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@romanpiso.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 10:08 PM

#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social #Bible #God #Religion #BiblicalDynasty #Egypt #Israel #Jews #Jewish #Christians #Rituals #Tradition #JewSky #📰News #BibleGod #Genesis #BibleStudy #AncientHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #EduSky🍎 #Believers #Indoctrination #Programming #Mind #US

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@classicsgc.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 1:14 PM

"Sea of Treasures asks scholars and readers to reconsider the ways we’ve long approached the history of this trade route and its impacts."

news.uchicago.edu/st...

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

@pottedhistory.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 12:21 PM

The Roman Pottery workshops ⚱️🏺 Samian Ware and Barbotine Hunt Cups, at Magna Roman Fort, are filling up fast. If you're thinking about joining us, don't wait too long! #AncientBluesky.

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 11:10 AM

For #FrescoFriday, the astonishing "Città Dipinta" unveiled this week at the #Oppian Hill. Painted on the exterior of a pre-Trajanic basilican hall, it might have been an ideological billboard promoting good government, before being buried as a foundation wall for Trajan's Baths. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FRESCO OF THE CITTÀ DIPINTA, LATE C1 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO This large fresco fragment depicts a rare bird's-eye view of a fortified city. Defensive walls with crenellated towers enclose a dense urban landscape featuring residential buildings, a theatre, and porticoes rendered in sophisticated perspective. The artwork was painted on the exterior wall of a three-aisled hall on the Oppian Hill. This building perhaps functioned as an administrative basilica connected to a nearby schola for a collegium of scribes. While the adjacent mosaic hall follows a strict north-south orientation aligning with the Domus Aurea and the Sette Sale reservoir, this hall sits on a different axis. In an administrative context, the fresco would have served as an ideological billboard projecting Roman urban prosperity to those conducting business. Dating to the Neronian or Flavian period, the building and its masterpiece of urban topography were later deliberately buried to serve as retaining walls for the Baths of Trajan.
@drjeball.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 7:48 PM

A wooden #Roman sword, found in a fort at Oberaden (Germany). It is pretty much full-size, so was probably a training sword rather than a toy.
It is not a tradition straight sword, but a curved sica - a blade originally from Dacia & Thrace, & also used by thraex-type gladiators #AncientBlueSky

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@classicsgc.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 2:00 PM

"Archaeologists found a ​mosaic depicting a dolphin, a fish, a lobster and a ⁠crab surrounding a large two-handled vase, as well as the remains ​of a painted ceiling decorated with large red and blue circles."

www.reuters.com/scie...

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

@cyclistjennie.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 1:50 PM

Plain of Jars, Site 2. Dreaming of biking to these sites again due to this never ending rain even though they said this year's rainy season would be drier than normal.
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#HistoryThursday #photography #architecture #ancientbluesky

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@pottedhistory.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 10:48 AM

Want to know more about, arguably the most iconic Roman pottery, Samian Ware, Terra Sigillata? 🏺⚱️ Join me at Magna Roman Fort, on Hadrian's Wall, part of @vindolandatrust.bsky.social to not only learn about it, but to make your own replica #Archaeology #AncientBluesky share.google/fzuyz50w5wRr...

@mihalyfy.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 10:56 PM

"À vos tablettes ! - De Memphis à Babylone, aller à l'école en Égypte et en Orient."

Talk schedule for the 9/18-9/19 conference now online (as pdf).

In-person only, but videos will be posted at a later date.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Linguistics
www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/A%CC%80_...

@mihalyfy.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 10:51 PM

This book looks interesting:

"Exorcism in Ancient Egypt. Texts and Practices from the Religious and Healing Tradition," by Dr. Gabriele Mario Conte.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
www.goldenhousepublications.com/product-page...

@mihalyfy.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 10:48 PM

Available now -

"Byblos Deposits: Material Culture and Ritual Practice between Egypt and the Levant (2100–1650 BC)," by Dr. Camilla Saler.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
www.goldenhousepublications.com/product-page...

