New post this week, part two on ancient Kos! This week's post details the large Western Archaeological Zone with its mosaics and frescos as well as the city's 1st-2nd century CE odeon. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday From last week's post on ancient Kos, a 2nd-3rd century CE mosaic depicting Asclepius arriving on Kos. He is greeted by a Koan as Hippocrates sits nearby. Archaeological Museum of Kos. More here: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday The great baths of Mactaris, a old Phoenician town in Tunisia that eventually became a Roman colony These baths are some of the best preserved in all of North Africa. Walls rise to 15m and #mosaics still line the floors! 📸 Mine #archaeology #romanempire #photooftheday 🏺

It's #RomanSiteSaturday & we've had a pretty great summer of getting around Roman Britian, with that in mind - think it might be time for a bit of a thread-of-threads 🧵👇 🏺AncientBluesky

New post last week on the ancient city of Kos! The first in a five part series explores the history, museum, and sites in the northwest of the city. Bonus cat for #Caturday in picture 4. www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #MosaicMonday the mosaic in the so-called winter triclinium of the #Roman villa at Antandros. A kantharos and birds are depicted in the centre of the mosaic. The villa dates back to the 4th c. AD. Antandros is located in the ancient Troas region,... 🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

Attention #ClassicsBlueSky, #AncientBlueSky, or anyone who just loves myth and history: What kind of stickers or shirt designs would you want? I’m itching to make some fun designs but am having a bit of art block! Any suggestions would be considered and any help appreciated!

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called....🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology

#OnThisDay - 23 August - in AD 93 Gnaeus Julius Agricola died in his fifty-fourth year: "though snatched away in the mid-career of his prime, he lived to a ripe old age measured by renown" (Tacitus, Agricola 44.3). #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIB 2.3.2434.1 [ILS 8704a]; Grosvenor Museum, Chester

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 🏺

For #ancientsitesunday this stunning aerial view of the Parco degli Acquedotti, south east of #Rome. The park is named for its seven aqueducts which supplied the city with water. Photo: Valentino Ligori #archaeology 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

New post last week on Colonia Caesar Augusta, which became modern Zaragoza, Spain. The first of two parts starts off with the Museo de Zaragoza and the archaeological area of the ancient theater: www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20... #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #ReliefWednesday this week, a small lead votive tablet depicting imagery associated with the Danubian Horseman. Displayed in the National Museum Požarevac (Serbia) and found at the nearby site of Viminacium. Dated to the 2nd-3rd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #MosaicMonday, a mosaic depicting the abduction of Europa by Zeus in the guise of a bull. In situ at the House of Mosaics in Sparta. Dated to the 3rd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

#AncientSiteSunday; the Minoan peak sanctuary site on Mount Juktas (Psili Korfi), just outside modern Archanes. It seems to have been constructed around 2100-2000 BCE and was likely associated with the palace at Knossos, 6.5 kilometers to the north. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

For #AncientSiteSunday let's go to Leptis Magna on the coast of Libya. It's one of the best preserved #Roman cities. The city was founded in the 7th century BC by the Phoenicians. In Roman times it became one of the most important...🧵 1/2 🏺 #archaeology

#OnThisDay - 10 August - in AD 7 a public holiday was decreed to honour the establishment of altars to Mother Ceres and Augustan Ops. Dio (55.31.6) notes that there was unrest in Rome due to famine at this time. 🏺 Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1242). Link - collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

For #WorldLionDay here's one of my favourite lion mosaics. From the House of the Mosaic Doves, Pompeii (VIII.2.34), discovered in March 1885. Still remarkable, though now damaged by the subsiding floor. #Pompeii 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (114282)

#RomanSiteSaturday; the amphitheater of Lucera. Built during the reign of Augustus, it is estimated to have held between 16,000 and 18,000 spectators. An inscription records the magistrate responsible for the construction; Marcus Vecilius Campanus. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

The Arch of Germanicus - in Saintes, Charente-Maritime in France. It was built by a rich citizen of the town (then known as Mediolanum Santonum), C. Julius Rufus, and dedicated to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus. #RomanSiteSaturday #History

#RomanSiteSaturday This ditch is all that's left of Augustodunum, the Gallo-Roman town that became Bayeux The wall on the left, under glass, is the remains of the ramparts Interestingly the name #Bayeux comes from the Baiocasses tribe who lived here! 📸 Mine #archaeology #france #photooftheday🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain Trimontium Roman fort near Melrose in Scotland-1st/2nd century and 21st century AD. 📸 Reconstruction and photo from Trimontium Museum (Ancient Road FB page) .

