Jon Hawke

#MosaicMonday

#Roman floor mosaic from the Grotte Celoni area of the via Casilina, Rome. End of 1st - 2nd century AD.
(National Roman Museum, #Rome, #Italy)
#Art #History

#MosaicMonday

Floor #mosaic with guard #Dog with collar tied to door knob with labrys of the House of Paquius Proculus on the Via dell'Abbondanza, (I.7.1) - 1st century AD -

Archaeological Park of #Pompeii

A lovely oil lamp from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) with its lion motif. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Cirencester

A stone circle in a green field with hills beyond

For #StandingStoneSunday The peaceful, rural stone circle of the Piper's Stones, Athgreany, Co. Wicklow in Ireland in 2019.

I first visited in autumn 1989 on a bike during my year off as an aspiring archaeologist waiting to go to uni.

📷 My own, 2019

The Arthurlie Cross at Barrhead in East Renfrewshire. Dating to sometime between the 9th and 11th centuries, the cross-shaft is a product of the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #ArthurlieCross #Strathclyde

Bronze head of Sulis Minerva, looking straight ahead at the viewer

Finally got to see the bronze head of Sulis Minerva at the Roman baths 🖤

A weathered and pitted stone standing within a fenced enclosure. The stone is slender and higher on the left side where it looks like a pointing finger. The sky is blue and almost cloudless.

For #StandingStoneSunday, the King Stone at Rollright in glorious sunshine a few days ago, just on the opposite side of the road from the stone circle.

Latin: PUMPEIUS CARANTORIUS

("[The stone of] Pumpeius, [son of] Carantorius')

Ogham: P[AM]P[E]S Ogham: ROL[ACUJN M[A]Q ILLUNA

('Pumpeius') ("Rolacun son of Illuna') - the names are Irish

Date: sixth century.
#StandingStoneSunday #History (2/2)📸My own.

#StandingStoneSunday
Originally standing in the grass verge of a road known as Water Street, two miles south of Margam on the road to Kenfig, and near the early church site of Eglwys Nunydd. A vertical Latin inscription is accompanied by two others in Irish ogham script. (1/2) 👇

Castle Douglas horned pony cap crosses Atlantic for exhibition The horned cap from southern Scotland would have made the pony wearing it look

Pony Goes to Hollywood (well, Harvard anyway)

The Torrs Celtic pony *mythical beast cap* heads west

#IronAge #Archaeology

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My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Horsemen of the Roman army wore a parade helmet like this during demonstrations, which were part of their training. The helmet protected the head against the blows of spears. This image was originally posted to Flickr by TimeTravelRome

#Roman cavalry helmet. Possibly this face of woman represents an #Amazon. The band on the forehead (torques) was supposed to symbolize Amazons' "barbaric" character. Bronze. 100-200 AD. From Nola. Now in the British Museum.

#Ancient #Art #History #Archaeology

#RomanSiteSaturday

Tradition has it that the so-called ‘Villa of Augustus’, also known as the Dionysiac Villa in Somma Vesuviana, near #Nola (an ancient Campanian town in #Naples) was the place where Emperor #Augustus breathed his last circa 14 AD. 

A nice tradition 👀🤔
#Archaeology #Roman #History

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#FindsFriday - Cremation Burial.

The leaden canister contains the cremated bones of a man aged at least 35 in a linen cloth. Libations of #wine, milk    or honey could have been poured down the leaden pipe.

Found at the south-east of the fortress at #Caerleon #Archaeology 📸 My own

Large quantities of roofing tile and brick were produced by the #legion for use at the fortress.
From about AD 100, many were stamped with the legions title, official use only. The kilns were probably located near the River Usk. 📸 My own.

#FindsFriday #History #Caerleon #RomanBritain

Large quantities of roofing tile and brick were produced by the #legion for use at the fortress.
From about AD 100, many were stamped with the legions title, official use only. The kilns were probably located near the River Usk. 📸 My own.