@sophiakg.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 3:56 PM

Gold earrings with floral decoration in granulation and filigree. Female grave 67 at the ancient Cemetery of Sindos. Circa 510 BC. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia.

#AncientGreece
#Booksky
#archeology
#bookshelves
#reading
#amwriting
#AncientBluesky
#writingcommunity
#GreekTales

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@classicsgc.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 3:00 PM

"...the hull was coated with conifer-derived pitch, and one sample contained a mixture of pitch and beeswax."

www.smithsonianmag.c...

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 2:01 PM

The bicameral mind. For #ReliefWednesday, a late antique #ivory #diptych in the #Bargello. The left panel shows St Paul on #Malta, complete with horrified bystanders reacting to a viper biting his hand. On the right, Adam is rendered as a classical pagan hero. #AncientBluesky 🏺

IVORY DIPTYCH WITH SCENES OF SAINT PAUL AND ADAM, C. 400 CE. MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL BARGELLO, FLORENCE This intricately carved late antique ivory diptych presents what appears to modern eyes as a stylistic clash, but which actually reflects a perfectly coherent worldview. The left panel features dynamic, chaotic scenes from the life of Saint Paul, centring on his time on Malta where he shakes a viper into a fire while bystanders react with visceral horror. This dramatic New Testament narrative of the fallen world contrasts sharply with the right panel, which displays Adam in the Garden of Eden surrounded by a peaceful menagerie. Adam is rendered as a classical heroic nude, his static and idealised pose mirroring pagan depictions of Orpheus. To the late antique mind, there was no dissonance in pairing active Christian miracle stories with calm classical imagery. The diptych effortlessly employs established classical artistic vocabulary to convey a unified Christian dogmatic message, visually arguing that the ultimate goal of New Testament salvation is a return to the pre-fall harmony of Eden.
@jessnitschke.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 7:23 AM

Over at the Ancient Near East Today: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has sparked a new wave of interest in the elusive “Sea Peoples”. Who exactly were they? And do they really deserve the blame for the end of the Iron Age? #ancientbluesky anetoday.org/sea-peoples-...

@drjeball.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 5:04 PM

Three #Roman leather shoes, for (l-r) a man, woman, & child. Found in an ancient well at Bar Hill fort on the Antonine Wall (Scotland), they're beautifully crafted pieces of footwear, & show that the military communities had access to a bit of luxury even on the frontiers... #AncientBlueSky

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@classicsgc.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 5:00 PM

"The sacred site... is especially notable for the crescent-shaped votive stelae, carved stone slabs left as offerings, that surround the temple's perimeter."

www.turkiyetoday.com...

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 3:27 PM

Fresh from this morning's press preview at the #Oppian Hill for #EpigraphyTuesday. This massive lead fistula supplied the Baths of #Trajan. The relief stamp THERM TRAIANI prevented illegal siphoning, while the scratched LXX denotes its enormous size or weight. #AncientBluesky 🏺

LEAD WATER PIPE FROM THE BATHS OF TRAJAN, EARLY C2 CE. MUSEO DELLE TERME DI TRAIANO This photograph shows a massive section of a Roman lead water pipe, known as a fistula aquaria, displayed on a bed of porous stones. Along the top edge of the pipe, an inscription in raised relief reads THERM TRAIANI. This served as an official administrative stamp designating the water supply for the Baths of Trajan. This was a necessary bureaucratic measure to prevent private citizens from illegally tapping into the imperial infrastructure. Immediately to the right of the relief text, the Roman numeral LXX is roughly incised into the lead. This number, carved by the plumber who manufactured the section, likely designates the conduit as a fistula septuagenaria, indicating its standard capacity based on the width of the lead sheet before rolling, or it records the weight of the pipe section in Roman pounds. Both readings underscore the immense volume of water required to operate what was the largest bath complex in the world upon its dedication in 109 CE.