One of the cats of #Pompeii, chilling on what was once a #Roman fast food counter 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
Celebrating Women’s Day with a fresco from #Pompeii.
#WD2025
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
We're celebrating, as ever, the start of Super Bowl 2025 with this Superb Owl.
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Happy #MosaicMonday! Here is a mosaic showing Zeus as an eagle and Ganymede with one of the most beautiful floral borders ever AND a mosaicist signature 🌸🌼🌻 2 c. CE and currently in the Met
Happy #NationalHedgehogDay!
This little model of a hedgehog was made around 1500–1300 BCE in Egypt.
Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt & were often seen as a symbol of rebirth & renewal of life, likely due to their reappearances after long periods of absence while hibernating.
Too soon I fear 😷 my stomach fears Greek food at the moment
Some beauties from the Archaeological Museum of Corinth for this #MosaicMonday! 2-3 c. CE from a dining space. I love the bright glass tesserae in this mosaic <3
I would hope so! I’ve made you come with me to look at it enough times 🥰
Happy Mosaic Monday to those who celebrate 🤗 Here is a gorgeous (albeit fragmentary) mosaic from Sami, Kefalonia, Greece. Dates to around the 3 c. CE and is currently on display in front of the Archaeological Museum of Sami.
#mosaicmonday
Not a photographer but very pleased with these ones. From Philae
One of my favorite mosaics for my first #mosaicmonday on Bluesky. The Horae (or maybe the Three Graces) dancing around an altar from a villa in Patras, Greece. 2-3 c. CE.
Another for #MosaicMonday. :) This mosaic fragment with mollusks and other shells 🐚, Carrara Marble and vitreous paste, from Centrale Montemartini in Rome. Mid-1st-century CE, found in excavations of the Velian Hill. (Musei Capitolini AC 31778)