One for #RomanSiteSaturday This is one of the towers on the town wall of Caerwent, in Wales. These polygonal towers survive to a good height but are not present on all the walls of the town. Photo: mine. #Roman #archaeology #Wales @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social

The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln

Some of the surviving fresco decoration from the House of Livia, the wife of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The frescoes date to around 30 BC. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

For #FrescoFriday, from the Domus Vedi Sirici at #Pompeii, a scene from the triclinium of the house depicting Omphale and a drunken Hercules. Cupids steal the intoxicated Hercules' club and quiver. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

#OnThisDay - 7 August - in AD 461 the Western Roman Emperor Majorian was killed. His attempts at reform resulted in his being executed in a coup headed by Ricimer, the 'magister militum'. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC X Majorian 2633; ANS 1944.100.54881. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#ReliefWednesday - On my travels and so happy to finally visit the Ephesos Museum and the so-called 'Parthian Monument'. Here's its central scene showing Hadrian's imperial adoption of Antoninus Pius in AD 138 and the designation of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as Pius' successors. 🏺 📸 My own

A horned god with spear and shield - a local god from Roman Maryport in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum at Maryport. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #SenhouseRomanMuseum

For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

#ReliefWednesday; from the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, a relief depicting the tragedian Euripides (at center). A statue of Dionysus stands to his right and a figure identified as 'skene' hands him a theater mask. From Smyrna, 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Seizing the end of International Owl Awareness Day to share this lovely Red-Figure Kalpis, attributed to the 'Group of the Floral Nolans' at Athens, ca. 480-470 BC. #IOAD #AncientStuff 🏺 Truly, a cracking Owl. 😉 Image: J. Paul Getty Collection (86. AE.229). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

This bronze pin with amber and glass beads was found on the edge of the Uechter Moor,a bog in Lower Saxony. Elaborate jewellery was often deposited in lakes or bogs as an offering to the gods in the Iron Age. The pin dates to the 6th-4th centuryBC. On display at Landesmuseum Hannover 📷 me 🏺

#MosaicMonday 🏺 Party time.... Triumphant young winged Dionysus (or Cupid?) arrives in celebratory mode w wreath of vine leaves, cup of wine, riding a lion-headed tiger. #Roman emblema from a triclinium in House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Bordered with tragic masks and garlands. In MANN, Naples

Tomorrow is International Traffic Light Day apparently. Who knows, they may have helped some of the road rage captured in the Big Hunt mosaic in the Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily! #mosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday; from a residence in the north part of the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos, the only (mostly) remaining of three emblemata from a large floor mosaic. The scene depicts the Judgement of Paris. Dated to the 2nd century CE. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy. By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2 #archaeology 🏺

#AncientSiteSunday: Tylissus; a series of 3 Minoan residential buildings first constructed in the Neopalatial period. It seems to have remained consistently inhabited through at least the 8th century BCE, developing into a site with religious significance. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday; the odeon of Kos. Constructed in the late 1st or early 2nd century CE, it seems to have replaced an earlier assembly building, perhaps the bouleuterion. It is estimated to have had a capacity of about 750 spectators. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#FrescoFriday - One piece for today from the House of Tullius, Pompeii (VI.7.9). The scene is known as the 'Procession of Carpenters', with the figures carrying a 'ferculum' (bier) with a diorama of Daedalus. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8991)

#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl. Dating second half of the 5th century BC. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. 📷 me 🏺

For #FrescoFriday, from the House of Menander at #Pompeii, the Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons are attacked by giant serpents, sent by one of the gods, at the sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for warning the Trojans about the wooden horse. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#FindsFriday! Pottery vessel with five handles and remnants of a string, found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC. Multiple intact vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally placed there ...🧵 1/2 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

The ‘Kingsbury Jug’ - a Roman glass vessel which was found inside a stone coffin at Kingsbury in 1831, just outside the Roman walls of Verulamium (Roman St Albans). The jug is now part of the collections at Verulamium Museum, St Albans. 📷 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

A third century tombstone relief of an unknown female from Roman Vindolanda. The relief can be viewed in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda

A marvellous scene of daily life for #ReliefWednesday: A #Roman funerary relief depicting the transport of two (wine?) barrels on a four wheeled cart pulled by two oxen. A #dog, probably the driver's beloved companion, is sitting on the barrels. 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

For #ReliefWednesday; the front of a sarcophagus depicting a series of scenes from the myth cycle of Pelops and Oenomaus, one of the origins for the foundation of the Olympic games (info in alt text). Dated to ~200 CE. Musée Art & Histoire, Brussels. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