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@bwallower.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:09 PM

#FindsFriday
Among star finds from #Saxon Prittlewell Prince burial in Essex were #glass beakers w trailed lattice decoration.
Beautiful and rare, so similar they were likely made as a pair, in Kent. Few other examples are known, almost all in high status burials.
Southend Museums
#Ancientbluesky 🏺

Two small deep-blue round glass vessels with a squat shape and trailed glass lattice decoration, forming diamond shapes around the body. They have a broad low rim at the top. Burial dated 580-605 AD and thought to be of Sæxa, brother of King Sæberht of Essex.

@caeliambulator.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 4:16 PM

#AncientBluesky 🏺

@gripfastgame.works Sep 24, 2026, 3:38 PM

Time for another edition of embarrass yourself speaking ancient Egyptian! Can you guess what these phrases might be? #Egyptology #ancientbluesky please no hints for the gamers. Only roasts on my transliteration will be accepted. 😳 #goingforthbyday #gamedev #indiedev

@cyclistjennie.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 2:04 PM

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#HistoryThursday #photography #architecture #ancientbluesky #temple

@maskflowerprince.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:46 PM

Another for #PalacesAndGardens #MellowYellow. The Villa of Menander in Pompeii (2023). The yellow and red ochre on the walls survived the disaster and are still vibrant. #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #RomanRuins #Pompeii #Italy #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

This photo shows an ancient Roman interior from the House of Menander in Pompeii. There is a small, stone miniature house or temple-like shrine, historically used as a family altar. It features a triangular pediment top and patterned carvings on its front panels. The surrounding plaster walls show worn, faded sections of traditional Roman wall paintings, with distinct panels of red and yellow ochre paint.

@classicsgc.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 1:00 PM

Don't forget Dr. Beethoven Alvarez speaks this evening for our Fall Lecture Series!
Please RSVP to [email protected]

5pm EST in person or via Zoom

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics CUNY Graduate Center #UFF #universidadefederalfluminense

Dark blue event flyer for a lecture by Beethoven Alvarez, Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, titled "A Greek-born Giant in Brazilian Imaginary Geography: Between Literature and Politics," featuring his photo and a talk description on the poem Niterói and classical reception in Brazilian national mythology, with event details for Thursday, Sept 24th, 5pm EST at the CUNY Graduate Center, Room 7395 or via Zoom.

@partialhistorians.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 8:15 AM

Historical fiction that marries together research and fills in the gaps to bring the past vividly to life is just the kind of treatment Mark Antony deserves!

#AncientRome #MarkAntony #AncientBluesky🏺🎙️

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@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 6:41 PM

A roar of loneliness. For #ReliefWednesday, this beautiful late C4 BCE Etruscan terracotta askos. Its deeply modelled mane echoes the frescoes of the François Tomb where it was found. The tomb's dispersion proves that scattering a collection destroys its context. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ZOOMORPHIC LION ASKOS FROM THE FRANÇOIS TOMB, LATE C4 BCE. VILLA GIULIA, ROME

A terracotta vessel shaped like a crouching and snarling lion, resting on a narrow black-glazed base decorated with a wavy pattern. The surface combines painted and heavily modelled relief-like decoration, featuring deep tongue-shaped locks forming the mane and short hatched brown brushstrokes indicating the hide. The open mouth ingeniously serves as a secondary pouring spout. Discovered in 1857 in Vulci, this beautiful object is currently on loan from the British Museum, serving as a stark reminder of the tragic dispersion of the grave goods of the François Tomb. While the famous C4 BCE frescoes were stripped from the tufo walls, objects like this askos were scattered through sales to foreign collectors and institutions. This permanent dismemberment of a unified context is the curse of Italian cultural patrimony. It mirrors the fate of medieval polyptychs broken into isolated panels, Roman mosaics ripped from their architectural settings, monastery libraries sold off piecemeal, and intact family archives pillaged for individual gain. When private greed triumphs over the public good, the original meaning of these masterpieces is gravely diminished and the connective tissue of our history is lost.

@classicsgc.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 3:13 PM

PhD Candidate Ivan Maiorov writes: "More photos of my Mycenaean armor (scale shirt, pauldrons, gorget, and belt). It’s been arranged similar to a Greek trophy."

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

A handmade suit of decorative armor pieces laid flat on carpet, including a hammered brass gorget with a crab-like motif, two curved brass shoulder guards with dotted repoussé borders, a scaled chest plate of navy, gold, and light blue overlapping plates on a red backing, and a long dotted brass belt.

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:22 PM

#Discover #Tacitus #CorneliusTacitus #NeratiusPriscus #EduSky🍎 @paulinsc.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AncientHistory #AncientBlueSky

Historian 'Tacitus' was aka Neratius Priscus. How to find proof of this in 3 images (ancient authors used pen names for themselves & aliases for those they wrote about):

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:17 PM

#Discover #History #AncientHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #EduSky🍎 #AcademicSky #AncientRome #RomanEmpire #AncientBlueSky @paulinsc.bsky.social #AncientGenealogies #FlaviusJosephus #Suetonius #PlinyTheYounger #Tacitus #CorneliusTacitus #Plutarch #Fronto #Frontinus #Arrian #Appian #ClaudiusPtolemy #Bible

@mihalyfy.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 10:23 PM

10/14/26 in London -

"This in person seminar will explore current research on the lived experience of children in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and opportunities for new displays on this life stage in the British Museum."

#Egyptology #Classics #AncientBlueSky
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@mathetria.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 10:17 PM

#Classicsbluesky #Ancientbluesky #AlexandertheGreat #Aristotle

@drjeball.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 6:05 PM

A beautiful #Roman glass bottle, in vivid shades of blue, green, & gold. It was probably originally used to hold perfume or some other cosmetic product, some 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

@classicsgc.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 4:06 PM

THIS THURSDAY! In person & via Zoom -- 5pm EST
RSVP to [email protected]

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics CUNY Graduate Center

@maskflowerprince.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 11:47 AM

For #rockinTuesday. The stone sculptures at the Ciudadela among the Mexican ruins of Teotihuacán (1997, scan). #photography #Mexico #Teotihuacan #nativeamerica #ruins #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #travelphotography #mesoamerica #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

The photo displays a detailed view of an ancient stone carving from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at the Teotihuacan archaeological site in Mexico.

The Main Sculpture: A rectangular stone relief depicting the Mesoamerican rain god, Tlaloc, characterized by its large, goggled eyes and rectangular mouth structure.