Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me

#HillfortsWednesday Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. Dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level.  #Archaeology #History

It is made from marble and measures 22cm in length. Holes at the neck and tail suggest that it was meant to be suspended, and the two hollowed out cups on its back probably used as containers. 🐑 Zoomorphic kernos in the form of a sheep, Early Cycladic I Period (c. 3100 - c. 2700 BC). AN1912.71

Adding the finishing touches 🖌️ The image in this ancient #Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet. 📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267

To secure his seat on a burial club board in exactly 1 CE, Nepos paid for the ossuary's new mosaic floor out of his own pocket. It is a masterful display of status: funding local infrastructure so your peers literally walk all over your name in perpetuity. #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky 🏺

This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

#Stonehenge like you have never seen it before! And I do not mean just parched. (No AI was used in the making of the first pic) 😂👀🤯

#MosaicMonday The Lady of Carthage mosaic, made of marble and glass tesserae, has been dated to the sixth century. The unidentified woman with a halo represented here is wearing purple clothing, holding a scepter, and giving a blessing. Carthage Museum, #Tunisia #art #Archaeology

This exquisite 6thC brooch features an oval sardonyx stone cameo with a female portrait bust positioned in the centre of a #gold disc. This is decorated with a cabled border and circles and shapes made of fine wire, or filigree. 💜 Disc #brooch with cameo, 6th century CE. Amethyst, gold, sardonyx.

This exquisite 6thC brooch features an oval sardonyx stone cameo with a female portrait bust positioned in the centre of a #gold disc. This is decorated with a cabled border and circles and shapes made of fine wire, or filigree. 💜 Disc #brooch with cameo, 6th century CE. Amethyst, gold, sardonyx.

#MosaicMonday The Lady of Carthage mosaic, made of marble and glass tesserae, has been dated to the sixth century. The unidentified woman with a halo represented here is wearing purple clothing, holding a scepter, and giving a blessing. Carthage Museum, #Tunisia #art #Archaeology

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A section of the Roman road connecting the fortifications of the Germanic Limes discovered beneath the route of the A8 highway in Germany

The construction of the new variant of the A8 highway in the area known as the Albaufstieg, south of Stuttgart (Germany), has uncovered a first-rate archaeological find: a segment of the ancient Roman...

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This elaborate bronze helmet with its fantastical crest belonged to ‘North Bersted man.’ He lived in late Iron Age England though he was likely a Gaul. The helmet was buried with him. I also post a reconstruction & imagined drawing of this elite warrior 🏛️Novium Museum, Chichester 📷mine

The Gnoll Stone (Cefn Hirfynydd) is part of a Celtic wheel cross. The figure is a #Celtic priest with his hands raised in prayer, he wears a short pleated kilt. Above the priest is the bottom section of the wheel cross. and is now lost. (See Alt.) #StandingStoneSunday

#RomanSiteSaturday Remains of the Pons Aemilius (179 BC), known as the Ponte Rotto (the 'Broken Bridge'). The stone facing belongs to a reconstruction of the Augustan age. #Architecture #History

#Ostia Antica is an extraordinary #Roman site that contains the ruins of the ancient port town that served as the gateway to #Rome. Tracing its roots back to at least the 4thC BC. A witness and monument to the rise of the superpower. #Archaeology #History #RomanSiteSaturday

This #coin is from the reign of Alexander III of #Macedon, more commonly known as #Alexander the Great. It features the head of Heracles on one side, and Zeus seated holding a sceptre and an eagle on the other. 🪙 Ancient Greek coin, c. 336–321 BCE. Silver, 24.8mm diameter. HCR5132

#FindsFriday This beautiful, jewelled disc brooch dates from the Anglo-Saxon period and was found in Kent. It is made from gilded silver, and features seven cut garnets. Disc-style brooches set with garnets, such as this one, were popular during the early Anglo #Saxon period, 6th century.

#FindsFriday This beautiful, jewelled disc brooch dates from the Anglo-Saxon period and was found in Kent. It is made from gilded silver, and features seven cut garnets. Disc-style brooches set with garnets, such as this one, were popular during the early Anglo #Saxon period, 6th century.

In ancient Greece, a wealthy and fashionable woman’s #jewellery box may have contained a diadem, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings.✨ These #gold earrings, just 2cm long, are decorated with tiny, ornate rosettes. They are more than 2000 years old, dating to around 400–200 BCE. ✨

#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 BM's Portland Vase c. 15BC-AD25: one of world's top #Roman cameo glass pieces. Interpretations both mythological and historical are legion. Maybe marriage of Peleus and sea goddess Thetis?? Visitor deliberately smashed it into >125 bits in 1845: BM restoration lasted 100 yrs.

This #coin is from the reign of Alexander III of #Macedon, more commonly known as #Alexander the Great. It features the head of Heracles on one side, and Zeus seated holding a sceptre and an eagle on the other. 🪙 Ancient Greek coin, c. 336–321 BCE. Silver, 24.8mm diameter. HCR5132

At times we do not realise how lucky we are #nature #wild #Cymru

A new day a new river. This time with my eldest. The Boss.

Another Day another adventure with the clan. #Wales #nature #wild

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The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off

The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš fo...

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The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off

The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš fo...

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In ancient Greece, a wealthy and fashionable woman’s #jewellery box may have contained a diadem, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings.✨ These #gold earrings, just 2cm long, are decorated with tiny, ornate rosettes. They are more than 2000 years old, dating to around 400–200 BCE. ✨

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It looks like the sea-panthers depicted on the Cupid on a Dolphin mosaic at Fishbourne Roman Palace. Ask @curatorrob.bsky.social for details!