Swimming into #FindsFriday with this gorgeously detailed bronze mermaid, dated 2nd century CE.

Loving the detail of the scales on her tail, and how protectively she's holding that cornucopia 🧜🏻‍♀️.

📸 us at Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija, Seville

#Sevilla #archaeology ##skystorians #ancientbluesky

The 982g phiale is embossed with acorns, beechnuts, bees and lotus flowers. Its inscription may name Damarchos, son of Achyris – or the magistrate Achyris – and records gold and probably the bowl's weight. Now at Himera's museum. #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #FindsFriday

🪙 The gold phiale of Caltavuturo (late 4th/early 3rd c. BCE) was found in 1980 during work on an electricity pylon. Illegally exported in 1991 via Switzerland, it was sold to Michael Steinhardt for $1.2m, seized and returned to Italy in 1999. #AncientBlueSky #archaeology #FindsFriday

“We should expect that a person who has been first turned into a donkey, by witchcraft, and then transformed back into a human by the power of the gods, would be quite trusting to divine rituals.”

Initiation and belief in the Golden Ass by Apuleius #AncientBluesky

For #PalacesAndGardens #LastWords, the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who was one of Egypt's greatest rulers during its most glittering age (2004). #photography #Egypt #Africa #Hatshepsut #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #archaeology #temple #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

Reminder: Die Umfrage zum FID Altertumswissenschaften – Propylaeum läuft noch bis zum 30. Oktober: survey.bsb-muenchen.de/index.php/99... #Altertumswissenschaften #AncientBluesky

The height of injustice is to seem to be just when you are not.

ἐσχάτη γὰρ ἀδικία δοκεῖν δίκαιον εἶναι μὴ ὄντα.

(Pl. R. 361a)

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

For #ReliefWednesday, we examine this C2 CE #Roman copy of a C5 BCE #Greek #relief of #Medea and the Peliades. Discovered in 1814 at palazzo De Carolis on via del Corso, its wear pattern suggests it was used upside down as a paver. Now in the #VaticanMuseums. #AncientBluesky 🏺

For #31DaysOfHalloween. The Aztec Skull Wall (tzompantli) from the temple at Tenayuca, in the outskirts of Mexico City (2015). #mesoamerica #mexico #indigenous #art #archaeology #WallsOnWednesday #photography #ruins #Aztecs #AncientBlueSky #mexicocity #cdmx #ciudaddemexico #EastCoastKin #ECK #WCK

Grumpy but sweet, or just in need of a morning coffee? This is a third-century griffin askos from the Museo Mandralisca in Cefalù.🏺 #AncientBlueSky #archaeology

"The wreck and its cargo are also shedding light on trade in the ancient world.

The archaeologists say the ship started its voyage from somewhere along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean."

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#archaeology
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#Discover #AtheistSky #Church #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Pope #Popes #popes #Papal @paulinsc.bsky.social #History #ChurchHistory @antitheist-atheist.bsky.social @stlouisatheists.bsky.social #Atheism #Atheist/Atheism #EduSky🍎 #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #Misogyny #Anthropology/Archaeology #Bible

Alexander's successes get a lot of air-time. When (if) people talk about his failures, it's often sensationalized.... He's a drunk! He's a megalomaniac! Here, I talk about where Alexander failed to achieve his objective: uniting Eastern & Western ruling traditions. #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky

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Pleased to see that with the Bot farms gone up in smoke. My followers remain real and on the increase. 💥

All hail #ancientbluesky

Just some beautiful #Roman mosaic flowers for #MosaicMonday 🌺

🏺 #AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

New name added to the known list of ancient Egyptian dogs, dwȝ.ty translated as “He-of-the-Underworld,” an epithet associated with Anubis 🏺 #AncientBluesky #egyptology

Before 1777, Falerio Picenus was a nearly perfectly-preserved #Roman town. Then Pius VI’s diggers arrived. For #MosaicMonday, we examine this Antonine-era leopard #emblema, stripped from a private #domus and treated as #spolia in the Vatican's Scala Simonetti. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Black-gloss ware from the Secca di Capistello wreck, lost off Lipari c. 300 BCE. Discovered in 1966, the site saw repeated looting and fatal dives, including the deaths of archaeologists Helmut Schläger and Udo Graf in 1969. This summer, the ship's hull was recovered.🏺 #AncientBlueSky #archaeology

Golden bracelet artfully depicting an animal head, dated between the 4th-5th century BC. Thessaloniki Archeological museum.

#archeology
#Bluesky
#AncientGreece
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#amwriting
#bookshelves
#Books
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#writingcommunity
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#GreekTales