🪔 For #ReliefWednesday: Keystone from the arch of entrance door depicting #Roma, end of 3rd c AD from Aequum (modern Citluk) in Croatia. Now in the Archaeological Museum of #Split. 📸 me

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.

📸 Damian Entwistle

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For #ReliefWednesday the so-called Jupiter Cameo, carved in a sardonyx, showing Jupiter and Juno. They were identified as Marcus Aurelius and his wife. The cameo was made during they reign of the emperor. The depiction does not imply that he and Faustina Minor were regarded as deities. The intention was rather to emphasise the sacral legitimacy of the imperial authority.
Dating 160/175 AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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A #Roman terracotta tintinnabulum (wind chime) found in Merida, Spain: A bell-shaped humanoid figure with legs providing the clapper and the hooded cloak providing the bell. The words TYDIDES are inscribed (the owner’s name?). 2nd c. AD.

📷Museo Nacional Arte Romana, Merida

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🪔 This is a roman Cameo in sardonyx depicting Isis (Demeter?). Dated to the 1-2 century AD, it is part of the Ancient Gemstones Collection of Guy Ladrière, exhibited at the School of Jewelry Arts in Paris in 2023.
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A fancy #Roman leather #shoe, a so-called carbatina. It's made of a single piece of leather and decorated with openwork and carefully arrangements of loops.
The size (lenght 28 cm) suggests that it was worn by a tall person (or by a short person with very large feet).

Found in civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating 2nd century AD.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

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🪔 For #FrescoFriday: just a little cupid on a roman #fresco found at the site of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near modern Vienne, in southern France. The museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal is famous for its mosaics , but it exhibits some frescoes too.📸 me

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#FindsFriday: A #Roman iron dagger (pugio). The iron sheath is decorated with brass and enamel inlays.
Found in the river Rhein at Mainz (Roman Mogontiacum), dating 1st c. AD. Mogontiacum was an important military base, two legions were stationed there until the late 1st c. AD, before the garrison was reduced to one legion. Mogontiacum was the capital of the province of Germania Superior.

Photo: Landesmuseum Mainz

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A small #ancient #roman #marble relief of a idyllic pastoral scene with a temple of the goddess Diana/Artemis, from #rome. #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientart

January 29th, 504 CE—the οἰνοχειριστής (wine distributor) Phoibammon is ordered to distribute wine to various people #OnThisDay #OTD

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/psi;8;957

🪔 Just for eyes pleasure: a roman #millefiori glass cup exhibited in the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna. The cup is dated to the 1st c. AD and it was found in Adria - a town in the province of Rovigo in the #Veneto region of Italy. 📸 me
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🪔 This is a icosahedron-shaped game dice. Found in Egypt, it is dated to the 2nd c. BC. On each side there is a Greek letter from A to Y corresponding to numbers from 1 to 20. Now at BnF, Paris. 📸 Own pic.

🪔 #OnThisDay in AD 350 Magnentius was proclaimed Augustus at the banquet in Augustodunum – modern Autun, France. I have visited Autun this summer and I’m sharing a few pictures with most emblematic sites of this ancient city: its Porte Saint André, Janus Temple, Pyramide de Couhard & Theater.  📸 Own pics.
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🪔 This beautiful mosaic was found in 1786 at Saint-Colombe, near modern Vienne in France. Dated to the end of the 2nd c. AD, its vivid colors were obtained thanks to the use of the glass paste. It is now at the St-Romain-en-Gal museum. 📸 Own pic.
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January 12th, 436 CE—#OTD #OnThisDay Aureliae Theodora & her daughter Martyria lease a symposion (i.e. a room for holding symposia) out of a house in Oxyrhynchus owned by Aurelia. The papyrus breaks off just before where the amount of rent would be expected.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;71;4832

This is a Tiberio-Claudian belt plate from Oberstimm (DEU) depicting the lupercal (the wolf and twins). It is one of a series of contemporary plates embossed with figural scenes, some still in service at the time of the invasion of Britain in AD 43.

✨ Brand New Episode ✨

The Romans are faced with THREE enemies in 408 BCE. The Antiates, Volscii and Aequii are ganging up on them, so it's time for a dictator! But not everyone is thrilled with this move...

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https://partialhistorians.com/2024/01/11/episode-146-nobody-calls-me-chicken/

January 3rd, 46 CE—a horoscope is written out for someone born #OTD #OnThisDay. The papyrus doesn't mention who it was written for, but based on other documents in the archive it comes from, it's likely that the weaver Tryphon had it made for his son Apion.

https://papyri.info/hgv/20571

January 2nd, 243 BCE—a friend writes to Zenon #OTD #OnThisDay, asking him to buy the cushions and carpets which the physician Neon is waiting on; he also informs him that Neon is in good standing with the king.

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.cair.zen;4;59571