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@classicsgc.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 10:59 PM

See the upcoming events for Fall 2026 at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World here:

isaw.nyu.edu/events

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

Website header for NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), with a gold vertical "ISAW" sidebar and a navigation bar showing "New York University," "About ISAW" (partially cropped as "BOUT ISAW"), and "People."

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 6:56 PM

For #MosaicMonday, a sacro-idyllic #emblema from Hadrian's Villa. Notice the famously priapic goat seeking an anatomy lesson from a phallic votive tablet, alongside an unusually androgynous #Dionysus in female dress. A bit of rustic irony for an imperial dining room. #AncientBluesky 🏺

MOSAIC EMBLEMA WITH GOATS IN A LANDSCAPE, FROM VILLA ADRIANA, C. 130 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

This polychrome mosaic emblema depicts a rocky landscape with a flock of goats. In the background stands a statue of Dionysus holding a thyrsus and grapes. The god is depicted in an unusual androgynous manner, clean-shaven and wearing a long female chiton, reflecting his liminal nature. Resting beneath the statue is a pinax, a painted votive tablet resembling a modern book. Its blue surface displays a stylised human phallus, an apotropaic ward and symbol of fertility. One goat stares intently at the tablet, a deliberate piece of rustic comedy contrasting the animal's natural priapic reputation with the painted symbol. Discovered in 1779 by Count Marefoschi, the mosaic was found in the Sala a Tre Navate at Hadrian's Villa. This hall functioned as a summer dining room where reclining banqueters could admire the minute opus vermiculatum. It was unearthed alongside a matching pendant mosaic to anchor the imperial cœnatio.

@classicsgc.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 3:19 PM

Wonder what our grad students were up to this summer? Check out PhD Candidate Ivan Maiorov's update on his Mycenaean armor-- here he shows how he added decor to the helmet.

#ClassicsGC #HumanitiesGC #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics

A hand holds up the back half of a hammered brass helmet with a zigzag-cut edge and dotted decorative border, sitting on beige carpet with a chair caster and another metal piece visible in the background.

A hand holds a nearly-complete hammered brass helmet from underneath, showing its riveted seam with jagged zigzag edges running down the front, with a hammer resting on a wood block nearby.

Close-up of the front face-plate section of a hammered brass helmet, showing a raised central ridge, two spiral repoussé designs flanking it, dotted decorative borders, and rivets, with a hammer resting on wood in the foreground.

@mihalyfy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:40 AM

A 9/12 ARCE-DC talk "Hour-watching: The Timekeepers of Ancient Egypt," by Dr. Sarah Symons.

Zoom available, but registration required.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
arce.org/event/arce-d...

@mihalyfy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:32 AM

"Wigs and Hairstyles in Ancient Egypt," a British Museum blogpost by Dr. Georgia Barker and Dr. Marie Vandenbeusch.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
www.britishmuseum.org/blog/wigs-an...

@mihalyfy.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 7:29 AM

The Egypopcult database, with "information on popular culture works that refer, explicitly or implicitly, to Egyptian civilisation."

An ongoing project worth knowing about.

#Egyptology #AncientBlueSky
egypopcultlisboa.pt

@pottedhistory.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 10:55 PM

#AncientBlueSky 🏺

@drjeball.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 12:28 PM

A #Roman shield found in Dura-Europos (Syria), where it was lost during a siege in the C3rd AD.

The only rectangular shield to survive from the Roman world, it is a wonderful find, & gives a great insight into how elaborately decorated these items were #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

@romanpiso.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 6:30 AM

#Discover #WorldHistory #Oligarchy #RoyalOligarchy #Ancient #History #AncientBlueSky @paulinsc.bsky.social #Education #Teach #Teacher #Teachers #Teaching #Read #literature #RoyalSupremacy #Oligarch

Ancient history was an inside job. Ever wonder how we could have been taught "white-washed" history?

@simonbralee.com Sep 5, 2026, 7:46 PM

A waterside supper with riparian entertainments.

Scene from the Palestrina Mosaic depicting idealised scenes of Ptolemaic Egypt (first century BCE, Italy).

🏺 #AncientBluesky #egyptology

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 2:52 PM

Hello, mother. #SarcophagusSaturday in the #VaticanMuseums brings us this #sarcophagus, famous from the #Renaissance onward, which shows the tragedy of #Orestes as a metaphor for suffering and redemption, with a structural surprise hidden in the #relief. #AncientBluesky 🏺

ORESTES SARCOPHAGUS, C. 140 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

This marble sarcophagus front depicts the myth of Orestes carved in high relief. The scene shows the hero avenging his father by slaying his mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Though seemingly too brutal for a tomb, Romans viewed his ultimate absolution as a salvific metaphor for the soul achieving divine purification and peace after earthly suffering. Displayed for centuries in the Aracoeli sacristy before passing to the Barberini and then Clement XIV, its accessible figures deeply influenced Renaissance artists. Beyond the narrative, the composition reveals a sophisticated geometry. The standing figures at the corners and centre act as vertical supports, while the sweeping arcs of drapery and the slumped bodies of the slain form two distinct drooping swags. This underlying structure transforms the scene into a hidden garland sarcophagus, proving how deeply established that rhythmic format was in Roman workshops.

@roamintheempire.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 12:08 PM

New post this week! The second and final part on ancient Kisamos finishes up with necropoli an an ancient road, and a great museum with a couple of top tier mosaics, among other objects:

www.roamintheempire.com/index.php/20...

#RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky🏺

@cyclistjennie.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 12:19 PM

I literally cannot find any information on this old stupa. I have even searched in four languages.
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#historyThursday #photography #architecture #ancientbluesky #temple

@partialhistorians.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 8:20 AM

When the people of Nepete and Sutrium ask for help, Rome jumps at the opportunity. After all, who doesn’t enjoy upsetting the Etruscans?

#Podcast🎙️ #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

partialhistorians.com/2026/09/03/e...