Norman Font Church of St Mary and All Saints Sculthorpe, Norfolk, England commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #FontsonFriday

Louvre Inventory number AM 1833 East Greek Pedestal Plate Made in Miletus, found in Rhodes -610 / -600 (4th quarter of the 7th century BC) collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

East Greek oinochoe Knots on the four corners of the neck From Kamiros Cemetery, Rhodes Made in Miletus 610-570 BC www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #WineJugWednesday

Pilgrim's flask from the medieval village of Brucato, Sicily 13th-14th century commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bo...

Solomon's Knot at the Palace of Popes in Avignon 14th century #TilesonTuesday

Arm of the lord of Gonur Depe marked with the sign of the cross and Solomon's Knot.

Christ coming in the clouds armed with Solomon's Knot Bibliothèque nationale de France NAL 2290 f.3r Beatus of Liebana, Commentary on the Apocalypse #ManuscriptMonday

Bacchus with a panther and a plethora of Solomon's Knots. Villa del Mitra, Cabra, Córdoba, Spain #MosaicMonday

Sancho IV el Bravo, rey de Castilla Luis Ferrant y Llausás

Anglo Saxon Sceats Continental Phase 695-740 #CoinsonCaturday

Solomon's Knot with an angel Church of St. Finian in Clonard, County Meath, Ireland 15th or 16th century commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #FontsonFriday

Early Hittite stamp seal Glyptik aus dem Stadtgebiet von Boğazköy Hans Gustav Güterbock

Elamite Ouroboroi Temple of Ninhursag, Susa Acropolis ca. 2600-2400 BC Louvre SB 2724 #BitumenPlaqueThursday

Portrait of a Gentleman Bartolomeo Veneto ca. 1510-1515 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Swahili Tombstone, 1462 Kilindini Mombasa County, Kenya Mombasa Fort Jesus Museum #TombstoneTuesday

Asterius Chapel, Carthage 5-7th centuries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteriu... #MosaicMonday

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.14.23 f.2r Hexaemeron of Ambrose Solomon's Knot with the letter P #ManuscriptMonday

Chinon Parchment, 1308 The futile absolution by Pope Clement V of Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the leaders of the Knights Templar from the charges of the Medieval Inquisition by King Philip IV of France was notarized by Arnulphe d’Orléans with Solomon's Knot. #SignatureSunday

Middle Volga anonymous coins from the Golden Horde Bulghar mint late 13th-early 14th century #CoinsonCaturday

The Norman font at St. Mary's Church, Kirkburn #FontsOnFriday commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ki...

Madonna with Canon van der Paele Jan van Eyck commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ey...

Lucca Madonna Jan van Eyck en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca_M...

Part of the ‘Knot Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in East Sussex. The polychrome mosaic dates the the third century AD. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Fishbourne

Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug.perg.229 ff. 61v-62r The Jericho Labyrinth and Solomon's Knot are followed by an astronomical text on the Egyptian Days and the Chronicon of Hieronymus. Early 9th century. #ManuscriptMonday

Solomon's Knot on the font. All Saints Churchyard Bisley, Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England findagrave.com/cemetery/265... #FontsOnFriday

A pair of Solomon's Knots paired with a pair of twists

🧵/7 & finally the highlight from the site, the mosaic building wasn't open when i was there but with the new shelter in place & the glass you don't miss anything #RomanSiteSaturday 🏺AncientBluesky

#MosaicMonday Four Seasons #Roman Mosaic is from House Vlll South, #Caerwent, excavated in 1901. This mosaic had faces in each corner, representing the four seasons. Only Summer and Winter survive. #RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain #Archaeology

🧵/10 The Medusa room, also a place where you can see the palimpsest of later Mosaics being laid over older designs #MosaicMonday

🧵/8 Room 8 & the knot mosaic #MosaicMonday

Solomon's Knot on the threshold

This one

#MosaicMonday The Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia, Northern #ltaly. Beneath the floor of the Basilica of Aquileia lies a large #mosaic, dating back to the 4th century AD, #Archaeology #History #art

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) Barb. gr. 275, fol. 1r Porphyry, Life of Plotinus Plotinus, The Enneads A rectilinear Solomon's Knot forms the center element atop the introductory artwork on the first page of the manuscript. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Bar... #ManuscriptMonday

Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, Cód. 76 f.015v. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, 10th century. Solomon's Knot forms the initial letter "D" in Dialectica. #ManuscriptMonday

Solomon's Knot and the Four Seasons

Villa of the Four Seasons Ptolemais, Cyrenaica vici.org/vici/18050/ #MosaicMonday

Solomon's Knot in the doorway to Room 12 at Villa Arianna, Pompei. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor... #MosaicMonday

Solomon's Knot on the threshold to Insula del Soffitto Dipinto in Ostia Antica. #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday of the river Nile landscape. Depicting a hippopotamus and crocodile hunt. Discovered in a vineyard on the Aventile Hill #Rome. 2nd century. 📷Palazzo Massimo #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology

Following the last three weeks' posts, here is an overall view of the mosaic from Room B at Frampton showing all three compartments that survived, Bellerophon and the Chimaera in the centre, a whole pod of dolphins, Neptune (looking like Oceanus) and a Chi-Rho. 1/2 #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky 🏺

#MosaicMonday & the wonderful Chilgrove mosaic, a c4 design from a Roman villa discovered just north of Chichester now in the Novium museum

For #MosaicMonday the kissing birds mosaic from ancient Hispalis on display at Seville Antiquarium. It is now the symbol of the museum. 📸: March 2023 #archaeology #history #Andalucia #AncientBlueSky

Discovered in the 1930s, the Roman Town House in Dorchester is the only example of such a building fully exposed for visitors in Britain. It dates from the 4th century and comprises two separate ranges around a small courtyard. It also features 2 hypocausts and excellent mosaics #RomanSiteSaturday

The very rare T-Shape Ram Knot, a sibling to Solomon's Knot, can also be found on the mosaics at Hadrianopolis Church B and the Church of St.Theodore at Khirbet Beit Sila. #MosaicMonday

#MosaicMonday - A stunning panel of a much larger floor from the House of Poseidon at Zeugma: ca. Late 2nd Century AD. Pasiphae, Queen of Crete, looks on as Daedalus and Icarus labour on the Wooden Cow. #Myth #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Directorate General of Cultural Assets and Museums of Türkiye

🧵/7 The floors of San Vitale #MosaicMonday 🏺AncientBluesky

House of the Wild Boar in Pompeii. #MosaicMonday 📷 By me.