Nina Willburger

This is a close-up view of the wooden barrel, showing an engraved stamp on the wooden surface. The letters are partially visible and slightly faded due to age.

A large, weathered wooden barrel with visible wood grain and several signs of age, such as worn, cracked, and uneven planks, displayed upright in a glass museum case. The barrel appears structurally intact but shows significant wear and damage, with broken or missing sections at the top and bottom edges.

For #EpigraphyTuesday a wooden barrel found in a well in the #Roman settlement at Aalen with the name GAIVS COTTIVS FLORENTINVS branded in, probably the merchant or owner of the barrel. Barrels were used for the transport and the storage of wine. This one...🧵1/2

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News - Researchers Identify Traces of Honeycomb in Sixth-Century B.C. Bronze Jars - Archaeology Magazine OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Oxford, researchers resolved a decades-old […]

Researchers Identify Traces of Honeycomb in Sixth-Century B.C. Bronze Jars.
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News - Phoenicians Recycled Broken Pottery to Create Special Hydraulic Plaster - Archaeology Magazine TELL EL-BURAK, LEBANON—Phoenician builders invented a type of waterproof plaster long before the Romans popularized […]

Phoenicians Recycled Broken Pottery to Create Special Hydraulic Plaster.
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Victorian floor tiles in the chancel, looking towards the altar & the east window.

Great Malvern Priory, #GreatMalvern #Worcestershire,

#Victorian tiles by #Minton

#TilesOnTuesday

A stone chamber tomb with a stormy sky beyond

Back to the Neolithic for #TombTuesday... 🥳

The magnificent surviving end chamber & entrance façade of Pentre Ifan long cairn, in the hills above Newport in Pembrokeshire.

Look at that perched capstone 😮

The first Scheduled Ancient Monument in Wales 🥰

📷 My own, Sept 2023

A tombstone for Cornelius Victor - a senior centurion from Pannonia who served in the Roman army for 26 years, and died aged 55. The tombstone was found at Vindolanda Fort, and is now part of the collections at Chesters Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. 📷 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

A Bronze Age food vessel from Hare Hill Ring Cairn which contained cremated remains. Located near Thornton-in-Craven in North Yorkshire, the site contained the cremated remains of at least 15 people. Part of the collections at Craven Museum in Skipton. #TombTuesday #CravenMuseum

Des traces de miel vieilles de 2500 ans dans un sanctuaire grec antique Un résidu découvert dans des jarres de bronze à Paestum vient d’être formellement identifié comme du miel antique, grâce à des analyses biomoléculaires de dernière génération.

Des traces de miel vieilles de 2500 ans dans un sanctuaire grec antique. #Archéologie
www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo...

...was reused as a lining for a base of a well. The damp environment has preserved it in a good condition.

On display at our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen

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This is a close-up view of the wooden barrel, showing an engraved stamp on the wooden surface. The letters are partially visible and slightly faded due to age.

A large, weathered wooden barrel with visible wood grain and several signs of age, such as worn, cracked, and uneven planks, displayed upright in a glass museum case. The barrel appears structurally intact but shows significant wear and damage, with broken or missing sections at the top and bottom edges.

For #EpigraphyTuesday a wooden barrel found in a well in the #Roman settlement at Aalen with the name GAIVS COTTIVS FLORENTINVS branded in, probably the merchant or owner of the barrel. Barrels were used for the transport and the storage of wine. This one...🧵1/2

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Working_Paper_Vokabulare_in_der_Geschichtswissenschaft Dies ist die kommentierbare Fassung des Workingpapers: Katrin Moeller und Anne Purschwitz: Kontrollierte Vokabulare und Normdaten der historisch arbeitenden Disziplinen (Version 1.0). Historisches D...

🔍 R:hovono entwickelt ein Empfehlungssystem für kontrollierte #Vokabulare in historisch arbeitenden Disziplinen! Das neue Workingpaper „ #Normdaten in der #Geschichtswissenschaft“ erscheint am 2.7.2025.

📄 Jetzt mitdiskutieren: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#NFDI #LOD #NFDI4Memory #NFDI4Objects

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay!
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

Two wooden whisks, each with a central handle and multiple short, evenly spaced prongs radiating outward from one end. The prongs appear to be natural offshoots of the wood.

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy.
By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for.... 🧵 1/2

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A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Apparently, it's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay!
Here is my favourite #owl, depicted on a #Roman mosaic found in Uzès southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

My photo shows a small Proto-Corinthian clay aryballos (perfumed-oil container) in the shape of an owl with a pouring hole in the tail. Height 5 cm, Width 6.4 cm. The owl is perched with its tail to the left and head to the right. It leans slightly forwards with head turned so that its large eyes face the viewer. The owl’s chest is painted black. The eyes and plummage are intricately detailed in black on a yellowy-cream slip. Three rows of feathers in the wing plumage are painted alternately in red and black. Dated c. 640 BC

It’s #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay
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To celebrate here’s an Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of a little owl!
Dated c. 640 BC.

The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me

#OwlishMonday
#Archaeology

The goddess of discord, Eris, having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, creates chaos by bringing a golden apple inscribed with a notation that it belongs to the fairest one. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all believe that they are the fairest and claim ownership. After Zeus wisely declined to judge the fairest of the three and rightful owner of the apple, the Trojan prince Paris is chosen to make the determination. Paris sits beneath a tree with an eagle representing Zeus on the left of the scene. Hermes stands next to him, having brought the goddesses to Paris for his arbitration. Aphrodite stands first, but is mostly missing due to the damage to the mosaic. Hera is seated at the center of the goddesses and Athena stands at the right side.

