked to the Isidis Navigium festival have been found? #egyptology #AncientBluesky

The Egyptian God Heryshaf portrayed as a Roman Emperor, possibly as a symbol of his power against evil spirits or in providing benefices. We have examples of other animal gods portrayed in this way including Apis, Anubis and Horus. From Heracleopolis, now Allard Pierson 🏺 #Egyptology #AncientBluesky

A gorgeously pagan aquamanilia, ewer, used to wash hands before dining or celebrating the mass(!?), c. 1220-1230, Hildesheim, now in Rijksmuseum. Recalling depictions of Rhea or Cybele. #ClassicsBluesky

According to a later myth, St Nicholas smacked Arius during a heated moment in the Council of Nicaea. A favourite festive fact.