"My first thought when I found out its origin was that I would like to return it to an institute where it could be studied by all...My grandfather would be proud to know, as I am, that the coin is coming back to Leeds."
Lovely. ❤️
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺
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“There’s kind of defeatism, this idea that there’s no stopping technology and resistance is futile, everything will be crushed in its path,” said Clune, the Ohio State professor. “That needs to change … We can decide that we want to be human.” #AI
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#MosaicMonday
Floor #mosaic with guard #Dog with collar tied to door knob with labrys of the House of Paquius Proculus on the Via dell'Abbondanza, (I.7.1) - 1st century AD -
Archaeological Park of #Pompeii
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
If Masters degrees’ fees are so insanely high that few would want to add that to their already sky high student debt, surely they are aiming for only those that can get PGR funding (which usually means PhD)… and so many won’t even consider it #highereducation #universitiesUK #studentloans
Straight from a fantasy novel!
Oh wait, I mean, from Norway... c. AD1200😍
ah nice! Thanks so much. :)
I don't suppose anyone has some photos of this relief from the Museo Capitolini (hall)? Am studying it but could do with some better photos.... Thanks! #AncientBluesky #Classics #AncientRome
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My photo shows the so-called ‘Trier Gold Treasure’ in a museum display case. It is a Roman coin hoard made up of some 2,650 gold aurei. The small round gold coins are spread randomly in a dense pile across a light-coloured display case surface. To the upper right of the coin mound is the broken bowl-shaped bottom of the original copper alloy vessel that held the hoard. The metal is coloured green with corrosion. Several gold coins are scattered inside the bowl. In the lower left corner of the display case is another large, irregular fragment of the original container. Museum information label: In 1993, a bronze vessel with 2650 Roman gold coins (aurei) is discovered in Trier. It is the largest Roman gold coin treasure ever found. The Aureus was in the 1st and 2nd Century the standard coin of the Roman gold minting with an average weight of 7.27 g, with a very high fineness of approx. 980/1000. The coins depict 29 different emperors, empresses or relatives of the imperial house. The oldest coins were minted between 63 and 64 AD, the youngest between 193 and 196 AD. The coins were inside the vessel, which was accidentally discovered by an excavator, rolled up in leather bags. The bags were decorated with leather straps and closed enamel seal capsules. The treasure revealed numerous secrets in its scientific processing: it probably did not represent private assets, but a state treasury that was carefully managed and over a longer period of time and enlarged. During a civil war, the gold coins were finally buried in a cellar in 196 AD and then fell into oblivion. Presumably the former administrator of the treasury took his knowledge of the hiding place with him to the grave.
The Trier Gold Hoard!
The largest #Roman gold coin hoard ever found!
More than 2,650 Roman aurei, weighing 18.5 kg, were discovered inside a bronze vessel wrapped in leather bags, during construction work in 1993. The coins date from 63 AD to 196 AD.
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 📷 by me
I don't suppose anyone has some photos of this relief from the Museo Capitolini (hall)? Am studying it but could do with some better photos.... Thanks! #AncientBluesky #Classics #AncientRome
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Teaching and Research Associate in Herculaneum Papyrology
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Oh and I hadn’t noticed the tolos similarities. Nice!!
Closeup of the bridal vessel, showing the bride on the right, wearing her transparent white veil, and a female attendant right behind her, wearing a grape-leaf wreath on her head and banging on a large tympanum (hand drum). The background is a vivid pink madder. The woman playing the drum has a beautiful ensemble of a pale blue-green chiton with a large lilac border, and a reddish-orange himation (cloak).
Fresco fragment depicting a flying maenad wrapped in a billowing cloak, with a wreath on her head, holding a tympanum (hand drum), and a thyrsus. The background is black, so it probably comes from a triclinium, a dining room. The fresco, which was originally at the center of a panel of a wall painted in the Fourth Style, represents a chronological and iconographic comparison with similar Dionysian scenes done with inlay, from the House of the Colored Capitals in Pompeii. Herculaneum (no exact findspot). Third quarter of the 1st century CE.
Closeup of a tympanum player (hand drummer) from a mosaic emblema in opus vermiculatum made from polychrome tesserae, signed by Dioskourides of Samos. The scene, inspired by the New Comedy, depicts three itinerant musicians with their faces covered by masks: a musician playing cymbals in the centre, another - this one - with a tympanum (a sort of hand drum) and wearing a wreath on his head, to the right, and a woman with an aulos (double flute) to the left. A boy on the left follows the procession. Very vivid clothing, wearing a tunic with yellow, dark blue, light blue, and green striping, and a pink-salmon colored himation (cloak) tied around his waist. His mask is pink with very red cheeks. Pompeii, so-called Villa of Cicero, outside Porta Ercolano Late 2nd - early 1st century BCE Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)
The first vessel is thought to depict a bridal scene. The inclusion of an attendant wearing a grape-leaf wreath and banging on a tympanum (hand drum) may be Dionysian. Is the bride being inducted into the Dionysian mysteries? 🤷♂️🏺 2/
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Your posts are always ace 👍. Reminds me of the Villa of the Mysteries fresco. Stunning photos btw and wow to all that pigment ❤️❤️
Is this even real 😂🤯
what even is the fucking point
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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Blue Box (2025) by Hanie Soltani.
Oil on canvas.
Classical Association conference 2026
Booked! Looking forward to my first @classicalassociation.org conference in my old hometown Manchester! Hoping to meet loads of fellow ancient history nerds 🙌❤️ #classics #ancienthistory
Trying to imagine a visual representation of history as exempla (always current) vs a chronological historicist view of history. Hm struggling. 😜🤯 (Roller)
I do find it a shame that much/some art historical writing is so preoccupied with its social, political, etc context (all vital) that it overlooks the actual artwork itself. Exhibitions catalogues or labels write on everything around the art work but forget the thing in the centre …. #arthistory
Art History. Is. Economic. Political. Social. History.
People underestimate the discipline (I'll never forgive Obama on this score) in part because of ignorance, in part because of the number of blockbuster exhibitions that refuse to engage with complex scholarship (yes, yes, not all museums).
Love a bit of rebellious art history writing! But seriously 👇
