1. In May I took part in the 4𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘦𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘶𝘮 organised by Warsaw and Jagiellonian Universities I presented 𝗗𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘆𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 Hence it's a #MosaicMonday, I go on: ▶️ tinyurl.com/65zjnxrv

Mes bouquins refermés sur le nom de Paphos (My Books Closed on the Name of Paphos) (plate, page 151) from Poésies (Poems), 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1141608

Spring in Paphos, Cyprus. #photo #photography #archaeology #spring #flowers #paphos #cyprus

1. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 [...]. Mary Beard, TLS ▶️ h7.cl/1jSpf

In #Melbourne there is already Monday the 16th of February '26, 1:19 AM, in #Warsaw we have still Sunday, the 15th, 3:19 PM, nice afternoon, just as in #Konstanz and #Firenze. 4:19 PM in #Athens, 5:19 PM in #Palmyra, 9:22 AM in #NY, and 6:19 AM in #Seatle and #LA #FreedomofSpeach & #Globalisation 🏺

February 15, 44 BCE: Plutarch (Life of JC, 61) details the Lupercalia on this day. The consul, Marc Antony, ran through the streets naked (as one does) hitting women with strips of fur. It is unclear to me if he had clothes on when then offering a diadem to Caesar twice. 🐺 But it was a bad look. 👑

1. Joint #ValentineDay & #SarcophagusSaturday A wonderful scene carved in Proconnesian marble: the marriage feast of #AmorandPsyche. Above a winged cupid holds a dove. The bed flanked by a winged female figure playing a #pandurium and a boy playing a #lyre @britishmuseum.bsky.social 1805,0703.132

1. Joint #ValentineDay & #SarcophagusSaturday A wonderful scene carved in Proconnesian marble: the marriage feast of #AmorandPsyche. Above a winged cupid holds a dove. The bed flanked by a winged female figure playing a #pandurium and a boy playing a #lyre @britishmuseum.bsky.social 1805,0703.132

Yesterday's vivid discussion on Hippo's and #FrescoFriday brought me to this charming artist's painting of a hippopotamus made on ostracon. It might be it acted as a template, a practice piece or simply was a result of a creative impulse 😀 1479–1425 BCE 🌍 #Egypt 📸 @metmuseum.org ▶️ h7.cl/1oOFi

#FrescoFriday brought me back to the Tomb of the Three Brothers in #Palmyra. In the main exedra, medallions of the dead rise between loculi, upheld by Victories; above, Odysseus finds Achilles on Skyros. Palmyrene matrons with infants line the buttresses. Striking case of provincial cosmopolitanism

#FrescoFriday takes us into the southern #œcus of the #HouseoftheVettii in #Pompeii, where a seated #Leda is eagerly getting ready for some #avian #sex with #Jupiter, which will have strange effects on her reproductive system, producing two #eggs each containing #twins. Ouch. #AncientBluesky 🏺

All day with the #Aion mosaic from #Paphos. A new visual language emerges between Severans and the Constantinian dynasty in the regional triangle of Cyprus–Syria–Palestine. The more I read, the clearer I see it. #RomanCyprus #ArtAndPower #ProvincialNetworks #CulturalTransfer #Mosaics #LateAntiquity

1. Several friends ask how I cope with #Winter Spending much of my time in #Warsaw, I took advantage of frost and sunshine and walked through #Łazienki, a late 18th-century classical royal residence. Snow reveals contrasts: marble and its imitations, naked gods, and peacocks, colorful and white

1. #SarcophagusSaturday brings me to this wonderfully carved fragment of a banquet scene from the lid of a now-lost sarcophagus from Palmyra (Tadmor),originally at the West Necropolis, Valley of the Tombs, Temple Tomb no. 36, Palmyra Museum, inv. no. 401/525, VI.5. 📸Troels Myrup

Pretty incredible. On the list for a future visit to #Rome youtu.be/UFK1NryS8qE?...

"A cup as yet harmless, but extremely hot and already tasted, was handed to Britannicus; then, on his refusing it because of its warmth, poison was poured in with some cold water, and this so penetrated his entire frame that he lost alike voice and breath". Tacitus, Annales XIII, 16

Literary Hub » Why Does Contemporary Fascism Fetishize the Classics? lithub.com/why-does-con...

