🪔 For #EpigraphyTuesday: Military diploma of a Lycian sailor of the Miseno fleet, Sextus Memmius Clearchi. Dated to 16 November 140 AD, it attests to the granting of Roman citizenship to a Lycian sailor after 26 years of service in the imperial fleet. 📸 me
The so-called ‘Gypsy Girl Mosaic’ was discovered in Zeugma. The detailed level of this portrait is conveyed through the subtle colour shifts in the individual pieces. The artist was a master mosaicist.
🏛 Gaziantep Museum of Archeology
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📸 Nevit Dilmen
In its original context, the Prima Porta Augustus was painted. Archaeologists can often determine the base colours from small paint deposits left behind which leaves open suggestions for the top layers of colour. Here ‘Rome in 3D’ offer an example of a potential colour scheme.
The early bird catches the figs! What a way to start a day. This one is for all the fig lovers out there 🙋♀️ (or pears!) and for those who like a cheeky bird too
And for our #PhallusThursday fans, here’s a close up on the old personification of the Campus Martius. Who knew one’s obelisk could be quite so substantial 😳
✨Brand New Episode - The Early Roman Military with Dr Bret Devereaux✨
@bretdevereaux joins us to discuss all things military and the development of the army in the early years of Ancient Rome. How did Rome go from raids to world domination?
🪔 For eyes pleasure: three roman glass vessels dated to the 1st-3rd cc AD, now on dispay in the Romanité Museum of Nîmes. 📸 me
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The detail of the apotheosis scene from the base of the column of Antoninus Pius is jaw-dropping. The central figure is thought to be winged Aion carrying Antoninus and Faustina into the divine beyond.
Well, well, well, who could be attempting to resist the call of the sirens? One way is to be strapped to the mast of a ship and pray the gods are merciful. Fare travels, Odysseus!
Flashback to some faux-toga posing. Would it even be a Roman history podcast if we didn’t whip out the trusty bedsheets every so often? Of course, it would be quite the surprise if we accidentally teleported back in time 😅
As Sydney gears up for Mardi Gras, this fantastic phallic hat would not be out of place in the celebrations. Across the centuries, the phallic hat is fashionably timeless!
This bronze polyphallic tintinnabulum of Mercury is from Pompeii
This subtle colourisation of the Ara Pacis’ ‘Tellus panel’ remains one of my favourites. The colours were likely much more vibrant in the original painting, but the details revealed by the use of any colouring is jaw dropping.
This relief, part of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias is thought to depict a personification of the Roman emperor crowned by a personification of the Roman people (or the Senate or both!). The corona civica was awarded for saving the life of a citizen.