Nina Willburger

Five colorful fragments of glass bracelets displayed on a neutral background, each curved piece decorated with raised multicolored dots, eye-like ovals, and striped patterns in blue, white, yellow, green, orange, brown, and red tones.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful glass bracelets found in #Egypt, #Roman period, dating 1st century BC to 1st century AD.

On display at Museum der Universität Tübingen.

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Red & black tiles laid in a diamond pattern, within which are large & small tiles with a variety of geometric patterns.

👀 Stowford church, #Devon

Encaustic tiles probably from the 1874 restoration of the church by George Gilbert Scott.

#TilesOnTuesday

New discovery: A 2000 year-old 'pleasure boat' that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Awesome view from my office: sunset over Lake Constance 😍

A pottery jar with a narrow neck and rounded body, decorated with a simple incised face and beard-like pattern on the front, displayed among similar pottery vessels in a museum case.

A charming Bes jar, on display at the Petrie Museum of #Egyptian #Archaeology. Vessels with the face of the protective deity Bes were thought to impart his protection to their content.

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New discovery: A 2000 year-old 'pleasure boat' that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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In unserem Zentralen Fundarchiv in Rastatt ist ein wissenschaftliches Volontariat zum 1. April 2026 zu besetzen!

Neugierig? Hier gibt es weitere Infos:

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Wir freuen über viele Bewerbungen!

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Translucent amber blown glass bowl with pinched ribs, decorated with marvered (smoothed) white horizontal trails. This style of glass drinking bowl is known by the German term 'zarte Rippenschalen' (meaning delicate ribbed bowls), and they appear at the beginning of the 1st century CE and cease to be produced shortly after the middle of the century. These bowls were analyzed as a group for the first time - and given their name of 'zarte Rippenschalen' - by Dr. Thea Elisabeth Haevernick in 1958 when she listed 219 examples, followed in 1967 by a new study of another 318 pieces; so together more than 500 examples were included. This amber/honey brown color was the most common, followed by cobalt blue, and then purple. Roman, ca. 50-100 CE, made in Yugoslavia, Balkans, and found on the island of Corfu. Diameter: 9.50 cm (3.74 in.) Height (max): 6.0 cm (2.36 in.) British Museum, London (1866,0504.42)

Roman cast blue rippenschale drinking bowl with ribbed decoration around the body. Traces of white glass trails are visible across the ribs and once decorated the areas in between the ribs, as indicated by faint areas of iridescence. Bands of white glass decorate the area just below the slightly flared lip. The bottom of the vessel has a spiraling trail of white glass. Getty Villa Museum (2003.226)

Roman cast translucent purple rippenschale drinking bowl with spiraling white glass trail decoration combed around the ribs. The bowl has a slightly flaring rim. Getty Villa Museum (2004.20)

These vibrant Roman ribbed 'rippenschalen' glass drinking bowls were made in various places in the empire. The most common color was the amber, shown on the left (made in the Balkans), followed by cobalt blue and purple (both here made in the E. Mediterranean). 🏺 1/

50-100 CE. 📸 me (ALT for more)

Second century AD mosaic floor panel from Roman Daphne, near Antioch. The female figure may be the personification of ‘abundance’ and ‘good living’. The mosaic is now part of the collections at the Met in New York. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday

Bronze Age beaker vessel from Garton Slack in East Yorkshire - part of a grave good assemblage discovered during the 19th century. Now part of the collections at at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Yorkshire #Archaeology #GartonSlack

An astronomer views the stars through a telescope.

“Astronomy” mosaic
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #London

By the Russian-born artist Boris Anrep.
1928 -1952

#MosaicMonday

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Ok, now I got it 🤣

Thanks, Malcom! Been in Konstanz for three years, and I’ve never seen a sunset like this from my office during winter

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Work done?
Going Home?
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Unbearable 😅

Awesome view from my office: sunset over Lake Constance 😍

Thank you, the same to you

A pottery jar with a narrow neck and rounded body, decorated with a simple incised face and beard-like pattern on the front, displayed among similar pottery vessels in a museum case.

A charming Bes jar, on display at the Petrie Museum of #Egyptian #Archaeology. Vessels with the face of the protective deity Bes were thought to impart his protection to their content.

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Yes, yet the water leak did occur.

Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".

This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water leak at Paris Louvre Museum damages books at Egyptian antiquities department Poor pipe conditions were blamed for a leak that damaged around 400 rare books. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Water leak at Paris Louvre Museum damages books at Egyptian antiquities department | The Straits Times
www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...

Aerial view of the Acropolis of Athens, situated on a rocky hill overlooking the city. The Parthenon, with its partially preserved columns and ruins, stands at the center. Other classical structures, including the Erechtheion and the Propylaea, are visible nearby. Below the Acropolis, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a semicircular stone theater, is nestled into the hillside. The surrounding area is a mix of greenery and densely packed modern buildings, showing the contrast between ancient history and contemporary Athens.

For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!

📷 Christos Kapoulas

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Des statuettes funéraires égyptiennes découvertes dans la cité antique de Tanis Ces 225 figurines en faïence étaient destinées à accompagner dans l’au-delà le pharaon Chéchonq III (830-791 av. J.-C.). Elles ont été mises au jour par une mission française qui étudie ce site du del...

Des statuettes funéraires égyptiennes découvertes dans la cité antique de Tanis (abonnés). #Archéologie
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Angel with golden hair. Wings & costume in various shades of glorious purple.

👀 Berry Pomeroy church #Devon

Angel by Veronica Whall - 1926

#StainedGlassSunday #AdventAngel
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The Anglo-Saxon crypt of St. Wystan’s Church at Repton in Derbyshire. Dating to the 8th century, the crypt served as a royal mausoleum for two Mercian kings, as well as the resting place of St. Wystan. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Repton #Derbyshire

Photo of an intact Roman two-handled translucent cobalt blue glass cup dated AD 30-70. The cup has a cylindrical body with vertical sides and two narrow strap handles attached to each side as ear-shaped loops. The cup is mould-blown with relief decoration on the body which incorporates two inscriptions in Greek, one on each side of the cup. One side reads ‘ENNIWN/ENOIH/CEN’ (‘Ennion made [it]'). The other side reads ‘MNHOH/O AOPA/ZNW translated as ‘May the buyer be remembered’. Dimensions: Height 2½ in. (6.4 cm), diameter (rim): 3% in. (9.5 cm) Collection Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria, Italy. Incredibly this is one of two matching cups blown from the same mould, found together in a Roman tomb at Cuora, near Adria, Italy, in the early 1900s. The matching cup is now part of the collections at the Corning Museum of Glass

Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70.

Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago!

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone

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