Nina Willburger

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Cup-marked kerb stone of the north-east burial cairn at the Clava Cairns - a wonderful Bronze Age cemetery near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #ClavaCairns #Archaeology #Highlands

Wunderbar fundierter MUGI-Artikel zu Marie Jaëll von Nina Noeske 😍 War dringend nötig! Ihr wisst, dass MUGI nur dank Spenden grade so überleben kann? Wenn die wegbrechen, wäre das eine Katastrophe für Wissenstransfer zu #Komponistinnen ...
mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/receive/mugi...

Found in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 🧵2/2

A circular necklace made of alternating dark and light cylindrical beads, with three larger flat, L‑shaped pendants hanging from the lower half, displayed against a black background.

This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2

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A tall cairn under excavation with a chapel against a blue sky

#TombTuesday Another year older for me today 😮🥳 so a good opportunity to look back at one of my early digs

Second season of excavation at La Hougue Bie Neolithic passage tomb, Jersey, digging the great cairn below the summit chapel

Great days - beer, beaches & camping under the stars

📷 My own

Happy Birthday, Toby! Have a great day 🎂🎉🥳

Moin zusammen!
Ist diese Eule nicht knuffig?
#Roman #Mosaic #Owl
#MosaicMonday

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Oh my goodness, LOOK at this silly little owl!! That FACE!!! 🦉😂

I feel you, little Bad Hair Day Owl. 🤗🦉

#Archaeology #AncientBluesky #Classics #Mosaics #Birds #Romanisation

Terracotta statuette of a dog with upright, pricked ears and a fluffy upright tail. He has an oval object - supposedly meat - in his mouth, painted red. Black pigment can still be seen on his ears and the tip of his tail, in addition to some traces of red on his coat.

Every dog owner: ‘What’s that in your mouth?? Omigod, drop it, drop it!’ 😱

This Greek (Boeotian) terracotta dog appears to have a red piece of, um, meat in its mouth. I’m sure he earned it (‘Hey, that dead guy over there wasn’t using this.’)

1st half of the 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 🏺

Quatrefoil design with square in centre, picked out with star & diamond pieces of opus sectile.

Spiral carving of column with jewel-like additions of red & gold.

Reredos in Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire

• Detail from the reredos of “Opus Sectile” - a decorative mosaic-like facing.
• A close-up of one of the spiral columns with jewel like additions.

Of 1850 - 1868 by George Gilbert Scott in an Italian style.

#MosaicMonday

Detail from the 4th century ‘Charioteer Mosaic’ featuring a victorious charioteer and quadriga (4 horse chariot). The mosaic decorated one of the rooms at Rudston Roman Villa in East Yorkshire; now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own #MosaicMonday

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Avis Waterman: The Woman who Covered the First World War on the Italian Front for "The Times" - Stephanie Seul % % During the First World War, a woman defied the odds and became a foreign and war correspondent for The Times of London, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in the world. %

For the #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote this blogpost commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times, who covered the First World War on the Italian front. I have been researching her story during the last 2 years in various archives.
stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis...

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A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

The photo shows an intricately designed glass figurine in the shape of a stylized fish. The fish is made of transparent, slightly yellow-tinted glass and features numerous decorative details. Its body is adorned with curved elements, including a blue wavy line above a black, round eye. The fins and tail are elaborately shaped, with the tail appearing broad. In the background, another glass figurine resembling an animal is visible. The image has taken in a exhibition setting.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This #Roman flask in the form of a fish was found in Cologne, 3rd c. AD. 🐠🐟
We don't know what is was used for, maybe the shape relates to the content (fish sauce), maybe it was used to hold oil.

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My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.

A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay

She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Yes, it was found in a grave

Assessing the impact of Roman occupation on England through the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis | Antiquity The Roman occupation of England (AD 43–410), characterised by urbanisation and militarisation, is generally understood to have had a negative impact on population health. Yet our understanding of associated socioeconomic changes is hindered by the comparatively limited analysis of inhumations from the preceding Iron Age. Deploying the DOHaD hypothesis, this study examines negative health markers in the skeletons of 274 adult females of childbearing age and 372 non-adults aged below 3.5 years from Iron Age and Roman contexts, revealing the long-lasting negative influence of urbanisation but with a more limited impact in rural communities implying continuation of cultural norms.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 🏺

Antiquity publishes amazing #archaeology by and about women, like the work of Rebecca Pitt, who examined adult female and infant skeletons to explore the multi-generational impact of the Roman occupation of England on health.

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.

We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC.

On display at National Museum Copenhagen.

A lovely weekend to all of you!

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#archaeology

A lovely oil lamp from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) with its lion motif. Now part of the collections at Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Cirencester

The Arthurlie Cross at Barrhead in East Renfrewshire. Dating to sometime between the 9th and 11th centuries, the cross-shaft is a product of the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #ArthurlieCross #Strathclyde

An abstract design for the ox with bright red & blue colouring.

Church of St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon

Detail of the ox of St Luke from a stained glass window, designed by John Piper & made by Patrick Reyntiens (1958)

#StainedGlassSunday
#JohnPiper #PatrickReyntiens

A Roman altar dedicated to the river god Neptune & showing his symbol of a trident. Entwined around the trident is a blue dolphin. The altar has been lit by yellow & red light to pick out the scroll work at the top with the name, the rectangular frame & the pattern at the bottom. Thus showing that Roman altars were once coloured & not plain stone as seen in many museums.

A Roman altar dedicated to the sea god Oceanus & showing his symbol of an anchor. The altar has been lit by yellow & red light to pick out the scroll work at the top with the name, the rectangular frame & the pattern at the bottom. Thus showing that Roman altars were once coloured & not plain stone as seen in many museums.

Roman Altars
Found in River Tyne near Newcastle Fort.

The altars are from a shrine on the Roman bridge (Pons Aelius).

The altars were once painted & are lit to give an idea of colouring.

They were dedicated by the Sixth Legion.

Now in Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle

#Archaeology #Roman

Take care, Rena 🤗

Trekkiepedia-Cover, teils darüber das von Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Staffel 3

Wir freuen uns, dass Star Trek Strange New Worlds am 13.3. in Deutschland fürs Heimkino erscheint. Hier unser Eindruck und eine Verlosung von 3 Staffelboxen auf Blu-ray für euch. Hört und/ oder lest uns hier:

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#StarTrek
#SNW
#Verlosung