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#MosaicMonday Some lovely mosaics from Heraclea Lyncestis (photos taken in 2011). All I remember was how cold it was!

For #MosaicMonday, some lovely mosaics from the beautiful building in Kildare Street, #Dublin that houses the marvellous Bronze Age Gold collection of the National Museum of Ireland.

#MosaicMonday ... and now the Seasons, who are in the corners of the mosaic! Horae & the Seasons mosaic; now on display in the rather fine Archaeological Museum of #Kissamos, #Crete. (sorry about my feet!) 2/2

#MosaicMonday The lovely Horae (The Goddesses of the Seasons & Order: Eunomia, Eirene & Dike), in the centre of the Horae & the Seasons mosaic; now on display in the rather fine Archaeological Museum of #Kissamos, #Crete. 1/2

It does seem to me that a lot of the information contained in the most recent set of Epstein files has been specifically chosen to expose British participants in this shoddy affair & thus divert our attention from elsewhere. Or am I simply seeing UK media naturally focussing on the British angle?

#TombTuesday The interior of the tomb of Seuthes III, King of Odrysia in ancient Thrace in the 4th century BCE. Located in the Golgama Kosmatka Tumulus near Kazanlak in modern day #Bulgaria. His famous bronze portrait head can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia.

#MosaicMonday These ones are in the superb Bishop’s Basilica of Philippopalis (modern day Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

Something a little different for this #MosaicMonday - some lovely modern mosaics on the wall of Globe Primary School, in Bethnal Green

#MosaicMonday This Dionysos looks like he has seen a few too many parties! 4C AD, from Ancient Halicarnassus (modern day Bodrum) and now on display in Room 70 of the British Museum.

#MosaicMonday This wonderfully goofy looking Medusa is in the Benaki Museum in Athens, described as: "Mosaic floor with head of Medusa. Possibly from Asia Minor, Late Roman period."

Many thanks to @alisonfisk.bsky.social for inspiring me to visit Ham House - the crocuses are stunning again this year!

#FrescoFriday A lovely Roman altar from Milan, on display in the marvellous Civic Museum of Archaeology. 1st/2nd century CE. Side A has an embedded black marble head of Dionysos/Bacchus.

#MosaicMonday The extraordinary interior of the Cappella Palatina, in Palermo, Sicily. 12th century.

#FrescoFriday The Flotilla Fresco, from the West House in Akrotiri, Thera. Preserved by the volcanic eruption of Santorini/Thera around 1,600 BCE, and now on display in the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, in Fira, Santorini.

#MosaicMonday The Triumph of Dionysos, on display in the marvellous museum in Sousse, Tunisia. From the house of Vergil, Sousse. Roman, C3 CE. Full description in Alt text.

#MosaicMonday I’m not sure why this representation of November is looking at her sistrum so suspiciously! From Ancient Halicarnassus, now in the British Museum.

#MosaicMonday The birth of Alexander the Great; mosaic found near Baalbek, and now on display in the National Museum of Lebanon, in Beirut.

#MosaicMonday Marvellous sea-creatures from Ostia Antica.

#MosaicMonday A lovely sinuous pattern of dolphins and swans, from the House of the Dolphins, a massive (over 3,000 sq metre) house in El Jem, now on display in the museum in El Jem, Tunisia. First half of the 3rd c. AD/CE.

From the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum: the earliest known group of chess pieces, dated to the 700s AD/CE, found in Afrasiab (modern day Samarkand). and Afrasiab today. "The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars, the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab"

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions! This is a cuirass from the Teutoburg Forest battlefield, currently on display in the Legion exhibition in the British Museum.

#MosaicMonday L’ivresse d’Hercule - Hercules’ Drunkenness- C3 AD found in Vienne & now on display in the fine museum in Lyon.

#MosaicMonday A rather elegant dolphin, C1 CE. Found in Marseilles during the construction of the Cathedral de la Major in the 19th century, and now on display in the superb Museum of the History of Marseilles (Musee d’histoire de Marseille)

#MosaicMonday: Another Alexander? A hunter, suggested to be Alexander the Great. He can be seen in the Piazza della Vittoria in Palermo.