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- For #ReliefWednesday a representation of Minerva, the #Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, crafts, and warfare. She's carrying the helmet, a lance and a shield. The deity is accompanied by an #owl, her sacred animal. Found in Burgstall an der Murr. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemnberg 🏺 #archaeology
- A child’s footprint frozen in time - pressed into a #Roman tile as it dried before firing nearly 1,800 years ago. A tiny, timeless reminder of everyday life in the ancient world. 📷 online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306... 🏺
- This little #Roman silver statuette of a shepherd is displayed incorrectly at the #BritishMuseum (1st pic). Because when he's turned, you can see that he's carrying an adorable smiling lamb in a skin bag slung over his shoulder. 😍 🏺 1/ Probably 1st c. CE. 📸 me #ancientbluesky
- Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics. From Syria, dating 3rd century AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me 🏺#archaeology
- #MosaicMonday From a domus of v high status next to forum in #Roman Tarantum excavated 1899. One of a number of fine mosaics around the peristyle featuring geometric patterns + delicate polychromy. In Taranto's super MArTA (Nat Arch Museum). 🏺
- #MosaicMonday The Orpheus mosaic from Littlecote #Roman Villa in Berkshire. Its obscure iconography has been seen as evidence of the pagan revival in late C.4th #RomanBritain, as Orpheus charms circling animals, seasons & goddesses with his music. Much restored, the floor has significant wow factor.
- Finding footprints from the past Then: excavation director Tessa Verney Wheeler cleaning the large multicoloured geometric mosaic of Building 8 Insula IV at Verulamium (St Albans) in 1932 Now: the same view in January 2026, the #Roman floor preserved inside a cover building #MosaicMonday
- En attendant le déluge - Dolores Redondo – Traduit de l'espagnol par Isabelle Gugnon – #Sérienoire Gallimard #Roman #Littérature
- Sacrifice - Joyce Carol Oates – Traduit de l'américain par Claude Seban - #PhilippeRey #Roman #Littérature
- When Verulamium stood St Albans was a wood, When Verulamium fell down St Albans was a town. Snow drops in front of the the walls of the Roman town Verulamium, now a park in the town of St Albans in Hertfordshire. #snowdrops #roman #wall #Verulamium #flowers #StAlbans #photography
- Welcome to Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads- the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire ... Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads. itiner-e.org #skystorians 🗃️#roman
- New Book Alert: A discussion of Roman Militaria from the South East of England. What can Roman military finds tell us about the actions of the Roman army in the 'civil zone' of Roman Britain. www.barpublishing.com/book/britann... #Roman #RomanBritian #RomanArmy #Archaeology