#MosaicMonday; from a residence in the north part of the Western Archaeological Zone of Kos, the only (mostly) remaining of three emblemata from a large floor mosaic. The scene depicts the Judgement of Paris. Dated to the 2nd century CE.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

A scene of a young winged god - probably Dionysus - on the back of a tiger with a lion's head. Gripping the harness of the beast, he wears a garland of fruit and leaves on his head and holds a large basin of wine. This central image is bounded by an elaborate series of garlands and dramatic masks, all entertwined. Outside of this is a wavy border in dark red and off-white.

#MosaicMonday 🏺
Party time....
Triumphant young winged Dionysus (or Cupid?) arrives in celebratory mode w wreath of vine leaves, cup of wine, riding a lion-headed tiger.

#Roman emblema from a triclinium in House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Bordered with tragic masks and garlands.
In MANN, Naples

The head of a goddess decorates the flat surface of this hollow gold scarab set in a silver swivel ring. Carved in relief rather than engraved as on a stone scarab, the goddess wears a stephane or crown decorated with three palmettes and a necklace with acorn-shaped pendants. Her locks of wavy hair radiate out from her face and she has a fierce expression. She represents Hera Lakinia, a local version of Hera, whose sanctuary was near the city of Kroton in South Italy. Coins of Kroton from the 300s BCE show similar images of Hera Lakinia, supporting this identification. Getty Villa Museum (85.AM.273)

You'd be forgiven if you thought that this figure on the bottom of a scarab ring was Medusa. In fact, it's Hera - Hera Lakinia, recognizable due to her image on the coins of the ancient Greek city of Kroton (Crotone) on the lonian coast of Italy. 🏺 1/

Greek, 4th c. BCE
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Some of the early 16th century vaulting from the nave of Ripon Cathedral. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #RiponCathedral

The Hercules Mosaic, possibly from Roman North Africa. The mosaic dates to the second century AD, and is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #Roman #BritishMuseum

Part of a Roman mosaic showing an apse with a radial design in the form of a shell, with the segments coloured in dark grey, red and white/cream. The shell's hinge is at the top of photograph and takes the form of a small cat-like mask. There is a border of stepped triangles and a wider plain outer border. In the immediate foreground are the remains of the wall around the apse.

The main apse of the Littlecote Orpheus mosaic, filled with a beautiful shell design. Note the small feline mask on the shell's hinge. The mosaic can be visited in the grounds of Littlecote House, now a Warner Hotel; well signposted when I last visited in 2023.
#MosaicMonday
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Overheat photo of the edge of an archaeological trench. At the bottom of the trench is part of a mosaic depicing a stylized flower. It is being carefully cleaned by two people. You can only see the backs of their heads and their hands.

Thought we'd post one of ours for a change. Our Floral Mosaic was the first to be discovered on the site, and here it is, being excavated in 1960.

#MosaicMonday

A decorative bronze pin featuring a vertical rod with a central horizontal bar adorned with three large, translucent amber-colored beads. A small chain hangs from the center, and the top is capped with a dark finial and bead-like ornament.

This bronze pin with amber and glass beads was found on the edge of the Uechter Moor,a bog in Lower Saxony.
Elaborate jewellery was often deposited in lakes or bogs as an offering to the gods in the Iron Age.
The pin dates to the 6th-4th centuryBC.

On display at Landesmuseum Hannover

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They are made of spruce

Mask-like portrayal of a mature man with long wavy hair parted at the center, and a luxuriant curling beard. The face is broad, with a straight nose and parted lips. The eyes are heavily-lidded, with the outline of the iris incised and shallow insets for the pupils. In many respects, the face resembles depictions of Jupiter (the Greek Zeus) as Serapis, an Egyptian god of fertility adopted by the Greeks in the Hellenistic period. The function of this relief is uncertain, but it may have been part of a large decorative element on a ceremonial shield or another piece of armor. Roman, ca. 1-50 CE. Silver. 18 × 13 × 5 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/8 × 1 15/16 in.) Getty Villa Museum (82.AM.88)

This Julio-Claudian silver relief of the god Jupiter has major Hellenistic vibes, resembling Greek Zeus as the Egyptian god Serapis. What this fragment once belonged to is difficult to say - perhaps ceremonial armor, such as a shield. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

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The lovely Norman arch of St. Andrew’s Church at Heddon-on-the-Wall in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #SundayStonework

The Stane o' Quoybune on Birsay in Orkney. Probably erected in the later Neolithic, around 2000 BC, the stone is one of several solitary standing stones that can be found in Orkney. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

#RomanSiteSaturday; the odeon of Kos. Constructed in the late 1st or early 2nd century CE, it seems to have replaced an earlier assembly building, perhaps the bouleuterion. It is estimated to have had a capacity of about 750 spectators.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

My photo shows a Minoan stone rhyton (ritual vessel) in the shape of a lioness’s head, carved from translucent limestone which appears creamy-yellow in colour. The naturalistically carved lioness’s face is viewed from the front. The holes for the two eyes and nose were originally inlaid with materials which have not survived The stone around both ears is chipped. Length 29.5cm. A rhyton is a type of ritual pitcher used to pour liquid offerings. On display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Lioness rhyton from Knossos Palace, Crete.

Fabulous example of Minoan stone carving skills during the Bronze Age 3,500 years ago!

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#Archaeology

Christ steps out of the tomb, his robes & the golden light swirl around him.

St Gangolf, #Trier #Germany

“Resurrection of Christ” - 1959
Designer - Werner Persy.

#StainedGlassSunday