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Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Rescue excavations in the western necropolis of the Roman military camp at Nove, near Svishtov, have brought to light a fragment of a tomb plate belonging to a centurion of the Legio I Italica.
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Genau 😊
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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Great idea!
I envy you!
Prehistoric barbed and tanged arrowheads found in the Liverpool area. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Liverpool. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Liverpool
Cambridge looking glorious! 😍
#FindsFriday 🏺
At extreme north of #Roman empire, Dacian and, later, Frisian soldiers made their own entertainment in Birdoswald Fort on Hadrian's Wall with:
- scratch gaming board
- gaming pieces of ceramic, glass, stone
- bone dice, including elongated variety.
@tulliecarlisle.bsky.social
Lost Cold War nuclear bunker discovered beneath Yorkshire’s Scarborough Castle. A Cold War-era concrete bunker, once a secret outpost of Britain's nuclear defence, has been unearthed during an archaeological dig at Scarborough Castle.
#FindsFriday
Golden bowl - c. 750-800 CE
A griffin is mauling a goat. Other motifs may have adapted Byzantine, Sasanian & Islamic influences
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One of 23 gold vessels found in Nagyszentmiklós treasure. 1799
Disvovrred Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
In “Silk Roads” exhibition #BritishMuseum
#FindsFriday
Have a great time in Egypt, Alison!
Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy.
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This marvellous head of a drunken old woman is associated with the cult of Dionysus, god of wine, indicated by the ivy wreath on her head. 🍷
Dating to the Hellenistic period.
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12 March 1926 | A Polish Roma woman, Wanda Ferko-Pawłowska, was born in Zabrzeg.
In #Auschwitz from 29 July 1942.
No. 10570
She was transferred to KL Ravensbrück and liberated there.
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The Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz:
🎧 Podcast: https://bit.ly/4pIRyEJ
📖 Lesson: https://bit.ly/44EVuxY
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The late Anglo-Saxon west doorway at Holy Trinity Church in Colchester. Dating to the mid-11th century, the doorway incorporates re-used Roman bricks. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Colchester #AngloSaxon
Wrought iron & brass gates - 1862-65
Designer - Bruce James Talbert
Made by Skidmores Art Manufactures, Coventry, England.
Now National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
#IronworkThursday
#MetalworkThursday
This marvellous head of a drunken old woman is associated with the cult of Dionysus, god of wine, indicated by the ivy wreath on her head. 🍷
Dating to the Hellenistic period.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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Medieval Bronze Doors by Donatello Return to Florence After Restoration.
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A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.
📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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We're sure all you can think about today is that it's World Plumbing Day. 👨🔧💦
So here's the Palace plumbing - ceramic pipes that carried water around the formal gardens and fed fountains and ornamental basins and the like.
(1960s excavation photo)
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#BadenWürttemberg hat weiter bundesweit die meisten Exzellenzuniversitäten: #Tübingen, #Karlsruhe und #Heidelberg dürfen ihren Titel mindestens bis 2033 tragen. Mehr: mwk-bw.de/4hs7 #exzellenz #wissenschaft #forschung @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @kit.edu @unituebingen.bsky.social
Late Roman Burials Analyzed in Southern England. #Archaeology
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Jetzt schon einmal vormerken: „Rom lebt! Ein Mitmachabenteuer“ startet am 7. Juni!
Taucht ein in römische Alltagsszenen, die zusammen mit Originalfunden, Rekonstruktionen und Mitmachstationen Geschichte anschaulich und erlebbar werden lassen. Eine Zeitriese ins alte Rom!
Tiny terracotta aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog.
East Greek from Naucratis, Egypt, 550 BC.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
A relief of Hercules attacking the Hydra (the serpent like creature wrapped around the demigod’s forearm). Part of the museum collections at Corbridge Roman Town in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Corbridge #Northumberland
Happy #HillfortsWednesday!
Here's a recreation of the Iron Age double ramparts defining the west end of Hengistbury Head (once #Hampshire then #Dorset now @bcpcouncil.bsky.social)
Prehistoric trade centre and gateway to the world
A wonderful painting © Judith Dobie for the HH Visitor Centre
Going Hebridean for this week's #HillfortsWednesday
There was nothing quite like the spectacular Dun Carloway broch on Lewis when I biked to it in 2024 😮
This well-built double-skinned drystone tower must have been a bewildering sight to any hillfort builder of the south. Extraordinary!
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A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.
📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2
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