1. Several friends ask how I cope with #Winter Spending much of my time in #Warsaw, I took advantage of frost and sunshine and walked through #Łazienki, a late 18th-century classical royal residence. Snow reveals contrasts: marble and its imitations, naked gods, and peacocks, colorful and white

Enchanting detail of an ornate mosaic border with birds in blossoming floral scrolls, discovered in 1888 near Via Panisperna. 1st century BC. Rome, Musei Capitolini - Centrale Montemartini. 📸 Fabia Brunori #MosaicMonday

Lost in Thought #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative #introspection

Anicia Juliana sure loved her Sassanian motifs, amirite @kaelinjewell? https://flic.kr/p/dQ8Amt

1. #SarcophagusSaturday brings me to this wonderfully carved fragment of a banquet scene from the lid of a now-lost sarcophagus from Palmyra (Tadmor),originally at the West Necropolis, Valley of the Tombs, Temple Tomb no. 36, Palmyra Museum, inv. no. 401/525, VI.5. 📸Troels Myrup

Journal for the Study of Judaism Vol. 57, No. 1 (2026) brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social

1. #Palmyra (Tadmor) The Grand Colonnade, pillars still bearing brackets for statues, with the Triumphal Arch in the distance. Bedouins in local dress moving through the ruins - layers of antiquity and living tradition intertwined c. 1900–1920. 📷 The Library of Congress, Matson Photograph Collection

#EpigraphyTuesday returns to the #BritishMuseum for an excellent example of #rustic capitals in the unusual medium of #bronze, in this #inscription from c. 200 CE commemorating one S. Pompeius Maximus, priest of the cult of Sol Invictus and #Mithras. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For the next two weeks, the new Cambridge Elements in the History of Constantinople addition, on _The Great Palace_ at Constantinople is open access. Read it for free while you can! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

1. ❝𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐲𝐫𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐬: 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭❞. My guest lecture given on Jan, 28th at the University of Hamburg, explores portraits & mosaics as active agents of identity, cultural transfer, and glocal interaction across the Greco-Roman world.

Artistically spectacular, with vibrant colors 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐢𝐨𝐧, Roman God of eternal time shown with wheel of time/zodiac, 2nd c. CE Found in dining room of a luxurious residence in Trinquetaille near Arles (Room X, salvage excavations 1982-84) Musée départemental Arles antique #MosaicMonday

Podcast Episode 1: The Introduction #romans #rome #history #archaeology

For #ReliefWednesday, among the splendours of the #BritishMuseum we find this quite large #sardonyx #cameo showing a goddess in a chariot pulled by two restless bulls. The size suggests an imperial commission of the #Severan period. Maybe Julia #Domna as #Selene or the Dea Syria. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Just a reflection on a freezing day in January 2022, when Baalbek and the entire Middle East were covered in snow. Who could have predicted what would happen four years later, in an even snowier January 2026? "Baalbek under snow" | "Baalbek pod śniegiem" [ENG | PL] www.linkedin.com/pulse/baalbe...

Why humans need humanities | Blog post | Mary Beard www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

It's my birthday today 😀 I wish everyone serene end of the year and powerful start in a NY 2026 🎉 🎉 🎉

🖊️Meet 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐭â (100–130 CE), a Palmyrene woman shown frontally, in local dress, holding a distaff and spindle—symbols of virtue and domestic life. Subtle jewelry and refined drapery reveal discreet wealth. More in my LinkedIn article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/berret...

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

#TombTuesday Ghirza's North Cemetery is about half a km west of the center of the desert town. Unlike the tombs on the South Cemetery, which look like obelisks, the mausoleums of this cemetery resemble temples. #Roman #Libya 🇱🇾 #architecture #History #Archaeology

@helsinki.fi saattaa rahoittaa sivistystehtäviään kiinteistötuotoilla, mutta kiinteistöjohtaja ei ole sisäistänyt sivistysarvoja. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Register for the webinar series Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture @ Yale Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/late-antique...

At the easternmost point in the US. Walked a bit of coast trail today. I could've stayed out there all day... #Maine

(241) Lost Kingdom of the Desert: How the Nabataeans created an Empire - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEz6...

10 years ago, Khaled al-As’ad gave his life defending the ruins of Palmyra. His belief endures: people without history are people without a future. A symbol of courage and resilience against barbarism.

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#RomanSiteSaturday: the #Roman burial chamber of a wealthy family in Cologne-Weiden. The subterranean burial chamber (hypogaeum) dates back to the 2nd century AD. It's considered the best preserved of its kind north of the Alps. It was discovered... 🧵 1/2 #archaeology 🏺

Italy marks Ferragosto with a national holiday today

BTA :: Hellenistic Gold from Bulgaria's SE Sakar Region Is Now on Display at National Archaeology Museum www.bta.bg/en/bg_archae...

Relief with a teaching scene from the Via della Foce in Ostia Antica, near Rome. Dating to the late 4th century AD, the relief is on display at the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #Roman #Ostia

#OnThisDay - 13 August - in 29 BC Octavian celebrated the first of three triumphs on successive days - his notable 'Triple Triumph'. This one was for his conquest of Dalmatia. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 268; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202352). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Why Ancient Romans Paid a Fortune for the Color Purple — More Than Even Silver | Open Culture www.openculture.com/2025/08/why-...

1. “𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑎!” Carl Haag in 1859, below his watercolour 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 [Bel Temple - ŁS]. The work from the same year with a rich, transcending and astonishing, hazy light.