Carausius

I posted these once on here too. They’re Romano-Egyptian. Same kind of deal, stitched leather with bright colours.

That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?

Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.

#MosaicMonday

Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?

Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.

#MosaicMonday

Hard to say. Both are at the British Musuem and I think they give a wide range of dates. From memory, the shield is dated from c350-50BC (or similar).

The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.

🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG

The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.

🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG

Waterloo to Battersea by river is probably no more than 3-4 miles.

Enjoying the lugubrious (or coy?) expression of the donkey being fed by a boy from a basket in this Byzantine-era mosaic of daily life, from the Great Palace of Constantinople (5th century onwards, Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul)

On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.

🏛️BM
📷 mine

On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.

🏛️BM
📷 mine

An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.

You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.

🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday

In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.

🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine

An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.

You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.

🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday

In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.

🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine

A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair

🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen

A digital reconstruction of an #IronAge hillfort of White Caterthurn, Angus, #Scotland, has been created by a photographer during his during PhD research.

Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History

A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair

🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen

#FrescoFriday and here’s some beautiful birds from Pompeii.

📷 mine

🏺 #AncientBlueSky

Hang your towels on em

This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.

🏛️ BM
📷 mine

Just found one of my daughters has decided to leave pictures of food from old cookery mags on the floor for Herman to nibble on.

Herman approves.

This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.

🏛️ BM
📷 mine

Haha. My mum wouldn’t let me watch Tiswas. She said it was common. In her defence, she was lifelong Labour so it was an aesthetic choice.

4.3 metres square; can be seen in the Great Hall of Taunton. The story is told in a cartoon like way in a series of 5 panels, comprised of 120,000 tesserae.

A Dido and Aeneas #MosaicMonday. The Low Ham #Roman mosaic shows the tragic love story. A 4th century AD piece found in the bath block, the oldest object in Britiain that tells a complete story. shorturl.at/3QrPK
📷 The Museum of Somerset
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology

Nice to see Tibullus getting his dues!

This is ludicrously beautiful. It’s a Roman glass bowl made with the millefiori method. It dates to the 1st century AD.

🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum

On #MosaicMonday here’s a basket of fruit and a basket of seafood, including various fish, squid, eel and little prawns. It was once a pavement for a dining room.

🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine

Oh my, I almost posted my pic of this just now, but selected another fishy one from the BM instead! It’s a great mosaic - love it.