#FindsFriday #History #Caerleon #RomanBritain

#FrescoFriday

Painted plaster found at Caerleon fortress baths.
📷 My own.

#Archaeology #artwork #History #RomanBritain

For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔

Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐

👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ

#FindsFriday - Cremation Burial.

The leaden canister contains the cremated bones of a man aged at least 35 in a linen cloth. Libations of #wine, milk    or honey could have been poured down the leaden pipe.

Found at the south-east of the fortress at #Caerleon #Archaeology 📸 My own

#RomanFortThursday

Legionary fortress of Carnuntum and its amphitheatre. Headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of 50,000 people.

#Archaeology #History

📷 Juan Torrejón

#ReliefWednesday - Sassanid relief depicting the triumph of Shapur I (r. AD 240-270) over Valerian at Naqsh-e Rostam, located 3 km north of Persepolis. It is the most impressive of eight Sassanid rock carvings cut into the cliff beneath the tombs of their Achaemenid predecessors.

BATTLE SCENE FROM THE GREAT TRAJANIC FRIEZE, 114-120 CE. ARCH OF CONSTANTINE This triumphal arch is a triumph of spolia, consisting as it does of many pieces of relief work from the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, intelligently chosen by Constantine in 315-316 to reflect a reassuring programme of pacification and an end to civil war. Four large panels from a Hadrianic relief 30 m long and 3 m high, of which this is one, were reused. This relief is known as the Great Trajanic Frieze, though its original location is unknown. It is often said to have come from Trajan's Forum, though that was intact until at least the reign of Theodoric, two centuries after the arch was built. This scene shows a mêlée between Roman cavalry and infantry and Dacians who are falling or already on the ground. In the background are three trumpeters blowing the curved horns called buccinæ, and the whole scene resembles the front of the Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, from 250-260 CE.

#ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Arch of #Constantine in #Rome, where a piece of the so-called Great Trajanic #Frieze, probably from the reign of #Hadrian, shows a battle scene from the #Dacian wars which may have influenced the sculptor of the Great #Ludovisi #sarcophagus. #AncientBluesky 🏺

#HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo of Castle Ditches Hillfort

The remains of a partial contour fort, believed to originate from the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC – AD 74).

Castle Ditches camp, Tisbury - 1005701 | Historic England List entry 1005701. Grade Not Applicable to this List Entry Scheduling: Castle Ditches camp. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

NB: Other Castle Ditches are available … historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Painting of two cloak wearing men with horses approaching a timber gate, with observation tower above, being opened by two shield carrying men whilst two men, a boy and a dog watch from the ramparts above

The late 5th c AD SW gate of Cadbury Castle hillfort #Somerset

Based on Leslie Alcock's 1968 excavation

Splendidly recreated with elevated platform in a painting © Peter Dennis for *British Forts in the Age of Arthur* by Angus Konstam @ospreypublishing.bsky.social 2008 🤩

#HillfortsWednesday

A black and white painting of a megalithic tomb, with parge upright stones gathered around a dark covered entranceway. There are tree in the background.

This is my watercolour of Wayland's Smithy, an ancient barrow in Oxfordshire. First constructed around 3950-3550 BC and later expanded, it has been linked in folklore with Norse god Wayland since at least AD 955.
The original artwork is available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#TombTuesday

#HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo of Castle Ditches Hillfort

The remains of a partial contour fort, believed to originate from the Iron Age period (c. 800 BC – AD 74).

Dedication stone from an aqueduct that was built to bring fresh water into the Roman fort at Arbeia (South Shields on Tyneside) for the Fifth Cohort of Gauls who were stationed there. Dating to 222 AD, the stone can be viewed in the Fort’s museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

Reconstruction of a burial cairn at Kildonan Museum on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The cairn was originally discovered at Kilphedder in 1998 and contained the burial of a Pictish woman who was interred in around 700 AD. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Picts #SouthUist