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Flora 🌿 illustrator 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK 💌Enquiries: flora@flarohillustration.com 🖼️Prints & merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/flaroh/explore?asc=u&page=1 ⛲️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flaroh 🏺further links: Flarohillustration.com/links
Beware the Ides 👑🗡️🩸
#OTD Julius Caesar was assassinated by his senators in response to his claims to power and fear he would crown himself king. Fun fact the senate building, and site of his murder, is also now the site of a cat sanctuary!
This is an illustration i created back in 2020❤️
Only a few hours left‼️
TLDR; February is the last month to get postal rewards at a lower rate, and also the last month to pledge to a digital tier and lock in the legacy rate before I raise prices March 1!
Want to do both? You can pledge to a postal tier and then immediately downgrade to a digital 🧡
Patreon.com/flaroh
Another fantastic Chinese New Year day out in Newcastle 🏮🐴
Pubs in Newcastle standing up to the onslaught of AI slop appearing in the sector 🖤🤍🖤🤍 love the toon!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TLDR; February is the last month to get postal rewards at a lower rate, and also the last month to pledge to a digital tier and lock in the legacy rate before I raise prices March 1!
Want to do both? You can pledge to a postal tier and then immediately downgrade to a digital 🧡
Patreon.com/flaroh
I am honouring all current digital reward tier pledges up to Feb 28 2026 (Tuscan, Doric, & lonic tiers). These tiers will retain legacy rates for as long as membership lasts after Feb 28.
Postal Tiers (Composite & Corinthian) will regretfully be changing in price for everyone based on delivery loc
‼️My Patreon tiers are changing March 1st‼️
read more below and how to secure a legacy rate before the Feb 28 deadline
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸
How much agency do you think Medusa had in Pegasus’ creation? Was it the one final, patriarchal demand of Medusa and her body? Or was Pegasus' birth her last act of love?
Time to revisit this library!!!
I just find it really interesting because when I was little I never understood the connection between Medusa & Pegasus bc all my books worded his creation as some sort of separate event that spontaneously happened from her blood. I’m enjoying revisiting these myths and reexamining the context :)
OMG I literally cited this lekythos in my Patreon write up!! I was questioning how much agency Medusa had in birthing Pegasus and Chrysaor. In all the myth books, they “spring from her blood/body”, never “she birthed/created them”. On this vessel her head is whisked away before she can even see him
As always, Corinthian patrons will be receiving a print and Composite patrons a print and a sticker! All tiers below this already have access to various digital rewards including wallpapers, behind the scenes, and hi res downloads 🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh
Annum novum faustum felicem omnes, A fortunate and happy (Lunar) New Year to you all!🎊 following my annual trend, Februarys illustration is themed around the new Lunar New Year animal, the fire horse.
I wanted to depict a scene of life and empowerment being created despite the trauma that bore it🧡
The Birth of Pegasus 🔥🐴🩸
The discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘
![HGV: P.Mich. 11 603 [source] [xml]
Title Hire of Scribes
Publications P.Mich. 11 603 More in series P.Mich.More in series P.Mich., vol. 11
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries VIII 216; XI 132
Translations Migliardi, Vita privata e vita pubblica (1992), 14
Origin Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites) More from Ptolemais Euergetis (Arsinoites)
Material Papyrus
Date 4. Febr. 134 More from the period between 134 CE and 135 CE
Commentary Zur Datierung vgl. BL VIII, S. 216. Vgl. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber, S. 786f.
Mentioned Dates
Z. 15:132 - 133
Print Illustrations Plate I
Subjects Vertrag; Schreiber; Kopieren von Laographialisten; zwei Kopien
Images http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1422...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byohyhodi6iknxngf3oypcge/bafkreihezowxa23c2rbmh4r7fl7j3cqz45dvetxzjxha63ozrotzujtgpu)
February 4, 134 CE: A collective of nine scribes 🖋️ —named Diogenes, Euporos, Mystes, Marion, Sarapion, Sabinus, Herakleides, Harpokration, and Heliodoros—in Ptolemais Euergetis (Roman Egypt) sign a contract to copy gvmt tax & census lists (P. Mich 11 603): papyri-prod.lib.duke.edu/ddbdp/p.mich...
sharing the delight of the textile details from ROM
www.artoftheancestors.com/blog/the-clo...
Aahh snap I’m wearing my Iliad one today!
Get Out
Ooh which one did you get??
What a lovely message! thank you very much!!🧡🧡🧡
I’ve drawn her here in a dual form emulating her sisterly attendants, Postvorta and Antevorta, who represented what has been and what shall come to pass, as well as the position of the child in childbirth (being born either head-first or feet-first).
On the 11th and 15th of January, Romans celebrated the goddess Carmentis, who was the protector of midwives and their clients in childbirth, the observer of the future and the past, and the mythical inventor of the Latin alphabet(!!)!
Happy Carmentalia! 💃⏳✍️ may her life-bringing and omniscient future outlook bless us in this new year✨
Oohhhh👀👀👀
Another day another hourly heritage job at a private charity advertised w no declared salary to be found